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  1. Thank you Woody. I will certainly try the method as well as the foil.
  2. Interesting approach indeed. Could you comment on what kind of brand of decal foil you used? There are different grades of thickness as I had to learn.
  3. Oh my! I tried it out now (still need to process the images of the final model so will need some time for pictures) but .... this thing is awesome! I practically did a whole 1/32 Tomcat without any decals! The Portrait can do letters down to less than a mm thickness and less than two mm hight. If you are familiar with modern US Navy lettering you might grasp what it can do but I did masks for things as tiny as the little aircraft type letters above the already small BuNo and I also was able to cut the small "danger / jet intake" letters within the warning stripes of the intake trunks, heck even the small "no step" markings are possible. Granted applying that small stuff to the model is an aweful hassle and takes a lot of time, a magnifier and a steady hand but it pays off in the end. I'm sooooooo happy I made the jump. 200 bugs well invested. As soon as I'm fully done I'll show some images.
  4. O.k., I made the jump ... let's see how I fare. Wish me good luck. A big THANK YOU to everyone for your helping comments once again.
  5. Many many thanks for the getback gentlemen, that is already very valuable information. The protrait is just for quite a few of the reasons you all stated also my current primary option. That it cuts about as fine as the cameo is an important bit of info for me. Now I just need to find out, if it really cuts fine enough. I'll just go ahead and make a jump for the portrait and see how it works. Many thanks for all the good comments.
  6. Hello gentlemen, I'm popping over from the LSP forum where I received info of that fine forum after I tried to find out about the whatishwats regarding paintmasks. The idea of a dedicated forum on a topic that still seems relatively young in the modelling world at such an early stage is actually a pretty good one and I am hoping to gather some help and insight over time even though I still won't be able to contribute much myself at the moment being an absolute beginner. As indicated I am still absolutely new to the topic and tried to gather some first insights into the whole matter. So now I am standing before the decision most of you sttod before as well .... i.e. which cutter to buy. My main modelling topic are modern military aircraft and at least currently mainly US Navy jets with the one or other more exotic bird throughn inbetween in 1/32 and 1/48. The major aspect for my buying decision is hence how small can an affordable cutting machine do. Many markings would involve the intricate squadron insignia and I think the max I would hope for a cutting machine to be able to do are the little BuNo serial numbers of modern jets. These serial numbers are in 1/32 about 3mm high and 2mm wide and the thickness of each letter would be about 1mm. I guess that would be the max. performance that I would be eyeing for. I suppose little crew names on the canopy rail and stencils are still way off the scale in terms of detailed cuts but I sure would hope that the small serial numbers in 1/32 would be possible. Cany anyone here give me some hint whether models like the Silhouette cameo or the Silhouette portrait would be able to do such small cuts or if I would have to invest even more cash for higher end machines? I cannot afford buying too sophisticated machines so currently I am hopping back and forth between Cameo and Portrait models. I sure hope at least one of them would be able to cut that small. What else besides the cutter would I have to consider in terms of hardware and additional stuff. Do additional blades and also extra cutting mats make sense? Many thanks in advance for any good advice and happy to be on board.
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