4 weeks after knee surgery and I’m sort of back in action as I can now sit comfortably at my workbench and stand at my airbrush station. Thanks Spiro!

Jaimie: That’s what I figured so I didn’t use aotake because at that late in the game, Nakajima probably used whatever paint they could scrounge up. Besides aotake is a weird color.

Nice looking Frank!

Welcome back, Eric.
Nice to see you had a good recovery!
And you had been very busy those last hours.
I am very curious to see how this sponged liquid mask technique will tunn out.
Your Frank looks very good so far!

After applying the J. A. Green, I got out the blue masking tape and pulled up the liquid masking blotches. I'm not sure if I over did the chipping as some extra paint came up as well. Halfway through I ditched the tape and just rubbed my fingers at right angles to remove the masking and that was much easier. So what you see in this photo is the Frank after two light coats of Future to get ready for the decals and the soon to be painted white fuselage band.

Very nice chipping effect!

Thanks Erik and Spiros. Do you guys ever use liquid mask? Any brand recommendations? I used to use Microscale but recently switched to AMMO to try it out but I don’t care for it.