[WWI] Subject: Re: Hanriot

[Matt Bittner]

Thanks, Dave.  Thanks to D also for the ideas.

However, I also had trouble with the white and my overpainting made it
look like crap.  I'll have to carefully sand down the roundels (without
effecting the camo) and redo.


Matt Bittner


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From: Dave Calhoun
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:53:54 -0500

Hi Matt,
Sorry for posting 5 days later but I've been too busy to read my
digests lately... anyway a solution to the Americal Gryphon white is
simple - I mixed up a bottle of red with a little black until it
matched the Americal decals perfectly - I put a spot of my mix next to
the roundel on the sheet and let it dry until I got a pretty close
match.  A fine brush and paint properly thinned will allow you to hand
paint the red portion of the roundel where the white shows through and
get an almost perfect red circle.  a coat of dull will seal it and
blend it in with the red ink.  I have done this in 1/48 scale, should
be able to do it with the 1/72 scale decals as well.
Dave 
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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:40:10 -0300
From: "Diego Fernetti" <dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar>
Subject: Re: [WWI] Hanriot
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Matt!
> I never liked the way the upper-wing, top roundels came out.  I want to
> replace them, somehow.

Ah, the dreaded red circle ghost on the Americal decals, right? I
recall 
that applying a second decal on them was one of the advices given at
the 
time.

> No idea, but unfortunately it appears so.

We should be certain of its fate by January 1st,2008,  00:00. No later!
D. 



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