This is where I envy airbrushers! That's such a subtle effect, and I really have no way to replicate that with brush painting. Looks very nice.

Salty days are over. Three layers of salt look to too much today, I would go with only one or two next time.
The result is great, however. I am switching to bottom and insignia airbrushing. This scooter looks better and better every day.

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This is the moment when the fun starts. I like these colorful schemes, none of them is boring. 🙂

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I think this is one the last post I put here. I had almost done weathring, just few things have still to be paint.

I think I was able to get as close as possible to my wish and the weathering looks as real as I can do.

After applying gloss lacquer I polished the surface with tamiya polish paste.

Then I washed the lines and rivets and finaly I applied tamiya weathering and black pencil.

I used oils, pencil, and tamiya weathering master set (B).

I still have to apply pencil effects on bottom surface which looks too clear to me now.

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After all issues I made and found, this one bird is done and it was already presented on Plastikova Zima in Bratislava last Saturday. I still have to re-take some photos again, but I am ready to show you the finished model right this weekend.

I am happy that people appreciated clean build and nice surface, this was something I really struggled with when building previous models. I am glad I did one more step closer to perfection. But I stay humble and look forward to finish next Scooter in version F.

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I worked intesively on Scooter last month and I am close to finish.

1. Preshading with GSI C2 Black
2. Ailerons rudder and elevator movable part airbrushed with GSI White C316
3. Salt and light spray with very dark grey on walkways
4. Leading edges, spoilers, ladder and inner surfaces with Tamiya Red.
5. Base colors airbrush - white C316 on bottom.
6. Upper surface: I sprayed darker shade of base color around walkways and on top of fuselage.
7. Salt
8. Light layer of base color - Grey C315.
9. Salt again.
10. Final layer of base color. I did not want to destroy preshading effect, so i used more thinned color.
11. I made some stains with darker and lighter shade of base color.
12. 3-4 layers of glossy varnish
13. Decals (Mr. Mark Setter + Softer)
14. 2-3 layers of glossy varnish over all decals
15. Wash: I used mix of four oil colors: Umton white + grey + zinc + dark brown. I could not use grey only, because it has blue shade. I made it more warn with zinc and a little dark brown. Then I just tuned the lightness of the shade with white. For bottom surface i added a lot of white to get only little contrast.
    Undercarriage parts were washed with Mig Dark wash, because I like higher contrast there.

Next steps will be - semi-glossy varnish and pastels + some drybrush (it will not be classic drybrush, but real painting to highlight some parts, the effect is similar to drybrush). At the end, I will fix them with semi-glossy varnish.

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Martin, two of my favorite A4 squadrons, the Bluetail Flies and the (ahem) Fighting Red Roosters. On at least one cruise, the squadron had a rooster in its own cage. They used to "unleash" him, to liven things up. Love them Skyhawks. AKA Scooters, Heinemans Hotrod.