Thanks you Alexis and Guy for the support and for sharing your innermost secrets of hidden fingerprints! Thanks RAGIII, Willem and Monty for the thumbs up over the colours!
I must say that I'm quite pleased myself when it comes to the wing and the colours. The wing is probably the best thing with this build as the tale of small disasters continues.
You might know that I like to mask and paint as much as possible on my builds. Sometimes, though, you should realise that masking isn't the best option. This is especially true when you have to mask over decals and especially if those decals covers very large areas like the lozenge and plywood decals on this build. I have already managed to lift parts of the lozenge when I masked the fuselage markings.
I have come to the conclusion that it doesn't help spraying these kinds of decals with clear coats. The problem lies beneath. So with the plywood decals I got some new decal solution marked "Very strong". This seemed to work... almost...
Ok, one other problem with masking over decals is the tack of the masking tape. Obviously my normal masking material is a little bit too tacky, even if I de-tack it. And Tamiya tape did the above... so the next step was to resort to Tesa tape - the pink variant. That actually worked and I was able to cut masks using the machine as well. A problem is that you will have joints if you need a larger area of masking tape.
Another little mishap waiting to happen. Masked and ready for white paint. Worked wonders, but then I realised that I had placed the mask to far forward and the fairly symmetrical marking was now not so symmetrical. This led to a series of repaints and therefore also paint build-up along the edges. Annoying, but I really didn't want to strip the whole wing of its paint.
In the end, after some work on the paint ridges, it turned out quite well anyway.
/Fredrik
