Or if your brush hand is steady enough a liquid mask.
I was assuming the masking off was for airbrushing, so maybe I should if said and avoided confusion.......Have I missed summat? If your hand is steady enough to paint the liquid mask to create the curve, wouldn't it be steady enough to paint the curve with the paint colour? And therefore no need for any masking at all.
Yes. I should of said, it was masking off before air brushing. Either way my hand is just not steady enough for good curves.I was assuming the masking off was for airbrushing, so maybe I should if said and avoided confusion.......
I was assuming the masking off was for airbrushing, so maybe I should if said and avoided confusion.......
Though it is worth researching how camo was applied as well, a lot of the time it was rubber masks in the factory so a hard edge would be there.
If it was free sprayed in the field then a soft edge is desirable, though not too soft because of the scale.
All I said was do a bit of research, but nice to know I do modelling wrong. And there is more camo than that applied to aircraft, NATO vehicles for example.Actually the aircraft manufacturing after the heavy bombing of the factories was spread far & wide over the UK. They were running out of paint as aircraft were being manufactured at an incredible rate. They were having to freehand spray in some not having the masks for the camouflage. Some were even delivered to squadrons without camouflage to be applied by the squadron engineers.
Also a fact that the human eye does not have an abundance of receptors & therefore see a stark straight line, as viewed in the pictures below, being slightly faded. Now if you were a sparrow it has twice the number of receptors as a human eye & those receptors are in a very small surface. That sparrow will actually see a rabbit at 2 miles distance in a field. It would see the edge of camouflage as sharp as sharp & all the imperfections.
This gives an indication of a soft edge (for humans) which I refer to above rather than a sharp edge.. Like all things it is in the eyes of the beholder. There is a certain artistic nature in building models for me.
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All I said was do a bit of research, but nice to know I do modelling wrong. And there is more camo than that applied to aircraft, NATO vehicles for example.
Very kind sir, I wish I had more work to show you.Looking at your work Karl that is far from the truth. Some very nice work there. Your interest in diorama is certainly mine as well.
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