Matilda tank - non-Caunter camo - hard or soft?

Modeling Subjects Armor
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I think, for my first model the Caunter scheme on the Matilda is a bit too ambitious. So, the other option is the two-tone Flat Earth scheme with regular random camo. Does anyone know if the camo edges need to be soft or hard? I was thinking I’d use the putty sausage/tape technique to mask, or just AB freehand and get a nice soft feathered edge but if the camouflage had hard edges, I prefer to be accurate. Does anybody know? The instructions are not clear and I can’t find any good pics online.

Vivian

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The few pics I have find of camo on UK WWII armor tend to show a hard edge pattern in most if not all cases.

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Thanks, I thought so too. But how on earth can one mask sharp-edged curvy camo on a tank full of details? The Caunter might be easier in the end?

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Probably be easier to handbrush the pattern. If you’re not doing a Caunter scheme you dont have to worry about the straight lines.

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Vivian: you should go to Toys R Us and get an egg of Silly Putty. I did a hard edge, complex camo scheme on a British desert Sherman here:

You roll out snakes of the silly putty and mark out your camo. Then you airbrush it and quickly remove the silly putty b/c it’ll sink and creep all over the place. Watch out for small fixtures.

Good luck

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Cool! I was under the impression that it’s only for soft-edge. I guess it depends how thin they’re rolled? Do you mask with tape in between then?

V