Tag: tapes

• Bristol Bulldog – Part Four – Partial Masking

  

  I cannot say that I look forward to masking all that much. But I recognise that it is an in-escapable part of aircraft painting in small scales. There are things you just cannot freehand with enough precision. This is hilarious considering some of the pictures I’ve seen of ground crew respraying aircraft in wartime with…

  Dick Stein

  September 24, 2021

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Masking, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Masking, Painting, tapes

• 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…

  Dick Stein

  October 13, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Masking, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Workshop

  Masking, Painting, tapes

• 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.…

  Dick Stein

  June 18, 2019

  1:72 scale, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Masking, Painting, tapes