Blu Tack

Most art/craft stores carry similar products.  Michaels has " Handi-Tak" which is the same product except it's yellow instead of blue.  Very useful as a masking medium.

Regards,  Rick

Thanks Rick, I'll check it out.

Under the 'Blue tack' is a 1/144 Me-262. Used around my bench, er kitchen table for lots of tasks besides masking.

most hooby shops, teacher supply stores and harware stores have blue or white tack.

Elmers also makes a similar product and you can easily find it on ebay.

Walmart has them.

I use blue tack for temporarily holding canopies in place during painting.  If I want to display model with canopy open, I glue windscreen on, then spread blue tack around mating surfaces of rear section, push it in place in the flight position (Canopy is masked).  I find it easier to cover cockpit this way than stuffing with tissue.  After painting, I remove canopy, clean blue tack from canopy and fuselage surfaces, and glue canopy in the open position.

SuppressionFire

Under the 'Blue tack' is a 1/144 Me-262. Used around my bench, er kitchen table for lots of tasks besides masking.

 

Not for nothing, but cover the whole aircraft with blue tac is a waste of time. You could have simply use low tack tape (Tamiya or Frog Painter tape) with paper to cover - especially if painting the undersides. I'm not sure what you were trying to accomplish by covering the whole kit with blue tack except you will have a lot of work ahead of you taking it all off.

My method would be paint the underside first, then mask for topside.

Yeah, I usually just take a long roll of the "Tac" and put it along the colour demarcation lines, and then I fill in the areas with masking tape, often cut to triangles - this way you can lay out pretty complicated shapes, and you don't have to be very precise - the thickness of the border roll is your tolerance.

At shops it's sometimes best to ask for "this tacky stuff used to hang posters on the walls". This gets you a pack or two of the stuff you need under the local brand name.

Hope it helps, have a nice day

Paweł