My skills at painting plane suck I need someone (good) to paint my 1/48 huckebein. Essentially like this but with mor motteling If interested, contact me at mnrdunck@gmail.com with a ball park estimate of cost.
Best Regards,
Mark
My skills at painting plane suck I need someone (good) to paint my 1/48 huckebein. Essentially like this but with mor motteling If interested, contact me at mnrdunck@gmail.com with a ball park estimate of cost.
Best Regards,
Mark
Mottle paint scheme can easily be done with Q-tips, the trick is to dab on the paint damp not wet and build up paint on each spot til it looks right to your eyes. Takes practice and you should try this on scrap before appling to actual model.
Air Master
Years ago my wife received a make up kit for Christmas which contained some small triangluar pieces of foam rubber. She said she wasn’t going to use them and I could have them if I could figure out some way I could use them. Didn’t take me long to discover that by reshaping them I could use them to apply mottling on German aircraft. It’s just like dry brushing except the motion is a vertical dabbing motion instead of the side to side motion of dry brushing. Simply dip the very tip into the paint - dab it on a piece of paper and then dab it on the model where you want it - it does however require practice.
Another way is to modify an old paint brush by cutting the brush off to about a 1/8" lenght and apply by dabbing.
Hey Mark do not give up so easy. I know you see alot of awesome model pics posted here but do not judge your work by those. I have been building for thirty years and I am still no master builder. I keep on trying new ideas different airbrushes and read everthing you can get your hand on. I have absolutly no artistic ability at all and over time I taught myself how to handle an airbrush. Alot of my earlier efforts sucked but I tried to learn something on every build and I improved a little every time. I can now turn out decent models and I bet over time your skills will improve to. If you wait long enough you will get a lot of different ideas posted here. I am sure you will come across one that you can pull off. Mottleing german camo is the hardest paint job to pull off in my opinion. If I can do it anyone can! Good luck. Here is my latest attemt.
Soulcrusher
I agree with soulcrusher and I too have been building models for 30 years. Its takes practice and patience to paint a scheme on a model and I for one didnt learn over night. It’s taken me years to develope the skills I have now and with a little help from my friends here and other modeler web forums. As hobbyists and modelers we are often our own worst critics but I have found that if it looks good to my eyes it’s likely going to look good to others.
Air Master
If you have an airbrush (even if it’s the world’s cheapest POS), it might not be as hard as you think to do the mottling.
Because this camo type has a soft edge (as opposed to a sharp edge like splinter cammo), it could be pretty easy to do. All you need is a couple of 3"x3" square pieces of paper and your airbrush. Cut out a couple different random shapes from the paper (1 shape per square) and you’re all set. Hold one mask against the plane and spray the color, move to the next mask and so on and so forth. You only need to make 4 or 5 masks for different shapes and sizes. Then you can rotate each mask any old which way and it will look different from the first time you used it.
It’s a pretty simple technique that I read about centuries ago when I first started modeling. Since I only got back into the hobby a few months ago, I haven’t built any german birds yet, so I don’t have any pictures of how to do it, but it’s fairly straight forward.
-Fred