
An Altaya F5A Gets Retanned
An Altaya F5A Gets Retanned
The new Altaya 1:72nd scale jet fighter series included a South VietNam F5A Freedom Fighter but, as often happens on such models, got some of the colors wrong. As shown in the following picture, they used a brown rather than the correct tan and the apple green was also off:
			
													
					Last edited by Epap on Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:32 am, edited 1 time in total.
									
			
									
						Re: An Altaya F5A Gets Retanned
I didn't plan to devote too much time to my redo of this model, so I started by replacing the brown with a tan color and slightly modifying the scheme. After I did this, the apple green didn't look so bad, so I modified it here and there, added a pilot and some weathering and now have an acceptable rendition of this particular aircraft:
			
									
									
						
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Re: An Altaya F5A Gets Retanned
It sure does look better.
Great job !!
			
									
									
						Great job !!

