Painting Corogard and modeling landing lights

XtraColor has Corogard.  Other options is pick the closet match of gray to the actual aircraft (has a lot of corogard fades over time) and paint that.  You could also had a little bit of alunimum to the gray you chose and then paint the wings.

Draw Decals puts out corogard decal sheets for specific aircraft, so you could also go that way.

This is very helpful.  Thank you.

What IS corogard?  Is it a primer, or some sort of conversion coating?

Not exactly sure what it is, but I believe its some sort of protective metiallic coating on modern jetliners.  Its an option airlines can request when they buy a new jet, has some have them some don't

Alan, here is an article I did on reproducing realistic, 3D landing lights.   I don't know if you can use it, but it sure does add to the appearance once on the shelf.

http://floatingmid.com/LL.htm

Good luck!

Frank

Wow, that looks great.  I'm definitely going to try that...thanks so much for sharing.

I may be too far into this build to try it this time.  What I've done is experimented with Testor's clear glue, building it up and holding the model to let gravity fill it out, and it seems to be working.  I'll need to clean it out and back it with silver, then rebuild it.  I think that'll save me this time.  I've put links to what it looks like.

I noticed you mentioned foil or decals in the tutorial.  What do you think of the silver decals?  They came with this kit, and look pretty good, and might give the slightly used look I'm going for (with all my traveling, I've yet to see a pristine plane).

Thank you again for your response (and for all the responses I've received).  They've been very helpful.

Alan

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