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Painting WW2 Japanese Floatplanes

Question for you IJN aircraft experts:

Did the paint applied to Japanese aircraft with faric covering chip and peel the way the paint applied to metal aircraft did?

I've got a Hasegawa 1/72 "Alf" kit-- the biplane float plane carried on cruisers and battleships. It is mostly fabric covered, painted with aluminum dope, I think. If I was to paint it in the standard IJN green over gray, is it appropriate to have a lot of the silver showing through?

TIA,

-Bill

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RC Boater
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Fabric paint does not seem to chip as such, but Japanese military paint seemed to be unable to cope with the Pacific climate. If it is a wartime aircraft, the paint should be faded and bleached. Kim M

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