Great use of the worms and excellent painting results, my friend @gblair!

George @gblair
The camouflage looks great. Your Blenheim is really coming along nicely. My blue tack /silly putty always, always tangles up and some chaos ensues. I am just too clumsy. Are you going to do a lot of weathering?

Good morning, Spiros (@fiveten), John (@johnb), Felix (@fxrob), and Gary (@gwskat). I have never used the Silly Putty before, but I like how it came out. It did consume a lot of tape to fill in the centers, so I need to look at some paper masks to fill them in next time. I was surprised at how the pieces of Silly Putty would stick together. I used a small pair of scissors to separate the pieces when they stuck, but it was a constant struggle. Today I hope to use my homemade masks to paint the code letters, and then spray everything with clear gloss to prepare for decals.

The codes came out nice, George.

That worked really well, George @gblair
Very nice and a perfect sharp demarcation line.

Thanks, Gary (@gwskat), Felix (@fxrob), and John (@johnb). No one is more surprised than I was that the masks worked this well. My previous attempts at creating my own masks didn't work very well.

Thanks, Stephen (@stephen-w-towle). I had never used any kind of putty to create the edge on a camo, so this was a fun adventure. As far as mixing paint with the filler, it was a few years ago that I used white filler around a canopy and when I pulled the masks off the filler was clearly visible inside the cockpit. I use acrylic filler, so mixing acrylic paint in with the filler solved the problem.

@gblair, just noticed that the masks you used also follow the panel lines, therefore I'm wondering what kind of material you used to create those masks, is it a kind of sticker?

Thanks for stopping in, Spiros (@fiveten), John (@johnb), and Paul (@yellow10). The stuff I used to make the masks is a stencil material that is designed for the Cricut Joy, but it is similar to the other removable stencil material used by the craft cutters used in card making and other hobbies that require a stencil. It is a 2-part material that has the flexible stencil vinyl layered on some sort of thin backing, usually paper, but thin plastic in the stuff for the Joy. Once you design what you want to create, you can send it to the machine and it cuts it out for you. In the cutting process, it cuts the design into the thin, flexible material on top, but leaves the backing material intact. then you simply peel off the masking material and place it where you want it. It is self-adhesive but removable. It has about the same stickiness as masking tape. The Cricut Joy is a relatively new machine which is much smaller than Cindy's other machines. When I get a chance I will take some photos of the machine and the stencil material so you can see what it looks like. I am just starting to learn enough to make the machine useful for my modeling.

Thanks for the kind words, Paul (@yellow10). I think you are looking at the old teacher coming out in me. I taught high school and college history for 20 years, so I enjoy the research. I tend to over-share about modeling steps and techniques, but once again, old teacher coming out. Glad you stopped by.