Masks for the cockpit glazing of the 1:48 carrier-borne Arado Ar 196 floatplane, for both sides. Cut to the Italeri kit.
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Large surface ships needed to see farther than the masthead rangefinder reached, and the answer was a catapult-launched aircraft. The Arado Ar 196 filled that role on cruisers and on battleships: it was launched from a rail on deck, flew around the area and, after alighting on the water, a crane lifted it back. Two large floats gave it stability on the waves, a radial engine reliability and a pair of cannon in the wing such firepower that the machine even scored engagements with a submarine surfaced on the water. It served from Norway to the Aegean Sea, patrolled over the straits and in smaller numbers flew long after the war with the Bulgarian and Romanian air forces.
The cockpit is long, covered by continuous glazing over both crew members and divided by a dense net of frames. It is precisely a shape like that which causes the greatest trouble when masking by hand, because every frame has to be traced around separately. The cut parts are laid on at once and the line comes out straight.
They are applied from the outer and the inner side. On floatplanes it is customary to spray the fuselage and the floats in different shades, so material left over from the sheet comes in useful too. It is good to run the boundary between the two colors along a brace, where the eye expects it, and not in a smooth area. Naval machines also carried a light underside and a dark spine with a sharp dividing line, which is hard to draw straight across a rounded fuselage without film.
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