DONE.
There's a lot of things that I think went right with this build, and a lot of things that went wrong. The most noticable is probably the panel lines. I have never been able to do a decent panel line wash or anything else to make them look right. So this time I did an experiment of scribing the lines after the painting was done. After that, I actually did a very succesful wash, except that on the left wing I screwed up the lines so bad that it looks awful. I tried to fix it, but soon realized that I would have to strip the entire thing down and start over. And frankly, I'm just ready to get this done and move on. So I chocked it up to a learning experience.
I had some touch-up paint mistakes on the bottom, but I mostly covered them up with some weathering and oil stains. Also the bottom window is... just a mess.
That being said, A lot of things went better than I expected. The camo came out well, the Canopy mask worked well, the decals worked fine, and the exhaust stains came out very well. At least, I think so.
The black and white logo on the nose says that this plane was in the 2nd Escadrille of GB ll/21. The Amiot 354 was a brand new aircraft when France was invaded in 1940, and only a handfull of them were available for combat units. GB ll/21 only had six Amiot's total at the start of the invasion. Nonetheless, they did fly their share of bombing and reconaisance missions before most of them were flown to North Africa when France was overrun. From there, they flew liason missions, and some were used by the Germans as research aircraft.
Comments and critiques welcome, many thanks to Vance for hosting this awesome group build, and thanks for looking!
-Budd