A couple of sneak peek photos, as this is nearing the finish line. It's an old Hasegawa kit. I'll add aircrew as usual. It had nice recessed panel lines, but no rivet detail so I riveted it. I've painted the white stripe on the rear fuselage and the yellow wing markings, and masked and painted the upper surface color. I didn't want to take the time to blackbase or pre-shade, so I post shaded with 2 lighter shades of the base color. Not as much contrast, but I'll also do some oil dot filtering when done.

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Hello Greg ! @gkittinger

I am happy to see you joining us, and your Hasegawa Sonya is right at home here... I have always liked how this plane looks when painted in blue. It reminds me of the Nichimo box art for their 1/48 scale kit from back in the day.

You are well on your way to getting this one finished. Thanks for starting a build journal, and I will be looking forward to seeing your next installment.

Love that blue color! Looks clean. The riveting gives it nice detail too. I need to take a crack at some some riveting.

WOW - thats. . . . blue! I'm tuned in here, and looking forward to seeing it progress!

Ok - quick update - gloss-coated and used MIG panel line washes for the first time. With so much rivet detail to try to get the wash into, I pretty much covered the entire surface of the aircraft line-by-line, and taking it off with mineral spirits and q-tips gave me some streaking - not bad but next time I'll go lighter with the paint color knowing that treatment will darken it up a bit. You can see the rivet work I did pretty well.

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This wash brought fantastic results, Greg!

Looking great indeed, Greg!