CF-5A & CF-5D 1/32 Scale............................(Completed 9 Feb 2014)

[lastvautour]

CF-5A awaiting decals. Just the exhaust cans require painting later this weekend.

Lou

[lastvautour]

Two more shots. This one and the CF-5B have sat for far too long.

Lou

[buccfan]

Great camo scheme Lou, look forward to the decals. Are you having a year end blitz? .Regards Paul J.

[lastvautour]

I am trying to clear up some long running projects to make room for new stuff.

Lou

[Balsabasher]

Great paintwork Lou,may the painting blitz continue.
Barry.

[lastvautour]

First decals are the tail band. An attempt to do them on white failed miserably so a white band followed by the blue on clear seems to have done the trick. My next obstacle is the white numbering on the tail and the yellow emergency arrows.

Lou

[Balsabasher]

The colours stand out well Lou,you can do it !

Barry.

[cliff strachan]

That's pretty good, Lou. But again when you get time will you explain the way you managed to duplicate the symbol on the decal that you've made so far. The boat I mean.
Cliff.

[lastvautour]

I will be happy to do so, however I need to know what boat you speak of.

Lou

[cliff strachan]

Lou, I'm referring to what appears to be a white boat or a sailboat on the blue background.
Cliff.

[lastvautour]

Sorry Cliff. My mind was on standby when I read your comments. I have a good PDF file of the CF-5. I blew it up to approx. 1/24 scale and copied the image on the screen. I then took that and pasted to MS Paint and cropped the image to just give me the band. On reducing it to 1/32 it made a nice crisp image. I assumed the shipped faced forward on both side so I flipped the image in the MS Paint program.

Lou

[cliff strachan]

Thanks very much, Lou. Think I'll copy it so that I can review what you've described. Little slow.

Cliff.

[lastvautour]

The decals have been printed and sprayed with clear gloss. The two sets is a result of my printer wanting to chew up the page I was using. It gives me a few extra parts just in case.

Lou

[Balsabasher]

Very neat decals Lou.
Barry.

[lastvautour]

Thank you Barry. These are relatively easy to do. When I get rich, I will buy an Alps printer.

Lou