Horton Go 229 1/72

[Tim Marlow]

Personally ive not found yellows to be more fluid than other paints. What I have found is that the pigments are transparent, so it takes more paint to get good coverage. Bright reds and oranges can be similar. This makes it harder to judge how much paint you’ve applied, especially on darker areas. This, in turn, can lead to overapplication of paint, so flooding the area and causing runs and bleed under masking.
My advice, different from Andy’s, which is also valid, is to mask off the propellor and first paint the tip area with a sand or buff colour. These cover well, and are easier to judge, giving you a good baseline to work over. You can then paint the area with yellow paint, which will cover far more successfully over a lighter undercoat, and get a far better result.

[Cogez88]

I've been working on the top surfaces, and did some painting of one half of the camouflage pattern tonight. Spent a fair bit of time pressing the tape down with the handle of a file, and I've got much cleaner lines. So it's looking ok! The two colours are much more similar than I had imagined before I mixed them, but it's still looking pretty good.

I did end up with some ridges of paint where the tape was... Is there are anything I can do to correct or prevent those?

[Guest]

To prevent paint build-up against the edge of the tape, don’t brush towards the tape but along it and away from it. If you see too much paint against the tape, while it’s still wet, do the same: just brush it away from the edge.

[JR]

Jordon, look fine to me, always thought yellow was hard one to paint .