just make sure you use a brand new sharp blade if you try that method
I have a set of autopsy-standard Japanese blades! Got to have other hobbies...
just make sure you use a brand new sharp blade if you try that method
If you can get it, use pre cut masks from eduard or such like....the cost is far outweighed by the time saved.....
Cover the whole canopy in masking tape and then cut out where the frame is. This is usually much simpler than trying to cut masking tape the size and shape of all those little glazing panels.
Also, once you’ve got the canopy masked, paint it first with the colour that the inside of the frame is to be (British cockpit green, I suppose) and only then do the exterior colour over the top of that. This way you’ll get the inside to look right too, with only one round of masking.
Hi Andrew
Iconic aircraft that's for sure. Builds up into quite a big model even at 1/72.
From the start of construction I always plan the painting as I go along. I like to build as much as possible before painting. The reason for that is twofold. Firstly any sanding needed does not damage already done paintwork and secondly I find it almost impossible to join ready painted parts without glue marks.
Following with interest.
Jim
Do you paint over the lines afterwards, or erase them?Painting camo will be much easier if you draw it on the model with a pencil first. The diagrams in the instructions show the panel lines, which you can use to determine how the pattern runs on the model too: find where the edge of a patch crosses a panel line, and draw it in the same place on the same line on your model. This may take a little practice, but you’ll develop an eye for it and be able to draw the pattern well enough soon. Then you only need to paint more or less inside the lines, rather than having to get the paint in the right place without a guide.
You probably need a little more practice I can’t draw either, except technical style, but the trick to drawing the camouflage onto a model is to use the panel lines as a guide. The handy thing here is that you can count them: the large patch you tried to paint on the wing, for example, begins halfway between the fuselage and the innermost fore–aft panel line and crosses the that first fore–aft line at about the halfway point too.Aye tried that - the lines were as bad! I'm not kidding, I have always had a complete brain block on this. I can do calligraphy, and am extremely dextrous, but cannot convert a visual image to an export.
You’re a step ahead of most people here, in that you know you don’t have a good memory for this kind of thing. Most people think they do when in fact they’re very bad at itFor example, same sort of problem, I once witnessed a crime and had to give a description. I could not tell the coppers their hair typeor colour, height, eye colour, age etc.
I normally paint over them first, to make sure they’re out of sight, and then fill in the patches. It’s safest to check after you’re done and erase any you can still see, though.Do you paint over the lines afterwards, or erase them?
[QUOTE="Bobby Conkers, post: 476271, member: 7729"]
LOOKS OK to me mr ConkersThat's ok. It distracts from the awful job I'm making of the plane!
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