Masking For a Camo ME 109

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QUOTE: Originally posted by izzy8990 Thanks for the advice. The 109 looks great. sadly i dont have a digital camera so i cant show off my work!

so take a film picture and just make copies and send them to us in the mail!

Thanks for the advice. The 109 looks great. sadly i dont have a digital camera so i cant show off my work!

unless it is splinter camo... then I would either mask directly on the surface OR use just a tad of blue-tak so as not to have too much fade between the different colors...

which type of camo are ya doing? blotch, squiggle, splinter?

what has been said is exactly what i'd do. but this is just a tip, try using blu-tac putty for masking it. it's easy to get curvy edges with it. (if you can though, sine luft is pretty soft edged, I would reccomend freehanding it)

Izzy, welcome to the forum.

I usually start with the lightest colour first, so in the case of Luftwaffe aircraft, the RLM 65/76 should applied to the underide of the wings, rear stabilisers, and the bottom and sides of the fuselage.

I then mask the lighter colour, and apply the next lightest colour, and so on until I reach the darkest colour last. The reasoning behind this approach is that it is far easier to cover a light colour with a dark, than the other way around, especially where yellow is concerned.

Hope this helps.

Karl