Hi John,
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when applying cammo on my spitfire should I do a overall spray of Ocean grey then spray in the cammo green, silly question I know but Ive only ever done armour before,
Not a silly question at all, generally the convention is to spray the undersurface colour (medium sea grey), let dry and mask off, spray the next lighter colour (ocean grey), over the upper surface, then mask and paint or free hand paint the dark green.
I have tried "tac-worms" (like that word Kevin
) but much prefer free hand spraying. Here is a pic of my Hurricane Mk 1 with tac-worm (
) masking. I use a white primer and do not spray the first top surface colour all over, but just cover the areas to be that colour, with a little overlap (I, lightly, draw on the pattern in pencil). I roll the tac-worms (
) out evenly (not in the hand) between 2 pieces of wood, the tighter the curve the thinner I roll them. For a tight, soft edge, I leave them round. For a sharp demarcation I flatten the roll, the slice it down the middle ( this is how the tac-worms (
) were done on this model). I "fill in" with cheap low tac masking tape, then spray the second colour.
The reason I do it this way is so that the pre-shading shows through, but the conventional way is perfectly fine.
Mal
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