By way of an introduction to the forum here are a few of my previous builds, up until now I have been using commercially available paint masks for my builds. I am hoping to change that with the recent purchase of a Cricut Explore 3.

 

HobbyBoss 1/48 Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat (all markings painted using a Montex vinyl masking set)

 

 

 

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HobbyBoss 1/48  F4F-3 Wildcat (all markings painted with the exception of the Squadron badge, serial numbers and 'US Navy')

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Eduard 1/48 Fw190D-9 (all markings painted with the exception of the small stencils)

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Duncan B

Lovely work, Duncan!

 

I took the liberty of fixing your image links for you. The forum software no longer supports bbCode (the stuff in the square brackets), so you only need to paste in the direct image URL now.

 

So instead of this:

 

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... you just need this:

 

https://photos.smugmug.com/Box-art/Edit/i-vhmdK7b/0/MZ4K8nhBNm4K7WLjPRK8Xh883GSmPvF7fjgC9pLDz/L/IMG_1978_zps6vdg9iwd-L.jpg

 

Kev

Hi Duncan, and welcome aboard.  Nice intro.