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  1. 4 minutes ago, Tom E said:

    Evening, 

    Not much of an update, but should encourage me to get the weekend chores done early so I can play with new stuff!

    Never used decal solutions before. Bought these from MicroMark. A five bottle set for about $24.00. 

    I plan on trying these on some un-used decals to practice with.

    Reading the directions, seems pretty straight forward. 

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    As a side note...… It's been a good Friday!

    Splurged on some deep dish pizza direct from Chicago.

    Everything in my town is New York style.

    Good pizza, but sometimes you need a pizza where one slice fills you up.

    With a tall glass of Coke loaded with ice....ya cant beat it! 

    I do recommend Lou Malnati's pizza. 

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    There should be a fourth pizza in this shot. The other is in the oven! :cheers:

     

     

    Tom E 

     

     

    Sounds like a plane Tom  - both the food and the  decal solutions.

     

    With the micro sol  Please - please be carful  Not to mess with the decal after you have applied it over the decal, you will see some reaction on the decal - thats Normal  (but you Must Not touch the decal  till the micro sol has completely dried)

     

    OC.

  2. I'm just a bit fed up at the moment  - fed up and angry at the way the world is right now,  and my build is supposed to be some light  relief to de-stress  its actually having the opposite effect  making me tense and wound up.

     

    I will sort it  (probably wont be as first intended) but it will be built    -  remember the Yellow Subamrine  song?     nah only joking aint gonna paint her yellow  -  Pink she  will be.

     

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  3. 7 minutes ago, Egilman said:

    Ok another question? 

     

    Why?

     

    What I would do is find a decent sized cardboard box that can be knocked down when not being used, use it to place your model on when painting therefore you do not have to touch it when painting and you only have to control the paint not both paint and model at the same time....  when done painting knock the box down flat and slip it into a closet.....

    Dont have anything to hand like that  - I see how easy it is  with painters using those turntables  hand free painting,    I always seem to rush the painting as I am battling either against wind we get funeled in our patio  or  dodging showers  or insects due to heat.

     

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  4. I'm just so off the idea of having to have to re mask the whole thing all over again  - it feels like a chore  (even a head ache)   almost dont have the interest  tempted to just spray over it in one colour and pretend it was ment that way.

     

    Thankfully the seafire is more straight forward  just Sky underneath  and dark grey ontop.

     

    So glad my other builds I brouht ages ago are single colour  builds  no camo patterning.

     

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  5. 16 minutes ago, Egilman said:

    The whole point of masking the way you were is to keep a clean demarkation between the different colors but create a fade over effect in scale between the colors. (it's called feather edging) Extremely hard to do with an airbrush alone.....

     

    It's only my opinion my friend, but it's too rough an edge, there wouldn't be that much wear and tear on the paint, especially in the areas where it's showing greatest... the edge between the colors would remain feathered but still very clear....

    To be honest I was very dissapointed by the finish  and  without a doubt its down to my less than clinical masking  as there are some quite tight turnes using the blue tack - the idea  is to roll the it into long  worm shapes   then press it down onto the  fuselage/wings, then  cover the part not to be sprayed with either paper or tape,  the other difficult thing  is the holding the plane without touching areas to be painted - for this I try to attach a stick underneath held in place with lots of  tape, then there is the control paroblem using a blast from the Rattle cans, its too fierce  and if you go to close to make sure the camo lines are filles  - then it can buld up causing runs.

     

    In hind sight it would have been better if I could have masked and painted the  fuse  and wings seperate   like I did the mossie  as there was more  surface area to work from that way.

     

    I guess I am Always going to have these issue having to use the methods and equipment I have to use  - its a viscious  circle with no rememdy.

     

    I see people using fine air brushes and I am so jelous and envious  and know its whats holding me back  - that and not having a man cave or even shed to use use.

     

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  6. Evening all,    more work on the Spit - first I stripped off all the masks and examined the camo closely,  I decided to use some fine wet and dry and give the whole thing a gentle sand over - I then noticed that I was fading the camo and giving the whole surface a worn appearance  with a few areas where the primer is showing  - question does it look normal  or should I  touch up the paintwork, not forgeting  I will be shading the panel lines and high lighting, after the decals are on.

     

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  7. 1 minute ago, Egilman said:

    Just a suggestion brother, don't forget the starboard 20mm cannon, will look kinda strange with only one....

    Yep the housing for that is yet to be put on,  the one you see is the bare barrel of the other,  they are fiddly  (easy knocked off  thingys)   I have learned that on my other Spit build  - I knocked it off twice  almost like the glue wasn't holding it strong enough.

     

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  8. I have been into cameras for many years probably had more cameras than my age 😲  I have inherited a camera  off my neighour  but to be honest my best tool for model photography is my mobile phone camera, as it slim and can get it  underneath the actual plane to get shots looking upwards (you could not do that with a lens)   but no doubt any decent camera would take better general photos of the model due to quality of optics / pixals  etc.

     

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  9. Slight update on this -  I de - masked the camo, it didn't come out too bad  but neded a few areas of  gentle re spraying  - so it was a case of stage by stage  re masking where I dont want over spray to go, I started by covering most of the plane in a plastic bag then ran some lasking tape to trap it  - then more tape and  Blue Tack  to get a  smooth  line, then I touched up around the tail using Grey first.

    I will remove the bag and move over the plane doing the same as there are a few areas that need  the same work,    practice makes perfect they say.

     

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  10. 2 hours ago, Egilman said:

    So, where do you get this "Blue Tack"? that type of soft edge effect I used to do with sponges or elevated stencils......

     

    this method looks so much easier....

    Here you go bro,   just a quick search in Flea bay.

     

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  11. Evening all  - more progress  this eve,   I masked off the top edge of the wings, then the front slope on the cowl and the rear lower fuselage, then I used my Tamiya flast Sky  and proceeded to hand paint it with my largest brush,  I put about Four layers down dried in between layers  with the hairdryer,   will need the edges  lightly sanding to get rid of the ridge.

     

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  12. 1 hour ago, popeye the sailor said:

    ...a very interesting way to mask camo  ;)   the methods are endless here........so far so good :) 

    Thank you for looking in on the progress Denis,    yep  the blue tack  is supposed to produce a softer camo line  due to its edge being further from the surface than like paper or tape would produce, and the paper/tape is just the cover over the painted camo,   same system I used on the Mossie.

     

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  13. Hi all,  a bit more work  on the Seafire  -  like I said above the front under cowl  needed some shaping as it was a bad fit,  I attacked the area with a sanding stick then a bit of wet and dry followed up by a bit of putty, I also test fitted the spinner plate  - I drew a line around the outside edge then after removing it I sanded the nose back to the pencil line.

     

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