Kabuki Tape Flexible Pre-Cut Masks - 1:48 & 1:32 Eduard

[Mike]

Flexible Pre-Cut Masks
1:48 & 1:32 Eduard

There can't be many modellers that aren't familiar with Eduard's very helpful pre-cut masks for individual kits in various scales using flexible kabuki tape that manages to combine good tackiness with minimal rip when you remove it days or in some cases within my personal experience, years later. It's a great tape, and a similar one used in the famous Tamiya masking tape range.

The sheets arrive in the usual small flat packs, backed by card and containing instructions for application that should be easy to follow. For compound curves, they have adopted a technique of creating shapes that will conform to the edges of the masked area by leaving the centre with the difficult curves left blank to be covered by liquid mask or scrap pieces of tape. A word of warning here if you dip your canopies in a clear acrylic varnish to improve the transparency - a number of the available masking fluids contain ammonia, which is a solvent to most if not all acrylic paints.

This time around we have various aircraft subjects in 1:48 and 1:32.

1:48 Masking Sets



Nesher/Dagger (Italeri) EX389

Spitfire PR.XIX (Airfix) EX390

Merlin HC.3 (Airfix) EX391

F-4B (Academy) EX393

H-34 (Gallery Models) EX394

Jaguar GR.1/3 (Heller) EX395

Mirage 2000D (Heller) EX396

Jaguar A (Heller) EX397

P-40E/K (Italeri) EX398



1:32 Masking Sets



Bf.109E-3 (Cyber Hobby) JX149

He.111H-6 (Revell) JX150

Lynx HAS.3 (Revell) JX152

P-16A/B (Hobby Boss) JX153

Ju.87R (Trumpeter) JX154

P-51K (Tamiya) JX156

Conclusion
As I've said before - what's not to like? Especially if you aren't fond of masking.

Highly recommended.

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