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Benevolens Magister
Sounds good Andy. The first two pics, with the comparison with the Mk1, look fine, with the colours recording correctly on my monitor. Must be anomalous reflection in the other pics I guess.
**** DONE: 1/48 Spitfire MkVIII - Home Country Modern Aircraft/Spitfire Marks GB
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fubar57
General
Looks great Andy. About the masks. Are they strictly for airbrush use?
Geo
Geo
brucejscott
Staff Sergeant
That is sweet Andy. Very nice work.
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Crimea_River
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Thanks gents.
I see no reason you could not use these for brush painting Geo. They sit quite well so form a tight seal.
I see no reason you could not use these for brush painting Geo. They sit quite well so form a tight seal.
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Crimea_River
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Terry, it just occurred to me why the colours look off on the outdoor pics. I had the camera set for tungsten lighting for my basement pics and forgot to set it for sunlight. The below pics should show the truer colours.
A few posts ago when I talked about the masking sequence, I mentioned that the MD 280 s/n would have to be sprayed on after rather than painted as a white background first then over-sprayed. This sequence of pics might hopefully show you why.
Here's the mask as it appears on the backing sheet. Had I painted the white first, I would have had to apply and align a myriad of tiny pieces. The chances of getting these to come out perfectly were, in my mind, pretty slim.
The trick now was to get the full mask off the backing without tearing the delicate lines that were to remain after the numerals were removed. For this, I measured the mask outline and cut a piece of tape the exact size of the mask. I then pealed off the entire mask in one piece and lined up the tape with the mask and stuck it to the model using the conveniently provided panel line.
Then it was a matter of carefully pealing back the tape whilst ensuring that the proper bits of mask remained. As it turned out, this painters tape was too tacky and it pulled off the bits that I had intended to carefully removed using a sharp blade.
This is the vinyl mask with all applicable bits removed.
And here's the final outcome which I'm pretty happy with. These close up pics reveal a few very tiny potential touch ups but they are hardly visible to the naked eye so I may just leave them.
That's it for the mask work. I'm very satisfied with this first attempt at using these and would recommend these masks (Ad Astra Masks) to anyone who can not find decals for a scheme that they would like to depict. I think this company will make custom ones if you ask but I don't know the price. The production masks I used were comparable in price to an after market decal sheet so quite reasonable.
Hope this showed you something a little different as a technique and thanks once again for looking in.
A few posts ago when I talked about the masking sequence, I mentioned that the MD 280 s/n would have to be sprayed on after rather than painted as a white background first then over-sprayed. This sequence of pics might hopefully show you why.
Here's the mask as it appears on the backing sheet. Had I painted the white first, I would have had to apply and align a myriad of tiny pieces. The chances of getting these to come out perfectly were, in my mind, pretty slim.
The trick now was to get the full mask off the backing without tearing the delicate lines that were to remain after the numerals were removed. For this, I measured the mask outline and cut a piece of tape the exact size of the mask. I then pealed off the entire mask in one piece and lined up the tape with the mask and stuck it to the model using the conveniently provided panel line.
Then it was a matter of carefully pealing back the tape whilst ensuring that the proper bits of mask remained. As it turned out, this painters tape was too tacky and it pulled off the bits that I had intended to carefully removed using a sharp blade.
This is the vinyl mask with all applicable bits removed.
And here's the final outcome which I'm pretty happy with. These close up pics reveal a few very tiny potential touch ups but they are hardly visible to the naked eye so I may just leave them.
That's it for the mask work. I'm very satisfied with this first attempt at using these and would recommend these masks (Ad Astra Masks) to anyone who can not find decals for a scheme that they would like to depict. I think this company will make custom ones if you ask but I don't know the price. The production masks I used were comparable in price to an after market decal sheet so quite reasonable.
Hope this showed you something a little different as a technique and thanks once again for looking in.
brucejscott
Staff Sergeant
Nice! Thanks for the info Andy.
Excellent! nicely done Andy.
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Benevolens Magister
Nice work Andy, and the colours look good now. Thought it was a strange hue before !
very nice Andy
Looking good so far Andy!
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Crimea_River
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Cheers everyone. So, Terry or someone else, was the RAF Dark Earth applied at the factory, MU, or field for SEAC Spits? I'm trying to determine whether or not to apply the entire wing walk decal and related stenciling.
Terry has mentioned this before, I'm sure....i just can't remember the answer....guess you will know soon enough!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Took a look at Terry's SEAC Spit VIII and he's got them on.
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Benevolens Magister
Andy, the aircraft were delivered to the MU in India in Dark Green/Ocean Grey, with the Dark earth applied at the MU. You would have thought that the stencilling would have been sprayed over, but it was either very carefully masked, or re-applied, as the footage I have shows the wing walk lines in particular still evident.
Being an MU, it wouldn't surprise me that the relatively small job of re-applying stencils was undertaken, but as always, there could have been exceptions.
Being an MU, it wouldn't surprise me that the relatively small job of re-applying stencils was undertaken, but as always, there could have been exceptions.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Cheers Terry. So a-stencilling we will go!
A4K
Brigadier General
Fantastic work here Andy!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks all. Got a coat of Future curing now for the decals.
Catch22
Major
Looks good Andy.
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