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  • Member since
    February 2007
Airbrush Painting Camo
Posted by aj2wins on Saturday, March 17, 2007 4:49 PM

Iam still working on my F-4 paint job.

Still not satisfied with the first paint job.

In the process of taking the paint off and starting again.

Trying to free hand the paint job with a spraybrush,

is a little more diffucult than I thought. My question is,

is there a way to paint the different colors of the f-4

by taping or using another method without having the demarcation lines

from the tape.Iam using enamel paint. 

 

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Southern California, USA
Posted by ABARNE on Thursday, March 22, 2007 2:58 PM

It depends on how soft and edge you want.  You can use lengths of rolled up tape just inside your mask edges to lift the edge of the mask a bit.  With som experimation on air-pressure and distance form painted surface, you might be able to get the right effect.  I have used that method prior to having a controllable airbrush, and it worked somewhat.  The effect wasn't so much that of a soft transition as that of simply taking a bit of the starkness from it.

What kind of airbrush do you have?  Even a very simple single action like a Paasche H can easily do fine enough lines to allow you to do free-hand camo, but like everything with airbrushing, it is a matter of practice and experimentation. 

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