what is the easiest way to do the italian desert cammo of green and desert yellow so that it looks like blotches. should I apply the green first (doesnt make sense to me) and then the light color after masking the areas I want to remain green? How do you guys do it? thanks to all that can help…
If it’s the color scheme I’m thinking of, paint your base coat of desert yellow, then freehand the green blotches.
You can just do it freehand with an airbrush or paintbrush, or you can create a few random stencils, cut out from index cards. Make 3 or 4 random shapes and just move it around the plane. You can rotate them or turn them over for an unlimited number of random shapes.
-Fred
Then after you match the blotches you can free-hand with a double action airbrush the Italian cloud cammo! 
Or, Mike Grant makes the smoke ring decals. For everything you ever wanted to know about Regia camo, and more, look at the Stormo magazine website.
I hate crashing anothers thread with pics, but is this the Regia cammo your refering to ? (thats the Greatest thing modeling the regia - so many wonderful designs)
If so ~ I hand painted all the splotches and took many breaks to keep my sanity and neatness. After painting about 5 - 7 splotches my eyes would start playing tricks on me [8-]
I used a Tamiya HF brush #87048 and the paint was Model Master Enamel Sandgelb RLM 79 - I would first make the outline then color it in. The aircraft is a 1/72 Super Model macchi 202 built for the Regia GB.
The Regia GB is still going - you should check it out as lots of Great and Helpful Modelers are participating.
Bondo - Fantastic link, wish I had known about it sooner - oh well always more Regia A/C that need to be built [tup]
The easiest way is probably to spray the blothc colour (green) and then mask the areas you want to stay green with white-tac. Then spray the sand colour at a fairly low pressure, keeping the airbrush at right angles to the model to achieve a reasonably soft eedge. This Dragon 1/72 He.219:
was painted using this method.
The stencil method also works. I used it to do the mottle camo on this Dragon 1/35 Nashorn:
but I would be wary of trying to do it by spraying freehand. You need to achieve a high level of consistncy, and for each blotch to be an individual, distinct item. It’s too easy to mess up. Ask me how I know! [:I]
Mind you, Sweet’s 1/144 Macchi CR.200 provides the blotches as decals:
and I once did something similar in 1/144 and 1/72 for the Me.262, as an experiment:
This is 1/144:
and this is 1/72:
In 1/72, it took much longer to apply the decals than it would have to spray the mottle whihc, with practice, isn’t that hard:
Cheers,
Chris.
Yes, that’s a good way to go. i’ll post my Ba 44 soon,I did it that way. I used Krystal Klear, and later white glue for the dot masks. It popped right off afterwards. I got hard edges though, but at 1/72 I think it looks fine. i’ll look forward to your comments.
thanks to all of you, Gigatron, Philo 426, Bandoman, and Chris Hall. You gave me great ideas of how to go about it. Sometimes I do not build something that I like because I get a mental block of how to go about it and I freeze. This is great help and the pics and the suggestions are great. I will try it out and let you all know. THANKS to all. I will investigate the website suggested.
thanks Summit as well didnt mean to omit you…
Yes !The airbrush is a great tool and you may want to pratice a bit on scrap plastic or old models to get the hang of the cammo!THen you can airbrush cool schemes like on this JU-88 night fighter! 