I sprayed Mr Color C76 metallic blue (Aotake) in the gear bays, but I really wasn't too jazzed about how it looked. To me, the metallic flakes were too large and did not look to scale. So I experimented with the other Ki-44 I was working on at the time ( a -I) and instead sprayed an aluminum base and then a mixture of clear blue and green (varying opacity). I liked this much better and is the method I now use on all my builds. The first picture shows C 76 on the left, my own mixture on the right, both sprayed with a flat coat to knock down the shine.
After sanding down the entire plane with 3000 grit sanding cloth, I sprayed Mr Color GX2 Ueno Black as a gloss base for the aluminum. Then I sprayed Mr Color SM206 Super Chrome Silver 2 (I moved away from AK Xtreme Metal to this lacquer based paint due to the increased durability ofSM206).
Masks were cut with my Olfa CMP-1 and hinomaru sprayed, first with off white and then with MR Color C327. the antiglare and IFF bands were painted with C125 and C58, respectively.
10 attached images. Click to enlarge.
