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UP TO
SCRATCH
MEGAS TSONOS concludes
his stunning scratchbuilt Noratlas
CONTENTS
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NORD 2501D Noratlas part 4
Master scratchbuilder Megas Tsonos concludes his stunning build.
10
F-14B Final Tomcat Cruise
Dali Xu reworks the 1:48 Hasegawa Tomcat complete with a full lighting set up
20
Boulton-Paul Defiant
The Airfix 1:48 kit polished up by Dimitris Siolos.
28
L 39ZA Albatros
Florin Claudiu Silaghi builds the HPH resin kit of the Romanian trainer in 1:32
36
Twin Tigers
Romain Flechon builds both versions of the Eurocopter using the 1:48 Italeri kit
48
Air Borne
New releases.
58
F4U-1A Corsair
George L Johnson tackles the big Tamiya kit in
Royal New Zealand Airforce markings.
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NORATLAS
The production painting of the German Air Force Noratlases
consisted of three colours, within the RAL colour range. These
were RAL6014 Gelboliv and RAL7012 Basaltgrau for the
topsides and booms, and RAL7001 Silbergrau for the
undersides. Their already ageing paint when received by the
Hellenic Air Force notwithstanding, these planes were
subjected to severe fading due to sunlight and atmospheric
conditions of the Mediterranean environment. This is
clearly evident on the areas painted in the delicate Day-
Glo Red, which gradually turned to orange, eventually to
reach plain yellow, as the red colour and its
fluorescent factor gradually disappeared. Therefore I
used the three principal colours only as a guide. I
altered their shades so as to get the desired effect
without whatsoever getting outside the ‘envelope’
of the colours. I used the Xtracolor
X251/X254/X255 appropriately mixed with
lighter shades of greys and greens of the
same range of enamels.
NORD N2501D
1:48
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Megas Tsonos
concludes his stunning scratchbuild
With a lot of work ahead of me I started by masking the transparencies and
sealed off all openings.
I airbrushed the model in the camouflage pattern of the
German Air Force which was retained on the Greek Noratlases
until their repainting in the TAC (Vietnam) scheme.
Following the basic painting, I masked and painted the yellow section of the wing
and fuselage walkway area border lines. The red/orange stripes would later be
applied in decal form (detail A). I used White Ensign Models’ WMCC/ACS15
(Light) Brown as my ‘‘faded yellow’’.
Next I masked and painted the faded Day-Glo Red areas of the
rudders, wingtips and outer sections of the engine cowls. A little later,
the extreme nose section followed suit.
It went as follows: I used (again) White Ensign Models’
WMCC/ACS15 (Light) Brown as ‘‘faded yellow’’. I left the
areas painted to dry overnight.
Then I airbrushed a very light coat of Modelmasters’
Fluorescent Red-Orange over the yellow. As the paint was
still freshly applied and with a tissue moistened in alcohol
I wiped out some of the red-orange taking care not to
remove the yellow underneath. In this way I avoided the
‘airbrush effect’ of the red-orange...
both colours now merged into a
single, faded-looking colour.
I masked and painted the National insignia; the
roundels were positioned over the German Air
Force crosses in eight places on the wings,
fuselage and tailbooms. I used two shades of
blues according to the roundels’ relevant
positions on the model, for I wanted the upper
ones to look more faded than their lower
counterparts. I killed the white of the roundels,
adding light grey FS36622 into it, to cater for
scale effect. The model was declared ready for
‘washing’ and weathering.
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