Vingtor Posted October 6 Posted October 6 22 hours ago, Planebuilder62 said: Only Tamiya TS Chrome yellow used this time. This colour looks much better.
Planebuilder62 Posted October 15 Author Posted October 15 Hi there I have been testing my skills at re-creating black tiger stripes with a bit of overspray on my paint mule. White tack sausages about 4 mm in diameter were rolled out and positioned on the model. The yellow areas were taped off. Tamiya LP1 lacquer black gloss was sprayed on with the airbrush nozzle tip about 2 to 3 cm away from the model. The tiger stripe edges were sharper than I hoped. I was thinking maybe have the airbrush further away or drop the sir pressue. Any soft edge painting experts out there? Here are the pictures. Regards Toby 4
modelling minion Posted October 15 Posted October 15 Hmmm, not sure what to suggest Toby as the Blu Tak sausages is the way that I would go and to be honest in 1/72 I would think that they look about right.
Parabat Posted October 15 Posted October 15 You could make the sausages bigger and only spray at a right angle to the surface, don't be tempted to come in at an angle.
Planebuilder62 Posted October 15 Author Posted October 15 Good idea @Parabat I did keep the airbrush at 90 degrees to the model, let me try fatter sausages. Regards Toby 1
81-er Posted October 16 Posted October 16 Looking at the photos of the real thing in the first post, I think the stripes look the part James 1
Planebuilder62 Posted October 23 Author Posted October 23 Righty ho A bottle of MRP Super gloss black arrived today so the build got a kick start. After some practice on spare parts I made a start freehand painting the black stripes. Low, 10 psi pressure and holding the airbrush tip about 5 to 6 mm away from the model surface resulted in this. A new round tomorrow on the rest of the plane. Regards Toby 4
modelling minion Posted October 23 Posted October 23 That looks pretty good Toby, any little bits of overspray can be cleaned up.
81-er Posted October 24 Posted October 24 That's looking good, Toby. I really like MRP paints, they spray well and are really tough once dry. James
Planebuilder62 Posted October 25 Author Posted October 25 Funnyley enough, when they painted the tiger stripes on the F-5, the Norwegians decided to go with oversprayed edges to the stripes. Nearly every one else paints tiger stripes with sharp edges. This link shows what I am hoping to replicate in 1/72 scale. https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/146701 Tamiya Smoke sprayed on thin layers is my next cunning plan. Regards Toby 1
Vingtor Posted October 26 Posted October 26 21 hours ago, Planebuilder62 said: the Norwegians decided to go with oversprayed edges to the stripes. Nearly every one else paints tiger stripes with sharp edges. Less work this way. Saves the time and work of masking. Besides it is rather easy to freehand spray in 1/1 scale. 😉
Planebuilder62 Posted October 26 Author Posted October 26 Thanks Nils, @Vingtor, I hadn,t thought of it that way before. Anyway, a couple of hours airbrushing MRP Super gloss black at 10 psi followed by Tamiya smoke to darken the stripe edges resulted in something I am very pleased about. Maybe I went overboard with the smoke but some careful low pressure touch up with yellow should do the trick. Some touch up of the black is also needed but I achived the result I was after. Next step will be to paint the back end of the plane grey, and then paint the rest of the stripes over the grey. I found the black kept drying in the airbrush tip so every couple of minutes it got a wipe with Tamiya laquer thinner. I could have tried Tamiya lacquer Retarder but when I tried it earlier on my test piece I found it overthinned the paint resulting in lots of spidering of the paint, even at 10 psi. Oh yes, to get these freehand stripes, the airbrush tip was about 1 cm away from the model or 3/8” in old measurements. I think that once the rear section is painted grey and the stripes added there as well, the yellow and black section will appear different due to there being less black on the plane. I think thats something to do with how the eye reacts to strongly contrasting colours. I also found a Post it note very useful positioned close to the start of a stripe. Here I could get the paint flowing correctly before starting the stripe. Here are the pictures: Regards Toby 7
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