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Ray Loch
Watching this, Looking good.

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Ray.

Nathan Dempsey
Following 👀

Augie
Am in

John
"RTB" Return To Base? Do your kits fly away if you don't keep track? 😉

Clifford Keesler
Welcome Nathan, Augie and John. @ John, no it means Ready to build., once I have everything I want as far as aftermarket stuff I put it all in the box and mark it RTB so I know everything is there. Otherwise I sometimes end up buying stuff I already have. A quick update on this one, paint and decals are done and and sealed. Waiting for anti-glare panel to dry and I will apply the wash. So getting near the end on this one. I will try and get some more pictures up soon. Spoiler, I did not do the box art version.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work. I would like to compliment you on the finish.

Augie
Great work Clifford 🙂

John
That's a beauty, love the scheme, great choice!

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Villiers, Augie and John, your nice comments mean a lot. It was a nice build.

Nathan Dempsey
Your U-2 looks great in those colors. Well done sir!

jaero
great stuff

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Nathan and jaero, I am glad you like it. @ Nathan, I thought it would be nice in that scheme, I had never seen one in those colors. I have the usual black one and the "C" I have will be done in NMF Nasa markings and I have a "R" which will also be in black. All I need to get is the 2 seater and do it in the white. Lol.

Nathan Dempsey
I was going to paint mine as used in the Cuban Missile Crisis which was supposed to be Dark Sea Blue. I really like yours though. Came out looking sharp!

Clifford Keesler
Thank you again. The decal sheet I have has those markings on it. It was shot down over Cuba. I think the pilot's last name was Anderson, he was either a Maj. or a Col. do not remember which. I lived in Key West Fla. during the Cuban missile crisis. My dad was stationed at Boca Chica naval air station. He was in the Air Force, but they had a F-106 squadron there. The Navy flew the RF-8 Crusader's out of there.

Ben M
When I was in Cuba, I saw the wreckage of a U-2. Wonder if it's the same one…

Clifford Keesler
I do not know for sure, looks like it's the wrong color, but could be.

John
Nice start! Shall we argue about the exact shade of aotake to use? 😉

Dave Pluth
So this is too dark? 🙂 Everything pictured is interior green or at least will be.

John
Just kidding overall. I see that you founded j-aircraft.com (thanks for this, great references BTW) so I thought you might be up for an aotake argument. In reality, I am much more of a "paint it how you want, it's your model" guy than a paint-chip accurate modeler myself.

Dave Pluth
Oh I have gotten a lot of that over the years 🙂. I had to order some "aotake" for the non-crew areas. I am actually not super picky about anything colorwise. Having seen a lot of different parts and pieces over the years they are all across the board and as we age our eyes perception of color changes. As long as people are happy with what they build, I am very happy. Beauty of Japanese aircraft is "prove me wrong". There is no true documentation on the subject so it is pretty hard to do 🙂

John
Looking good! 👍

Villiers de Vos
Very nice reference pictures on an interesting subject. Thank you for sharing.

Erik Off
Wow, just wow. This is real model making!

Pietro De Angelis
What a show, congrats!

Neuling
Cool. Impressive work. 👍👍

KYmodelers
Thank you all!