[GZG] Painting tips?

[John K Lerchey <lerchey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

As I mentioned earlier, I'm working on my 
first-honest-to-God-painted fleet. :)  Brigade AmRep ships.  I pulled out 
the airbrush the other night and base-coated 32 ships. :)

I've decided that i want to a splinter camo pattern on them.  Bascially, 
large blocks of color - only two for this fleet.  The blocks will need to 
have clean, straight edges.  Cleaner than I want to try for with a brush.

So, I got me an idea.  I bought some Pactra 1/2 inch modelers masking 
tape, and cut out irregular blocks to stick all over the ships.  Once on, 
I figured I'd get out the second color, air brush them, and then all I'd 
ahve to do is highlight and wash, then pick out any details, decal, and 
I'm ready to go.

The masking tape won't stick.  It's low tac so that you can use it on 
models and a) get it off and b) not lift off paint.  But it won't stick. 
The models have too many small details (all of those squarish bumps), and 
the tape won't cleanly stick over them, nor around corners (and I did use 
a plastic burnishing tool to burnish it down!).

So that's not going to work.

Anyone have any ideas, or am I pretty much gonna have to pull out my 
brushes?

Thanks,

J

John K. Lerchey
Assistant Director for Incident Response
Information Security Office
Carnegie Mellon University

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