Tag: Masking
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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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North American Mitchell – Part Five – Nothing Is Uglier…
Nothing is uglier than a handsome or beautiful person before they are ready to be seen. Dressing-room portraits are invariably a strained thing and the more of them you don’t see, the better you feel. The B-25 Mitchell bomber is no exception – The heading image may be excused for showing the prima donna with…
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Good Morning, Walter – Part Nine – The Mistake
Well, Walter I am going to let you into a secret – I make mistakes in my Little Workshop. This one’s not the first one I’ve made when building my Little World. I suspect it won’t be the last. The grey Spitfire model you see at the top of the page looks pretty well weathered…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Seven – Heddo?
Er, Hello. You seem a little stuffed up. ” Dell Be About it. By builder has arrived at primer stage and has spent all day stuffing things into be. ” Is that plastic foam? ” Yes. He got four big pieces of it whed a printer was delivered and is using them for everything. ”…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Six – My Conscience Is Clear
Now all I need to do is keep the blasted windows on this airplane in the same condition – and Airfix have been either brilliantly helpful or blithering idiots – I will find out later. I’m used to the canopies and cockpit covers of model aircraft being of varying quality – from the horrible Mach…
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What’s In This Stuff, Anyway? – Part Three – Masking Solutions
I counted up the bottles on my Little Workshop shelf and I now have more masks than Zorro. That’s not counting the tiny rolls of modellers masking tape or the big ones from Bunnings – I’m talking about bottles of goo designed to mask under spray paint. a. Maskol from Humbrol – the heading image.…
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Boeing Vertol CH 147 Chinook – Part Four – The Blue Mask Of Courage
No, you haven’t wandered into a Marvel comic – the blue mask of courage does not fight crime. It covers things up…rather like a bottled version of a parliamentary enquiry. Except it smells better. Youve read here of my efforts to mask clear canopies on 1:72 scale aircraft by various means; tape squares, Humbrol rubber…
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Boeing-Vertol CH 147 Chinook – Part Three – Miniature Misgivings
When constructing a kit I have learned to look at the instructions carefully. Then ignore a certain percentage of them – in particular the ones that ask me to glue on small breakable bits early in the piece. If I do so, I condemn myself to great anxiety over them ever after. There is a…
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Unsticking – Part Three – The Results
Well the experiment went as planned – I waited 24 full hours before masking and spraying two mules. I checked that the red surfaces felt absolutely dry, then used both the cheap and the expensive masking tape to make a pattern. A spray with the vile turquoise colour and an hour’s wait until it had…
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