GazzaS

Wow!

Nice work so far. My 2 cents on colors... I don't believe there was a third color on the prop spinner. I believe what looks like a third color on the B&W image is just a trick of the light. The white segment was added at the factory, either masked, or not so that ppl could tell it was spinning. I have seen images where a full circle was painted a different color on the tip. For the camo... I believe those were captured paints. Russian black and green to be specific. The dark color looks too dark to be RLM 70. And the green, could be 71, but could have been Russian too. Some reasoning... The fighter unit, if issued paint, would most likely have been issued 74/75/76 per regulations. I suppose they could have begged some paint from a bomber wing... but knowing stingy supply personnel, I'm guessing not. If you read anything written by Luftwaffe pilots of the period on the Russian Front, they lived a miserable existence. Always in tents, always too cold, or too hot. Always very poorly supplied. Another thought... AGFA film of the period was notorious for adding a blue tint. Anyway... your model. Have fun with it.

Man... that is superior weathering in that pit. Almost needs a vacuum cleaning.

Very nice paint work Kevin!

All the work looks very nice, Peter. I thought I commented yesterday... but I must have stuffed it up. My workdays just seem to take so much out of me.

Looks great. Do you plan on adding Schwartzer Mannen..? sorry for my sloppy and poor German...

Wow... that is impressive. Can I come to your house and jam to King Crimson and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer?

Cool... I'm too lazy for anything but digital music anymore.

Full auto?

Great job! I really like how this one turned out.

So much excellent work.

Wow! Turkey. I never would have expected it. Very nice!

I stand corrected. It is unusually low. But that's the way it was. But you can compare it with others...

Speedy recovery, Bill!

Looking good. Wonder if there are any Italian sailor figgies to go with it?

Nice start. But talk about crunch time... Didn't the FAA use silver paint? I know some of their other weird looking planes got silver paint.

Worn paint is good. I like the little dark/repainted area in front of the turret on the foremost machine. This would have been a great subject for some of those Time Magazine color shots.

The Soviet tanker getting stitched up with depleted uranium shells won't care whether it's Apache or not.

Very nice paint and weathering. Was the swastika really that low on his machine?

Phil, Just do them. Don't redo them. Accept that they will be rough for a while and get better later on. Fixing and re-fixing is a road to hell. Once you find what you can do, then you know the right questions to ask or google.

Looks great!

Enamels? Ewwww....

I imagine any photo from distance would make the sheen disappear. Even my racer didn't shine too much from a distance.