A quick update
The airframe is almost at painting level. Just a few touch ups to reach there
The “mouth” of that big radiator in now glued and detailed the best I knew and could. Even with prior sanding and adjusting, including adding thin stretched spruce and putty there are still minor gaps to be dealt with. But the fit is much better than it was
also considerably thinned these slats that are still unpainted because I’ll need to give them some weathering on the inside surfaces before glueing them
About paints- I realize having had a senior moment when I painted the floaters, completing forgetting that the undersurface camouflage grey came up all the way to the supporting structure.
As you can see I am re-painting both accordingly
I also changed the initial hue of the underside grey, going from a blueish grey to a more green grey. Apparently I was using a color used by the Japanese Army AF, not the proper color used by the Navy AF. You can see the difference between them, the flap still in the initial coat but the stabilizers already with the new grey green coat
a big thanks for my friend Louis Gardner
@lgardner for helping me find what exactly was that grey green color
Finally am working also on the exhaust stacks. These are OOB and I dare not drilling them because the darn things are tiny
after some aluminum base, I applied a very thin layer of hull red. Now I’m moving to oils and pastel to finish them.
Cheers!
