I may have misled in a previous post. The camo scheme is the standard USAF South East Asia (SEA) scheme of a dark green, medium green and tan. The black is just the undercoat.

G'day George (@gblair),

If you look back, the paints are Gunze Aqueous and I sprayed the camo free hand.

I have since gone back and tidies up a few bits, including fixing an error on the right side.

I also realised that the rod antenna behind the cockpit was not on the RAAF aircraft.

This is an SST-181X rendezvous beacon that was used by the USAF during the Vietnam War (but was later removed) and this would not have been installed on the RAAF jets.

So this was belatedly removed and repainted as well.

The metallics on the 1/72 kit are Mr Colour SM 205 Super Titanium and SM 204 Super Stainless 2 with an overspray of Vellajo 77.713 Jet Exhaust.

I will use these on the bigger jet too, but will look to add other paints, I think.

Mostly a bunch of small stuff yesterday and today.

I glued the drop tanks together - by far the best fitting tanks I’ve ever built. Normally I end up with a flattened seam after filling and sanding but these fit together so well there was only a light sanding required - and a round cross section maintained.

The two stabilising brackets sit clear of the wing undersurface. A bit of research reveals that there are stabilising pins into the wing and that the pylon hangs slightly clear of the wing. So, I added three very short peices of rod.

I also drilled and pinned the SUU-20 practis bomb dispenser to one of the pylons.

Excellent, detaled job, my friend @michaelt!

And half of the rest done. There will be silvering…

Looks great, Michael @michaelt
The largest decal I have ever seen, definitely a challenge to get it done nicely.

Excellent painting skills, my friend @michaelt!

Warning stripes look very good, Michael @michaelt