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All for Naught, pt. 5

July 21 2012 at 12:20 AM

Stuart Milliken (Login StuartMilliken)
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from IP address 209.237.253.45

Progress has been slow on the Zero, in large part due to my own mess-ups. The scheme I'm doing has an orange undersides with a wavy demarcation. The first time I painted it the results were not good--I wanted the wavy demarcation "soft" but it ended up too fuzzy. So I sanded it back, re-primed and did it again. The second time was quite a bit better:

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Unfortunately, in unmasking I pulled up some orange paint on the bottom of the wing, so this is now masked off to be repainted:

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Also time consuming is the fact that the Gunze Sangyo "Orange-Yellow" paint, while being (I think) a good color, is also rather translucent, and absolutely requires a while undercoat.

I've also got the white circles ready on the bottom of the wing to create a white outline for the hinomarus, which is missing on the decals:

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I'm afraid that work on this will end at this point for a while; tomorrow I leave for two weeks away at a conference. I had hoped to finish this before leaving, but my paint bungling has dictated otherwise.

In any case, I still hail this as a wonderful kit that is lots of fun. I'd like to do a bunch more in different markings.

Thanks for looking!

Stuart

This message has been edited by StuartMilliken from IP address 209.237.253.45 on Jul 21, 2012 2:31 AM

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It looks great.. - Greg in OK on Jul 21, 2012, 7:40 AM

Hobby shops... - Stuart Milliken on Jul 21, 2012, 8:51 AM

I blame you Stuart - William De Coster on Jul 21, 2012, 5:20 PM

Thanks for the link - Stuart Milliken on Jul 21, 2012, 9:22 PM

Beautiful, great canopy as well.......................n/t - Allan Buttrick on Jul 23, 2012, 8:17 PM

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