During waiting for cement drying on flaps and airbrakes where I found visible depressions - and wheels where I made some scratches during creating grooves, I painted wheels wells, covers and front leg.
Wings are ready to be completed now and then also the rest of main body.
I will just keep horizontal stabilizer separated until the very end phase because of simplicity of masking and painting.

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Now that is really an addition to the standard provided wells, Martin.
Very impressive.

Same from me, looks great, Martin.

I started painting with some smaller parts.
Underside color was tricky stuff, I had to mix it by using 4 MRP colors.
But it is almost perfect, on the other hand.

Preshading is Insignia Blue,
then some spots with template
basic color
light shade of basic color over the template
light shade of basic color to fade out spots a little bit.

it is very decesnt, almost invisible, but this is just display aircraft, not war machine.

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I expected to be faster than I am.

I found (and make by myself) some issues to be solved before starting bottom color.

As always, I spent some minutes over the pictures and found some differencies between Eduard's guide and reality.

I plan to post the complete guide to build just this variant at the end of this thread.

Now back to the current status of the build.

I installed pitote tubes - I found it is really bad idea to drill to finished leading edge... just do not do it. When I fixed the damage, I filled holes where some sensors had to be attached.

Last modification was cutting off fuel tanks from pylons and making pylons look more realistic then.

I found that these pylons are certainly in top Dark Grey color.

I started with Surfacer as usual and polished all surfaces with Tamiya FINE compound.

Then I sprayed preshading with MRP Insignia Blue and then I made stains with FX templates which have much more fine texture than 77propeller templates. Stains were Insignia blue, White and some places Basalt Grey.

The final coat is mix of RLM78 and Russian Turquoise, some places with added white.

It is really hard to me to take proper picture of such crazy color, I hope that you can see the effect.

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Sorry it has been a few posts since I last checked in here, but such a lot to see then 🙂
The color and the prep looks very good - congrats on a nice job there.

Bottomside looks perfect, Martin.
Curious how the topside will look like.

This comes out perfect, Martin!