Catching up with your Mustang builds, @airbum. What is better than a Mustang model? Two of! them!
Both looking great. Cannot wait to see them painted.
All the best, my friend!

Invasion!

Time to get those invasionstripes on

First, a layer of gloss white

And a few days later when it had fully cured I measured the width of the stripes to be approximately 9mm.

As the stripes were mostly added in a hurry by large brush, I took a length of 10mm and cut along each side without a ruler.

That gives a wavy line that may be expected from hastily applied markings “in the field”, and the haste continued to this day! As with the legion Condor 109, I sprayed a layer of Tamiys White Primer to seal the tape before spraying black.


While I sprayed I noticed the paint reacting – actually it was the old white underneath that had reacted to the primer.

Well, that just gives more pleasurable build time – right?

next time I may have addressed the hiccup and painted the whole beast – even though it may be time to get a move on the eduard pony?

I am sure you just wanted some more sanding and priming time. If you are like me, these are the parts of the build that I enjoy the most. (Not really!)

Mustangs are fun projects, simple or complicated, depending on who's kit your building. In the end after the challenges, from the kit or self, in the end they are quite impressive. That is why seeing a progress from some of our peers and how they approach and address issue along the way are quite interesting and also makes us aware of any particular build challenges when we are building that model ourselves and prepared to deal with it in our own way. Paint can be a nasty little devil at times and occur expectantly. Despite prep using different brands, will at times react to each other. Will the decal solution stain the clear coat? Will this brand react with another brand, enamel over acrylic. You never know. But we love it.

Hiccup cured – sort of

Well, got most of the disaster corrected, resprayed, and masked

And with that done it was time to get a yellow leading edge.

Actually I used Humbrol gloss yellow. The yellow will get masked, and the camo will be the last, so no tape-peel later on I hope.

And there we are – another unscheduled post, so I guess you have to stay tuned to see whats up next

Looks good, Erik (@airbum). Invasion stripes look great when done, but they are something I have always avoided. They always seemed like too much work, but after seeing yours I may give it a try.

Your freehanding looks nice, my friend @airbum. I am surprised the gloss enamel was reasonably dry after an hour. Humbrol gloss enamels typically take much more.
Cannot wait for the green! It will lookvery nice I can foresay!

Invasion stripes are evil to paint, Erik (@airbum). There is a good reference on RAF Mustang camouflage from IPMS Stokholm that I use sometime. Try them at https://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2000/01/stuff_eng_profile_mustang3.htm

One of the things they point out is there was a lot of variation, especially when you throw in different manufacturers and the fact that some came from Canada, as well as the US.