New Tamiya masking tape and a masking tutorial.

[Veyron]

I'm using Tamiya's new 40mm wide masking tape to mask the window trim of this Revell Civic. As you can see this width tape works nicely for this job, one strip covers the whole area.


After pressing the tape into the grooves around the windows and firmly up against the lower raised window trim, I trimmed around the area with an Exacto knife.


I did the same for all windows and used the scrap trimmings to mask the rest of the car in conjunction with more unused tape.


In this step I have air brushed black acrylic paint onto the exposed window trim areas. As a rule I use acrylic paints for window trim if the body has been painted with an oil based paint, and oil based enamel if it had been painted with an acrylic paint. This makes cleaning up edges easier because the paints are less likely to melt into each other.


After I removed the tape some of the edges appeared a little uneven. Using a toothpick, I scraped around the jagged edges of the black paint to even it out, this doesn't hurt the orange paint on the body. Some very minor touch up with a brush fixed the trim to look satisfactory.


Here is the completed trim work, I chose to leave the trim around the sun roof orange as I didn't want a big black square on the roof. This was accomplished in about 40 minutes. Next step is to accent the panel lines.

[Vric]

40mm ??? never see this by tamiya !

[djmr2]

Originally posted by Vric
40mm ??? never see this by tamiya !

you have not been paying attention!

great job veyron, it would be better if u could use AF's server for pictures though.. they took forever to load and they'll probably disappear sooner or later rendering the thread useless

[Marco_Wrc]

Thanks Veyron, this is very useful.

just curious: what sort of an airbrush do you use? (brand, type)

[Ghost_9418]

Thanks. This should be usefull btw I like color on the civic.

[Vric]

Originally posted by djmr2


you have not been paying attention!

great job veyron, it would be better if u could use AF's server for pictures though.. they took forever to load and they'll probably disappear sooner or later rendering the thread useless

I know he sayd "NEW", but still never see this

[Veyron]

Originally posted by Marco_Wrc
Thanks Veyron, this is very useful.

just curious: what sort of an airbrush do you use? (brand, type)

I use a Badger Crescendo which is a dual action, much like the Paache dual action.

[Vyacheslav]

this civic looks fricking PHAT!

[flyonthewall]

I have some of this tape in my HS order, i was really pleased Tamiya released it, i ordered some straight away for this very purpose.

Great tutorial, this is exactly how i do mine

[TheSyndicate]

Very clean. Although you seem to have forgot to mask off the border of the sunroof.

[djmr2]

Originally posted by TheSyndicate
Very clean. Although you seem to have forgot to mask off the border of the sunroof.

he said he didn't want to do it.

[Deejay27]

Can I ask where you purchased the masking tape? Would I be able to order it online? Thanks.

[Vyacheslav]

www.hlj.com

a goood place to order something!

[Veyron]

Originally posted by Deejay27
Can I ask where you purchased the masking tape? Would I be able to order it online? Thanks.

My local hobby shop got some of the new tape in last week so you might try yours, or www.hlj.com

[RallyRaider]

Nice demonstration Veyron.

Is this new 40mm tape the same material as the narrower widths from Tamiya, or is it more like packing tape?