Once we
have painted the camouflage, we need to do two things before we stick
the transfers on:
- Panel
the aeroplane.
- Varnish
it.
The shadowing
that we have given the panels is the start of the panelling. Now you
have to perfectly mark out the lines. There are various ways of doing
this: one easy way (with a graphite pencil you start marking the lines,
if you go over the lines it doesn't matter as we can erase them with
an eraser) and the more complicated lines we can draw with the spray
gun (don't try this until you have dominated how to use the spray
gun, as you could ruin your work if not careful.
Later,
we will varnish it with a varnish which is shiny or at least with
a satin effect. Varnishing will equalize the different tones and will
serve as a base for the transfers. The transfers are on a thin but
shiny layer of film. If we don't varnish using a shiny or satin effect
varnish you will be able to see that our transfers will look shiny
on our matte looking fuselage, and there is no real way to fix this.
When we varnish it it will look as if the transfers have been painted
onto the fuselage not simply stuck on.
I personally
like MARABU varnish. You mix this one with turpentine 50/50 and then
you apply various coats with the spray gun all over the plane.
