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added a new photoalbum.
37 26 January, 18:10

Yes, it is. Took three evenings worth of paint booth time, but I think its worth it.
26 January, 18:49

Thanks guys. I started out with the ochre over a pre-shaded base coat. After that had sufficiently dried, I marked out the basic pattern very lightly with a pencil. I spent one night spraying the green blotches, the next night the brown. I spent a bunch of time after doing touch up and weathering/shading with oils. Probably the most time I've ever spent on a paint scheme. But I'm in love with Italian camouflage, so there'll likely be more…
26 January, 19:20

Very impressive work.
I imagine the camouflage designer walked into a zoo and thought "If it works for the giraffe, it's got to work on planes too".
26 January, 19:41

Fermi tutti!!!! What a great model!!!
What about the first pictures? It was a captured plane displayed in Australia?
1 February, 19:03

Thanks, the photos show the aircraft that I'm portraying. It was captured at Bari in 1943 when the RAAF took over the airfield. The sequence of photos (and more from the Australian War Memorial Archive) depict a religious service being given in one of the airfield's hangars shortly after its capture.
1 February, 19:10