Interesting thread this.I wasn't going to add to the discussion, but now I have to....
I know you won't take offence Patrick, but you are totally wrong with your comments about brush painting mottle on aircraft....
An acceptable standard can be obtained.
I didn't particularily want to, but here are some examples....Please excuse the wonky aerial wires, they have been stood gathering dust and spider's webs!
A 1/72 Balkan Me109.
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A 1/72 Fw 190
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A 1/48 Me109
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Helmut Wick's Me109
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I'm not posting these as anything more than examples of Brush Cammo. Certainly not to show them for the sake of it. I just felt it was wrong to more or less state that motteling could not be achieved in any other way than with an
airbrush, and had to defend us brush hands....and photos are better than words.
Also this idea that large areas can't be brush painted is wrong too....Going to the extreme, some of the world's most prodigious automobiles were, and possibly still are brush painted.
We each use what suits us best. I brush paint only because I don't need to faff around with masking tape. Buy expensive kit. Worry where I can and cannot paint my models. The list goes on.......
However it is wrong to state a form of painting can't be done with a brush, I respectfully suggest that the mottle on the last picture would be extremely difficult to do with an A.B.
There will always be the notion in certain quarters that folks who still brush paint are quaint and somehow behind the times. I can handle that.
As long as us modellers are happy with the way we apply paint to our models then all is good, but let's not imply that one form or the other is somehow inferior. They both have their merits and shortcomings......
Love and peace, man.
Ron
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