Hi mates,
I am owing this update since time ago
. I have posted some of these photos in FB without a description. So, here I go.....
As soon as I remove all masking off I realized that I had painted very good white bands and Savoy's cross in the rudder
, then I re-masked them to give a thin coat of Gunze Sangyo's flat white.....
White applied..
When paint dried...I did a mistake
Well, I gave it time to leave drying per 4 days.......
, then I fixed the problem.....
Then, more thin coats...
Again, making tape off
Before to paint them, I analized original photo of a/c to finish camouflage color.
If you compare, there is no a light color in front of cockpit, and if you see, also there is two different shades of tone (one of them, shiny, beside of cockpit, and darker (flat) where is skeleton. So, I painted with free hand technique. I added a drop of Grimy Black (Floquil) to MM Vert to change tone to get a recent applied coat in original a/c.
An experiment, covering to color to B&W photo.....
Now, D.520 is ready to receive diagonal bands and french insignias covered with Grigio Azzuro Chiaro 1 (this color was used for this propose following RA standards). I found that diagonal bands were 30 centimeter width, so, I calculated 6.25mm at scale. Fortunately, Tamiya's masking tape has 6mm width, so I cut a strip to place it as jig, temporary.
These are paints that I used for camouflage
Now, ready for decals......
