My 1/72 scale aircraft

Dean62 · 2026-10-08T10:36:55-0500

Next I painted on her name, then I painted the wing tips and added decals. I need to do a few minor touch ups on the name.
I can’t wait to get the propellers on with the light blue spinners. It’s really going to tie in the color scheme.
Update pics…

Daniel20 · 2026-10-08T10:45:51-0500

Great job with the name and everything else.

Dean62 · 2026-10-08T11:34:44-0500

Daniel20 said:
Great job with the name and everything else.

Thank you! I am striving to make this my best P-38!

Dean62 · 2026-10-08T11:35:35-0500

I touched up the name font and added dark grey background to the pic. It makes the image pop more…

g8rfan99 · 2026-10-08T13:08:56-0500

Dean, this is turning out to be a beautiful plane. Love the color scheme. I'm curious how you did the picture of your mom. Is it a printed waterslide?

Peter Voogt · 2026-10-08T13:17:17-0500

Dean62 said:
I touched up the name font and added dark grey background to the pic. It makes the image pop more…
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Those small extra details makes her even more honored, Dean. A great and I suppose emotional job!
Regards, Peter

Dean62 · 2026-10-08T14:20:59-0500

g8rfan99 said:
Dean, this is turning out to be a beautiful plane. Love the color scheme. I'm curious how you did the picture of your mom. Is it a printed waterslide?

Thank you! I printed it on my printer. I scaled the original down to 25% and it barely fit! I didn’t want to scale again and make a copy of a copy, because it’s pretty much downhill at that point. I then put some Weldbond on the back and spread with a brush very thin and then placed it on the airplane and carefully pressed down. After that dried I put clear coat on. So it’s printed paper. I didn’t have a lot of faith in the printed waterslide paper giving as good of an image.

Dean62 · 2026-10-08T14:22:41-0500

Peter Voogt said:
Those small extra details makes her even more honored, Dean. A great and I suppose emotional job!
Regards, Peter

Thank you Peter! Yeah it’s been 2 years, but it still stings. I think this is helping me come to peace with it a little more. Although I wrote her a song I recorded as well.

Dean62 · 2026-10-08T14:24:20-0500

I couldn’t wait to do the propellers…

And on the aircraft…

As I envisioned it! Love it when that happens… ROTF

Dean62 · 2026-10-08T14:46:51-0500

On a side note…I found an antique kit of a Brewster Buffalo. So now I will have an example of that aircraft soon.

Decals look like they are useless, but I have extras I can use. So I will make do. I also plan on using a grey paint scheme and weathering it some.

My mess when working…lol

I have shelves with supplies on them where I keep my paints. So I put them on my desk as I use them. Surprising how many colors I will end up using on an airplane.