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Some may be aware of this, others not. Hope this is the best place to post this, does involve painting so was my best shot. Is long so read at your own risk...............
One of my other interests is vinyl cutting and without a long explanation we use a transfer paper once the vinyl is cut to get it to where it will be permanently placed. The gears started grinding and I needed to spray an area on my build so decided to try something by using transfer film for masking. The nice thing about this stuff is that it makes a nice clean full contact cover that will protect an entire area. I used it in this manner a while back on a special project in a prevent forest fire campaign where I needed to avoid vinyl on vinyl so I wanted to just spray the background effect.
This might have a viable use for creating camo effects on planes ships tanks and if you want to disguise your wife. First off you need the film, readily available on Ammozoom and Ubuy, https:tongue-out3:/www.amazon.com/dp/B073XRLZ6Z?tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1 is one example. You should be able to get a 12" X 50' roll for under £16 which should last you the rest of your life. Comes in high tack or low tack the latter would probably be best for acrylics, lay out a piece on a glass cutting mat and cut out your design, reason for glass is that it will not diminish the strength of the adhesive, once your pattern is cut you can pull the mask off the glass and attach it to your model. Did a quick example after it worked well on my ship build.
This a piece of film which you can't see on my cutting board, the bright spots in the yellow circle are where my cutouts have been peeled up, bad reflections
Here I have pulled the film off of the glass and placed it on a piece of cardboard
Here are the cutouts sprayed with camo colors :tongue-out3:
This is after the film is removed, granted there looks like some bleed, but keep in mind the is on a porous cardboard
This method will work fine on flat surfaces, got to be a little cautious on curved , outside curve probably better than inside curve. If you are doing camo you can probably lay this out using a template.
Not sure how valuable this might be, just throwing it out.
One of my other interests is vinyl cutting and without a long explanation we use a transfer paper once the vinyl is cut to get it to where it will be permanently placed. The gears started grinding and I needed to spray an area on my build so decided to try something by using transfer film for masking. The nice thing about this stuff is that it makes a nice clean full contact cover that will protect an entire area. I used it in this manner a while back on a special project in a prevent forest fire campaign where I needed to avoid vinyl on vinyl so I wanted to just spray the background effect.
This might have a viable use for creating camo effects on planes ships tanks and if you want to disguise your wife. First off you need the film, readily available on Ammozoom and Ubuy, https:tongue-out3:/www.amazon.com/dp/B073XRLZ6Z?tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1 is one example. You should be able to get a 12" X 50' roll for under £16 which should last you the rest of your life. Comes in high tack or low tack the latter would probably be best for acrylics, lay out a piece on a glass cutting mat and cut out your design, reason for glass is that it will not diminish the strength of the adhesive, once your pattern is cut you can pull the mask off the glass and attach it to your model. Did a quick example after it worked well on my ship build.
This a piece of film which you can't see on my cutting board, the bright spots in the yellow circle are where my cutouts have been peeled up, bad reflections
Here I have pulled the film off of the glass and placed it on a piece of cardboard
Here are the cutouts sprayed with camo colors :tongue-out3:
This is after the film is removed, granted there looks like some bleed, but keep in mind the is on a porous cardboard
This method will work fine on flat surfaces, got to be a little cautious on curved , outside curve probably better than inside curve. If you are doing camo you can probably lay this out using a template.
Not sure how valuable this might be, just throwing it out.
