I am building the Hase F-16A in the red, white and blue demonstrator scheme. Tamiys is the only company that has the correct colors available out of the jar, so I went and picked up the red black and blue colors from the Tamiya rack. I have little experiance in acrylics, being a Testors enamels kinda guy.
I masked out the red areas with Pactra fine line tape, over masking with standard 3M blue tape. Sprayed the red on with no difficulty, but when I unmasked 2 hours after painting, the edge was ragged.
So when I did the blue/black areas, I sprayed and waited only 20 minutes before unmasking, thinking that if the paint film was not too hard it would make a better edge. No such luck. The edge looks as if a ten year old masked it off with Scotch tape.
What am I doing wrong here??? Or is it just bad masking karma?
Many thanks Eric Engstrom