The Little World

The Mr Color pot of French silver grey may have started life as a grey – or a silver…

I can’t remember which. Over several years it has been topped up with a dash of whichever sliver I have in the airbrush pot as a left-over – and equally be whatever light grey is swirling around after a navy jet or an undersurface. The formula is variable over time, and never the exact same from model to model.

It makes for a very good aluminium doped colour as well as a High Speed Silver when required. Or a dingy plain metal surface. Each spray is a surprise. In the case of the Airspeed Oxford, a pleasant one.

Observers will note that the canopy and windows were masked with art-store rubber solution before the paint went on and the cockpit frame lines added with a bow pen – the vac-form canopy frame moulding was quite indistinct.

Make of the vac-form joining lines what you will.