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LBursley wrote:Nice work Mafty!

Question: I may have missed it, but how are you making your stencils? I saw the bit where you said the decals were fail but while skimming through, I didn't see anything about the stencils for the graphics. They look really sharp!

-Les

heh, yea the decals where fail. I used paint mask, which was cut on a plotter. Its just vectored images of whatever I want really, and than masked off and spraying the area. It really requires a plotter though (which I fortunately have access to). I suppose it could be done by hand, you would need to buy paint mask (its a big roll, its like vinyl, but less tacky), and you could hand cut your design and do it that way.

Mafty wrote:
heh, yea the decals where fail. I used paint mask, which was cut on a plotter. Its just vectored images of whatever I want really, and than masked off and spraying the area. It really requires a plotter though (which I fortunately have access to). I suppose it could be done by hand, you would need to buy paint mask (its a big roll, its like vinyl, but less tacky), and you could hand cut your design and do it that way.

Did you spray your printed decals with a layer of varnish? You can use off the shelf gloss varnish like Krylon which you can pretty much buy anywhere. Leave it to dry for a night and that will prevent your inkjet ink from running when submerged.

Nice job on the airbrushing by the way. I've been working on a BA army and doing it with an airbrush.

okay, back to some updates. another GT coming up (lol, i only paint when GTS are coming up).

Anyways, adding all the detail work that hasnt been added in previous paintings, so that means bedalizing time!

First tank done (aside from the turret):

I love what you did with the cock pit windows they look great and the symbols look awesome. over all great stuff.

Heres what the turrets look like, all gemed out now