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Thanks Jim. First time I've tried this method and it's trickier than it looks to follow the straight lines perfectly. Fairly happy with the outcome though.
Its a skill all right, some of mine certainly wander off the straight and narrow lolThanks chaps.
Bob, a bit hit & miss if I'm honest. Some have come out pretty well, some are a bit deep, and a few aren't exactly straight!
I've got a cheap scriber which does quite well if I take it steady but can easily cut too deep. I did a few others with the blade from my new JLC razor saw and that does a really nice job, but I found it harder to keep it in a straight line, even when following a taped edge. A bit more practice and I should be ok I think.
I’ve never tried preshading myself, but you could try spraying some more of the base colour over the parts where you strayed too far from the panel line?it's trickier than it looks to follow the straight lines perfectly.
I didn’t find them difficult to do at all, on a few 1:72 scale planes anyway. Then again, I began by painting the stripes (white first, then mask and paint the black) before doing the rest of the plane — adding them after the rest is painted may be a little more difficult, I suppose. OTOH, I’m confident this is easily within your skill, certainly looking at the masking you did on this model already.I still haven't decided whether to have a go at the invasion stripes. Done well I think they look great, but I need to pluck up the courage first!
That works both ways, though: if you do the stripes first and it goes wrong you can just put the camo over them and pretend you never tried adding themI figured if I did the main painting first I'd always have the stripes as a cover up if it went wrong lol.
Only really if you’re talking about planes in the immediate aftermath of D-Day, to be honest. There are photos of them being applied freehand with large brushes on 4 or 5 June, but ASAP afterward these were replaced with much neater (straighter) ones. Still, you can of course claim the model represents a plane on those couple of days Not that you need to, looking at the photos.I know in real life these might be slapped on shoddily since there were thousands of aircraft to do in just a couple of days, so if I do make the odd mistake I guess I can blag it off as "realism"
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