Hey folks,
my 1/72 scale Ju-88 requires a scribble camo scheme, and I’m not confident enough to try my airbrush on the job. Too many potential airbrush “misfires”. Any suggestions on how to proceed?
TP
ideally you will have to freehand it as making a mask will take forever unless you
make a mask that covers a small area and re - use that mask again and again , eventually covering the aircraft.
I did this on the Tamiya HE219 night fighter , the kit supplied with a full camo mask which was copied , all the dark bits were then removed(on night shift)
and I laid the template on the wing .
Not sticking it to the wing gave it a feathered edge.
The other option is trial and error using your airbrish freehand
Just start on it with your airbrush, by the time you get finished, you’ll be great at it and much more confident with it. Then you can either go back and fix the things you don’t like about the places where you started and were learning, or just do the whole thing over. You have a great opportunity here to not only improve your technique and confidence level here, but also build a great model and make it look really good at the very same time.
madda
In response to oggy4624, I also made a stencil for the camo of the Tamiya HE219, but found it was difficult to give the subject a “fluid” appearance; that is, unless you make a stencil for the entire aircraft, it is hard to line up the edges of the stencil so the paint flowing through the holes looks uniform. Making a stencil that size would indeed by time-consuming. With squiggle camo, free-hand is the best bet. Just make sure you set the airbrush at a very low pressure, clear the nozzle frequently, don’t over-thin the paint, and try to avoid the spidery effect by by activating the brush before moving it over the model’s surface. These precautions have worked well for me on similar types of Bf109 camo patterns, and I intend to use it on the Ju 88 that I’m building next.