Control surface and flap masks for the Mitsubishi Ki-46 Dinah in 1:72 scale from Dead Design. They serve to spray a shadow that evokes separate moving surfaces.
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A Dead Design masking set for painting the control surfaces and flaps on a model of the Japanese Ki-46 Dinah reconnaissance aircraft in 1:72 scale. The effect is purely optical: a shadow sprayed along the dividing lines creates the impression that the surfaces are separate and deflected. The set does not produce genuinely movable parts and the model is not modified in any way.
This is where the result turns on the airbrush settings. Thin the paint more than you are used to and bring the pressure down; you want to lay a thin mist, not to cover. Hold the nozzle farther from the surface and build the shadow up over several passes, because it cannot be taken away afterwards, whereas it can be added to. It pays to try it first on a piece of scrap plastic in the same base shade: you will see how many passes the paint in question needs, and on the model you then only repeat it.
The Ki-46 had a slender fuselage and smooth aerodynamic shapes without distracting details, which is typical of a fast reconnaissance machine, but on a model it means large empty areas. It is precisely on such an aircraft that a suggested shadow helps most, because it gives the eye something to hold on to where otherwise there would be nothing but smooth paint.
The Mitsubishi Ki-46 Dinah was a Japanese twin-engine reconnaissance aircraft of the Second World War. It was valued for its high speed and range, thanks to which it could evade interception, and it also appeared in further modified versions.
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