John, the painting looks to be coming along quite nicely. Always rather hard to paint a dark color so that pre-shading shows through. You seem to have done that well. This will look excellent when completed, I can tell already.

Finished the masking of the Buffalo.

Applied the "jong blad" color, "young leaf". Used Vallejo 71.014 'Gunship green' for that. The patafix used for the tail section was very difficult to remove while the patafix on the wings and fuselage come off very easily. Reason for that must have been that I applied the tail section masks two days ago. So next time, better to applying and remove patafix the same day.

The "jong blad" did not show the pre-shading anymore, therefore I used the dark green camouflage color to create some shading on the lighter green color.

@fiveten, thanks a lot, Spiros

Great steps and a wise decision to paint the white fuselage band, my friend @johnb!

@fiveten, thank you, Spiros.
@gblair, thanks a lot, George. It would have been much earier if I had painted the white first indeed, but why make it yourself easy if you can do it the difficult way.

Looking great, my friend @johnb! Have a great holiday!

Started with the decals. First the orange triangles at the lower side of the wings. Decals worked perfectly. No decals for the upperside of the wings. The nose art decals required a white base decal at first. This worked very well but I'm not sure what the idea of Tamiya is behind this white base.

@fiveten, thanks a lot, Spiros. That might be a plausible explanation.