well,,someone must of been lisening cuzz i was able to log on to photobucket
well guys heres some more wip pic,s . last time i showed the yellow and white paint on her ,, now i,ll share and show how i paint the invasion strips on my mustang . i was at first stumped at how to go about painting these strips .we know that the field maintenance personnel had to paint there pilot,s ships with what ever tools thay had on hand ,,ie large matts layed across wings and fuselage. but in most casess by hand / large brushes or even brooms . we the modeler have the luxury of masking tap,,,just measure and lay down five nice straight and crisp white and black lines .but in there war time world ,,time thay rarely had . if you google invasion strips you,ll see how thay did it ,, no perfect lines ,,just uneven lines...brush marks over lapping each other .so i thought how can i do it ???? .a day goes buy and it came to me as i was tearing up some old paper bill,s .i noticed that by tearing the paper you create uneven ragged erreguler edges .voila ...the look of brushed paint and erreguler lines. so out can the tamiya 40 mm tape . I laid down a few strips of tap, then measured how wide the stripes where in 1/32 scale. lined up my marks with the ruler and start ripping . use a ruler with a rounded edge ,,it works better .as you tear you move back an forth in a sideways motion to create uneveness as you can see in the photo,s .after take and lay the strips down I then rub my tumb up and down the edges of the tap ,,what this do,es is roll the loose fibers and adhesive off the tape,s edges. it should look like this .
this is what you get
more pic,s
now your ready to mask for the black
after airbrushing the black
a close up of the left wing
side
and after taking off the masking
and thats how i do the uneven invasion stripes on a mustang mk.III
hope you all like this ,,, and try it out .
any questions and criticisms are welcom.
5- high .. cheers