Hello gentlemen.
Once again, I wish to apologise for leaving it so long since my last post.

I've made a little progress, and would like to show you how I made my masks for painting the wings.

After increasing the painting instructions by 177%, I placed a section of masking sheet over the painting plan. I then marked the camouflage pattern, and a couple of panel lines on the template from the plans in pen. The panel lines were marked so I could use them to align the template when placing it on the model.

I held the 3 parts of the horizontal stabiliser in place with masking tape (sticky side up), so I could align the mask.

The sections of the homemade masking was applied on top of the Dark Earth which I had painted beforehand.

This was also down with the main wing section.

Below is the finished result.

I feel I was a little heavy handed when spraying the wings. I put this down to lack of practice of late with my airbrush.

The last photo shows how I marked out the black section of the lower wing.
I taped the paper mask in place, then using masking tape, I taped the curve.
I'm hoping to spray it over the weekend.
If I'm happy with the result, I will weather the panel lines and put on the decals.

Thanks for looking in.
Julian.

P-40 coming out great. Love the camo job on this, top notch~!

That is a great idea with the masking. I just may have to use this method when it comes time to spray the Spitfires.

Well done !

Thank you Louis. Is very easy to do.

Many thanks John.

Did I miss it, or did you mention what product you use for those translucent masks that you cut? I'd like to try something similar...

@gkittinger It's available on Amazon https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B003FJQRUK/?coliid=I2NOJ39PB7NLHF&colid=1JNIC836LQJF0&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
This is 4" x 5 yards.

This is looking very good Julian. Well done.

I've applied the decals on the top and lower wing.

The 'D' recognition letter on the lower wing is very delicate.
There is no transparent film on the inside of the letter. This reduces any problems with silvering, but care must be taken when applying the decal. I didn't realise until it had lifted from the backing paper. I got it a bit screwed up at first, but it came good in the end.

Thanks for looking in.