Airfix Lightning Built As Per Instructions

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Airfix Lightning Built As Per Instructions

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This guy puts my model making skills to shame
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Just take a look at the third post in this thread
http://airfixtributeforum.myfastforum.o ... -asc-0.php

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That's stunning feathering on the camo. I could never paint like that even before my once steady hand deserted me.

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The Englishavilland Mosquberra even looks right :)

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DaveB wrote:That's stunning feathering on the camo. I could never paint like that even before my once steady hand deserted me.

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It will have been done with an airbrush. I have a Humbrol one that achieved similar results on the Revell Mosquito many years ago. I made it for a girlfriend's father who was an ex Mosquito navigator.

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