Help Painting Photoetch

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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G’day all,

I’m in the process of painting the cockpit of a 1/72 Hasegawa F-14. It comes with a fret of photoetch for the instrument panels in the cockpit.

I’m a bit unsure how to paint those potoetched panels. I’ve sprayed them flat black, then i thought i’d dry brush white to pick out the dials etc on them. Unfortunately, my dry brushing skills must be lacking - i can’t seem to get the white to adhere to the raised dials, and instead, have smudged the whole panel with white.

Is it possible to paint them this way? is there another alternative to painting this panels so the dials stand out? Or, are they too thin to do this to?

Any tips/help would be greatly appreciated.

cml

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What I do is paint the panel with a flat color as you did as a gloss color will not allow you to do very well with drybrushing, etc.

Then I take a good quality sharpened white or silver colored pencil such as Prismacolor and pick out the details with it.

If you over do it you can wipe it clean and start over.

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I sometimes use a toothpick with a small amount of paint to pick out the little details. I am the world’s worst dry-brusher when it comes to tiny 'pit details. So this usually works better for me.

Regards,

Jeff

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Thank Mike and Jeff - both are good ideas.

I’ll give it a try and see how i go. It all seems so obvious after somebody tells you…

Thanks a lot.

cml