This "Black
Cat" has been built almost straight from the box. I have added only the two
little antennas on top of the wing, the ladder, the little bollard below the bow
turret, the antenna wires, hydraulic break wires to the rear landing gear and
windscreen-wipers. I painted the struts on the underside of the dome-shaped rear
canopies as these struts on the canopies delivered with the box are totally
missing. As the black underground was shining through the white parts of the
decals (nationality emblems) I have sprayed these with the airbrush.
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The panel lines were
highlighted with 100% flat black by using the airbrush. Little work was done by
pastel chalk.
The whole aircraft was
painted with a coat of 50% flat black and 50% red brown. This looks in most
circumstances black and allows me to highlight the black exhaust stains
(according to a photo of the real aircraft) and to darken the panel lines.
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The Academy-kit fits very well and in my opinion the cockpit is
detailled well enough as you can see the details hardly after the canopy has
been fitted. Photos made by using the Fuji Finepix S5000 at daylight, without
using photoshop.
Dietmar
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