Thanks all for the kind words.
I'm still plugging along at this turkey trying to get back in the groove. The side box art of the kit should have tipped me off that Revell wanted the engine and gun deck to be displayed open. Assembly of the jigsaw puzzle cowling, all 9 pieces, around the engine was a challenge and left some of the panel lines oversized, well more like trenches. Maybe I'm being too critical as this is a fairly inexpensive kit for 1/32. Anyways, I fixed what I could by running Tenax down the joints until it melted the plastic a bit, almost filling the line. When "almost" dry (you want a bit of softness still), I ran a sewing needle chucked in a pin vice down the line to restore it. This trick works sometimes....sometimes not I think its satisfactory.
I added the control surfaces and dropped the rear stabilizers. An annoyance with me on 190 kits, in general, is the seam through the wingroot cannon covers. It's by kit design and only the 1/48 Eduard kit offers the cover as a separate piece (which is a different kind of pain in the ***). Anyways, this line needs to be removed. It's a pain to tape off fill and sand, not unlike playing the game Operation. I taped the area off to preserve detail, filled it with super glue then carefully sanded them out. It took a few tries but I got it.
This late war 1945 scheme calls for RLM 75, 83 over 76. I'm guessing the 83 green was field applied to cover the factory 74, but who knows. I painted the nose stripe, rudder, and "V" on the lower port wing yellow cut with a touch of red. These were then taped off. I started with Gunze RLM 76 then added white which was streaked and faded.
The instructions showed that this subject had the late war "scalloping" of the wing leading edge. Rather than rolling up little balls of blue tac, I replicated this with a hole punch in Tamiya tape. Same effect I suppose.
Next I sprayed Gunze RLM 75 free hand. Mottling is done at low pressure and in close. I still would prefer Tamiya paints for this. This was faded and streaked as well.
The pattern was outlined with blue tac per kit instructions and voids filled in with post it notes to eliminate overspray. Gunze RLM 83 was put down. I added some XF-57 Buff to weather it. I then added some post shading around the cowl and had to stop because I ran out of time. There will be much more, particularly on the bottom and exhausts. Here's the result so far.
That's all for now...