@fiveten @j-healy @johnb @gblair @airbum I'm glad that you like my painting. It was possible that was some bad karma, because I degreased the surface of the model and then worked only with gloves. The underlay was of good quality. This has happened to me once before with the dark green paint from the H series. Even more strange during the construction of the Spitfire V, this problem did not arise.

Nice masking, my friend @lis!

I tend to mask for just about everything, @lis. Not as steady as I used to be.

Good job Lis @lis
Masking is prefered by me as well.
I'm just not confident enough to do the paintwork freehanded.

Excellent, my friend @lis: this masking will do the job!

@fiveten @j-healy @johnb @gblair @airbum

I look in the mirror and see that after this painting I have a few more gray hairs ... Now it is being analyzed whether the effect of the work is acceptable to me. Despite the really strong masking, there were a few streaks. The worst was already removed with a gentle splash of Ocean Gray. Still on the border of silver and green one could stick to it, but it turns out that the tape is not perfectly rectilinear and sometimes it is nanometers shorter at some points on the line. I have the impression that if I had the whole plane in a two color camouflage in upper surfaces, the amount of gray hair would increase in geometric mode... Therefore, for the sake of my mental health 😉 , I choose one-color paintings, or possibly in two uniform colors of the upper and lower surfaces.

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I agree with Spiros, @lis, the paint looks good to me. I always worry when I get to the painting part of a build. You have a lot of time and energy invested in the model, and one tiny misstep while painting could ruin the whole thing. Sometimes a painting mistake is hard to fix, but in most cases you are the only one who knows about the small mistakes. When I reach the painting part of a build, I always wait for a day or two so I can plan how I want to approach the painting task. And after I finish painting, I can usually find a way to mess up the decals. I keep reminding myself we do this for fun! Anyway, I think your plane looks great and I am looking forward to the next chapter.

Agree with the above comments of Spiros (@fiveten) and George (@gblair), Lis @lis

Painting looks really great.

When you are talking about nanometer differences, trust me, you can not observe them with your bare eye.

I do work in a semiconductor environment and therefore involved in nanometer scaling each day. To observe imperfections we do need scanning electron microscopes (SEM) for that.

Likely you did not inspect your paintwork with this kind of microscope 😉

Just keep up the way you are performing at this moment, it looks great.