Pastor John Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 AIMS 1/32 Mistel 3 update....Hi everyone, started painting the fuselage/wings. As with a number of other G-6's, G-10's and even a finished G-7 fuselage you have a massive tonal difference between parts with the lighter shade being used also to break up the darker shade along the fuselage and leading edge of the wings. It is really academic whether the darker shade is an undocumented green shade of RLM 76 or old stock of documented chemically unbalanced 65 - I do not really care as I am more concerned simply with trying to replicate the contrast. I always thought, and have always illustrated on decal sheet instructions that the clouds must be a bright RLM 67 Weiss, never stopping to think that it was washed out 76 and the area behind it was darker than normal. Well anyway I have started and am enjoying it. The next step will be to mask off the washed out 76 subcontracted parts and then spray the greener shade. I hope you like the contrast and if you are familiar with the two photos of Ju 88 G-10 W.Nr. 460065 then perhaps you will more appreciate what I am trying to do. Thanks for looking and taking an interest Ramm66, VintageEagle, Fanes and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Excellent explanation of your thoughts on the course we can see on these 88's John and you are off to a great start! Very much enjoying your updates on you S3C and giving me the itch to get back to my 188 conversion once my little Bf 108 is completed which won't take to much now! Regards. Andy Kagemusha and Pastor John 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor John Posted January 14, 2022 Author Share Posted January 14, 2022 AIMS 1/32 Mistel 3 update.... hi guys, started to get the green tint on. The Mr Paint green RLM 76 is super thin making it a very bad choice of mine to have used a black primer underneath as I am using litres of the paint to get it covered - does not look like a new build airframe at all sadly. Anyway the shade is a fraction weaker than what I really wanted and so I might blend it all in with some Tamiya 'Smoke' and that might help the over-all appearance. Enjoy VintageEagle, turbo, chukw and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor John Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 (edited) With just two exceptions all the G-6 - onwards photos I have where you can clearly see a difference the legs and tail wheel are in 66 - Few G-1 can be found with much darker legs and tail wheel - the vast majority being in RLM 02 which was the norm before the G-6. The same switch also was made to the interior of the gear bay doors. The 188 and 388 all seam to have RLM 02 so it must have been a night fighter thing? My clearest photos of G-6s and g-10s with RLM 66 legs are in my books. Here is an example posted on FB Edited January 15, 2022 by Pastor John dodgem37, Greg W and monthebiff 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor John Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 (edited) AIMS 1/32 Mistel 3 update...hi everyone. Putting the washed out RLM 76 clouds on the fuselage took a bit of planning - I wanted to match the photos of Ju 88 G-10 W.Nr. 460065 as best as possible and so used a pencil to first mark where I wanted them and in doing so confirmed my suspicion that the Balkenkreuz is further forward than on any of the other G-10 Mistel 3s. Also thanks to the amazing book Captured Eagles that I got the other day you can see from the photos of the Ju 88 G-7 W.Nr. 240145 - that the clouds were painted on before the wings / wing spats were added so that meant some difficult masking off so that they appear behind the kits spats. Once the washed out 76 was applied to the sides and wing leading edges I started the RLM 75. The wing was masked off and then latter when the flap RLM 75 was dry the landing flap was masked off so that I could get a mis-match of patterns very clearly seen on sister ship 460066. The Mr Paint RLM 75 is very dark just like real fresh 75 as seen in the photos of these new-build G-10s / Mistel 3s. Another major step completed. Edited January 15, 2022 by Pastor John Ramm66, monthebiff, B-17 and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Impressive paint job, John. Pastor John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Good show, John. Sincerely, Mark Pastor John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor John Posted January 17, 2022 Author Share Posted January 17, 2022 AIMS 1/32 Mistel 3 update....hi everyone - decal stage complete yippee!!!!! Very few decals due to no unit codes and simplified stencil system but regardless it is a stage when my heart is in my mouth during the application and bedding down of the decals - not my favorite part of modelling by any means, thanks for looking Starfighter, blackbetty, patricksparks and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 That's looking great - especially that camouflage - beautifully executed John! Iain Pastor John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainM Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Yep, must agree! Very interesting camo scheme and wonderfully executed! She'll turn out to be a real beauty!! Iain Pastor John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor John Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 AIMS 1/32 Mistel 3 update....hi everyone, hope you are well. It is time for lots of the small details to start coming together. If you are wondering if I will ever do the canopy the answer is soon as Eduard masks only arrived in the post yesterday. I hope you can see the small details all getting ready - there is the brake pipe with outer sleeve taken off to have the two thicknesses I wanted, there is the scratch built three part folding ladder and its strap for operating it. A length of hollow tube crushed to an oval to represent the fuel dump duct had some brackets added and finally the cradle details have been started and these include a braded fuel pipe as per the original. The tail fork has had the tail fork lock details added, and finally I want to mention the Junkers anodised metal colour - in the fuel bay and gear bays I had used Mr Paint Anodised Aluminium straight from the bottle - it is not really the correct colour and any washes or varnish and it just becomes a bleached out grey instead of the silvery gold it once was. The Junkers colour is a gold green and sadly only at the very end I found that if I sprayed the Mr Paint Anodised aluminium on top of Mr Paint RLM 02 I got a much better match. In the next photo the sheet of metal is from a Ju 88 A-1 and you can see the scratch built fuel dump in place in the tail wheel bay. Anyway I have to finish the fuel bay tank support straps and that is the centre section lower half complete - next up finishing the main gears and bays mc65, Gazzas, VintageEagle and 14 others 16 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockie Yarwood Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Very nice! Pastor John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor John Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 AIMS 1/32 Mistel 3 update.... hi everyone, another stage completed and the doors are on and she is back on her feet for the first time since I chopped up the old display model some months ago. i would not have been able to have done so much if I had been able to cast resin orders but I have really enjoyed the modelling and wanted to do this subject for 16 years. You might be able to see that my inner rear doors are 1mm too long - they are only test shots and I can always replace them in the future if the kits become available again and they become viable product. Enjoy Gazzas, dodgem37, Paul in Napier and 19 others 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Properly nice update John, Your S3C looks very, very good back on her feet again. Colour scheme is excellent and nice to see a Ju-88 with the u/c bay doors wide open. Keep up the great work! Regards. Andy Pastor John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 20 minutes ago, reserve_22 said: John I realy like your work color - arguments - history- and other decals work.But wheels dont look good. I think John might be replicating flat tires in this instance. Pastor John and Paul in Napier 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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