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02-04-2009, 01:05 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida
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 | Masking Camo Patterns..... Hey guys, was wondering about some possible suggestions for getting precise cut-outs for camo patterns. I'm currently working on the P40 tiger shark (RAF) and I have my thumb in my mouth on it. Ive done cut-outs before but they always come out like crap and dont resemble the box-art or whatnot.. Any tips or suggestions would be most grateful.. Mag~ |
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02-04-2009, 02:51 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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| You could always scan and bring the instructions up to scale of your model and then print it off and cut the camo out and use them as templates. Personally I either draw the camo on the model with a pencil and then follow the lines I've made with masking tape or blu tac.
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02-04-2009, 11:30 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008
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| Heinz has got the right answer there - you could also use Frisk film, which Lucky mentioned recently. Normally, I just do it free-hand, sometimes following a pencil line, sometimes 'by eye'.
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02-05-2009, 05:40 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| I also do mostly freehand, following the patterns carefully....as Heinz says print it off cut it out and go for it.....but good idea to use a slightly thicker paper that will not flap too much but will bend to any curved surfaces and add strips of blu tack to raise it ever so slightly.
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