My first attempt at painting XPForge’s models. I’m not sure if I’m getting the image hosting right. The planes were much harder to paint that I expected.
Those look really good. Straight edges and deck lines are hard to hand paint. I try to use narrow tape for those. At least on the longer lines. Ironically, I find the curvy camouflage like the Royal Navy uses to be much easier to paint because I can paint it freehand without tape.
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Those look really good. Straight edges and deck lines are hard to hand paint. I try to use narrow tape for those. At least on the longer lines. Ironically, I find the curvy camouflage like the Royal Navy uses to be much easier to paint because I can paint it freehand without tape.
I used painters tape for the lines, I had to touch up a few spots where it bled onto the decks. I messed up on Wasp and had to scrape off all the paint in a section of the deck with a knife around the midships then remix the deck color and paint over it again. I used a pencil eraser to stamp the circle on Hiryu’s bow. It turned out much better than I could do free hand.