More progress. The May Eduard newsletter shows a great step by step breakdown of how Honza Baranec applied the nmf finish. Using this as a guide I ordered the Mr Color lineup of metallizer paints. Being a die hard Alclad user I was skeptical. Not any more, the MC paints are brilliant. They go on as well as any color in the lineup, dry to the touch in minutes and have been bulletproof to my excess use of tape 😬. I painted the entire model in about 3 hours. Most of that time was waiting for the liquid mask to cure for the individual panels. Using Honza’s ‘cloud’ method of misting on the different shades and letting the black show through really works…which I found is impossible to capture in photos…I know it’s the photographer. This is the first step in the process…Abteiling Oils are next and some other washes. Fingers crossed it comes out as I’m picturing it. The 352nd Blue is Tamiya X-8 and a ‘wing it’mixtrue of white. Since there aren’t any known color photos of Cripes it’s mostly guesswork toning it to the black and white photos. More soon!
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