This
is a good
scale model with the main lines looking correct, with slight fit problems in some
areas such as the wing root joint. The kit comes prepared to built
as the “tropical"
version of this airplane that participated in the North Africa campaign.
I
have chosen the desert scheme that incorporates the drawing of a serpent along the fuselage.
Between the two options that have provoked controversy with respect to this
paint scheme, I chose the one that personal and aesthetically seemed to
me that it fitted more with the scheme of colors of the airplane, that is to
say, doing that the spots of the body and the head showed the original scheme of
the camouflage (the other option was to paint all those spots in red, but I
didn't like that idea).
Also it has been discussed if the snake was painted in both sides of the
aircraft or just in one of them. As the masks that I acquired to paint this
version solely brought the masks to paint the serpent in one side, the question
got "technically resolved " ;-)
Thekit was completed with a photoetch set from Part (Poland)
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The
airplane was painted with Iwata airbrush using lacquers from Gunze Sangyo. All
the numerals, emblems and others are painted using the mentioned masks before.
Stencils and the mark of destruction of a tank in the nose come from the
stencils set commercialized by Hobbydecal.com.
Stencils are of the
“transferable" type. Highly recommendable by their fine ease of use and
their superb final aspect (there is a total absence of brightness in the edges
after their application).
Kit
painting phases were:
- Primer
gray spray from Vallejo
- Preshading
in black and white
- Painting
of European scheme of camouflage (blue in the belly and two tones of green
in the back)
- Application
by hand raised of the desert scheme with sand color
- Painting
of emblems, numerals and others using the masks
- Positioning
of stencils
- Glossy
varnishing with Future
- Shading
with oils
- Varnishing
in matt
- Effects
of wearing with gun metal applied with brush
- Post-shading
with lacquers
- General
soiling with pigments
- Application
of smoke effects in escapes and guns with airbrush
- Gluing
of pitot tube, antenna, etc
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This
model is dedicated to all my friends from “EL
FORO DE YORYI”
( http://jbelena.en.eresmas.com/index.html
). Thanks for all your wise advice, I’ve appreciated them a lot!!!
Hope
you like it!
José
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