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Three or four days to apply, 15 minutes or thereabouts to remove: One of the most satisfying aspects of modelling is when the model starts to look something like the one in my head. However, there's a lot to do yet.

I've been working on this since the last update. Silver sprayed on the wings - Tamiya X-11 - and masked up for the metal. I mentioned my patent I-don't-use-metallisers natural metal. This is simply Tamiya XF16 and a splash of XF19 grey mixed 1:1 with X22 Gloss, then thinned to within an inch of its life and sprayed at low pressure. Varying the mix by adding more grey or a darker grey (again, just a splash) allows colours to be varied. It works for me. I allowed it to cure for a few days, and diverted myself with a 1:72 Airfix Spitfire Ia (I'd forgotten just how tiny a 1:72 Spit is!) and a couple of its large-scale Revell brethren - as if I hadn't got enough on the go already, my WIPs are nearly in double figures!! The next colour was to be black, and that involved a lot of masking for invasion stripes, ID stripes on the tail, and codes and serials. The masking was spread over three or four days, and was followed by about 15-20 minutes spraying. Once this masking comes off, I'll do the blue for the national insignia, then it's time for the nose art and chequered nose band.

View File Belly Strap for 1_32 Tamiya Phantom for Posting.studio3 Belly Strap for 1_32 Tamiya Phantom for Posting.studio3: I made this belly reinforcing Strap for an outstanding modeller (Anthony) in New Zealand who is doing a spectacular conversion of the Tamiya 1/32 F-4 to a British FG.1 here. My source material from the Internet included photos, tech diagrams, AfterMarket sets, and model kits. I cut the strap using .010" plastic in my Silhouette Cameo 4. The straps are tailored to the Tamiya 1/32 kit, so would need modification to fit other kits' panel lines and wheel wells. Also attached is an svg file for use with other cutting machines. Gene K Submitter GeneK Submitted 02/06/2022 Category Non-Mask Cutting Files Scale 1/32 Intended Kit Tamiya F-4E  

Belly Strap for 1_32 Tamiya Phantom for Posting.svg View File Belly Strap for 1_32 Tamiya Phantom for Posting.svg For those who have cutters other than the Silhouette. Submitter GeneK Submitted 02/06/2022 Category Non-Mask Cutting Files Scale 1/32 Intended Kit Tamiya F-4E  

[Excuse me, just sweeping the cobwebs away from this thread] Some progress: after cleaning up the emergent-work seams etc I re-did the grey undercoat, then sprayed white where the invasion stripes, nose band and national insignia will go. Having masked those out with the masks I cut and oodles of Tamiya tape ... ... I sprayed some X1 gloss black where the silver (wings) and NM will go. Since then I've sprayed and masked the O/D anti-glare panel, and done the lacquered areas of the wings with X11 silver. Next job, my patent I-don't-use-metallisers natural metal.