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  • Member since
    August 2005
  • From: Mansfield, TX
Posted by EdGrune on Friday, January 20, 2006 6:57 PM

You need a source of camouflage diagrams - such as those sold by the Floating Drydock or in some of the popular press books on the subject.

You also need a Xerox machine capable of shrinking & enlarging copies

Copy the diagrams at the appropriate scale.   Cut apart & use these as paper masks when painting.  Apply with Blu-Tak or double side tape.

Start with your base color - apply that.    Apply the lightest color mask.   Paint the next lightest color.  Apply that mask leaving the others in place.  Repeat for each color of paint.

When all the paint has been applied remove the masks & touch up.

You can use plain paper as your mask or you can run photo frisket film through the X-rox machine to make sticky masks

 

 

  • Member since
    November 2005
Dazzel/camouflage
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 20, 2006 6:00 PM
Quick question I am in the process of building my first 1/600 scale WW2 ship in about 10 years and the area i was never very good at was getting the patterns right on the ship at this scale. I have over the past few years been working in 1/3000 scale where its a lot easier to do free hand and get it looking good, so i have masses of reference material including the excellent book by David Williams "Naval Camouflage 1914-1945 a complete visual reference"  anyway what i lack is technique so any pointers would be super

Rob
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