I actually created this a few month ago, but forgot to do a write up (there's a few others I've found on my phone, too) at the time.
I bought this model at the IPMS Gloucester show in 2024 and it was waiting on my pile of shame to be tackled. It only cost me £5 and I'd always intended to frame the unassembled sprues as a complementary display to my Airfix Sherman.
This time I took a simpler approach and left out the paints, brush etc and reduced the amount of box art I included so the entire display would fit within the IKEA frame's mounting card.
To best suit the display I had to make a couple of modifications to the sprues.
1. The small clear sprue with the moulding of the canopy was discarded and the canopy carefully cut down the centre into two halves. Each half was then attached the to appropriate fuselage half with PVA after painting.
2. The pilot figure would have been facing to the rear, so I removed him from the sprue and reattached him facing forwards so his painted details would be seen on the display.
3. Similarly, the control panel/dashboard (was reversed so the nicely detailed decal could be applied and seen.
Firstly, I primed the entire sprue with a grey car primer rattle can. Then, to speed up painting, I masked most of the grey sprue and sprayed the underside light stone and the upper side in earth brown. These paints were modulated using pre-shading (dark grey) and highlighting using the base colour + off-white.
I then used my newly acquired AK Masking Putty to create the camouflage pattern on the upper surface spraying olive green.
The smaller details were brush painted, before I sprayed gloss varnish in the areas where the decals were to go. These were applied with the help of a setting agent to get them to conform to the panel lines. I then touched up the sprue in light grey and the model was complete. Lastly I added some weathering (Smoke marks mainly) and gave everything a coat of ultra matt varnish.
The back board of the frame wash painted sky blue with a Dulux match pot and the sprues attached with fuse wire.
Framed up, it looks good on my office wall and is great conversation piece. Easy to achieve and very satisfying when it's done!
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