The Little World

Well, that’s what it looks like – you expect to see terms like ” rump ” and ” chop ” on the airplane in the divisions. As it is, a lot of newer USAF jets have so many stencils on them that you wonder if they are made by Fisher Price. At least in the Vietnam era they sprayed a lot of that stuff ‘ under ‘ camouflage.

Of course it’s three-colour – the bane of my spray booth – but the patterns are more basic than French WW2 or Israeli modern so I don’t mind the double masking routine quite as much. I’m still convinced that there must be an easier way to do this, but haven’t discovered it quite yet.

I did luck out on the Mr Color paints needed for this one. While Hobbytech has sometimes had the more basic paints run out of their stocks, the USAF Vietnam hues are well-stocked. Perhaps that’s a message about what people like to build.

Note that I have also started using the Mr Color regular thinner for most of the military colour coats – certainly for ones that will ultimately be flattened right down. The levelling thinner is reserved for either gloss or for using up the old Tamiya acrylic pots that are left.