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JKim
Senior Master Sergeant
Here's last night's work. First is the test of the Tamiya mix of Ocean Grey and the Gunze Dark Green. I purposefully made the Ocean Grey a little darker to get a little more contrast from the Medium Sea Grey bottom.
I had to pre-shade half of the upper surfaces to cover up the Hataka Ocean Grey prior to putting on the custom mix.
How to demarcate the upper camo? Originally, I wanted to do a hard edged mask using frisket paper and masking tape. I've seen models done this way and I like how striking they look. But I looked at the photos of MH712 and concluded that the demarcation between the Dark Green and Ocean Grey was a fine spray. So I decided to use paper masks held closely off the painted surface using blobs of Blu-Tack. I scanned the painting instructions, scaled them to approximately 1/48 scale and used them as templates.
It's a bit of a pain to do it this way. And once committed, I had to finish as I did not want the Blu-Tack sitting on my model overnight and affecting the finish.
The unmasked areas were pre-shaded (again!) prior to the application of the green.
The green is sprayed on.
Here's what the camo looks like after the masks have been removed and the bits of Blu-Tack cleaned off. I started brushing off the Blu-Tack imprints with a cloth wetted with water but thought it might be better for the green paint to dry so that is how I left it over night. Notice the overspray on the upper cowling that needs to be corrected.
I cleaned off the Blu-Tack as best as I could but there is still some residue left. Based on my past experience with this stuff, the clear coating process should take care of the residual marks. The upper cowling was touched up.
I'm going to take a closer look a the camo and do any required clean up work and then apply the Sky fuselage band and yellow ID strips on the wings.
I had to pre-shade half of the upper surfaces to cover up the Hataka Ocean Grey prior to putting on the custom mix.
How to demarcate the upper camo? Originally, I wanted to do a hard edged mask using frisket paper and masking tape. I've seen models done this way and I like how striking they look. But I looked at the photos of MH712 and concluded that the demarcation between the Dark Green and Ocean Grey was a fine spray. So I decided to use paper masks held closely off the painted surface using blobs of Blu-Tack. I scanned the painting instructions, scaled them to approximately 1/48 scale and used them as templates.
It's a bit of a pain to do it this way. And once committed, I had to finish as I did not want the Blu-Tack sitting on my model overnight and affecting the finish.
The unmasked areas were pre-shaded (again!) prior to the application of the green.
The green is sprayed on.
Here's what the camo looks like after the masks have been removed and the bits of Blu-Tack cleaned off. I started brushing off the Blu-Tack imprints with a cloth wetted with water but thought it might be better for the green paint to dry so that is how I left it over night. Notice the overspray on the upper cowling that needs to be corrected.
I cleaned off the Blu-Tack as best as I could but there is still some residue left. Based on my past experience with this stuff, the clear coating process should take care of the residual marks. The upper cowling was touched up.
I'm going to take a closer look a the camo and do any required clean up work and then apply the Sky fuselage band and yellow ID strips on the wings.