Progress continues very slowly as I've been very busy with work, and also trying to get my Eduard Yak-3 completed (see recent WIP post on the subject and a whole load of build photos on that one.. and not a lot of commentary as I'm pushed for time, sorry about that).
Anyway, back to Dragon's Dora: Underside paint job complete, with the painted out crosses.

Your Dora is coming really nice along, Marek. Not too much shading but visible, spot on.
Interesting is, that you have installed the undercarriage before the decaling, so you must be a very careful modeller, this will go probably wrong by me.

It's been a while since I've posted here, and there has been a bit of progress with the Dora:

The Green RLM 82 part of the camo pattern has been added to both wings & fuselage.

I've also sprayed in the "Soviet" colour additions, namely the AMT-11 patches covering the old German markings.

The mottling still needs to be done, which to be honest I'm struggling with on by double action Iwata Revolution.

I'll probably resort to purchasing a single action airbrush from a local supplier here in Australia. I just want something I can "dial-in" point & squirt & I just can't seem to achieve that on the Revolution HP-CR.

Nearly a month since the last post and there's me thinking I'd have this all done & posted by now, but no, the build drags on...

So, I've got the weathering basics done...and it's made ready for the top coat of Future prior to the Red Star decals being added.

Paint chipping done mostly with a silver pencil, which is the first time I've tried the technique.

It looks reasonably effective from a distance.

The dreaded mottling has been done on the tail. I need more practice with that technique, but it will do for now.

Exhaust stains, rust on the exhaust general wear & tear stains have also been added prior to being sealed with a topcoat of Future.

Providing there are no disasters on the way, the next batch of photos should have the red star insignia's on them. and the end of the project will almost be in sight, Whooo Hoooo!

Thanks Bernd. The coat of Future to the top-side went on this evening (Saturday) & I'm hoping to get the bulk of the decaling done on Monday, so more pix sometime soon after.

Greetings :
Nice clean and sharp work, I'm following this one.

Decalling progress: Red star decals courtesy of Techmod's generic 1/48 set to the underside:

Techmod's red stars applied also to the wings topside, as well as the fuselage positions:

No trouble applying these as they're nice & thin & bed down well.

The stencilling is from the original decal set supplied by Dragon and I had my doubts about whether they'd be any chop.

I dipped the Dragon decals in Future once they slid off their backing paper and also applied Future to that part of the surface that the markings were going to go.

They seem to be ok, as in "they'll do".

I'm baulking at applying the walkway stencils on the wings, which some aircraft show but others do not. I'm in a bit of a quandary over this one...

So far the original kit decals have behaved and they're early 1990's vintage. Am I about to push my luck too far with applying what in effect are long thin dotted markings that may or may not have been applied on the original service aircraft?