The Little World

Which would be good things to do if you did them in the right order.

Perhaps that’s the disadvantage of working on a fortnight-only model. You forget where you were and skip a stage. Then you have to backtrack and do it the hard way.

I proceeded well with the basic construction – attached the wings at the correct anhedral and all – and got the basic under grey and upper blue and brown in place with putty and tape masks. Not a bad exercise with IAF planes as they went for swooping camo patterns. Then I discovered I had forgotten the grey dorsal fairing and tail tip – and the black anti-glare panel. Had I painted these over the undercoat initially I could have masked them easily and carried on – as it was I had to do a reverse mask and worry about overspray.

Thankfully there was none.

The use of the nose and exhaust cavities to suspend the aircraft has been documented in another post – nice to be able to do it, but not really necessary if you cannot support the model safely. You can still get good upper and lower coverage in two stages.

Observant readers will note that I spray clear gloss over the colours before I decal the model. Then whatever finish coating suits the era.