After painting a Model Monkey 1:350 scale USS Pennsylvania funnel with Tru-Color 5-D by brush (Model Monkey Pennsylvania funnel), I wanted to try airbrushing Tru-Color paint on a model. My choice for the model is the Combrig 1:700 scale USS Georgia, which I had picked up at Free Time Hobbies. This paint job would be in the Great White Fleet livery. Since Tru-Color Paint has paints in World War Two colors, there was no buff to use for the superstructure, which is a pity because the Tru-Color paints went on perfectly. This time I went right down the Tru-Color painting guide. First I washed the Georgia resin hull in soapy water before painting to remove any possible resin curing dust. Tru-Color Paint has three colors I could use in painting a Great White scheme. I used white 5-U for the hull and Norfolk Anti-Fouling Red 65-A for the boot top. The Tru-Color paints were used right from the bottle with no thinning. Both sprayed perfectly with great coverage. Of course after spraying the hull white and allowing it to dry, I masked of the hull with Tamiya masking tape before spraying on the red boot top. After allowing the red to dry, I removed the tape. Some patches of white came off with the tape. This may have been the result of the Tamiya masking tape but it was no big issue. Using very thin Tamiya masking tape, I masked the boot top and used to spray gun white again to cover the cover the small areas that needed retouching. The Tru-Color boot black will be used for smaller parts, such as funnel caps and gun barrels.
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