Re: [GZG] Painting tips?

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since I've done much airbrush work (used to do 1/72 airplanes), but the
fuzziness of the edge with the template method varies directly with the
distance between the templace and the work. If you put the template
right up to the model, fuzziness should be minimized--and if you're
careful with the angle of the airbrush, you might be able to eliminate
it by shooting from "outside" the edge of the template you're using as a
mask (brush tip outside the "hole," shooting across the edge and back
into the hole). I wish I could sketch it for you.
   
  Best of luck,
  Ken

John K Lerchey <lerchey@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
  Very cool tip.

For my next trick, I went out at lunchtime and bought a sheet of Badger 
Frisket paper. Basically a light acetate film, lightly tacky on side. I 
pulled a sheet out of an open pack and it's a) pretty darned thin and b)

designed for masking for airbrush projects. Now, that said, the tape I 
tried to use was desgined for use by modelers too, so I'm not all that 
hopeful. Tonight I'll try making some patterns and see if they work any 
better than the tape ones. If not, I'll move on to either silly putty or

make a template and live with the fuzziness. Or get out my paint
brushes. 
Or something. :)

J

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

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Allan Goodall wrote:

> On 7/27/06, gzg-l-request@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
> wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:49:08 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: John K Lerchey 
>
>> Paining on liquid mask - If I wanted to paint on liquid mask, I'd
just
>> paint on the paint. :)
>
> This isn't really a reply to John's post. I just wanted to point out a
> use for a liquid mask. I've heard a lot of people say that liquid mask
> is pretty useless as you still have to paint it on. However, it allows
> you to paint over an area you've already painted so that you could
> then airbrush over the whole area.
>
> Just thought I'd point that out.
>
>> Pieces of tape. That's essentially what I was using. I was actually
>> using a thin masking tape made for doing this kind of work on models.
It
>> didn't work because the ships are ALL covered in small panels and
such
>> (makes for nice models, but makes for difficult painting of clean
lines).
>
> One problem people complain about with tape is that there's always
> some bleed under the tape, making it less than crisp. I saw a solution
> to this on one of those TLC channel home improvement shows.
>
> Step 1: Paint the base colour.
>
> Step 2: Tape the area you want to mask off.
>
> Step 3: Paint over the edge of the tape with the base colour. This
> forms a paint seal on the edge of the tape, and the bleed under the
> tape is the same colour as the base coat.
>
> Step 4: Paint the unmasked area. It can't bleed under the tape because
> of the seal you made in step 3.
>
> Now, I've seen it done with walls with laytex paint. I don't know how
> well it will work with acrylics on miniatures.
>
> Allan
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