I have been visiting ARC
on a daily basis for some years now, but never had the confidence to submit a
model. I am a “from the box builder” although I do use the odd, after
market transfer sheet. Now I have the confidence to use an airbrush, and
my good friend Lawrence taught me the Blue Tac method of masking I am
experimenting with some interesting colour schemes. This is the Hobby Boss
kit, and was well priced but absolutely vice less and an absolute joy to build
so I have no adverse comment whatsoever. I served in the Royal
Air Force for nine years in the 1980s and 1990s and live nearby the USAFE base
at RAF Alconbury in England where they have an F-5E as gate guardian, so I
fancied doing one.
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Having used
enamels with a brush for years and thinking they were too messy to spray,
and thinking acrylics were the way forward, I have gone back to spraying
enamels with great pleasure and satisfaction (email if you want my
reasons). For this model I used Humbrol enamels with a Badger single
action airbrush with Blu Tac Tamiya masking tape.
I hope you like it and I have a
1/32nd Hasegawa one on the go with FCM Mexican markings. (PS: Happy
Birthday to Steve Bamford, easy to remember, 22nd August, same as mine!)
Brian Vincent Ogden
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