Splinter Cell

[The Wooksta!]

Spun off from me Blog, thought this deserved more of an audience.

Current progress on an He 111H-20, going Spanish.  It's either an impressed ex Luftwaffe aircraft (NSDAP escape flight?) Or Spain got a licence for a late model with the turret. Either way, it's really not important.

A lot of time spent lining up tiny strips of tape, I won't be doing this again any time soon.

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Really like the colour combinations and no creep either. Result!

Decals will be from a Steelwork.de sheet.  Tempted with another as it has a lot of options for early aircraft.

[kerick]

Looks great!
Did you paint the entire model the light color first and then mask what you wanted that color and then add each layer or mask each color separately?

[The Wooksta!]

The 63 in the areas it was needed first, mask, then the brown, more masking, then the green.  Only sprayed the area needed with a bit of leeway.  No point in spraying the whole thing - primed anyway - just wastes paint.

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice work!  Splinter cammo is tricky, esp. on large areas.

[Rick Lowe]

 

[The Wooksta!]

The paint did lift in one area on the port wing.  It is noticeable but given that I'll be putting a roundel over it, it's not something I'm too worried about.

Aiming to have the decals on by the end on the week, work permitting.

[The Wooksta!]

Sneak preview before the varnish goes on.

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[Gondor]

Looks rather good Lee 

Gondor

[Martin H]

Looks rather good Lee 

Gondor

Agreed. It is rather smart looking in that scheme.

[The Wooksta!]

Spain was using their equivalent of the pre war German colours right up until the 1960s.

I was a bit miffed that I had the demarcation on the wing wrong, judging from some photos* it wraps under the leading edge.



*Best reference is a two part article in Air Enthusiast 90/91.  Some good photos.

[zenrat]

 

[Old Wombat]

So, not the Ubisoft game, then.


She's looking pretty good, there!

[kitbasher]

Have always liked the 3-colour splinter schemes.  Lee's build points to some good whif potential in applying it to all manner of Spanish 1950s and 1960s types.

[NARSES2]

Have always liked the 3-colour splinter schemes. 

As have I

[The Wooksta!]

Took the opportunity to take some photos of the finished article in the sun, but it hid during the first few photos.

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