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Another I am working on is the Falcon 20 to be built as a RAAF machine that I worked back in the late 1980s.






The kit has its issues, the biggest being the wonky wing roots, cabin window lines and windscreen slot. I started with the wing root.



One of the wing locating slots had to be also moved down a tad




The engines were assembled and test fitted and the windscreen slot attended to




The cabin windows were installed and filled, I am using decals so I don't have to worry about the wonky windows


The cockpit parts were assembled and painted, not that I should have bothered since due toa blob of sprue glue inside the windscreen I will be painting the windscreen panels.



The fuselage was glued together and filled and wings and fences attached



The gear parts were tidied up (in progress here) and attached



Some priming was done to check seams and previous rough sanding.

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After adding some antennas and anticol beacons it was time for some paint. I primed it in the lower grey colour and began masking





When the masking came off I noticed the grey/white demarcation was higher on one side than the other, I had line them up on the engine slots. Guess what they are not level
 

So I had the drop the right side slot by about a mm which meant a repaint!


After sanding some of the paint back and fixing a couple of other issues, round 2 of masking and painting was completed with engines and demarcation pretty level
 

Some more masking and painting to come for the forward fuselage and engines


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I started to try and match the blue of the decal with he paint on top of the engines.

The colour call out is a bit ambiguous, BSC381c-105 Azure Blue, well -105 is Oxford Blue which is too dark. I had a damaged decal sheet so I could compare the colours up close.

Pete at Hawkeye recommended Humbrol 15 - Midnight Blue of which I did not have any and neither did the LHS



I dove into the paint supplies and found a lighter Testors shade which looks a tad closer


I tried a few other blues on a piece of scrap plastic


As I decide on which to use I began cleaning up the gear parts ready for the final push to finish this one off.

Some more paint and decals going on



The engines are being repainted for the third and hopefully final time with Tamiya Royal Blue.

Looks great. These mach2 kits are not easy to build.

And it is finished

Very nice!