Regardless, the model (Westside) was so good that I wound up sweating virtually every prototype detail about it anyway and given the paucity of good war-time photos I had to lean on Sarge for a lot of the details as fortunately for me he's painted more than a few of these. Still the project wound up taking the better part of six months, though in part that included waiting on custom printed decals.
I used True Color for the light-grey and dark grey. Likewise, a variety of Rustoleum, Krylon and Ace for other greys and blacks on the various underframe appliances and back head cab details.
The cab details benefited from a method Brian suggested wherein a punch template is made from metal block and wood with various drill bit diameters to make the various lens sizes for the cab gauges which turned out nicely, such that my customer is making a light harness for the cab interior. Also there are at least three different shades of grey/black used here accentuate the detail depth-wise.
I would have preferred a split cab window here but didn’t want to get into cutting and soldiering one.
Decals were custom printed by High-Ball Graphics and a joy to apply, not perfect but pretty damn good and again process-wise fabulous.
Despite a few shortcomings, this model was still absurdly well-designed and manufactured, I learned a lot here, note the blue NYC oval above the pilot is an actual cast piece with raised NYC lettering.
Wow.I'll share more photos of the finished product as I get them.
