It was bought with the intention of making a very ubiquitous ANA623 Glossy Sea Blue US Navy example as seen pretty much everywhere in the Pacific from 1944 to 1945. The trouble is that ANA623 was pretty good paint and therefore most of the stuff modellers do to models such as pre or post shading, panel line washes etc is wholly inappropriate for such an aircraft. Then again, we can't be having a solid, featureless finish because the real aircraft didn't look like that either. I decided to try mimicking the stressed skin appearance of a real aircraft to try to get similar light reflections from a glossy finish. Out with the paint mule!
The Beginning I don't 'do' New Year so as well as getting on with existing models I started another which I also hope will be easy enough for me to...
We’re very pleased to have been allowed to share Richard Carrick’s lovely 1/18th scale Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless, modelled in French markin...
