Would using a plastic rod work better than using a brush and if so what mm rod?
I wouldn’t think so but there is finger nail dot tools you can use.
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Possibly a crazy idea – a mask i.e. spray paint though very small pin-holes in a piece of paper held close to the part being painted? Would take practice on something that doesn’t matter.
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What Tim said has always worked well for me.
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Really?? Well…great! I’ve never had to do that pattern so was just guessing. Presumably the tricky part’s keeping the mask at a uniform distance (unintended pun) from the object to avoid getting an elongated dot when spraying on curved limbs i.e. always spray at 90 deg to the object.
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It was long ago, I wasn’t worried about keeping a pattern, just getting very consistent spots & dots that were sharp without overspray. I used thin strip of .010 sheet plastic with holes punched by punch & die. It was flexible so it was easy to position and could be taped in place if needed. It held up better than paper etc. The .010 mask was held against the model or taped in place etc.
The model was well received for it’s era but purist would get upset because one hole was doubled and looked like an hour glass. I liked it added bit of variation.
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Weren’t these dots painted with a brush on the real thing? So I would figure that the best way to do it would be with a brush, too.
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Jakko, that’s a great observation.
I can only speak from my experience doing this many ~30 years ago. The paints I had, the various “RAL 7028 Dunkelgelb’s”(Floquil, Tamiya & Polly S) out of the bottle were too transparent for me to effectively make a good solid dot with a paint brush on the Olivgrun RAL 6001 without leaving a little paint ridge on the edge of the dot from a heavy application required for coverage. I tested on the bottom of the paper panzer Panther II sporting the “ambush scheme”.
If I’d had some Humbrol the brush test might have worked to suit me.
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Oldskool way:
Toothpick,
Cut the tip to the desired diameter,
Soak the pick in the thinning medium of the paint your using ,
Than dip it in some paint (not to much)
Practice first on something else , ,
Than dot your panzer from a straight as posible angle .
My new way and super easy :
Get some AK realcolors markers in the correct shades.
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I like the paint marker idea. Sounds like it would work well, if it happend to be the right size.
I’m thinking a round rubber stamp could work well. You could make it any size you like,
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