I must confess I totally missed this thread, also some time back I tried my luck with Eduards 1/48 camel and it flipped me over and spanked my inexperienced modellers arse and left me on my knees 'a' cryin' so to produce something so beautifully crisp and detailed in 1/72 is nothing short of outstanding.
Very, very nice Colin. The paint job is excellent & you can see the detail with just the right amount of weathering to give it a used look. The scene is really good & as ever, tells the story well.
Thanks very much for the positive comments, you've lifted the old confidence a little as i wasn't 100% happy with the way the riggin and paint surface turned out.... still i'll improve on it next time ...... and i'm sure there'll be a next time coz i really enjoyed the build and as Tony said ... £3 lasts a long time with these little models
I don't gloss before decals Aaron, the acrylic paint i use (combination of citadel and artists materials) normally has a good clean texture to adhere to .... although you do get a little silvering sometimes that needs addressing.
The paint colour is my own that i mixed after reading up on t'interweb, one account was that the colour i've attempted to portray was similar to the tone of british racing green ... so thats where i went with it.