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Using tooth-paste as a masking agent to achieve the look of mottled bleaching below the waterline:
First task was to take my ready-made 1/96 SKIPJACK mask cutting stencils and use them to cut out some masking tape needed to protect the deck area. This was backed up with paper towels and more masking tape. Now I can lay down the tooth-paste mask and mist on some white to represent some ragged looking bleaching of the lower hull and all appendages beneath the designed waterline. The upper rudder gets the same treatment.
I take some tooth-past, cut it with water and, wa-la!, I got a brushable masking medium. The sugar based (water-soluble) mask is stippled onto the model surface, left to dry, then a mist of white is laid over the work. Once the white has dried, I wet the surface, the sugar vehicle of the mask melts, and the sticky goo is blotted off the model leaving the mottled look I'm after.
Before removing the masking I laid down a band of white mist and over that, at the demarcation line below the waterline I painted some green to represent 'grass'. The masking was then removed. Tomorrow, when things have dried hard I will use a white pencil, steel wool, some chalk and any other do-dads I can think up to make the scum-line a bit more believable.
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First task was to take my ready-made 1/96 SKIPJACK mask cutting stencils and use them to cut out some masking tape needed to protect the deck area. This was backed up with paper towels and more masking tape. Now I can lay down the tooth-paste mask and mist on some white to represent some ragged looking bleaching of the lower hull and all appendages beneath the designed waterline. The upper rudder gets the same treatment.
I take some tooth-past, cut it with water and, wa-la!, I got a brushable masking medium. The sugar based (water-soluble) mask is stippled onto the model surface, left to dry, then a mist of white is laid over the work. Once the white has dried, I wet the surface, the sugar vehicle of the mask melts, and the sticky goo is blotted off the model leaving the mottled look I'm after.
Before removing the masking I laid down a band of white mist and over that, at the demarcation line below the waterline I painted some green to represent 'grass'. The masking was then removed. Tomorrow, when things have dried hard I will use a white pencil, steel wool, some chalk and any other do-dads I can think up to make the scum-line a bit more believable.
M
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