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John Glad to know the new compressor has arrived and it's already being put to good use. Nice start on the Invasion Stripes.

Some mighty nice work and hopefully the situation will change to where you can paint inside. 🤞

Big but awesome for sure❗

Thanks John making slow progress but progress just the same.

Carl Glad to see you go through the same approach for the hardline cammo and know the feeling of it seems like a never ending task. Hardest part for me is curving and bending the 1mm tape without kinks and I know I have some - the only question is: how many will need to be redone.

ITS CAMMO TIME Applying The Hard Edge With the MRP Gray Primer on, time to tackle the cammo and of course plans and paints have changed somewhat. The instruction’s color callouts for the underside were changed so the white and black wouldn’t be so stark: White: Tamiya Lacquer Insignia White LP-35 Black: Tamiya Lacquer Rubber Black LP-65 The upper cammo colors as the instructions call out and the Dark Brown (pale) was air brushed onto the gray primer: Dark Earth (Pale) – Tamiya Acrylic XF49 & XF92 Dark Green (Pale) – Tamiya Acrylic XF89 OMG, the Dark Brown looked close to desert brown, way too light and unusable unless the effect being sort after was for a sun-bleached aircraft and of course and not where I’m going. No way I could strip the paint as I would lose hours of masking as well as the primer. I went back to the original mix and started adding Tamiya Dark Brown until the final color replicated the color I was after and was airbrushed on, in numerous light layers. Following the instructions, a few excellent builds and my research, my early color scheme Spitfire had hard edge cammo applied and what a pain. I spent more time masking the hard edge cammo then all the air brushing and previously masking combined, not to mention an abundance of Tamiya masking tape. The Hard Edge Cammo: The cammo was outlined with Tamiya 1mm masking tape, then from 18mm Tamiya Masking Tape cut into small, short strips using an Infini Easycutting Type A cutting board, widening the cammo edge. I cut additional 18mm tape into small boxes, slowly and carefully filing in the center areas. In the past, when doing hard edge cammo, I’ve tried paper masks, which were nearly as much work and compromises were needed to be made to blend in the compound curves. Next time, free hand cammo is the way to go. Eduard’s JX310 double sided canopy masking set was used and the fit was excellent. Just seems to me these days a kit costing over $100 should include a die cut canopy mask set. Please excuse the cell phone pics as I just wanted to update the build as to where I am and didn't want to set up the photo outfit. I'm ready now to air brush on the Dark Green and hopefully there won't be too many redos and jagged edges to fix. Starting the apply the various Tamiya tapes for the cammo scheme. Getting closer to finishing cammo masking is done

Got it and it's always on but sometimes in just in too much of a rush and hit the submit key without looking for the red, underlined words. For us old guys, it's too easy to use up one of our unlimited mulligans.

I need to learn to type better for sure. 😬

John Hard to believe your stash is out of Corsair kits

Kev Have to make a mental note to keep checking this forum so I don't fall behind on your progress. Looking mighty good and it just shows how valuable continued research can be.

Oliver Nice progress and looking mighty good.

Scott Looking good and it's always something for sure.

John No question you will be the first to put the new detail set to the test.

Thanks Martin, much appreciated. Tamiya just never fails to amaze me and their kits just keep raising the bar. Oh I only wish their P-38 would be 'grown' to 1/32nd scale but Tamiya is no longer designing and producing new aircraft kits in the larger scales.

Jerry WOW, ANYZ details and tools look fantastic. Hopefully my order will arrive in the next few days as tracking doesn't seem to work. Order is for cockpit details and their tweezer set. Starting to put together another order for a few mor tools and the Corsair canopy detail sets.

Paul Nice progress and it surely requires a lot of patience to complete such a repetitive step. On board for the journey.

Thank you for the update. I've been a huge fan in their decals.

Jerry Awesome Hasegawa P-40 build - she looks perfect.🏆

Good question for sure

Paul Sure looks like rats but with 76 year old eyes, it's the best I can see.

Carl Nice progress on the LR Defender. Considering it's a resin conversion, fit seems pretty good, especially in your hands.

Oliver Looking mighty good - the details are amazing for sure.

Just ordered four cockpit detail sets from ANYZ for my upcoming Devastator build. When the Corsair set arrives, please do a detailed review as I'm looking to purchase two of the Corsair sets.

Keep us posted on the lates adjustments - I surely cam use it.

Thanks Bryan ... sure is the truth.