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21 November 2011

Experiment of the Day

Just a quick post today - more to follow soon.

This is probably nothing new to most of you - but it was the first time I've had a real crack at masking with blu-tack. My victims were a couple of Revell Warriors I had previously sprayed black.

Here they are masked up:

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I gave them a reasonably solid spray with FoW's War Paint - British Armour:

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Fingers crossed I carefully removed (and threw out) the blu-tack mask and hey presto:

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and...

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Not 100% but good enough to start work on properly and the method saved a ridiculous amount of time compared to me having to hand paint the cam scheme (like I do on 3 more Warriors...).

So - I'll definitely be doing that again!

Have fun...

Richard
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7 comments:

  1. Tim GowNovember 21, 2011 at 1:50 PM

    That seems to have worked really well. I must give I a try.

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  2. Geordie an Exiled FoGNovember 21, 2011 at 2:30 PM

    Looks very smart to me :)

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  3. Conrad KinchNovember 21, 2011 at 2:51 PM

    What did you use to mask the vehicles?

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  4. Christopher SheetsNovember 21, 2011 at 9:34 PM

    Thank goodness! After just seeing the first photo on TGN, I thought those tanks were set to hide in a herd of cows!

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  5. tacobatNovember 21, 2011 at 11:55 PM

    you should feather the edges of the black with an airbrush, I've found that gives a really nice finish.

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  6. RichardCNovember 22, 2011 at 12:30 AM

    I used Blu-Tack - partly because it was easy but also I was going for the hard edge look. Blu-Tack is normally used for hanging posters etc.

    Richard

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  7. Phil CurranNovember 22, 2011 at 12:46 AM

    I'm glad you had success with this method

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