Tamiya 1/48 A 10A Thunderbolt

[Guest]

It’s a three-colour camouflage, right? Then you can probably spray the two other colours one right after the other, since you’ll have areas of the model you can hold without touching wet or just-dried paint

[BattleshipBob]

The flying Stug is coming along nicely Andy, good job sir!!

that's a evil looking gun

[Guest]

Couldn't resist the temptation to get this done. It was probably risky masking up so soon on the fresh paint but thankfully all went well.

Firstly, masking off the areas that were staying light green.

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Then after applying the darker green and giving it an hour in the sun, I masked the extra areas, leaving only the parts that needed to be dark grey

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Another half an hour to dry then removed all the tape to reveal this

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Pretty stark and toy like since there's no kind of shading but they are skills to learn for the future. I'll try and do something with it, but for now I'll protect what I've done with a coat of clear and thank the heavens that I didn't peel the paint off! :smiling2:

And as a bonus, between coats I did a bit more detail painting on the equipment.

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[Allen Dewire]

Bwwaahhh Andy!!!!!

That camo is tighter than a duck's butt. Fantastic work with no probs and smooth too!!! You got a knack for this Sir and the Munitions also look excellent...……...

[Guest]

Cheers Allen, I'm loving that Mr Color paint.

Even though it was crazy hot in the shed it went on lovely and smooth. I'll definitely be buying some more.

[scottie3158]

Wow Andy,
that is a seriously great paint job very nicely done indeed Sir.

[Si Benson]

That’s come up lovely Andy :thumb2:

[Guest]

Thanks Paul & Si.

I feel like it needs dirtying up a little so it doesn't look so factory fresh, but I'll have a play with that when I next get some time.

[yak face]

Looks fantastic andy , top paint job. Dont be tempted to mucky it up too much , itll ruin it , cheers tony

[Guest]

Thanks Tony, I'm not a fan of heavily weathered aircraft, even though I admire the skill of those that can do it. I'll see how it looks with the decals on and a few details picked out, then go from there.

[yak face]

Thats exactly my take on it , ive only really heavily weathered one aircraft and that was to match period pictures ( mig 3 in the defence of moscow in the winter , they got VERY mucky! )

[Guest]

That camo is looking very sharp You can certainly tell you’ve done this sort of thing before.

[stillp]

Great paint job Andy! Is that Tamiya tape for curves that you used?
Pete

[Jim R]

Hi Andy
Like a duck to water. Great neat construction - including PE. The camo looks excellent. All heading towards a really nice model.
Jim

[Guest]

Thanks guys, and yes Pete. With the really tight curves in some areas I found even my blue 3m fine line tape was struggling but the narrower Tamiya one worked fine.

I think the 3m would work just as well if I could accurately cut it to the same width.

I pretty much ran out of regular 10mm Tamiya on this and ended up filling a few of the bigger gaps with some delicate surface Frog Tape I had lying around, which to be honest looks and feels exactly like Tamiya.