This is one of those methods that I don't think anyone can lay claim to as it's just out there in the cloud as it were.
I did try something similar innocently on small-scale armour quite a number of years ago because I could not achieve thin enough lines for that particular scheme and because braille scale is very small I didn't want any overspray to spoil the model.
So the results were good and I was dead chuffed at what I had done, but overtime and trawling through the internet I soon realised that it had all been done before, hey ho not as clever as I thought
Roll forward a few more years and time to get out the blutak again this time on something a bit bigger.
This is what I was aiming at and the method was basically the same as the germans did their camo on this type( obviously with out the blutak )They sprayed the airframe with RLM 75 and then over sprayed with RLM 76.
As you can see the pattern is nice and clean with soft edges and no splattering.
Here is how I did it.
The model was sprayed all over with RLM 75 and small balls of blu/white tak were placed in a random pattern all over the top surfaces and around the sides of the model.
Try and make the tak irregular sizes but not too big and also don't be in too much of a rush to complete them you can see from the picture above and below that non of the blu/white tak balls actually touch each other.
The next step is to spray RLM 76 on low pressure all over the model but do this in stages first from front to back then back to front, then left to right and finally right to left. The reason for this is so that you don't get any shadowing which would give the spots an elongated look in just one directional spraying.
The picture above and below shows the model after the application of the RLM 76 and you must make sure that non of the tak is disturbed until the paint has thoroughly dried.
Once dried the tak can be removed and you spray work can be examined for any errors which should be corrected at this stage in prep for the next stage.
The following pictures show the results of the removed tak and some shadowing can be seen but is easily corrected with some thinned RLM 75.
I'm happy with the pattern but it's too intense as can be seen in the next photos.
To remedy this an overspray of thinnly mixed RLM 76 is required to tone down the pattern somewhat and this is to personal preference how much you tone them down.
And that's it, time consuming yes as this took me about two and a half hours just to get the tak onto the model but I think the results were worth it, it's certainly better than I could do freehand with an airbrush that's for sure.
Anyway I hope may find this of use one day.
Regards
Mark
