Introductions

Hi everyone been lured here by the prospect of no silvering decals. based in North Notts Lincolnshire border. looking at a silhouette cutter any suggestions

Hello all, Many thanks for the add. At this moment I am working on a 1/32 Bf109G-5. We have a Brother Scan N Cut machine so I was looking for ways to make masks for spraying. This looks like the perfect site for that.

Greetings everyone, I am in Ohio in the Cleveland area, and look forward to learning great techniques for creating masks for my builds using my Cricut Maker 3.

Hi there! I discovered this forum a few days ago. I have yet to participate in any discussions, let alone share some of my files, but I will get there eventually. Jens

Hello, all! A few weeks ago it dawned on me that if I could cut my own paint masks for my airplanes I would not only save money in the long run, but up the quality of work. So I went out and bought a Silhouette Portrait 3...and imagine my surprise when I searched the Internet for model airplane mask-cutting info and found this wonderful site!!! LOL, and I thought I was the first person to think of cutting my own masks 🙂 I am really excited to join your community, and look forward to sharing my new adventures in model airplane mask cutting!

Hi there, New in all this, but excited to know and share topic about mask... Oscar

Hi there you lot. Kevin invited me here some time ago and it has taken until now to get of my lazy backside and do something about it. Glad to be here with some obviously very talented people. I've only had my Silouhette Portrait 3 since December last year, so still learning but hopefully I'll be spraying more than decalling soon. Take care and stay safe everyone. Cheers. Steve 🇬🇧

Hello there. Having introduced myself on LSP, here is the follow up. Mathieu, 38, from Belgium. I have been ploaying silouhette for 4 years now, and kinda like it. Masks, templates & plastic cards are being tortured Here is a few of my past victims, all 1/32. Hasegawa P-40K long tail. Hasegawa Ki-61, 68th Sentai. Big beautiful Doll #1 (Revell) Big Ass Bird (Hasegawa) The latest completion to date: Big Beautifull Doll #2. (Tamiya) I was mad enough to go paint for the victory board. …

Thanks for adding me guys! I wanted to join to learn making my own masks. I haven't bought a cutter yet, on the fence between the portait or cricut joy, since they're the only ones available here in our country. Again thanks for adding me!

Just joined today. I have a Silhouette Cameo 3 and my wife has a Cricut. I've had some partial successes making aircraft masks and look forward to learning how to do it right. I've down loaded the German WWII markings as I'm try to complete an Hasegawa 1/32 Bf 109F-4 and want to try using masks. Hope to have some pics in a week or so. Just about to wrap up the plane and prime it. Also experimenting with airbrush mottling. Glad to have found a forum like this for cutting masks.

Hello everyone: I'm hoping for some help with some questions I have concerning the Cameo 4. These days, reading Amazon reviews and related "information" (if you want to call it that) online is hardly helpful. Some people say thing Cameo 4 is the greatest machine ever built while others say it's best used as a door stop. It's very difficult to figure out if this is the machine to get or not. Several reviews claim the Cameo 3 is far superior. The negative reviews are all over the map: some claim a poor UI, others have issues with the cutting quality/depth and still others have reported full on crashes during a cut, ruining the current project. I'm not exactly hard up …

Hello everyone! Writing from Czech Republic. I'm a plane modeller for a long time who is now starting to get interested on doing masks for my own use. Will be getting a Portrait machine soon and I found this great forum. Hoping I can learn from you, and contribute to the general knowledge as much as I can. Cheers,

Thank you for accepting me. My name is Pascal, I live in Houthalen (near Hasselt). I bought a Silhouette a few years ago, but haven't figured out how to get the thing to work. The last few years I've been busy modifying and detailing 1/18 scale cars, mostly Porsches and Ferraris. I've started my first 1/32 scale aircraft builds, - P-51B, F-15A and F-15B - but they have been put on hold because the decals are not or no longer available. Want to finish the P-51 in the red Paul Mantz livery, both F-15's in a NASA livery. Sincerely Pascal

Hello, I'm Bax, from Ontario. I will be purchasing a Cameo 4 within a month or so. I primarily build plastic model military airplanes (WWII to about gen 4 jets) but am beginning to airbrush more generally as well. I'm mostly interested in masks for lettering, insignias and especially canopies - particularly those for Tamiya 1/72 and 1/48 scale models. While I have none of my own yet, I do intend on sharing everything I create myself or acquire from elsewhere, copyright permitting. Thanks to everyone in advance for all that they have already provided in the downloads section of this site, and to it's creator for setting this up for us. Cheers, …

Hello, I just got a new Silhouette Cameo 4 and am learning to make masks, I do mainly 1/48 aircraft, World War 1 and World War 2. Just made a mask for a F2G Corsair checkered cowling but didn't come out as good as I expected. I will need to redraw the squares as I just used the trace program over a jpg file. Well I have a large roll of vinyl so will try try again. Dave Calhoun

Hello. I discovered this site as I'm member of LSP. I'm 68 Years old, Belgian living in Belgium and an old........modeller. I usualy build planes in 1/32 scale. (busy with a F-14A from Tamiya for a contest on the french "Fighters" Forum). Thank you for accepting me on this Forum Cheers, Jamme

I bought my Cameo4 about a year ago. I mostly use it to make parts for my RC scale ships, and masks for my 1/72 aircraft. I picked the Cameo over the Cricut Maker because of the software- I found that Studio was similar to InkScape, a program I was already using, which cut the learning curve!

Hi guys, So glad to be part of this community. For me this is a natural progression, I've been using Eduard and Montex for years, lately even graduating to using camouflage masks from Top Notch etc. Then started seeing posts about using the Silhouette cutter range. So I figured , well how hard can this be? Yesterday I received my Portrait 3 and I'm about to find out ;-). looking forward to contributing as well as trying the great stuff already here. All the Best John

Glad I found this site! I'm on the very beginning of the learning curve with a Cameo 4, and pretty pumped at the modelling possibilities. Looking forward to the sharing of files and getting some tips from the more experienced of you. I've uploaded a file of paint masks I've used on my 1/72 Academy Mustang, and hope to share more as I make them.

Greetings. I'm a semi-experienced Sizzix Eclips2 user. I primarily design in Inkscape, but am using Adobe Illustrator as well. Mostly aircraft markings in 1/48 and some 1/72. Cameron

Hello, thanks for adding to the forum. My name is Michel Gruson, I mainly build jets at 1/48, I also had a WWI 1/32 period and WWII. Anyway, I'm going where my desire is going. I have a Silhouette and often do patterns in my montages. Best Regards

Thanks for accepting me in your forum, i'm a modeller; as some members here, working over Planes at 1/32 and 1/48th scale ! I discover the Silhouette and bought one to try ! No so simple at first sight...but well....with practise ! surely have some stupid question one time 😉 Ha ve a great day all ! Patrick

I am not a silhouette user yet, but want pick up some information from the group.

Been modeling for years now and recently bought a silhouette portrait along with some oramask 810. Been playing around with it now for a few days and the software is easy to use, size and trace all the markings I've put into it. Would love to learn more about it and how you guys use it.

Hello folks! found this forum after looking at the possibility of making my own masks for painting and I saw a link on LSP. I’ve recently spent ages cutting out some masks by hand for a few models especially canopies and I’ve tried the liquid masks but don’t necessarily like them either. Either way it’s frustrating so I’ve decided to look at the silhouette portrait cutter and wanted to find out more about the whole topic before I commit to buying one given the investment.