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It's taking shape nicely Mistra

How much of the black pre-shading should be visible after the main colours go on

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Brent Best

Thanks Kremlin - pre-shading should be almost imperceptible - it shows through better on the underside. Due to the number of layers of top colours I dumped onto the model in trying to get the correct brown/green hue, the pre-shading is no longer too obvious. The main weathering comes after all painting and decals applied. Still got to decide if :
a) I go for all pastel weathering
b) A combination of water colour wash, followed by selective pastelling in really grubby areas.

Think I'll use the wash as I did on the Su-24 posted elsewhere on this site.

But first, I need to get some SAAF castles.....

Have a look at this really nice build on ARC - I think he got the colours spot on ! Nice faded camo....

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/G ... nn/14.shtm

Thank you Mistral, I am pleased that the colors are ok. The color choice was difficult.
That's my C-47, which is seen here with you in the forum.

Anti Strella exhaust suppressors installed - wheel put on temporarily :

Finally, ordered some castles from Mav Decals - here they are - I think the fuselage one is too large - too late....

And it's finally done - got round to printing the aircraft serial number 6859, finally.....

Trumpeter got the main undercarriage wrong - although they look correct, the landing gear legs are way too short and the "sit" of the aircraft is not right.

The Aires resin engines and Quickboost corrected engine cowlings were well worth the extra cash

Weathering was done as follows - overall thick wash with watercolor black, left to dry and removed with damp cloth and ear buds. Followed by some fine chipping around engine with Tamiya X-16 aluminium, finally, localized exhaust and other staining using dark grey and black pastels. Yellow "59" on the nose is too big but that's all I had in the spares box





The 20mm cannon, ammo box and belt



Underside - used the Eduard flaps which proved to be quite an operation assembling these fiddly things. The surface detail on the kit is commendably nice:

Beautiful work!

Mistral, in my opinion you are the arguably one of the best SAAF modeler's around. your models have a lot of character.

It looks really good!
I just have a question about the gun: is it a Hispano (like the Shackleton, Vampire, Spitfire, etc used), Giat F2 (Ratel, Rooivalk), or Mauser MG151 (aka "GA-1" used on Allo K-car)?

Beautifull!

Dude I am getting very ticked off now!
Every time you complete a model I need to rethink how I will paint mine as the result I get can never be as good as I now want it after seeing yours, first the 3c now thw Dak aswell

Well done, another stunner

T

Thanks MARS, Dodger, Dean and Theuns. Appreciate the compliments

I based the gun on the MG151 as per Alo fit although the gun mount in the Dak (from the limited pics I had) looked larger and higher? Theuns, you should be safe building a WWII SAAF subject I tend to focus on bush war and later subjects...

Awesome build! That is top class Mistral, thanks for sharing it with us!

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