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included in the form of decals, they were far
too thick to bend around the seat, so in the All clean and primed ready for it paint.
end, I purchased some HGW seat harnesses
which looked beautiful when put together.
Work could now begin on the front nose Painting began with the pale
section for the quad 30 mm auto cannons. blue fuselage and underwing
The compartment that holds the cannons was colour.
primed and then painted in RLM02 (MRP-50)
and then given a wash of dark brown.
To add some variation to the
cannon sections, I painted the
main cannons with Mr. Hobby
buffable Dark Iron to add
that dark, metallic lustre and
painted the ammunition feeds
and empty shell shoots with
a dark aluminium, just
to differentiate and
add more visual
interest. Having
looked through
many references

With all the basecoats down and a solid
colour applied I was happy with the
result. Though hard edged, I am really
pleased with how it turned out.

The fi rst stage of weathering began with
lightening the base tone and randomly
painting inside the panels. This provides
a sun-bleached effect to the paint.

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