I
finally got a chance to do a bit of airbrushing this week. It didn’t
eliminate the backup in the queue but it did make a dent at least. It being
November, it was pretty damn cold out in the garage. My fingers were barely
functional by the time I cleaned things up and headed upstairs.
Three
colors cycled through the brush today. First came a matte coat on the latest
finished model, a Hasegawa MS-406. There were some issues, but not with the
paint. The Berna decals did not adhere very well to the model, and one fuselage
roundel actually got blown off the side and floated to the floor! I’m in the
process of replacing that – not particularly easy, given the many color
variations of the French Blue that exists on various decal sheets. I don’t know
if I got a bad Berna batch. The matte coat went on without issue.
Next
came some Xtracolor X564 (Russian cockpit green). This went onto two recent
construction efforts: a MiG-29 and Su-24. No problems there.
Finally,
some Xtracolor X141 White onto wheel wells, inside gear doors, landing gear of
the Eurofighter and Tornado.
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