The Romsey Modeller - Romsey Modellers
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the car and<br />
Ebbro have<br />
followed suit<br />
with their ddesign<br />
of it in the kit. <strong>The</strong> kiit<br />
does have a red decal to cover the<br />
appropriate<br />
area with,<br />
but you’ll thhen<br />
have to mmatch<br />
you red d paint to it. Iff<br />
painting is yyour<br />
thing (mi ine is) the<br />
builder hhas<br />
therefore tto<br />
mask up thhe<br />
screen and paint the low wer half, whichh<br />
I can tell youu<br />
is not an eas sy task for<br />
many a mmodeller<br />
incluuding<br />
the expperienced<br />
onees!<br />
I used a tip t from the iinternet<br />
and masked off using u Bare<br />
Metal Fooil<br />
which was burnish dowwn<br />
gently andd<br />
trimmed wit th a new blade.<br />
After a fiddly<br />
45 minu utes I had<br />
achievedd<br />
what I hopee<br />
to be a clean<br />
separation line. <strong>The</strong> insides<br />
were maask<br />
off to prevvent<br />
overspra ay. I think<br />
Ebbro should<br />
have proovided<br />
the moodern<br />
solution<br />
this is problem<br />
and provided<br />
pre cut mmasks<br />
as an option o as I<br />
can see tthis<br />
being a stumbling<br />
blockk<br />
for a numbeer<br />
of builders.<br />
<strong>The</strong> nosee<br />
of the car ppresents<br />
somee<br />
masking<br />
hurdles as it requiress<br />
three colouurs<br />
to be<br />
sprayed unless you use the gold<br />
decals<br />
which I hhad<br />
read are a challenge to fit. To<br />
make matters<br />
even more interessting,<br />
the<br />
mask linees<br />
are curvedd,<br />
and those ccurves<br />
are<br />
of a decrreasing<br />
and inncreasing<br />
radius!<br />
I used<br />
the kit ddecal<br />
as a guuide<br />
and purrchased<br />
a<br />
drawing aid called a French<br />
curve, wwhich<br />
is a<br />
bit like a flexible ruleer.<br />
This enabled<br />
me to<br />
draw thee<br />
line onto thhe<br />
masking taape<br />
(once<br />
removedd<br />
from the deccal)<br />
and then cut it out<br />
using thee<br />
same tool bbut<br />
using the scalpel. It<br />
took sevven<br />
attempts to get a maask<br />
I was<br />
happy with<br />
and even then I had to modify it<br />
to look correct<br />
accordding<br />
to referennces.<br />
On the sseventh<br />
attem mpt the decal cried enoughh<br />
and broke away<br />
from<br />
the backiing<br />
sheet....<br />
With thee<br />
masking upp<br />
complete itt<br />
was on withh<br />
the paintin ng…except it wasn’t. I reaadied<br />
my airb brush and<br />
compressor<br />
only to find<br />
that the ccoiled<br />
hose beetween<br />
the air<br />
outlet and water trap had<br />
split….the cause no<br />
doubt of my rough paint<br />
finishes prreviously.<br />
A wweekend<br />
of painting<br />
and proogress<br />
was waasted<br />
while I waited w for<br />
an internnet<br />
ordered reeplacement<br />
too<br />
arrive. Anothher<br />
good excu use!<br />
<strong>The</strong> red ppaint<br />
I was using<br />
was a coloour<br />
matched item from Hir roboy ZP‐10744<br />
(the set alsoo<br />
provides the e gold and<br />
white) annd<br />
went on bbeautifully.<br />
3 coats were eenough,<br />
but I made a mistake<br />
when sprraying<br />
the vent<br />
on the<br />
nose aand<br />
manage to<br />
get 4 coats on which<br />
resulteed<br />
in a patchyy<br />
finish, not something s<br />
I wantted<br />
after speending<br />
so much m time<br />
maskinng<br />
off the whiite<br />
area.<br />
<strong>The</strong> wwindscreen<br />
neeeded<br />
to show<br />
red on<br />
the innside,<br />
so the<br />
paint was s applied<br />
carefully<br />
directly oonto<br />
the plas stic (I did<br />
sand itt<br />
slightly withh<br />
some worn 1500 grit<br />
paper) ) , the only problem was s 3 coats<br />
didn’t match the main mono ocoque….I<br />
later rrecoated<br />
oveer<br />
the red with w white<br />
and reapplied tthe<br />
red to o match<br />
elsewhhere.<br />
I generally<br />
remove<br />
the<br />
maskinng<br />
tape as soon<br />
as I’m able<br />
and the<br />
result was a nice cclean<br />
line between<br />
the<br />
colours. As I write thiis,<br />
the nose iss<br />
being repainnted<br />
after bein ng stripped annd<br />
covered onnce<br />
more in the<br />
yellow<br />
sealer. I’mm<br />
so looking fforward<br />
to maasking<br />
that onne<br />
up again!<br />
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