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Another one for modellers to copy as evidence for your next contest HELLCAT, the color variations all over the airframe, they may have all been painted in the same place at the same time. but tinting variations in cans of paint shows up really well here!
Unfortunately, the current vouge among modellers is to overemphasize different shaded panels, and highlight and outline ever single panel line. I've seen lots of very nicely and artistically done models, that look nothing like a real airplane.
I always cringe when I see a model of a carrier-based aircraft with "weathering" consisting of heavy paint chipping. In the real world, chips were immediately touched up..bare aluminum is the last thing you want exposed to salt spray!
At a model club meeting once a couple of the guys were arguing over whether late-war Avengers should be flat or gloss blue. One of our old vets who'd actually worked on them rolled his eyes and said "No matter how they started out, after we washed 'em down a few times with a mixture of gasoline and hydraulic fluid they all ended up kinda semi-gloss."
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