I'm making some more progress on getting this mustang looking closer to something she ought to. The first four pictures just show the tail and cowl painted up finally. I will have to come back and touch up a few spots. I have found that if I get it close to right the first time before I've painted too much, it's easier to just add a little more here and there.
Here they are:
image by brittvallot, on Flickr
image by brittvallot, on Flickr
image by brittvallot, on Flickr
image by brittvallot, on Flickr
This last one you can see where I had left some of the tape escape my notice. An easy fix for whenever I load back up on the Polished Aluminum again to touch up a few spots toward the end.
These next four show the adjustment I made on the ammo bay doors. I masked off the panels and came back over the edges with the Magnesium Alclad in light coats. I left the coats uneven in terms of how i put it down in an effort to show nonuniform wearing. I hit the very edges of the panels with the Magnesium and came back with the Duraluminum back toward the center to tighten up the effect and knock down whatever happened to look to be too much of a contrast. Worked like a charm! I would recommend the Magnesium in light coats for anyone looking to exploit panel lines in some fashion when you can't seem to get them back the way you want.
Here they are again:
image by brittvallot, on Flickr
image by brittvallot, on Flickr
top view again. This is really what I was looking for and this picture is actually a good representation of what the plane looks like.
image by brittvallot, on Flickr
image by brittvallot, on Flickr
That's that. I hope to get through most of the painting this week and move on to decaling and weathering.
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