I started a second thread because the old one was getting long.  After living with project in natural wood so long, it seems like a whole new thing in color.

Two coats of Lakeland Blue.  Then sanding out the bad spots, then two more.  It came out better than I had expected.

Then simple masking before shooting the white.  Unlike some people, I don't try to do all the masking before shooting color.  I find that trying to do that makes the masking a tedious job.  Better to eat the elephant a piece at a time.

Looks good, Paul.
Chris...

I guessed wrong on the size of the number 62 and had to ask for a bigger mask from Charles of AVIOJET.

While I was waiting, I did a match check with all the parts thus far.  I'm knocking on the door of two pounds, and I still lack a fuel tank, leadout guide, gear door mounts, and the final Klass Kote clear coat.

Note the Joe Just stacked bellcrank.  Using this on such a labor intensive project is something of a leap of faith, but it's not the only one on this project.  I used on of these on 25-size sport 3-line model without issues.  On thing I do is build in a backstop to keep the bellcranks for "folding-in" at high speed.

I fell off the modeling wagon and missed my target of flying it in Toronto tomorrow.

Monday - Memorial Day parade.
Tuesday - Back in the chop.
Wednesday - Test flying - found issues with other planes that demanded attention.
Thursday - Rare tour of The GM Heritage Museum, never open to the public.  I was on a mission to get a fresh picture of myself with the Firebird III.  I have a baby picture with me in the drive seat when the car was new.  Nobody at the museum was willing/able to open the canopy for me.

I test flew it at The Brodak today.  The first flight ever - in front of a BIG audience.  It went PERFECTLY.  No problems.

The only issue is competiton.  I see about a dozen multi-engine planes. Two- and four-engine bombers four times the wingsapn and weight of mine.  The rules don't actually say "big is better".  We'll see soon.

Actually, Paul, the second picture looks like the scale just might be really, really close to perfect as compared to the bomber!  I imagine the two full scale ships together like that might just , weellll, look like that!

Hi Paul, Do you have more pictures of the P-38? Thanks, Mike