Sunday 18 September 2011

Sopwith Dolphin - In Colour

I've just done the first coat of the undersurfaces, as you can see, with a kind of clear-doped linen colour. The wing ribs are showing up nicely, I think. Because of their dark colour I had to do two or three coats, but to save repeatedly cleaning the airbrush, I only waited a few minutes between coats (until the finish had gone matt). Enamel paint is very forgiving of this sort of treatment. Even when I got a few spatters (too thick mixture maybe? Incompetent airbrush technique?), they just flowed out when oversprayed. So I think it's all looking OK so far. I'm going to wait until tomorrow to see if another coat is needed. But at this rate, we're getting close to seeing some actual PC10 in this blog.

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