1/72 Italeri Mig-29 UB part 3

I started on the painting. After masking off the canopy, I began with pre-shading the panel lines with a mix of Model Master Black and Dark Earth.
. The painting guide that comes with the decal sheet is a bit misleading. The tiger stripes are referenced as Grey Green but the FS reference was definitely not. Luckily a Humbrol colour reference was also provided which I was able to cross-reference with the help of Urban Fredriksson's wonderful colour reference charts hosted onIPMS Stockholm. What I settled on was Model Master Light Gray #1732 with MM Lt. Ghost Gray #1728 for the stripes. I was a little suspicious because to my eye the colours were very close to each other at least in the bottle.

I began by laying down the the Ghost Grey following the painting guide.
I allowed the stripes to be broad because the next step was to use a liquid mask to refine the stripe pattern.

Once the mask was set I oversprayed the entire model with Light Gray. The next steps were to spray the black anti-glare strip and Dark Gull Gray #1740 areas such as the radome and tail tips.

Once the mask was removed the contrast turned out pretty well.
Next comes the decalling, weathering and under carriage.

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