Ok so here is the latest. I did this several days ago but have not had oppotunity to post until now. Suffice to say, this was an ENTIRE day (and then some) due to the amount of tape-masking. The paint, time-wise, not so much! So here I have partly painted the upper hull olive drab and taped off the anti skid strips. This was hands down the longest part of it:
and then the color black first (I know, I did in opposite of running lightest color first and should not have!)
ABOUT THE COLORS - When I really began looking at the colors of the units in the field that sport this splinter camo pattern, they do not have the same lime greenish color of the unit that you see at missing-lynx, which is itself painted exactly as the sales model or demo or whatever you would call it, so I decided to use the colors of the ones in the fiwld, knowing that some of the slight "garishness" would be overtaken by the light weathering yet to come
followed by dark green
and light green
and so I began removing the sea of tape:
overall, not bad! the upper hull and the non-skid steps look really great
But on the sides, particularly the light green, I had some paint build up as it was getting late in the day and I was losing light. Also, some of the pattern did not come out as intended, and some of the lines aren't all that crisp, looks like Frog tape was NOT the way to go! I am going to remove that build up and make a few corrections to the camo on the sides and turret, and should be good to go!
Ok so this camo pattern IS A LOT more complicated than I first thought, but nothing that I cannot make an easy correction or two on. When I get those I will post them as well, as they should make for and interesting comparison. 'Till then!