The only paint that I could theoretically use on this model was cellulose car spray paint and having taken the image of the actual plane shown above down to the local car parts store I held all the various blues and reds against the actual picture of the plane and came to decision on a red, blue, white and silver and as I had a grey in the garage for the gun pod and rear exhaust all the paint was accounted for. I made the decision to go for a gloss clear cote on this model as I wanted the paint job to sparkle in the sunshine as I had the option of going with a matt finish but on this model I felt it would not make the colours bounce off the surface like the gloss option would. But having said all the above as I had never ever attempted to spray a foam model before, my theory and logic of what I thought is the best way to do it could turn out to be the very wrong way to do it too.
