Application of a "Soft" Camouflage Paint Scheme

[JHildreth]

I am preparing to paint my test specimens for my FW 190 project.  I have a full wing panel and a fuselage mock-up specimen to work out technical and technique issues for painting the camouflage and applying panel lines.  I have attached two full sized drawings (incomplete at this date) showing my proposed panel lines and paint scheme.

I am not an artistically inclined person and am not good at freehand work (e.g. Windy U's SeaFire videos).  Is it possible to use templates and still achieve the soft appearance in the camouflage pattern.  If so, how?

Thanks for your help.

Joe

[M Spencer]

Assumeing you have an airbrush / spraygun , what they say is use say a 1/4 inch spacer under the spraying templates , so theyre packed up .

Could lead to overspray , so requires a bit of forethought .

Alternately , airbrushing the outline / edges FIRST ; maybe following a offset template edge . As in cutting edge back 1/2 in if accuracys your thing , Then masking & spraying the rest .

Some of the late FW had PURPLE , brown & green camoflage . The underside blue is quite a pale colour .

Looking up the  I P M S Site or other plastic nutters should get a lot of good info on tecniques & schemes .

[TigreST]

As Matt relates. Keep the edges of the masking tape/material off of the surface where the paint colors meet. This will give a soft edge to the demarcation between the colors. It is a often used technique in the smaller static model building world of 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 scale models. Given the size of most of our c/l models, if you have an airbrush it would be rather easy to get the base layers on with say a touch up gun,..the fine tune the soft edge with a airbrush where needed.





T.

[Curare]

Or use this:
https://www.3m.com.au/3M/en_AU/company-au/all-3m-products/~/3M-Soft-Edge-Foam-Masking-Tape/?N=5002385+8711413+3293242381&rt=rud