Excellent entry and ditto progress, my friend @tcinla!

This will be a fun one, Tom (@tcinla). I have always thought that it would be hard to paint and maintain a plane painted with gold paint, so I look forward to seeing a model of one.

The model is painted.

It turns out, Gold is an even more difficult color to apply right than any Silver color. It really picks up any blemishes on the surface. I used Mr. Hobby "super Gold" lacquer-base metalizer. After testing on the paint mule, I thinned it 60 (thinner)-40 (paint) and "misted" it on. I didn't apply an undercoat, since the plastic of this model was light enough to get the maximum color, but if I was painting a grey-plastic kit, I would give it an overall coat of flat white first.

The gold color really brings out the "second-rateness" of this Airfix Sabre kit compared to a Hasegawa or Academy kit, with its heavy trenches for panel detail. But this kit had the 6-3 wing and slats, which made a Sabre Mk.6 an easy conversion.

The leading edge and slats were painted with Mr. Hobby "Super Duralumin."

On to the Leading Edge decal and calling this finished!

Also, I applied Future to the clear canopy and that "cleared up" the distortion from the deficient molding process. Something to think about in the future with any other Airfix kit.

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Gold looks great, Tom )@tcinla). I have never seen a plane in gold before. I am surprised you could find the right color to do it. I am building the Airfix kit next, so it should be fun.

That looks really nice, Tom @tcinla
Did you take any special preperation or airbrush setting to get that gold on.

@johnb - Just kept the pressure at 15 lbs psi, thinned the paint so it came out in a mist.

Flight Demo trams are always high-maintenance