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Article by Jimmy Harris |
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I built this kit OOB except for the antenna wire. Thread was the only option I
had for the wire at the time. I had no idea it would appear that fuzzy in the
photo. I finished this kit a few weeks before I started on the F-4G (which
appears elsewhere on ARC).
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It was painted with Model Master Blue Angel Blue enamel, the only color the
hobby shop had anywhere close to what I needed.
Even using a gloss paint, I still had problems with decals silvering in some
places. It was my fault or the paint, not the decals. I'm not sure if I thinned
the paint incorrectly or airbrushed it wrong. It came out sort of a semi gloss.
I have done a few other gloss paint schemes but never had this problem before.
After adding the decals, I sprayed the model with Testors dullcoat, then started
weathering. Here's where I almost ruined the model. I was trying to duplicate
chipped paint in various areas but the result was nowhere near what I expected,
it was way overdone. I had to repaint these sections with the airbrush and
weather heavily with pastels. I sprayed the model with a final layer of dullcoat.
Jimmy Harris
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