RAF Lightning
Blocking in the base colours...
As with most models, the starting place was an application of black primer. The primer was applied using an air brush.
The fuselage and the right wing will have stripe of a Sky Type S by Vallejo. This was air brushed. This part of the painting was not neatly done, but that does not matter, as later stages with clean this up.
First some masking tap is used to cover the stripe areas before painting the base colours of the model. For the wing, two piece of masking take where laid down side by side to get the correct width. Masking tape was wrapped around the fuselage. Due to the shape of the model, there where some gaps between the masking tape and the fuselage. These gaps where filled with blue tack.
The bottom surfaces were airbrushed with Vallejo BS Medium Sea Grey. Then the top surfaces were airbrushed with Vallejo Ocean Grey. The Ocean Grey is slightly darker than the Medium Sea Grey.
After letting the previous coats of paint dry for bit, it was on to the green blobs of the camouflage. Blue tac was used to mask off part of the top surface that was going to stay the Ocean Grey. Again, an airbrush was used to apply the Dark Green. After further dry time, the all masking was removed. Unfortunately some touch will be required.
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