Masking

[Mr.modeller]

I am a brush painter and I am currently building the bristol blenheim and I was wondering how you can mask the camouflage when you are not painting with an airbrush.

Does anyone have any methods on masking when brush painting? Thanks in advance.

[Greenshirt]

I don't. 

 

Seriously, when I brush paint I simply take my time and hand paint the edge. 

[woody37]

Scraping any excess off with a cocktail still is good if doing freehand.

[Newbie(kinda)]

Me neither. Draw the pattern onto the bare plastic with a pencil. Paint the lighter of the colours first, no need to be too picky about the edge and then apply the darker colour. Hand paint that edge very carefully, as Greenshirt suggests. I find that doing the demarcation line first and then pulling the paint away from it avoids any build up. And, oddly, painting panel by panel also seems to work. I also tend to give the finished coat a very, very light rub down with my oldest, most worn out bits of wet and dry to remove any brush strokes.

 

Of course, if you're doing splinter, you have to mask. But I use the same process and the 'rub down' will remove any obvious ridges between the colours.