North American RAF Mustang III 1/48 Tamiya

[Guest]

Small ,update sprayed the inside canopy color



Then a very thinned down coat of testors flat grey



Followed by a flat black preshade





A final high light of the preshade with some flat white

[Guest]

Yep! You have painted an excellent base so far!! Your skills with the airbrush are really good the lines are perfect

[papa 695]

Looking very good Trey

[Dave W]

This ones progressing well.I will have to give this preshading another go. I have trouble painting straight lines though.Even when I'm sober!.

[Guest]

Wish I could pre shade as neatly as that Trey. Cheers Derek

[Vaughan]

Looking good Trey.

[Guest]

Polux ,Ian thank you both !

Dave that may be were you're going wrong ,I always have a pint or 2,3 errr 4 to steady up;

),thanks for the compliment!

Derek thanks, if you look back at some of my early attempts they are far from neat,lots of practice and I'm still working on getting it better!

Thanks Vaughan!

Well a solid day at the bench and I've managed to get some cammo down. I tried to mix my own color as I do'nt have RAF paints on hand. I looked at various pictures and even some color charts and after spending too much time mixing I went with what you see,not perfect but it will be okay on my shelf. I also tried a filter to tone down the color difference in the cammo,it did just that but I lost a little of the preshade .

[tr1ckey66]

Hi Trey

The camouflage looks great and the Mustang is really taking shape.

Not too long now to the finishing line, looking forward to it.

Cheers

P

[Guest]

Thanks Paul ,its been one of the most relaxing builds I've done in a long time. Good Mojo booster for sure!

I wanted a good solid gloss base for the decals and to protect the finish from mistakes while weathering. To this end I broke out the automotive urethane.



This is a high solids clear so its needs to be reduced at least %50 to shoot tru an A/B. I also used the fast hardner ,this will cut down on it being a big sticky bug/dust catcher as the flash time is faster. You just have to be careful not to put it down too fast and leave a good 15 minutes between coats so it does'nt solvent blister.







The clear lays down very nicely thinned out so care must be taken not to get heavy handed with it or you run the risk of a big run or it gets too heavy and fills in the nice fine panel lines some master Craftsmen took the time to engrave in a mold!

[Guest]

It's true, the final result looks very nicely

[Guest]

That's looking so sweet Trey & interesting to see the different products used as a gloss coat!

[Guest]

ooooooer I like his Trey that gloss looks real fine.

[Guest]

On the home straight now Trey, look forward to seeing the final masterpiece. Cheers Derek

[flyjoe180]

Looks great Trey!

[Ian M]

I quite fancy on of those now!

Great Work all round Trey.

Ian M