Here's a recap of what was accomplished earlier this evening.
I masked off the vertical tail assembly, and sprayed it using white enamels on both of the F-84 straight winged planes. I was just about ready to start spraying the paint, when I decided to go ahead and mask the F-84F swept wing version. This one is going to be eventually painted as a Thunderbirds jet.
Here you can see how both of the straight wing fuselages were painted. By the time I took these pictures, I had already sprayed on the yellow. Both planes received a base coat of white. I have found out over the years, that yellow is very transparent, and it looks much better, and has better coverage if it is sprayed on a white base coat. I also painted the nose gear doors and intake ring in yellow on the F-84G model,
The Olive Drab anti glare panels have been masked off, and hopefully tomorrow I can paint these areas too.
I cut some Tamiya tape in strips, and used them as masking for the red and white lines. I didn't want to use decals for this part. I spent some time studying the various pictures I have of jets from this unit, and upon close inspection, none of them had stripes that were applied perfectly. All were either crooked, or had varying degrees of thickness.
So I mimicked this application, and went with the "close enough is good enough" attitude. These stripes were applied in the field, and there was a war going on. In these pictures, you can see how the stripes now look yellow. That's actually the Tamiya tape strips.
Here's the other side... The other jet will receive the same treatment, but the stripes will be painted on using black paint. This will be completed as a jet from the sister squadron.
The next step was to spray on some red.
After the paint had dried enough, I removed the masking. Here's how it looked then.
and the other side.
Finally, I wanted to start applying some bare metal foil. You can see this on the tip of the vertical fin.
I also applied foil to the nose gear doors. Speaking of the doors, they are very easily knocked off ! If I happen to do this again, I will simply wait and add them later.
Here you can also see the red paint on the nose / intake ring. This area will receive some chipping, and I'll likely do some touch up work inside where some overspray landed.
That's all folks !
As always, comments are encouraged.
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