Old Dog
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Assembled and almost ready for paint so the next question is how.
If it were a larger scale I would be tempted to mask a variety of panels and paint them in different shades of aluminum for variation but in this scale unless the shades were very close to one another I'm afraid it will end up looking like a patch work quilt. Except for some of the main control surfaces the prototype doesn't seem to show a lot of variation over the surface.
From a slightly different angle
Although these are B-35s two of them were modified to B-49s, surface looks pretty uniform except for the control surfaces.
Photos during construction don't show much in the way of texture or color differences.
Things look pretty uniform in this airborne shot, I think the darker color is just a reflection from the sky.
The color variation on this one doesn't make any sense unless it is again the light angle and sky reflection.
So at this point not sure what way to go, I may try to put a mottled under coat of black and white to see if that will give me some slight color variation and if that doesn't work make it a uniform color except for the control surfaces and consider it a factory roll out finish.
If it were a larger scale I would be tempted to mask a variety of panels and paint them in different shades of aluminum for variation but in this scale unless the shades were very close to one another I'm afraid it will end up looking like a patch work quilt. Except for some of the main control surfaces the prototype doesn't seem to show a lot of variation over the surface.
From a slightly different angle
Although these are B-35s two of them were modified to B-49s, surface looks pretty uniform except for the control surfaces.
Photos during construction don't show much in the way of texture or color differences.
Things look pretty uniform in this airborne shot, I think the darker color is just a reflection from the sky.
The color variation on this one doesn't make any sense unless it is again the light angle and sky reflection.
So at this point not sure what way to go, I may try to put a mottled under coat of black and white to see if that will give me some slight color variation and if that doesn't work make it a uniform color except for the control surfaces and consider it a factory roll out finish.
