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Short Bomber: Adventures in painting
Hi,
been away for a while, busy with work and painting the 3D printed Bomber. It's been an adventure alright, painting the thing...
As usual, first a light twin coat of diluted PVA, then a grey primer spray
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It was fun painting, especially the wing leading edge, where two colours meet... took me a week!
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Except for the roundels, I made my own decals and that was fun, too. The wheel hubs are transparent decals, the edges smoothly (well, more or less) painted over to blend with the tyre colour
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The white lettering on the fuselage was printed on a green background and then painted over to better blend in. I first printed some 15 different shades of green to find the right one, then put on the letters.
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Lessons learned?
1. transparent decals are, well, a special case. Bright decal over dark background? Forget it! I ruined some decal paper while trying to produce the lettering which would be visible on a transparent decal.It worked with wheel hubs because they are bright.
2. white background decals: paint tends to crumble when you cut them. I had to give the rudder decals two coats of liquid decal film and still had a devil's time to make it right. More or less. In the end I painted the things over... ;)
Jure