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SHINY THING!



Yeah, sorry Kit...

Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 11, 2023, 07:01:31 AMDragging this thread back to its roots  the panel lime scribing on the 148 has gone as far as it's going to go now. ...

I've heard of kaffir limes but what's a panel lime & why are you scribing them onto your aircraft?






Dragging the thread away from its roots, again...

Yeah, well, it's like this..........................

I think you're confusing me with someone who gives a damn about spelling. 

Thank goodness I've done with masking all those zillions of tint windows! It would have been enough to drive me to drink, except that would have triggered my asthma and I'd have been off to A&E in double quick time!

And I only used the front half of the masks too, the rear part of the 141 gondola wasn't used on the 148s.

Here's the main canopy in all it's glory.



That's THIRTY SEVEN masking tabs on there!     

Ooh, yeah - gives me flashbacks to when I masked an Fw-189... 

And I still have my own Bv-141 in the future... ah well.

But at least you had a mask set - mine was (and will be) cutting up Tamiya tape... Oy...

If you have any clear/Klear/clear paint - put a thin layer over everything first, let it dry then apply the exterior color. You'll have to remove the masks carefully(and maybe help some along by cutting along the edges) but it'll reduce or eliminate paint seeping under the masks.

Not a silly idea, and one I keep forgetting.

So rounding the turn into the back straight....

Really nice work on that masking. The next trick is to find them all after you paint.

Quote from: buzzbomb on September 15, 2023, 04:31:48 PMSo rounding the turn into the back straight....

Really nice work on that masking. The next trick is to find them all after you paint.

To misquote Brian Hanrahan "You count them all on and you count them all off" 

Quote from: frank2056 on September 15, 2023, 04:22:57 PMIf you have any clear/Klear/clear paint - put a thin layer over everything first, let it dry then apply the exterior color. You'll have to remove the masks carefully(and maybe help some along by cutting along the edges) but it'll reduce or eliminate paint seeping under the masks.

Yup, I've quite often used thinned Klear. As you say you you have to be careful when removing them, but it does help.

Quote from: frank2056 on September 15, 2023, 04:22:57 PMIf you have any clear/Klear/clear paint - put a thin layer over everything first, let it dry then apply the exterior color. You'll have to remove the masks carefully(and maybe help some along by cutting along the edges) but it'll reduce or eliminate paint seeping under the masks.

Er, yeah. I've been doing that since they invented Klear actually. 

I find it easier to glue the canopy to the plane before masking it.

I did originally, but the Glue & Glaze just didn't work, and that big canopy kept falling off.

I cleaned all the old G&G off and now it's glued on properly with Revell Contacta cement, plus I've painted all the lower half with the pale blue now, except the masked bits on the canopy.

Here's another question about the colours too. As the props are rotating around the fuselage, what colour should I paint the prop hubs? As sometimes they'll be one way up and sometimes the opposite, it's no good painting them blue underneath and brown/green on top as less than a second later they'll be other way up!

I'm tending toward doing both the blades and the hubs in Schwarzgrun, one my fave Luftwaffe colours (I've NO idea what RLM no. it is, sorry)

Anyone else any ideas on that?

Quartered in black & white.

Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 16, 2023, 04:37:30 AMI'm tending toward doing both the blades and the hubs in Schwarzgrun, one my fave Luftwaffe colours (I've NO idea what RLM no. it is, sorry)

Anyone else any ideas on that?

RLM - 70, SCHWARZGRÜN ( black-green )  seems as good a colour as any.