Hobby Hint

Once again, Trumpeter has produced an outstanding kit that's fun to build.

I painted he airframe with Alclad Airframe aluminum, finishing it with a coat of Future Floor Wax. The wax dulls the finish.

For contrasting shades of Aluminum, I didn't use Future floor wax on the horizontal stabilizers, ailerons, or wing tanks.

The burner section was done in dark aluminum and titanum gold

I used Dark blue on the vertical fin to match the decal.

Wing fins are photo-etch and were used on the rial plane to reduce the vortices to improve laminar flow.

Photos by Jeff Junker