Hi all, Just posted this a while back on Hyperscale Forum and as I visit FSM Forum daily as well thought I would post it here as well.
Sometimes late at night the ol mind does strange things.
I have been of late trying to reproduce the Mid/Late war German "Squiggle" pattern on a couple of 1/48 a/c and what I came up with even blew me away.
I was tooling around with one of my He219 UHU's and this is what I tried (not actually on the model yet, but on some card stock)....Now bear in mind the "Squiggle" pattern is also sometimes refered to as the "Spaghetti" patern....hmmm..Ok...lets boil up some thick and thin spaghetti.
Here is how the experiment went:
Instead of going with the base color as grua-violett I reversed the pattern and spryed the base in the RLM 84 grau-grun...let it dry....layed the spaghetti on in squiggles...you can use the thick and thin in various locations...a cut here with a blade and then just overspray the whole thing in grau-violett....then let it dry.
By this time the spaghetti has/or is stuck to the kit...but not to worry...just place the painted surface under warm tap water and the spaghetti will just falls off.
The end result is....well astounding...I would never...and I mean never be able to free style this type of pattern and this is but just one method which I thought you all might find interesting.
My best to you,
Mike in Indiana