Had a chance to get away over the weekend and break out the paints. I managed to get some Italian Caproni Ca.310s painted. I used the app Miniature Painter Pro on my tablet to get some paints sorted for these. It has a really nice feature where it will save your palate with the picture so you don't have to remember what you did before. The camo scheme is loosely based on some that was able to find with help from Google. I'd like to paint the white facces on the black circles but I am not sure I have anything fine enough pointed nor hands steady enough to do so. So I am leaving them just black sircles for now. The pictures below are on the new desert mat that I picked up off of eBay.
I also managed to finish a bunch of flight stands. Each has a dice holder and a bead to indicate the unit (color of bead) and plane (Roman Numeral). I have enough for 9 groups of 4 planes. I have also pealed the backing off of all of the bases as well.
I am awaiting some paint sets that I ordered. I bought three paint sets from Vallejo. The VSS pack, the early war Luftwaffe pack and the Desert Luftwaffe pack. I will wait on painting my Desert Luftwaffe until those show up. I have three Ju88s, a Ju52, two Hs126s, and eight Bf110s ready for painting.
For my Italans, I have 5 more Sm79s to paint. I have three primed. But I really want to update the paint jobs on the three that I have already done. I also clipped seven of eight G.50s off of their sprues. They are 3d prints form Pico Armor. The last one had a wing shatter as I was removing the supports. I reached out to Pico and they are sending me a replacement with my next order. I am really happy with the service from them.
I also prepped a number of Cr.42s. I have nine of them prepped. The photo below only shows six of them. The others are older metal sculpts that I already had that needed to be glued together. These need to be primed along with four metal Ro.32bis models from Tumbling Dice.
If I can get the Cr.42s done, I may put them on the table escorting a pair of Ro.37s. I'll probably wait until I get some more German Bombers painted up. I am trying to decide if i want more than just Ju88s for the desert. I have packs of He111s and Do17zs as well but I bought them for Operation Barbarossa. I think Ju88s and Stukas will be enough for the desert.I think I want to have a full staffel of each German Aircraft type. I am over half way there for the Stukas and the Bf109Es. This would be 12 aircraft per staffel. The Bombers in Kette of 3 and the fighters in Schwarms of 4.
