The Little World

I don’t know, but I intend to experiment.

Most of my aircraft building is in 1:72 scale, with the occasional foray into 1:48 when someone donates a kit to me. I tend to use lacquer paints and keep the colours strong and pure. The fact that this renders the models somewhat toy-like is a positive for me. I am a big kid.

But now that I have a donated shelf of 1/144 aircraft kits, I suspect that pure and intense colours would be wrong. The outlines of the planes and th detail would be lost. I think I am going to have to tone down the saturation of the paint and lighten the colours.

Where camouflage is used, putty masks may be too obtrusive. It may come to liquid mask and hard edges but fairly thin paint.

Exciting times to spray in, eh?