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[kevanf1]

What do you use to mask off areas from unwanted paint? By that I mean very small areas not the large areas (I use the usual masking tape and newspaper which I know is not ideal and I should use lining paper). I'm thinking more of the very intricate parts such as, for example, the rivets in an instrument housing. It's nice to have old brass rivets buffed up with a black background. But how do you mask those rivets off from the spray?

I'll add here that I have recently been experimenting with tiny bits of masking tape (not very successful) and even tiny blobs of Blu-Tack (works but tedious to remove afterwards). Has anybody used water soluble paints? To be washed off later? I'm thinking maybe children's poster paint. Or is there anything better?

Thank you and take care.

Kevan

[Timstopp]

Whenever i have done this - I have "painted" on vaseline with a small brush - wipe off later - really easy
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[kevanf1]

Cheers guys, two ideas to try. I'll let you know how I get on. If i can find some poster paint I'm going to give that a go too, though, I'm not sure how water soluble it may be once applied and dried..

Take care.

Kevan

[MVPeters]

Model shops sell a rubber-ish based masking paint. If I could remember the name of it I'd be delighted to share it with you!
It's pink, in a little bottle. Works well.
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[bob2]

I have sometimes used grease but you have to take extra care of not contaminating the surrounding area with it or paint might not adhere.
Usually I clean again with a thinner after applying the grease to the part I want masked and paint has never reacted once applied.

[kevanf1]

Hmm, never knew you could get such a thing as Maskol. It sounds very useful even if it does eat brushes That's not so much of a problem as I tend to use a lot very cheap 'poundshop style' brushes anyway for applying stuff like grease etc. I like the final offering in the thread on the model making forum of using Copydex. I don't have Copydex as such but I do have a large bottle of carpet adhesive which is exactly the same thing. I'll try it on some parts and see how things how.

Many, many thanks guys.

Kevan

[kevanf1]

Hmm, never knew you could get such a thing as Maskol. It sounds very useful even if it does eat brushes That's not so much of a problem as I tend to use a lot very cheap 'poundshop style' brushes anyway for applying stuff like grease etc. I like the final offering in the thread on the model making forum of using Copydex. I don't have Copydex as such but I do have a large bottle of carpet adhesive which is exactly the same thing. I'll try it on some parts and see how things how.

Many, many thanks guys.

Kevan

[kevanf1]

Ok, this is what I am going to be masking up. This is actually my first attempt with a reel of the same model.

This the face of the reel before doing anything with it.

Next post will have the same reel after the restoration.

[kevanf1]

This is after the clean up and restoration/respray. As you can see, there were some difficult areas to mask up etc.

[kevanf1]

The rear with the manufacturers badge. This bit I really did need to keep as clean as possible. This is a similar situation to restoring clocks and gauges on a vehicle.[/img]

[kevanf1]

All in all I am quite pleased with the results of this. It was an experiment to see how god I could actually restore something before attempting the same on vehicle parts. It was my first ever attempt at airbrushing and, yes, there are some errors. I aim to learn from the mistakes I made doing this.

Now I need to get that satin lacquer on it

[Roger-hatchy]

That look great.
Well done
Also nice to see something different

Roger

[kevanf1]