For those of you wondering if it's really worth the bother to ditch the convenience of decals and paint your markings on, here's a model I built in 2008...

 

 

 

In case you're curious, the decals were from Eagle Strike. The rest of the paint work is fine, other than being a little dusty.

Kev

perfect example Kev

it's frustrating sometimes with all the work put into the build, paint and detail then something like that happens ☹️

for me it's two things

1) they used paint on the real things, so using masks looks much better and more authentic representation

2) for the life of me I don't know why but the silvering gods DO NOT LIKE ME

I can subscribe to both of those conditions! 🤪