coolingthunder

ICM I-16 32001 Paint Masks for markings View File There was no option for the USSR/VVS so I chose specific aircraft. A quick scan and trace of the kit decals, I already cut them and it looks allright to me. Enjoy! Submitter coolingthunder Submitted 03/07/2023 Category Specific Aircraft  

Thanks guys! I have tried by cutting masks the old school way and then scanning them in, just struggling to find how much smaller I should make them for the inside. I tried a fairly basic canopy, and that worked more or less okay, also tried the new Kinetic F-16AM (no masks out for that one yet), but the extremely complex curve of that canopy (it's one giant bubble) makes it hard to do. I made something that kind of works, but not sure if it is good enough. I have found that the automatic tracing feature of Studio is not really amazing, it struggles making right angles where needed, tends to round them off, and straight lines can go a bit wonky.

So as the title says, basically... I have successfully traced a few old and yellowed decal sheets and made pretty decent masks out of them, but that was scanning and auto-tracing (or manual for the tricky bits). But I always have something to trace. Of course you can't really stick your canopy in the scanner and do it that way. (I guess you could do it once but it wouldn't be that useful...) Sooo then how do you guys (and the masking companies) do it?