Beautiful work Rick!
Someone suggested to me that I post on my recent experience with using Aviattic Fokker Streaking decals. These come in pre-cut and strip form.
I have tried these on the 1/48 Eduard Fokker Dr.1.
First, I started with some priming followed by some pre-shading:
Then the upper surface colours (upon which the translucent streaking decals would later sit over), followed by a gloss coat:
Next came the Aviattic decals. These went down reasonably nicely. The pre-cut shapes were not quite right and did not quite fit in a number of places. Luckily, I had their other sheet which effectively represents solid sections of 'streaking', so I could tailor some parts here and there:
Next came the individual aircraft markings:
Then a few extra additions, a flat coat, a little bit of post shading, and the start of some weathering:
The Aviattic decals do show the pre-shading through, but I did have to do a little post shading to get the wing ribs to show through just a little more. I could stand to have them a little more obvious, but I have learned enough times that the art of subtlety is difficult - you're always better served stopping just before you think you have too much
These decals are nice to use, but are stretchy, and difficult to cut once dry (even a sharp knife tends to 'stretch' the decals... arg). Hence I still have some cleaning up to do around wing trailing edges, and so forth. That being said, I do like the representation of streaking; it's not unnaturally even, and does well I think to represent the subtle irregularities of real life hand painting. Decals allow for a cleaner job as well. So, well done Aviattic
So, those are my experiences so far with using this method.
Cheers,
BC
