Administrators James H Posted April 16, 2014 Administrators Share Posted April 16, 2014 Can anyone give me a proper description on how this is done? My Bf 110 is in the vinegar strokes of the project now, and I'm looking at wanting to soften the hard edge RLM74/75 splinter camp, and to fade out the masked/sprayed markings. I know the best way to achieve this is with oil fading, but: what colours would you use for this? Is it applied to matt or glass finish? How do you tacked the RLM76 underside? I'm sure there are other questions I've not asked, so if I missed something, feel free to tell me. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulster Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Nice work Matt, as usual. I have just started using the oil dot system on my armor projects after years of balking out of fear of botching 4 months of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkranias Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 one of these days I'm gonna try dot filtering...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wackyracer Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Paynes grey, yellow orche, burnt sienna. Cut down brush with stubby bristles dampened with oils thinner. Left more near the wing roots and blended the further out. Rather easy to achieve and should it go wrong just wipe off completely. Also works rather well over the alclad to dirty that up. Aaron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators James H Posted April 17, 2014 Author Administrators Share Posted April 17, 2014 Great tips guys. Very helpful. I have the markings almost applied now, then it's the stencils and a wash. Looks like I'll be hitting this early next week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators James H Posted April 19, 2014 Author Administrators Share Posted April 19, 2014 What do you use to fade something like RLM76? I was just thinking white, possibly the odd dot of pale grey. If you streak in direction of airflow, I presume that accounts for the fuse too? That's a serious length of fuse to streak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougN Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I use blue, green, white and a few spots of pale yellow on RLM76. I do the blending (as Matt describes above) in the direction that rain would follow with the aircraft on the ground, rather than airflow. Doug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators James H Posted April 19, 2014 Author Administrators Share Posted April 19, 2014 I've had minor success. My only real impression of my attempt is that is can leave a streaky film over the original paint job. I had to work it in to get rid of the streaky appearance. I'm thinking I could just have applied misted coats of randomised buff and RLM02 and got a better effect. Yours truly, pissed off.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators JeroenPeters Posted April 19, 2014 Administrators Share Posted April 19, 2014 I've never tried it before but see dots in my near future.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators James H Posted April 19, 2014 Author Administrators Share Posted April 19, 2014 Cheers, I'll give that a try. Most streaks are gone, but that's after two hours of swearing and threatening to take up origami instead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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