Morning all
So just before we went away I managed to get the final paintwork job finished, with the topside green and then some other markings. Not easy trying to do the green freehand at this scale and so it's a bit blotchy in places......
There are also a paint chips where I was testing the magnet idea before I put a varnish coat on, so I'll need to touch those up.....
Although the pics aren't perfect, you can hopefully see that I've kept the red and yellow faded to tie in with the faded camo jobs....I think it would look a bit odd to have nice bright markings when the rest of the paintwork is faded.
I've also hand painted the lines on the spinners for change....thought I'd give it a go.....not super neat and I obviously need a lot more practice but as you'll see below not entirely unrealistic.
Bombs have also been painted. As usual there is quite a lot of semi-conflicting information about what colours and when but a seemingly well researched in-depth blog on the topic suggests that by the end of the war they would probably have been painted grey-beige RAL 7027; I've certainly seen another article stating that the AB250 should be that colour.....and so in for a penny, in for a pound.
ACW as usual.
Andrew
As you can see the real spinners were not always the nice neat things we portray....
Source: Our very own stona
So just before we went away I managed to get the final paintwork job finished, with the topside green and then some other markings. Not easy trying to do the green freehand at this scale and so it's a bit blotchy in places......
There are also a paint chips where I was testing the magnet idea before I put a varnish coat on, so I'll need to touch those up.....
Although the pics aren't perfect, you can hopefully see that I've kept the red and yellow faded to tie in with the faded camo jobs....I think it would look a bit odd to have nice bright markings when the rest of the paintwork is faded.
I've also hand painted the lines on the spinners for change....thought I'd give it a go.....not super neat and I obviously need a lot more practice but as you'll see below not entirely unrealistic.
Bombs have also been painted. As usual there is quite a lot of semi-conflicting information about what colours and when but a seemingly well researched in-depth blog on the topic suggests that by the end of the war they would probably have been painted grey-beige RAL 7027; I've certainly seen another article stating that the AB250 should be that colour.....and so in for a penny, in for a pound.
ACW as usual.
Andrew
As you can see the real spinners were not always the nice neat things we portray....
Source: Our very own stona
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