Resin Gnat

 

The drop tanks will have to be cut in tow and reassembled 🙁 

Copper brush sanding imporved the resin primer adhesion dramatically. 

But the degreasing itself was not enough. 

As there is almost no cockpit detail provided and the bang seat is highly inaccurate, I decided to employ one of the Airfix Vampire drivers. 

 

 

 

 

On its own wheels finally 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's the true putty queen 🙁 

Started the painting (yay!), thought the surface is not perfect everywhere. 

 

Testing the masking pen, either I'm using it wrong or the surface is too smooth. Let's see the results once I finish spraying. 

 

 

 

As the instruction states... 😉 

The decals are not the best ones too 🙁
This closeup shows how badly casted is this kit. 

The last stretch. 

Coastal Kits 1/72 background makes sense only for such tiny planes 🙂 

 

 

 

 

You can see the cast quality here too.