Séan Pádraig Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Hi Chaps... My daughter is cracking on with her build of the Airfix Vampire T.11, (she only started it Saturday sitting behind the tables at the little orchards model show in Dartford)... here is here progress. She has opted for the second decal option No.5 Flying Training School, Royal Air Force So to my two questions.... 1. should the undercoat be white??? 2.. should she spray dayglo first then mask or spray silver first then mask? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Might be better to do all over silver, mask and then the orange, coverage wise it's going to be easier to cover the silver than the other way around, imho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Take a peruse in the Training Types GB that finished earlier this year. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/forum/460-training-types-group-build/ Several dayglo Vampires in there - including mine at http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234952724-airfix-t11-vampire/ I used white undercoat for my dayglo areas - having painted overall silver first. Mithryl Silver was a mistake (Acrlylic isn't as resistant to lifting when removing masking as enamel), and I overpainted it with Humbrol silver soon after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Séan Pádraig Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 Cheers gents.... great help, I'll get her some enamel silver...she will have to learn patience for curing time... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham T Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Personally, I'd put down a white u/c for the dayglo as suggested, then apply the dayglo before the silver. I say this simply because it looks easier to mask of the dayglo areas. In addition it'll avoid damaging the silver paint with the tape residue? Just my two penneth! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Séan Pádraig Posted July 4, 2014 Author Share Posted July 4, 2014 (edited) OK... some conflicting approaches there so I have come up with a plan of sorts.. First plan: Try and convince my daughter to go with the simpler silver/yellow option... but she was not impressed. so next plan: I told her to spray two plastic spoons in white undercoat and next she will spray one silver and one dayglo. Then cover each sample it the other colour and see whick looks best... Then repeat on aircraft. Edited July 4, 2014 by Séan Pádraig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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