that stuff is the best i have tried, worth the money if you can find it.I use the same method Don but prefer the Perfect Plastic Putty and if detail is close by, will also mask like Evan suggests.
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my progress the last few days, some mistakes but overall feel good about my skill. its been years since I stalled out on model building. bring on the constructive criticism pleeez?. the antenna wire is difficult to see on these photos, used some photo etch turnbuckles etc. for the cable hardware. somewhat historically correct? canopy not finished.
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fubar57
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Looks good to me
Vic Balshaw
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Welcome back to the world of modelling, great return. 
I'm with all above. Looking good. But If I may ... the Hawks of the AVG were camouflaged with the RAF type scheme. It resulted in keeping of the continuation of the camo spots from the port side and the starboard of a plane. The way of the camo applying was kept for the wing tops as well. It means that the camo spots that started at the port side were continued at the starboard with the same direction mostly. Unfortunately there is a kind of misalignment at the fuselage top between the cockpit and the fin.
Anyway ,
Anyway ,
N4521U
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Nice work!!!!
Zippythehog
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Wrong scale. Everyone knows that 1:72 is the proper scale. 1:48 is gauche. 1:32 is obscene. Anything of a larger scale should actually be able to fly and ideally, carry a person. Otherwise, it's a plastic orgy.
Donivanp
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Have to have a much younger eyes and body to do 72, 48 is getting that was and 32 is just about right!
Zippythehog
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I feel your pain.
yes indeed, I find it very difficult to transfer the camo pattern from the trumpeter paint guide onto the model. looking at the guide I am not able to view the continuation between the port and starboard camo pattern, there are areas that are not viewable or am being irrational? Very hesitant to take on this type of camo again. seems that Trumpeter guide is not very good. I appreciate your input, just what i am looking for to improve my skill. how would you handle the camo on this particular model?I'm with all above. Looking good. But If I may ... the Hawks of the AVG were camouflaged with the RAF type scheme. It resulted in keeping of the continuation of the camo spots from the port side and the starboard of a plane. The way of the camo applying was kept for the wing tops as well. It means that the camo spots that started at the port side were continued at the starboard with the same direction mostly. Unfortunately there is a kind of misalignment at the fuselage top between the cockpit and the fin.
Anyway ,
fubar57
General
I am hoping to build one large enough for my Siamese cat to fly
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Donivanp
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Look like they have a saucer now, make it fly and that earry space Sifi music in the background.
As I had mentioned that above and
fubar57
diagram shows the camo is the RAF camo type. Here below there is the excerpt from the Trumpeter instruction. It can be noticed tthe continuation between the port and starboard camo pattern. Eg ... the camo spot that starts at the port wing top is running to the fuselage side and the going up to the fuselage top and joins the starboard side one via the rear window bar. Then going down get the top starboard wing at its root and running up again to the the front of the cockpit joins the side spot of the port fuselage that goes down to the top of the port window.The kind of the continuation can be done either with a masking tape or paper masks you may obtain scanning the diagram and resize to the scale . Or you may use the BlueTack or Panzer Putty. These are like a plasticine. So bending it and fitting to the fuselage, wing curvature isn't difficult. The paper mask and also the ones made of the masking tape toy can get by cutting out them from the tape or printed in scale profiles and then stuck to the model. A note though if you use the acrylic paints I wouldn't recommend the masking tape as the material for making the camo spot masks.
See here ...
the Panzer Putty
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The paper masks
the pic source: the net.
as you can see here I made stencils from the resized paint guide. the wings were easy and the fuselage was not. How did you adhere the paper stencil to the wing root area? made cuts to paper then taped over that? your photo pretty much solves my question.
fubar57
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I usually only worry about the complex (for me) bends on the wings and elevators and use Oramask Film 810. The fuselage I use thin Tamiya to start and then fill the gaps with painters tape. This can be used to carry on with the camo from the wings to the fuselage
