I
started to build this one for a quickie project; that is, until
Meteor’s
Dave Klaus advertised a NMF webinar. After learning about the basics
of NMF (natural metal finishes) I purchased some Alclad II paints and
primers and decided to practice on my already assembled P-51 D. My
airbrushes and I got used to working with the lacquer based Alclad II and
it went on very well. I used some diluted oil paint to highlight the
wheels and the exposed lower engine. I only had a couple of the
metal colors and only used aluminum but varied panel shades by masking
with newspaper strips and wet sanding with 2400 and 12,000 grit pads.
The shading didn’t show up in the pictures but that’s probably camera
operator’s error.
Since
this was a test project I decided against doing a known P-51D and used
Blue Angel blue on the spinner and tail. The national insignia went on
very well with some Microset solution.
Thanks
to Rafe Morrissey, Dave Powell and Floyd Werner who gave out such great
information during Meteor’s webinar; I also attended the F9 Panther
webinar and look forward to future events!
Max
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