Grabbed a couple of paints that looked about right, Tamiya XF-59 Desert Yellow, and an old Polly Scale bottle, Dark Earth. This iteration of the kit was issued with two sets of different wings, so the spares were used as a test article. Sprayed the lighter Desert Yellow first, then masked the pattern with a square of sticky note paper, held down with Humbrol Maskol. 'twould be nice if you could get sticky notes that had the glue all over instead of just one edge. Or maybe you can, and I'm late to the party again. Anyhooooo...
Worked okay, not perfect, I'll experiment some more with the port side. Some bare plastic showed through after some scraping of the Maskol from the panel lines I had rescribed, but that was probably because I didn't bother priming for this quick test. The Polly Scale paints didn't seem to do well with Tamiya thinner, there were clumps of it in my airbrush when it was over, so I'll have a ferkle around in my stash, must have some other dark earth somewhere.
So that's where it stands at the moment. The canopy in that issue is grossly wrong, one of the first things I noticed. Might salvage the one from a 'paint mule' I've been using, an old Pioneer 2 Spitfire V. It seems to look better, which might be the only time you'll hear someone say that Pioneer 2 did something better than Airfix!
