Last week our American CO moved to another base. For his farewell ceremony, I was asked to build an aircraft that was stationed at our base in WW2.
I chose to build the aircraft of Lt Col John C Meyer, SN 44-15041 Petie 3rd.
The kit is from Tamiya, first step was to spray the non standard black stripes :
For the silver I used a € 2 spraycan :
After the removal of the tape :
The seatbelts were made from copper wire and tape :
These photos show the variety in silver color, I used Rub n Buff gilding wax, silver plate and pewter :
Finished model, after an oil wash, decals are from Kagero :
The Trumpeter display case has an ugly black baseplate with sinkmarks, so I chose to put a US flag under a piece of clear styrene to cover most of the base plate.
Without the clear cover :
With the cover :
Luckily our CO was very happy with his gift.
Sincerely
Pascal