Hi all,
I’m currently building a RM 1/72 Me 262 nightfighter. The instructions call for squigglie (lounge?) painting. I’m using a cheap single action airbrush that can’t really make such small marks. I was hoping anyone might have some advice on a technique that might produce the desired effect. I was thinking a notecard, with “squigglies” cut out and held just off the surface would work, but it seems like an aweful lot of work. Any better ideas?
Joshua
Hmmmm. I’m not sure, I would go notecard style, that’s what I’m doing on a 1/35 Pz IV with spotted camo. I don’t know how that would look with the squiggles, though. I have seen many good models with hand-brushed squiggle camo. I would definately go the soft mask way. Take a lot of time on it, and it will look great, I’m sure.
Joshua
I think in that scale you would do better with a brush application. A nice continous hard edge pattern will look better than a soft one that is broken up. The card idea may prove to be difficult for that kind of pattern, like if you tried to make a card for the letter “O”. How to you hold the center piece in tyhe card to make the circle?
If you use a brush used for pinstripping, long thin bristles so it holds a lot of panit to make long lines, I think would look fine.
or paint the color of the squiggle first, make long thin rollds of blutack putty and then spray the other colors.
DOH! Yup that should work [:D]
Easiest way in 1/72 is to find a pencil the same or as close as possible to the colour you need and use that to draw your squiggle on.
It is best to apply a flat clear finish first, it gives something for the pencil to ‘bite’ onto.
With just the right amount of pressure, you’ll get the appearance of a sprayed application unless you look REAL close.
I stumbled on this method when trying to do squiggle on my 1/48 Hs-129.
In 1/48 it looked drawn, but for 1/72 it would be perfect I think.
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Wow… that’s a really good idea Tweets! I have a couple of 1/72 German birds… I’ll have to try that on one of them!
Don’t forget to post pics Tom
Joshua, I’d be inclined to go with the Blu Tak method as I’ve had good results with this in the past, but that pencil method sounds interesting.
Karl
Thanks for the help guys.
I had thought about painting the brown, then grey on top, but I decided not to for some reason. Perhaps I thought it would turn out too dark. In retrospect, it sounds like that might have been the best idea. I think I’ll try either the brush or pencil method.
Joshua