Ok guys here is another beauty of a armamentsinminiature 15mm aircraft.
This planes is used in my own American FOW army.
It took me over a week to finish it and I learned some good lessons from painting it.
The first lesson is that I will NEVER paint invansion stripes again. To hard on my nerves...
The other lesson is also valuable. I don't have to stick with 100% historical. It's more important to be pleased with the end result.
For example I read that for this unit the upper body was painted camo pattern and the bottom remained factory metal finish.
In the end I did it the way the Osprey book told me but I think the plane would have looked better with a grey underside. I just don't like using mass metallaic paints.
Also, for the decals I had in hand the unit is the 62nd Fighter Squadron/56th Fighter Group/8th AF.
This unit marked aircraft with a yellow rudder. In the end I tried painting it that way, several times, but it just kept looking ugly. I went to red and it looked good, if not right. Oh well.
The final result is I'm going to listen to painter and use the history has a 98% bench mark.
So onto the pictures right...
May I introduce the "Mad Michelle"
