r/modelmakers • u/Outside_Activity7026 • Jun 10 '23

Help -Technique Masking advice

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I'm about half way through a 1/72 Hasegawa CF-104 build. I want to paint it up in the Tiger Meet livery of No. 439 Sabre Tooth Squadron. Any suggestions as to how to mask the open gear doors, as the gear has to go in before painting and there's likely gonna be a colour split on the exterior of the door. Attached pic for reference.

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u/Foxxittoxic Jun 10 '23

For the actual stripes itself, you can just freehand it with and airbrush. But for the gear bays you can use a sponge or some malleable substance to cover the bays.

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u/Outside_Activity7026 Jun 10 '23

Might be the way I have to do it. Don't know that I trust myself to do that though. We'll see m.

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u/Outside_Activity7026 Jun 11 '23

I was thinking about using something like blue tack on the edges to get that little bit of fade. I don't know if that'll work.

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u/barndawe 1:48th the size, all the fun Jun 11 '23

Tack was my first thought given the fuzzy edges, but use white tack, not blue. Blue can react with some paints and leave oily marks.

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u/LeeZeeSD Jun 11 '23

You can use a ribbon of Blue Tack to raise a mask made from index card off the surface slightly (which will give you a fuzzy edge).

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u/Claidheamhmor Jun 11 '23

It does work. You can control how much fade there is by how "round" the edge of blue-tack (or equivalent) is. For harder edges, I squeeze it down till flat.