W.I.P. Fiat G-55 1/32 P.C.M. COMPLETED !

[Starflyer]

Hallo to everybody,

I started few months ago with this building and now I am close (hoping) to the end. Before to start painting I like share here this job so I can have suggestion also from you and feel myself between friend with the same passion for Italian fighters.

Sorry if my english is so poor and I write only few raw, but I hope pictures will explain better

Few pictures of the story of this W.I.P































See you soon

[Vincent Fiore]

Your English may be halting but your model building is fantastic! Locking foreword to seeing the final results

[Vincent Biondi]

....Your English may be halting but your model building is fantastic! Looking forword to seeing the final results....
I couldn't agree more!
Great work so far.
Vincent.

[GAJouette]

Davide,
As always my friend excellent project and I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette

[Kagemusha]

Fantastico - keep them pictures coming, please!

[Editor]

Beautiful work Davide.

[D520]

Ciao Davide! Good to see you back on Stormo! Excellentissime lavoro maestro! A presto, jean;

[Starflyer]

Thank you very much to all for greetings and comments, I appreciate lot.

Just yesterday I found couple of minutes free time to work back on to the model.

I proceed with the painting and cover whole model by Aluminium (Alclad 50% Aluminimum + 50% white aluminimum mixed together).
This will be the base for an eventual scraping (or peeling) at the end of painting process.....will see.

Take a look...









See you soon

[Starflyer]

As usual I prefer start with a preshading in order to fade next layer of colors on the model to obtain a "aged" effect of the paint.

This time preshadin is particularly strong because the very dark green that will follow could cover too much a soft preshading.

Here the paint job of today:

[Starflyer]

Hy boys

I started to apply colour from under surfaces.

The Gunze H324 Gray is what I choose to replicate the Grigio Arruzzo Chiaro 1 for undersurfaces of Italian Fighters in 1941.

I spry several light coat havy diluited, until I get the follow result (sse the pics):







quite good but this is not wath I have in mind in fact I like much aged model so I go on to spry lightned gray to give much effects on to the surfaces....




...Until I got this effects:







good but is not the end.....stay tuned.

[Chris Busbridge]

Very smart... even the pre-shading is neat!

[Jan Kotas]

really nice job looking forward to see it finished.....

[lananda]

...uhm....i feel like if i had already seen this job....where?
Happy to see you here Davide!!

Keep attention guys: he is one of the best modelers in Italy!!!
ciao

[Starflyer]

Thank you lananda, but I am just a modeller with big passion for airplane.....

So I proceeding with painting job on upper surfaces....

Started by light coat of verde anticorrosione followed by dark green Tamiya XF-27 only on the wings and fuselage....and I decided to use salt technique to get an aged area on the wings, where piolt and mechanics aften walk to make maintenace or perparing for take off.....



then I go on painting with Gunze very dark green H65....




After this long step the salt was removed and you can see the "aged" zone on the wings







At this point I started with the scraping technique.....and I get the following result





The next step will be "point of no return" so if you have suggestion, recommendations or whatever please tell me.

Ciao for now

[Vincent Fiore]

Hello Davide,

Please explain what technique you use for scraping and what tools or supplies to achieve your results. Thank you in advance for your answer and your work is fantastic.

Thank You,

Vincent