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French Rescue Goose

Painting

I decided the Goose needed some rest and I first painted the engines (picture 15). As you can see they are very detailled and apart from the copper wires they are molded in one piece! Another masterpiece from Signifer! I also decided to glue the floats in place and therefore had to do some rigging. I used my "Secret Weapon" for that: a toothpick fitted with a 0,3 mm drill! (picture 16) You just have to make small holes in the plastic (or resin in this case) by twisting the toothpick between you fingers. 1 or 2 mm are enough. Then you can put your thread in the resulting hole with some CA glue. With Fishing line (0,14 mm) it works like a dream and it's very strong!

Then it was time for the real painting! I first sprayed a coat of Humbrol Metal Coat to make some paint shipping later (picture 17). This is also a good test to reveal any imperfection. The second coat was a mix of Tamiya XF8 Flat blue and XF17 sea Blue. I did no pre- or post-shading this time. With those dark colors I think it is not really necessary.

Once all the aircraft was coated with tinted Future, it was time to add the Red Cross roundels as the plane I wanted to represent carried EVASAN (Evacuations Sanitaires) markings. I totally forgot these while glueing the floats in place and I had to break them off to be able to paint. Damn! I first tried to use Tamiya masking tape, but the blue color ripped off! Even with two coats of paint and one coat of Future! Damn again! The only acceptable solution was to use Post-It paper as masks. It didn't work as I expected because the Post-It paper wasn't sticky enough, so white paint managed to get under the paper(picture 19). But with some additional touch-ups it was OK. I sprayed another coat of Future to blend the markings and added the decals (picture 20). They worked fine and my only complaint would be about the red of the roundels... I think they are too bright. Having no spare ones available, I decided to live with them.