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Stressing about a Hellcat


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8 hours ago, Murdo said:

Hi Jamie,

 

Is the cutting mat slightly grooved along the strips or do you use a (very) small rule to get them so thin? They do seem beautifully regular strips.

 

Hi,

 

The cutting mats have laser engraved grooves and are utterly, utterly brilliant for this sort of thing. So long as your scalpel blade is vaguely sharp you just whizz around whichever shapes you want. I say that as a serious sceptic who reluctantly accepted some samples then wondered how I ever lived without. I use the reverse side for cutting and working with PE.

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Hello Jamie,

the cutting mats a and b have been ordered, and the effect looks dead convincing, should work for the 'walked on' look by masking the centre of a panel and raising the rib area with a couple of layers of undercoat and/or aircraft primer and metalic paint.

 

Box On

 

Strickers

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Hello Jamie,

 

Very successful exercise, intending to use this on the fuse of my SH Sunderland MkV as seen at Hendon. Should look good on a dirty white ground.

 

Top tip

 

Stickers

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Wow the paint looks great who makes it and where do you get it 😃.

 

genuinely looks really good, I like the stressed look you have achieved, from my side of the internet its nice and subtle!

 

great work!

 

Rob

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After a general polish to see if it's worth continuing we have this:

 

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There are probably still refinements I'd like to make on the fuselage in particular (specifically, learning how to augment the distortion of the skins to portray shear loads which look like diagonal buckling) but overall I'm fairly pleased.

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