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There are some spots where the stripes do not blend very precisely and smoothly into eachother. But this is not a mistake, it is intentional. As it was with the original, so I want it to be on the model. Except for the staggered stripes on the spine. I'll not imitate that, otherwise it would look too much like an accident in decalling. I will leave a thin line there as on the original, but otherwise will match the stripes as much as possible and imitate the differences in the foiling between the sides on the original only by moving the decal template on the PC:
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Alright, lets get this finsihed; on to the final round. After I have adapted the original templates to the kit meassures in a first round, there is a first test print on paper. let's see where we stand and weeeeell .... it at least roughly seems to fit quite well. Of course there are still a lot of details that don't really want to fit properly as on the original yet. In particular, the intersections between the wing and fuselage contain one or two details, which are not quite as they should be relative to the original:
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The stupid thing with too clean planes is that the models far too quickly look like toys, even more so if they have a special paint job, and there is nothing worse for the modeller! Luckily, towards the end the Ghost Tiger already looked a tiny wee bit "battered" around the belly, so I don't do anything wrong if I age it a little. (You can see, that two missile clips fell off. Note: already fixed again hihihi)
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Here is another example in which the Revell stencils are quite ok. in a way, but unfortunately just do not want to fit the kit they are made for. Revell provides a large stencil bundle for the warning markings around the emergency rescue punch in panel. So far so good, but unfortunately it doesn't fit if you want to put it as a whole on the respective spot. So on the one hand I had to cut again and on the other hand many elements had to be DIYed again because the color just didn't fit the current standard of the original anymore.
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And with that we can at least apply the basic stencils. Actually, I wanted to use as much of Revell's decal sheet as possible, but after checking the original, I found that I could use them only very limited because they are either out of date or these decals are just not enough. You can hardly see it from a distance, but almost every panel has its own number. Well ... what do you want to do?! Graphics tool, patience, printer and again the DIY modeller is called upon hihihi. Fortunately, the tiger stripes on the top have left out a lot of the regular stencils. That makes it a little easier f
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A small Ghost Tiger-specific detail: It seems 31+00 used to have four instead of two "No Step" stencils per slat. In any case, there are a few color repairs on every slat. You hardly see them, but due to the different surface properties of the color, you can make them out depending on the angle of light, and these spots alternate between appearing a little lighter or darker. I simply taped the spots and went over the TPS with Future a few times. That should roughly imitate the effect. I think/hope you can see that quite well later on the finished model?! The inside of the slats was also p
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Yes, well I'm kind of emotionally attached to this particular one hihihi. I confess it might seem a little much but I actually do enjoy it a lot. The good thing about the kit is that Revell actually allows for all the details to be added, i.e. the flaws of the kit are mainly discrepancies in detail and in setting and not in shape and proportion and that is a very good thing!
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The 2-tone TPS of the Luftwaffe Eurofighter is not that easy to replicate. Revell's color specifications are far too dark for the 1/48 model. They do match the original to some extent, but the scale effect comes across very strong in this case I think. Each modeller has his own recipe, but in the end I settled with Revell 57, 76 and 56 in the ratio 70/15/15 and then lightened this mix in the ratio 70/30 with white. For the nose and the leading edges I lightened 75 in a ratio of 70/30 with white. In the end, it more or less about matches the original at least to me.