First of all, let me say that without this forum, I would’ve kicked this hobby right out the window. I find it that no matter how stupid a question I may have, someone will always give me accurate information. Thank you very mucho.
Now for that stupid question… I painted 2 models aircraft so far completely disregarding the landing gear crevices, with the intent of touching them up with a brush. I’ve come to realize I’m not too steady with a brush, and no matter what I’ll always get even the tinniest of white spots on the fuselage.
I’ve come to realize that the best way might actually be to address the landing gear crevices first, before the major fuselage painting, and once completed, mask them (with liquid mask)
Is this the most adequate way of doing things, and how many coats of white do you usually have to put on so that it actually looks consistent. (I’ve been using very little thinned enamels, sometimes not thinned at all, and it seems that the whites just “dissipate” and I’m left with a greyish tone instead of a consistent white)
thank you all in advance.
I actually do it the opposite way. I paint the whole aircraft, then mask around the wheelwell to paint it. I’ve just always found it a bit easier that way. To me, it’s easier to mask around something than inside it.
demono69
I’ve used flat white with good results. I hear good thing about white primer as well. The model that I’m currently working on, I painted the wells first, and filled the cavities with silly putty, it was easy and worked pretty well. At the time I wondered if maybe I should have painted the fuselage first, then just masked it off. I think it would have been pretty easy to just lay tape over the whole thing, and cut away the wells with a sharp #11.
This is only the third model that I’ve built, and it’s not that good, but I can see how my skills are improving as I go along. I think I owe just about all of it to this forum, and FSM. The one drawback to improving during a project is that you can look at it and see what you’d have done if only you knew. Maybe I should just work faster, that way I can look at a series of planes and see the improvement in each, instead of looking at signs of improvement on one of them. Keep at it Stang, we’ll compare notes as we go along.
madda