Mildly mangled Mitchell - part 1

 

I'd already had one go at rescuing this lump of dust and plastic but somehow the dark blue paintwork wasn't doing it for me.  Mitchells should be bare metal, or at a push, green - right?

While scraping off the decals various bits of bomber inevitable came loose and I went over the thing adding glue to strengthen it's aged joints.  A rough brush of black covered any bare plastic.

Then it was on with the 'bare metal. as a heavy drybrush.  I know this works well over black - and the blue was very dark....