I have been making some progress on the painting. I got the first coat of base color on. It is amazing how much paint it took but it is done. I also painted in some of the repaired areas or areas that were painted over. I will start tomorrow with the next layer of color variation and shading. I am pretty happy with how things are going so far.

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Walt (@luftwaffe-birdman)
It's incredible the amount of damage these aircraft would sustain. I was just reading about Louis Zamperini and his B-24 "Superman"

It returned after a raid on a Japanese held Pacific Island, and it had something like 547 holes in it... and a dead crew member on board, with several others wounded. Because his plane was so badly damaged, he wasn't flying in it when he went down on the search and rescue mission. That one was named "Green Hornet", and was a "lemon" of sorts.

It's strange how sometimes the B-24 would go up in flames so quickly, like it did with my Dad's childhood friends plane named "Chief", (who was part of the 98th BG) and shot down in flames over Italy by a Bf-109G6, yet on other times it would keep on flying similar to how a B-17 or P-47 would with damage galore. Luck of the draw I guess, or the grace of God. Maybe a little of both ?

Your work on this one is spectacular. I am looking forward to seeing your next update. I also like the color choices you have made. Like you, I believe that some of these B-24's that flew in North Africa had a Light Blue underside.

Sometimes when things are going good, something bad happens. I was in the stage of adding some different shades of OD to the upper surfaces, and adding some markings when something very bad happened. I am not really sure what happened other than I accidently knocked over a cup of mixed OD paint that I was about to pour into my airbrush. I didn't just knock it over though it was more violent than that splattering paint all over my work bench. What I did not immediately notice was that it all landed on top of my wing, and flowed around under it too. When I noticed I wiped it up but it completely remove all the topcoats I had put on the kit.

I let it set for for couple of days and then using some very fine sand paper wet sanded the surface to feather the edges and started all over. I primed, painted the panel and rivet lines and then put my base coat on. I had to do this for both the top and bottom. All in all the results look fairly seamless to me.

I did get some markings painted also. According to my research one rudder on the plane was replaced at some point. From the pictures I am guessing it was the starboard rudder. I painted it a different OD and then in the pictures is shows that the area above and below the white were darker. I originally thought it was black but a picture of the port side doesn't show it. I would appreciate it if anyone has information on the 514th Bomb Squadrons markings I would greatly appreciate it.

Excellent save, my friend @luftwaffe-birdman! Totally unnoticeable. Great progress, too!

Walt - That dark stripe on the rudder looks tonally the same dark shade as the blue part of the RAF fin flash.

Tom, @tcinla, I didn't notice that. I just knew from reading that one of the rudders had been replaced during the life of the plane. I haven't found a source that even shows me the white stripe as a markings for the 514th, it is just noted in the pictures I have seen of both sides of the aircraft. This is always the challenges when trying to depict colors from black and white pictures. That note on your part is something I am going to have to think about. I just wish I had found the documentation that Eduard used when they did the markings for their 2011 kit release in 1/72. It seems my decal sheet may be missing some markings.

Thanks as always Spiros, @fiveten, for your kind words. I appreciate that you follow this build so faithfully.

I really like this simple kit of the V-2 John, @johnb. I am sure I will paint it in a camo scheme, I am just not sure which one I am going to do. I found a site that is dedictated to all things V-2 and they had section dedicated to paint and markings. I will be doing one of the following, which do you like?
https://www.v2rocket.com

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Thanks Louis, @lgardner. If you find anything out about the markings, please do let me know. I like the black and white checker also, but I think I will go with a splinter scheme. The fun thing is the kit is cheap enough and easy enough to build that I could easily do multiples...not that I will. If someone came out with it and the trailer I would most definitely get that though.