I kinda found out on short notice, but I had a 1/48 scale JU-87 Stuka that I'm trying to build for a show on Friday. I'm just healing up from chicken pox so I have a few more days out of school, by luck giving me more time to work on the model. But I want to do a good job on it, and I need help on how to do well on airbrushing techniques. How do you get continuous patterns that blend into different colors? As in, the model calls for one of the colors to have a square pattern all across it, but I want it to blend as it turns to the other color. I'm probably not making much sense.
Well, how about this. I have a lot of trouble airbrushing camoflaugh designs where the colors blend into each other, without a line separating the two colors. You have to use a mask that's lifted off the surface I know, but I need ideas for how to lift it up, how high it should be, and how to get the shapes I want for it. One problem I have is that my airbrush seems to blow very hard, and pushes the mask against the model, so the fading effect is lost. I have successfully caused the fading of one wing on a previous model, but I think it was by chance and it doesn't look great. How would I get it to look better?