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I will be doing a 339th FG Mustang, Of Lt. Gerard of 503rd squadron the day he became an Ace on an Escort Mission to Grimma, Germany when he shot down 3 Fw 190's an Me 109 and damged another, a month earlier he clamied his first kill and ME 109 on an escort to chemintz. The kit will be OOB of box with homemade decals except for the Checkers.

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Ok started on her, For this build I will being trying to get my colors corect compared to last build. The cockpit will be Interior Green and Wood for the floor versus Green Zinc Chromate, and the Wheel bays will be aluminum with the Yellow Zinc chromate. and I will attempt an Aerial too. I will paint this mustang with Testors Metalizers instead of alclad.

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Ok got some more work done shes buttoned up primered and sprayed, Im not to happy with finish, I micromeshed everything and wiped down good and no fingerprints but here is some weird looking paint areas. I tried Vallejo Model air on this kit vs. Alclad. and Im not happy. anyway im gonna sand down the areas and re spray hopefully this will fix it. Primmerd with Tamiya gray Fine, sprayed with Vallejo Model Air Chrome, Exhausts are Alclad Pale burt metalwith brushed Burnt red and Blue. so tell me what you think.

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My first thought is too heavy of coats in those "funny paint areas". Never used that product, but to me it looks like it went on a bit too heavy and perhaps even too much pressure. Heavy paint got on the surface and the too much air pressure looks like it moved it around a bit. Sanding it out and respraying with light coats ought to fix it.

If it were me, I wouldn't use anything but Alclad. I LOVE that stuff.

*edit* If you look at the raised details in the problem areas, you can see they are rather obscured as opposed to the areas where you had no trouble. I'd worry about sanding away the raised details (rivets and panel lines) in your attempt to fix the finish; might want to consider stripping it and starting fresh to preserve the details.

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Brian

Thanks for the Insight, I am still learning the airbrush, but I dont think I changed my pressure it is around 20 or so and I sprayed from like 6-8in in lt coats, then got in closer as I could see I wasnt getting good coverage. I think I wlll stick with getting alclad Im not really liking this Valejo stuff.

Hamm

I ran some my finest paper up to 2400 and it smoothed out the nose and sides, I also dropped the pressure to about 15 and it still seemd a touch grainy. So I ran steel wool over it and it worked beter than I thought.

Neo

I used Interior Black MMacr and tamiya flat white and red and Flat aluminum for dry brush. I read somwhere that you can use watercolors for a wash similar to the oil washes I have been reading about but have yet to try.

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OK lot of work Today, I decied since im trying some things on this build Ill keep going, I wanted a weatherd stripe look so I researched the salt method and I am about 90% happy with it. I got what I was almost looking for. also I tried highlighting some panels I have een looking at pictures. anyway Im almost done hoepfully decals on Friday Morning and off to my Local IPMS contest at night. here are the pics.

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Well I thought I was going to finish today and enter it in my local IPMS quarterly contest tonight, well disaster for me stuck. I was just almost done was going to put the nose checkers ons and they disenegrated in the water only half came off. So I thought well now I have to pait some sqaures, well it was passable but not what I wanted a all for myself. and in hurry I was getting ready to ad the gear and the prop, I felt the nose fully dry and smidged it pretty bad. So no contest and now I taped it off for sanding prep and a re paint job. Any way hear are some pictures, I am happy overall with this revell kit. But still having issues with Vallejo Model air. any way critiques are welcomed.

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OK almost there again, masked off and a Sprayed the squares, Came out ok but I still wanted better. anyway I put the mains on and drying so thursday will be all the finishing stuff. so any way here is where im at now.

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All Done!! Posted in show room. Thanks all for the encouragement with only my second mustang build and only 3rd prop. The revell kit is a good starter kit, but has really soft plastic. Also I think im going to stick with alclad as the Vallejo Model Air Jacked up my air brush. MY next one I will try MM Metalizers to see if I like them. Now if I only learn how to take pictures like you all.

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