Tag: Masking
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Savoia Marchetti S.79 Sparviero – Part Three – Clearly…
I’ll bet you are the same as I – as you open any new kit box you approach the little sprue of clear plastic bits with fear and trembling. Trepidation. Horror and anxiety. It is the equivalent of meeting the computer date for the first time. You never know what you are going to get……
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Mitsubishi Dinah – Part Two – The Bright Bird
I knew at the outset that the Dinah in IJAF trainer colours was rather special. The yellow is not the pure chrome of the RAF or RCAF trainers nor the red/yellow of a prewar US Navy aircraft wing – it has a distinct orange glow to it. I wasn’t sure whether the plastic that the…
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Airbrushing Outside The Box
My learning curve with the airbrush was a bit steep a few years ago. It has become easier lately, but occasionally jags upward again. To be fair, it’s me kicking it up. I continually decide that I need to improve upon proven techniques. Even if I got a good result last time. I seem incapable…
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The Cockpit Tapes – Part Two – Liquidation
Okay. You have looked at your 1:72 scale bomber and decided that you do not want to spend another $ 23 on pre-cut masks and you don’t want to spend a week trying to cut your own. What’s the alternative? Microscale, Humbrol, and GSI Creos would have you believe that painting a liquid mask on…
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Do Not Cock Up Your Pit – Part one – Wear A Mask And Talk Dirty…
Or ” Keeping the windows clean in a shit storm “. If airplanes were built like army tanks ( and some, Like the A-10 Warthog – are…) we modellers would have an easy time of it. Indeed if pilots were not such wusses and kept on insisting that they needed to be inside out of…
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Curtiss P-40- Part Two – A Hawk By Any Other Name
I have always been frustrated by the renaming and fuddling about with the P-40. I mean that business of calling it alternately the Warhawk, Tomahawk, or Kittyhawk, depending upon model number and air force it was flying for. I have given up trying to sort it all out and just call it the P-40 no…
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Post Mask Masking
The rise in the hobby of airbrushing models is the best business gift that could ever have been handed to the makers of masking tape. It they are prepared to slice it, we are prepared to buy it…and at exorbitant prices. And we’re prepared to use it lavishly. Everyone I know who does plastic kits…
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North American Sabre – Part Four – The Aliens Are Not Coming
But that doesn’t stop me from putting on my tinfoil hat. I’m not repelling mind control – I’m keeping out stray spray paint. I find occasionally that I have a need for a trim colour that is too big for brushing but too small for a major masking stage. In the case of the Sabre…
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North American Sabre – Part Three – The Putty Worms Win Again
The debate about how to put on soft-edge British camouflage seems to have finally been decided – the J. Burrows Tuff Tac is the answer for most effects. The Sabre needs a simple day fighter scheme and in this case the contours are very smooth – no better time to trial the new technique. There…
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The More Chemicals You Use…
The closer you get to TNT. I was drawn to this conclusion by a painting disaster. I’d masked over AK lacquer paint with the GSI Creos firm’s Mr Masking Neo solution – the light blue rubber solution that remains elastic after it dries. The material came in an attractive bottle with a brush and I…
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