Mozart

I have been working with Peter Castle of Airscale fame to produce masks for his new and ground-breaking venture, a fully 3D printed, highly detailed and accurate 1/32 kit of the Boulton Paul Defiant. His kit, due for release in the near future, has markings for a day and night fighter variant. The kit will feature decals for those who like to go down that route, but paint masks will be available from Peter for a small extra cost in “hard copy” form and also here as a downloadable file on this site. The kit’s box will have a QR code on it which will link directly to these files.

Max 

Hello John, hope you enjoy your time here and that you find the forum productive.

Max 

Good to see you here Bogdan, a Silhouette cutter will prove to be so useful for you! Good luck. 

Welcome Mark. I know nothing about Cricut machines but I hope you find plenty here of use.

Morning Duncan…..funnily enough I’ve been replying to your thread on colours over on BM! Hope all’s going well with your venture into masks, plenty of advice and examples here for you to find out about masking. 
 

Max 

Hello Carl, it’s great to see you here, especially as a Silhouette owner! Please feel free to share some of your work and any tips that you may have. The more the merrier! 
Max 

I have recently done this using my Cameo:

MN570 on the tail fin is 2mm tall, that's the smallest that I have ever successfully cut that is usable.

Indeed, what is it? 
 

Newer and bigger isn’t necessarily better in my opinion. My Cameo 3 is 10 years old, I bought the “Studio” (can’t recall its exact name) software for it to give more options and it still does all that I need for my models. The limitation is how small and precisely stencils can be cut, not how “whizzy” the software is. 

Using a mat was my initial thought too, it seems as though the Oramask may be “wandering” slightly during the cutting process. 

Way to go Kev, so many more options! 

44 minutes ago, GeneK said:

Are you referring to the 284? If so, I could manually trace those for you. Silhouette Studio?

 

Gene K

 

Exactly Gene, that’s precisely what I would do. No harder than doing the national markings. 

Sorry, I’m not quite sure what your question is here? Can you explain a little more please. 

Yep, welcome indeed mon ami.  I hope you enjoy your Silhouette machine and find lots of useful information on our site.

Just Oramask 810 Gene. Under a coat of primer:

Use as you wish, that’s fine.

Max 

Hello Denis…..you found our secret hideaway then! 😅

Max 

Welcome to our Forum! 1/72 masks sound scary…..too small! 😃

Hello Laurent and welcome, I hope you enjoy your new Silhouette and get as much out of it as we do.

Good to see you here Steve, Cameo 3 is what I’ve got…..old but reliable (bit like me really!). Do you know if it has the Designer software loaded, it’s essential for creating the kind of masks that we do. If not, it’s a one-off payment via Silhouette. 
Max 

Welcome Butch, I hope you find what you want here, I don’t know how much there is on Cricuts because I think most use Silhouette, but fingers crossed. 

On 12/31/2023 at 2:26 AM, shawn said:

I just bought the upgrade!

 Is this for only one year? Then have to pay again like most software/virus software ?

  

It's for life!!  Bought mine about 8 years ago.