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At least with the way it's bent it'll pull back to the centre line. Might have been harder if both halves had been bent the same direction. Still a pain though...

Great finish Peter. Really nice job on the paintwork and stencilling

Got the Tan masked, so it's on to painting the Dark Green next. Got a family wedding next couple of days but hopefully I might get at it on Sunday.

And now the Tan is on. Pretty quick as it's by far the smallest area of all the colours. Hopefully get it masked up later.

First round of masking completed, all the mid green sections are covered. Some alterations have been made as, for the life of me, I couldn't see how some of the fuselage sections were meant to match up with the wing pieces. More Tamiya tape! Solution to every problem. 😁

Thanks Peter. Made a start on the masking tonight but it's going to take longer than I thought. Getting the first ones down is hard to get the placement as close as possible to what's on the instructions but should get easier with each subsequent colour. Slow and steady does it!

We have paint on the upper surfaces! MRP Swedish Army Mid Green all over and now we start the masking fun.... I'll leave this overnight just in case and start laying out the masks tomorrow.

So sorry to hear that Peter. Best wishes to you and Diane.

Yeah, don't know what Tamiya's profit margin is on the Kabuki tape but they must do pretty well out of it. They certainly do well out of me as I've never found the Vallejo or others to be quite as good. Rob, I still have nightmares of a build a few years back where I touched up a metallic section on the rear of an F-15 having, I thought, masked everywhere necessary and I found overspray on the opposite of the build at the other end of the fuselage! How the hell it got there I've no idea but since then I've always been paranoid about it.

Masking is on the bottom, so we're ready to start on the upper splinter cammo. I've probably gone a bit OTT here with the masking but I'm only mildly paranoid! Ha.

Thanks Martin. I'm hoping a nice plod through it should be enough not to screw things up by rushing. 😆

There was a famous/infamous traffic circle in Dundee when I was a student there which when you approached it was lined up completely wrong with the approach road. If you followed your instinct you would have driven round it the wrong way ie as though it was for a drive on the right set up. It needed a very hard turn back against yourself to get on it correctly. The rumour was that the alignment was like this as they actually built it and then realised that it was a circular stain from the bottom of a coffee mug! Given the standard of the town planners around then, it's not beyond the realms of possibility!

We have paint! Preshaded using Tamiya XF-63 German Grey so the contrast isn't too stark and then on with MRP 175 Swedish Army Blue-Grey. Definitely liking the MRP - no thinning, coverage is good, only 3 half cups to cover all this and the smell isn't nearly as bad as some other lacquers I've tried. Once this is nice and dry then it'll be mask off the underside and off we go with the splinter!

The bombsight looks brilliant, especially given the scale.

Hubert is absolutely spot on. Why do you think all the Pacific island nations are so panicked about this? They raise it at every COP conference and resolutely get ignored by the vested oil interests of the USA, Saudi Arabia, etc.