Mustang III

Roland Sachsenhofer
A few new picture of the growing Mustang III. This one will show full D-Day markings; applying the white will be the next step.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Black and white stripes have been painted and masked, "Neutral Grey" on the underside have been painted. No on to "Ocean Gray"!

Stephan Ryll
I'll take a seat Roland 🙂 nice progress here 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Appreciated Stephan!

Roland Sachsenhofer
.....and you are very welcome Lode!

Roland Sachsenhofer
I guess that happens when Vallejo acrylics are diluted in a not appropriate manner! I am now going to create a fitting "Ocean Gray" with trusty Gunze acrylics.
"Vallejos" will be used solely as a reference for mixing suitable shades henceforth.

Slavo Hazucha
Looks kind-of realistic though... If it would be predictable, could actually be a useful technique... But at the moment, I hear your complaint!😉

Munkyslut
Watching

Gordon Sørensen
Can you do a light sanding to remove the Vallejo without damaging the preshading (or kit details for that matter)?

Roland Sachsenhofer
To my great pleasure I have found a good approach for Ocean Gray in a 1:1 mix of Gunze H69 "RLM 75" with H56 "Intermediate Blue". I personally find the result amazingly close to Vallejos variant of this colour and so, to my great pleasure, will be used as a substitute for Ocean Grey.
Gordon, to be honest: I have sanded this Vallejo "priming" smooth and put a new preshading on the surfaces before working with the mentioned mixed Gunze- paints 🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer
The painting is almost finished - I will "liven up" the stripes a little bit to bring out the provisional and hand brushed character

Munkyslut
That's coming together beautifully Roland

Christian Bruer
That comes out nicely Roland 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Appreciated, mates!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Finally done! Even this Mustang has been tamed -at least. The most troublesome area of the final steps had been the "Malcolm" canopy. To short in span it did not reach to the canopy rails when shown open, what was my will to do. I found a solution in building up the height of the cockpit edge with plastic card, which was sanded and re-painted. It did work in the end but was challenging....
After all I am rather happy how impressive this thoroughbred looks when standing on the workbench -also because of its coat of D-Day stripes!

Scott Dutton
Beautiful work, Malcom hood stang a favourite and you've done a great job

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you very much for this motivation, Scott!

Guy Rump
Beautiful Mustang Roland 🙂

Neuling
I agree with Guy!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thanks for this portion of motivation!
Lode, that is a particularly nice statement, thank you!

Christian Bruer
Very nice result. I much like the Mustang with Malcolm Hood and yours is a true masterpiece 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
That honors me, Christian!