But what scheme?
I had been hoping that the two sheets of Xtradecal replacements would arrive from Hannants and sure enough they did; Dave has taken the RAF sheet for his forthcoming build and I settled on an all silver machine from the Belgian Air Force. Here’s a closer look at the sheet I am using…
On with the paint
From the pics I have found the aircraft were painted High Speed Silver. I decided on the following from the Alclad II metallic lacquer range:
• Alclad II Gloss Black Base
• Airframe Aluminium
• Dark Aluminium
The paint all went on without any trouble at all; I did leave the Gloss Black Base for a few hours to dry thoroughly before applying the two ‘silvers’ that went on one straight after the other.
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Ghost seam join lines
With the best will in the world you do your best to make sure the preparation is flawless before applying the Alclad – you’ll certainly know if it isn’t after spraying the Aluminium! In fact, all looked pretty good, the only area that needed a bit of re-work was the forward section horizontal joins that showed some imperfections.
I have shot a couple of HD videos on how to get rid of these ‘ghost’ seams and you can find them below …
Video 2
Video 2
The area is sanded, buffed, polished and then the black, Airframe Aluminium and Dark Aluminium sprayed again, finishing off by adding in the rows of rivets using Rosie once more.
