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Thanks Nick and John. It's taken pride of place on my side table in the TV room. Thankfully the wife loves it too so it might be able to stay there for a while 
Masking wasn't as bad as I'd feared. The "wings" were one piece each with a few extra little shapes that were easy to line up, with a smaller piece for either side of the forward fuselage. I added a bit of tape in places for extra security and where I knew I wouldn't be able to spray at an ideal angle, but apart from that pretty easy, and I'll have no issues using the same type of mask again. Keeping all the control surfaces separate definitely helped, I just test fitted them in place to make sure the masks lined up with each other.
I was initially concerned about the material. I'd have preferred tape masks but they have only just become available. However, once I actually looked at them they were cut from Oramask 810, which seems to be the one of the favourites of those modellers that make their own masks, so maybe I needn't have worried.
Thanks Jakko.
Masking wasn't as bad as I'd feared. The "wings" were one piece each with a few extra little shapes that were easy to line up, with a smaller piece for either side of the forward fuselage. I added a bit of tape in places for extra security and where I knew I wouldn't be able to spray at an ideal angle, but apart from that pretty easy, and I'll have no issues using the same type of mask again. Keeping all the control surfaces separate definitely helped, I just test fitted them in place to make sure the masks lined up with each other.
I was initially concerned about the material. I'd have preferred tape masks but they have only just become available. However, once I actually looked at them they were cut from Oramask 810, which seems to be the one of the favourites of those modellers that make their own masks, so maybe I needn't have worried.
