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Good idea Martin. Who you gonna get to do it? :whistle:

I see another NJIPMS workshop in your future

[quote="PetrolGator"]I'm stealing the random oil splotch thing, just so you know....

Love it.[/quote]

STOP THIEF!. Oh wait... that's how I git it. Carry on. :smallsmile:

Hi Joe. Thanks. The price put that on the back burner for awhile. The guy I built those 3 biplanes for is thinking about having me build one for him though so i may get to do one and make hobby funding money too.

Can't wait to see her in person!Well done my friend! When will the Felixstowe be finished?
Joe

I'm stealing the random oil splotch thing, just so you know....

Love it.

Martin, hooked? Mmmmm... not yet. But more interested than before.

Devin, Red is a good color to use and can add some real nice tones. I hear about the pink.. you know... been there and so on. :big_grin: In the photo above with all the paint dots there would be maybe 3 red dots, and way smaller in size. Same is true for yellow.

Nice work on the filters. I learned the hard way on a tank that one combination of colors you shouldn't use are white and red. Hard to make pink look military outside of the North African theater.

Outstanding! I knew we'd hook ya on ships!

Thanks Devin. And yes, it's the little things in life that keeps us happy :big_grin:

Spent some time this evening getting this one done. After applying the decals the first thing to do was the dot filter to continue the fading a bit but more t put some tonal variations in the hull. Oil paint was pulled down with a brush damp with mineral spirits. Once the blobs of paint were blended it was left to dry. The hull from the tower forward has not been done yet. The effect it more visible in the flesh.

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Isn't it amazing how much a successful masking job will make one smile?

Looks great.

Did some fading with lightened base color and "scrapped away the barnacles" before working on some post shading and dot filters. I wasn't 100% certain what it was going to look like but i was smiling bigger and bigger as i puling all those little balls off.

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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say your similie means you don't know ONLY because someone told you. :cool_2:

Silly Putty will lift off small PE bits! :mad_2:

Thanks or the comments guys.

Devin I use poster tack. This yellow one was purchased at bed Bath and Beyond a while back. Dunno if they still have the same brand but it's great. I've left it a model for weeks and it came off without leaving a mark. I used Staples brand once and it left a greasy stain on the paint. What ever one you pick you have to test it before you "go live". i can't get silly putty to stick.

Modelling clay? I'll bet that was fun :whistle: I've used this on aircraft for Brit camo and it's a great technique. Especially for one without the airbrush skills, or the airbrush, to produce that tight of a soft edge.

Oh no, your midget sub has smallpox! :lol_3:

Hee-hee, just kidding. I've used a similar method of masking (albeit with modeling clay�which one should [i]never[/i] use) to get a decent-looking striped camouflage scheme on Tamiya's old 1/35 scale T-62 kit. Unfortunately tanks and other armored fighting vehicles tend to have a lot of odd angles and protrusions, and the touch-up after the initial mask-and-spray took far longer than expected. Even with the extra work the end result was pretty good, so even though the wrong stuff was used (I was picking clay off of that thing for a week), the lesson was still worthwhile.

Very cool. What are you using for masking? I'm probably the only person in Hoboken that still buys Silly Putty at the local toy store!

Some years ago I say an He 219 "UHU" that was done with a reversed applied camo and have wanted to try it ever since. More so lately since the increase in age and the lack of steady hands seems to be proportionate. This looked like a good candidate.

2 episodes of "Firefly gets you all the little balls. Preshaded and top of the hull also painted a very light gray. Color sheet with the kit calls for white spots but I thing the white would have been too stark.

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2 "Big Bangs" and a "Friends" later (just listening this time ;)) gets you this. Keeping it looking random is harder than you think.

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Base coat of gray that will get some panel fading and a dot filter.

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Devin as soon as I read the lime green I could visualize that tint to the brass immediately.

Nicolas, great photo, thanks Definitely have to redo the fuses over now ;)

HI wing nut

beautiful shades on the torpedoes body's :thumbs_up_1: and for the "whiskers"not need to be
while in brass,look

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torpedoes preserved in the submarine museum at Gosport
good luck for your project
cheers
Nicolas

How about just putting a patina on them to dull them a bit? I usually mix a flat clear with a little lime green paint and dab that on the props.