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[brucejscott]

Hello all. Have not posted in a while, real life got in the way and then got into a funk. Kit is almost done, will post some pics Tuesday.

 

[T Bolt]

Looking forward to them Bruce.

 

[Airframes]

Me too, and glad to hear you're back in the (almost) sane world .....

 

[meatloaf109]

Ne iligitimi carborundum,
Don't let the b@stards wear you down.
Looking forward to seeing this one.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Can't wait!.......................and it's Wednesday here!!!

 

[N4521U]

With all, welcome back to Our world.
You're results are great. Lookin forward to seeing the finished plane.

 

[Wayne Little]

Bring it on, man!

 

[brucejscott]

I suppose the funk could have been caused by the realization that I was not building a Wildcat. The real life portion was the new job. Anyway, as you can see, the masking did not go well.

I could blame Humbrol for making to good a paint, but reality is that I forgot to put on a glosscote before the masking fluid. When I tried to take it up, it didn't let go and it had bled. Live and learn. Touching up with a brush and moving on.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

It's not looking to bad from what I can see Bruce. As you say a spray of gloss clear or Future between coats would have helped but on large areas like that I would have stayed away from the masking fluid and used a combination of Tamiya masking tape, Blu tak and paper. More fiddly I know but usually gives a secure masking.

 

[Wurger]

Yep... I echo the post above.

 

[Wayne Little]

Not too bad at all Bruce....could have been much worse...

 

[Airframes]

Looks pretty good to me. I don't normally mask this type of pattern, just mark the shapes out in pencil, then free-hand along the lines. Not at all difficult, and saves a lot of b*gg*ring about.

 

[ccheese]

Looks pretty good to me. When I do the camo on the floatplane I have made up my mind to cut masks from the plans and use them for hiding the light colour (ops..)

Charles

 

[woody]

Looks good Bruce.

 

[meatloaf109]

I've used masking liquid only once. It was a complete b@lls-up disaster.
Yours looks great on the whole, with a little touch up, you'll be fine.

 

[brucejscott]

I have to admit, I use liquid mask for everything other than straight lines and have never had this problem. Karma I guess. Anyway, the paint is touched up, glosscoted and decaling started. This one will come in on time ( just ). " It would be bad form for the cavalry to show up to early. The nick of time will do nicely."

 

[fubar57]

Looks great Bruce. I have only used liquid masking film on multi-panel canopies and then only with acrylic. I've read(possibly on this site) not to use with enamel paints.

Geo

 

[rochie]

looks great

 

[Crimea_River]

Looking good.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Very sharp work!