discussion Marking camouflage before starting it

[Neil]

I have tended to stick to single colour or large blocks of colour for the simple reason I usually draw the camo pattern on primer using a light pencil and then paint.

This works OK, but the pattern is just my eye-balling the colour scheme and drawing it on by hand, and I’m sure this is not the best way.

So my simple question, how do you guys transfer and outline the camo from the colour scheme onto the primed model? If you want it to be really accurate, drawing it on, based on the instruction sheet is not the way to carry on doing this. You sort of need to have a tracing and then scale it out/in as needed.

 

[Steven000]

I like to mask the camo with long thin strands of blu-tack, placed on the model and adjusted with the panel lines as a reference point.

Some scan and scale the instructions to the model size, then cut the print and use it as a stencil for paint or pencil.

Also keep in mind that most paint-schemes in kits are not 100% exact if you compare it to real photos of the subject. Cheers