Hi!!!
I got back to work!
After long hesitation on the color to use to paint the plane (canvas color, gray, other?) I opted for the more classic: Natural canvas color.
If you look a little in the photos of Italian HD1 we do not find these stripes on the wings of camouflaged planes. They are only seen on aluminum-colored planes and those presumed to be canvas-colored.
In the 1st version of Windsock on the HD1 we can clearly see the canvas reinforcements on the fenders:
So I cut out of decals (FW190 1/32 old decals red and white stripes from under the plane that have turned yellow). There really is a lot of reinforcement to be done. They are a little less than 1/2 mm wide. I put them on wings that were already painted (and weathered a little) so that their color stands out. I may pass a veil of paint so that it still cuts a little less.
I only have the outlines of the wings to do ...
The floats were masticated for a long time and painted gray. As nobody knows which gray to use I thought of taking the gray of the navy boats used during the conflict.
Too dark!
So I cut with white. 1 part of gray blue XF18 for 5 of white. The color is a bit bluish and reminds me of the color of German seaplanes.
I added fixings to the floats which will be painted blue.
They will be dirty, it's decided.
I took the only image I know where we see something:
I started to smear them using oil paint. I must finish them.
The decoration is almost finished on the fuselage. I have to do some touch-ups.
The codes are painted with a stencil. The code on the right side should have been closer to the bird's wing I think (like the other side). The swift is made in oil.
Regards.
