First coat of grey applied after first drawing the outline in pencil and masking the fin tip which I painted black when doing the pre-shade - 617 jets have their squadron markings here.
It’s fair to say that I really do not like wrap around camouflage. I only went and masked up the areas I didn’t want to paint on one of the tailerons, luckily I spotted my error just as I was about to pull the trigger on my airbrush.
Hi Rick
Masking looks good. Very time consuming. I always worry about the unmasking - how much bleed have I got Looking at yours I would bet on it being fine
Jim
Unwrapped this afternoon. Just one area where paint came away with the tape and a few areas where I put the white tack over areas with not enough grey paint coverage - easily fixed.
I hate masking. All the bare metal areas like the jetpipes, gun ports and fin heat shield; the LG bays, intakes, radome, wingtips and RWR fairings are ready for a coat of paint.
All those masked areas have had a spray and are drying. The radome and wingtips in black; the intakes in white; the exhausts in AK Jet Exhaust metallic; the RWR is a 50:50 mix of Sand Yellow and Interior green and the gear bays in light grey.