1/600th Aircraft - Painting Guides - Nesher

My 1973 era Neshers painting guide

• I undercoat the model white to start with.
• Then I cover the upper surfaces with a thinned Vallejo Iraqi Sand
• Then add the brown camouflage elements using GW Calthan Brown
• Then add the green cam using GW Knarloc Green
• Wash the model with Devlan Mud
• Make a 50:50 mix of GW Blazing Orange and Iyanden Darksun and paint the triangles on wings and tail
• Varnish the model
• Apply the decals which are just black lines and numbers
• Microsol the decals
• Then taking the Iraqi sand again touch up all the sand areas to light and remove any orange peeping out from under the decals
• Add Dom's Decals National Insignia
• Varnish again to seal the decals in
• Dullcote the whole thing

I thought about using the white decal paper but to be honest it is a lot thicker and as such doesn't sit well. Some people get on with it so it is a personal preference.

The tail art is trimmed pretty tight to fit and the serial number is part of one decal which made fitting a lot easier.

Again not quite finished. I have two more in progress which MIGHT have more done to them. The big black aerial looks way ott so might get removed completely or painted a more inconspicious colour

Air Combat Bibliography

To support some of the game ideas and developments as well as providing me with some new scenario ideas, I thought it would be useful to provide my current library details. Not so much as showing off but so you can understand my reasoning and references later on.

Operations over Vietnam

• Dorr, Robert F. Air War Hanoi (Chichester: Guild Publishing, 1988).
• Michel III, Marshall L. Clashes: Air Combat over North Vietnam 1965 - 1972 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997).
• Hobson, Chris. Vietnam Air Losses: United States Airforce, Navy and Marine Corps Fixed-Wing Aircraft Losses in SEA 1961-1973 (Hinckley: Midland Publishing, 2001).
• Nicols, John B. and Tillman, Barrett. On Yankee Station: Naval Air War Over Vietnam (Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1997).
• Ethell, Jeffrey. and Price, Alfred. One Day in A Long War - May 10, 1972 Air War, North Vietnam (New York: Random House, 1989).

Specific Aircraft Histories over Vietnam

• Elward, B and Davies P. US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1965-70 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2001).
• Elward, B and Davies P. US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers 1972-73 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2002).
• Powell, Robert R. RA-5C Vigilante Units in Combat (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2004).
• Burgess, Richard R. and Rausa, Rosario M. US Navy A-1 Skyraider Units of the Vietnam War (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2009).
• Toperczer, Istvan. MiG-17 and MiG-19 Units of the Vietnam War (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2001).
• Mersky, Peter. F-8 Crusader Units of the Vietnam War (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1998).
• Birzer, Norman and Mersky, Peter. US Navy A-7 Corsair II Units of the Vietnam War (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2004).
• Mersky, Peter. US Navy and Marine Corps A-4 Skyhawk Units of the Vietnam War (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2007).

Iran-Iraq Conflict

• Cooper, Tom and Bishop, Farzad. Iran-Iraq War in the Air 1980 - 1988 (Atglen: Schiffer Military History, 2000).

General Air Combat

• Spick, Mike. Modern Fighter Combat (London: Salamander Books Ltd, 1987).

1/600th Aircraft - Arab Israeli Conflict (Israeli Aircraft)

Following the apparent success we had with Downtown I decided to add some Arab Israeli aircraft to use with the Elusive Victory scenarios, as well as my new found interest in CY6-Jet Age.

War of Attrition

Close Ups

 Mysteres

 Neshers

Mirage IIIC

Obsessive Compulsive decals

Phantoms and Mirages