drasticplastic wrote:
This is what I did for my Flyhawk PoW: the instruction sheet has a color illustration of the camo, but it's less than half the size of the model so I took it to a local printer and had them enlarge the image to the size of the model. I used a printer service because my home printer doesn't take paper bigger than 8 1/2 x 11 inches. They will do the math. I got 3 B/W (cheaper) copies of a correctly scaled camo job for between 5 - 8 dollars. I will use that to trace the pattern on to Tamiya masking tape (the widest available) for my masks. I've used a similar method for various ship models requiring several color camo with unusual shapes. Beats trying to free-hand a brush job.
I'm a little apprehensive about using masking tape. (Yes, I agree, definitely beats trying to free-hand it). At what stage do you mask and paint? I'm thinking once the boats and guns and liferafts go on there are lots of bits that are going to be hard to mask over....