A special project completed

[lone modeller]

That scheme is just incredible - the more so considering the scale as I too thought at first that it must be 1/32. You must have a very steady hand and even better eyesight. I really cannot express my amazement at this one - outstanding would be an understatement….

[Alexis]

Wow John ! She turned out wonderful 





Terri

[Bolman]

Thank you all for your kind remarks. I really didn't expect this one to be received so well. You are all too kind.

Dan, when wnw offers a fee in 1/72, I'll be all over it

John

[PrzemoL]

Spectacular, John. Fantastic paintjob!

Sorry to bother you, I might have missed it, but is this scheme SF? I mean, I wonder about that Polish coat of arms on the fuselage...

[Ernie]

Brilliant work, John, especially in the teeny scale!  I would wonder how a foe
would get a bead on that aeroplane before their eyesight went completely.
Amazing paint job!

Cheers,
Ernie

[Cimmerian]

Thanks for the migraine.

That is a wonderful model. I like it a lot.

[Wolf]

This is realy, realy impressive and amazing.

If you hadn't wrote it, I never had thought that it is 1/72

[Bolman]

Thank you all again for your kind remarks.

Przemol, if SF stands for strictly fantasy, yes. These types of projects give me the opportunity to use up pieces of decal sheet remnants That I normally would have had to toss. If borrowing the image for a french breguet is offensive, my apologies.

John

[jknaus]

Beauiful work. I would think that paint job would be a trial, but in 1/72, OMG. Wow just Wow.
James

[dr 1 ace]

Another ditto to all the above !!!!!

Ed

[Bolman]

A belated thank you to James and Ed...

James, the paint work was quite the trial and took me over 6 months to complete.
Surprisingly, no one has asked how I did it without masking at all.

Fifteen coats of white paint went on the model before I started painting the black pattern free hand. If I needed to straighten up a line edge, I scraped it away with a sharp exacto blade and basically carved all the detail into the paint job where needed to make the edges as crisp as possible. Overall, it was still all free hand and by eye.

Thanks again,

John

[vincentm]

A beautiful model and a very unusual camo scheme.

[GAJouette]

  John,
Absolutely brilliant my friend. Love the camouflage ,what do you call this scheme ? Perhaps Organized Confusion .

Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette

[Bolman]

Thanks Vincent and Gregory

Gregory, it's referred to as a dazzle scheme and some of the patterns I used were used on naval ships and even some aircraft:


For example.

Thanks again,

John

[GAJouette]

  John,
Thank you for that bit of information my friend. The camouflage referred to as a Dazzle  Scheme makes perfect sense, dazzling  camouflage and a dazzling Breguet . Never thought of this scheme being used on WWI aircraft.Ships from the WWI and WWII era yes and WWII aircraft certainly so. I do have a PT Boat in 1/72 scale (PT-174) carrying this scheme.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette


PS: Love the P-51a or is that an A-36.