Typhoon camo - hard or soft edged?

Hi Merideth all the pics that i have just looked at of tiffies in my books (about 12 different aircraft) show soft edge. also in one book there is a pic of a hawker employee spray painting a hurricane if they sprayed hurricanes then i think that they must've sprayed typhoons too.....Gregers

right on...thanks gregers...i was hoping for that kind of info!

you're a star!

merideth

Hi Merideth,
Most British aircraft were sprayed by hand, with sometimes a crude mask, there would be a feathered edge, but in 1/48 will not be very noticeable. You could get away with a hard edge but I think you need to do a sutle edge to give the impression.

Still no cookies, now you have sent that information i will be seeing Bailey (I know him).

i've decided i'm definitely going to try for the feathered edge..i like the look of it better anyways...

no cookies?! well, at least now we know that I"M not the slacker! lol...UPS confirms that it's Bailey to blame!

COOKIES! None for ME?!?

Soft edge...


Fade to Black...

I read somewhere that when the RAF paint the Spitfire, they spraypainted but used rubber masks. therefore, the edges should be sharp in a smaller scale. I am not sure if this applies to Typhoons too. I am building a kit of both right now (Typhoon and Spitfire) and I'm going to use the same technique --hard edges demarcation lines -- unless anyone proves me wrong...
~~~~MarkY

Yeah I hate to throw another monkey wrench to this but I'm with Mark. I have seen pictures, too, where a Spitfire had rubber masked draped over the wing as it was being spray painted. It does raise a good question as to whether or not the same technique was used on other British planes or if that one picture was an exception rather than the rule. I suppose the mystery continues! :)

Eric