A moment of panic!

Sometime you doubt yourself and a moment of panic struck me as I applied some panel line to the Airfix Curtiss Tomahawk. Basically panel line is an enamel based product that is thinned black paint. The idea, like my home made washes, is that the dilute colour collects in the recesses of the model to highlight the details, in this case the various panel lines that make up the aircrafts superstructure. The idea is that you paint your model in acrylic paints and apply the enamel panel line over it. Being a different product the enamel being oil based should not harm the acrylic water based paint and so you can use enamel thinners to clean off the excess panel line. It just looks horrible when you apply it first and so that moment of panic strikes as to what happens if the two products react or the enamel thinners don't clear the excess off!

However, calm was restored as I applied the thinners and it worked! Whats more is that it left a nice streaking weathered effect!

Having started on the underside, thinking if it goes wrong at least the underside is partly hidden, based upon it going well attention turned to the top side.

 

All that mess cleaned off laeving the panel lines highlighted and a nice weathering effect!

All I need to do know is fix that canopy permanently along with the side glass and things should be almost finished!

Almost finished! That is another moment of panic - I never finish things this quick!