Thanks Bernard ! I'm hoping to add a third one to the "completed" section very soon...
Today I got some work done on the JG-54 A-8 plane. Please follow along and I'll explain the steps.
There is a lot of debate about which colors were used by JG-54. I went the common sense approach...I painted the upper surfaces with RLM 70 and 71, since these are colors that were available. Granted we will probably never know exactly what colors were used...
Here the plane is drying after I sprayed on a coat of "Future". I used a wooden toothpick and pushed it in place of the prop shaft. The other end was shoved into the Styrofoam board and supported the model as it dried.
I left the undersides in the original RLM 76.
Here's how the sides look at this point.
Once it had dried sufficiently, I masked off the areas that were going to be yellow...
and promptly painted them white to use as a base for the yellow.
Here is a look at the plane from underneath. You can see the wing tips, fuselage band, under the engine and lower portion of the rudder have all been painted white now.
This is a close up of the cowling after it was sprayed too.
While the white paint was drying, I cleaned the air brush. By the time this was done, it was dry enough to spray on some yellow...
Here's how it looked after the masking was removed...
a close up of the fuselage side... if you look close enough, you will see where the yellow bled underneath the tape in one small place. I ended up having to re spray some of the green in order to touch it up.
The landing gear and canopy are ready for installation now. I will wait until later on before I install the parts.
Then I gave the whole plane another coat of Future to prep it for decals.
So it went back on the drying rack...
The other side...
The underneath...
and topside...
Maybe tomorrow I can finish this one up.
As usual, comments are encouraged.
