I doubt it. I used primarily enamels in my 350 and never had any problems with that paint. It was various acrylics that gave me fits….
I wonder if I could use some pizza dough, I can do that very easily, doesn’t stick that much and it’s very inexpensive to make.
I find that ear wax works very well. 
Find some pepperoni the same diameter as the wheel hub. Spray the hub first and then mask with the pepperoni 
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Maybe for 1:100 scale, yes.
Some time ago I was a little careless while removing a piece from the sprue and left a nasty dent on a flat surface. Thankfully, the fix was right under my nose.
What lurks under the primer, stays under the primer.
About the pizza thing, I am Italian and I am dead serious. Add some flour and it won’t stick.
I swear I’ll try it as soon as I can.
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But why waste otherwise good pizza dough? 
Is this to mask things? Don’t you need the stuff to stick to be able to mask?
Just a little.
Anyway just like any good Italian I asked my mom and she told me I’m insane and that even with flour it will still leave sticky residue in the tight spaces of the wheel and that I should buy the putty instead.
Silly son and his “Putin’s tanks”, he never learns.
I found a piece on Amazon, colorless.
It’s rather big, how am I supposed to store it once opened? Does anyone have experience using it?
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I know that there is such a thing as masking putty, Martin Kovac (NightShift) uses it frequently.
Many ‘Silly Putty’ recipes consist of corn starch (bulk solid), white glue (binder), and water (solvent). That is very similar to bread dough which is flour (bulk solid ), flour gluten and/or egg white (binder), and water (solvent), so your instincts are correct. However, I tend to agree with you mother’s opinion that dough will get into little spaces and never come out. Egg white, if used, is a tenacious binder. Paints made with egg white last centuries.
Another option just occurred to me: Vallejo Liquid Mask
I bought a bottle of that stuff to experiment with but have yet to use it. I’ve used Micro Mask in the past with decent results. Pulling it up can be a bit fiddly.
In my opinion, a circle template is still the best option for wheels with Tamiya Tape coming in second. However, you are very new to all this and I highly recommend experimenting with different methods.
Edit: Preserving Silly Putty is as easy as misting it with some water and storing it in a plastic bag. Putting it in a plastic bag or container sitting on a slightly moist paper towel should work. Think of it like very slow drying water based paint. Painters use what is called a ‘wet palette’ to preserve water based paint which is essentially exactly what I just described. Over the long term, the stuff may become a breeding environment for mold fungi . If I recall correctly, freezing Silly Putty chemically alters the compound, destroying its useful properties, so don’t do that.
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Maybe I should just try the masking tape first , afterall I already have it.
Here is an easy experiment you could try:
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Find something in your house that is easy to pull masking tape off of. The lid off a cottage cheese or sour cream container will work. (Those things also make great paint palettes for acrylic paints.)
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Put a couple strips of overlapping tape on your chosen surface to create a square.
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Use a circle template or compass or the top of a spice container or whatever to draw a circle on the tape. Use something dark enough that you can easily see the lines.
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Pull up the tape square without pulling the pieces apart.
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Carefully cut out the circle as best you can.
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Stick your tape circle on any solid surface you don’t mind losing–a box, a piece of cardboard, a soda pop can, whatever.
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The next time you spray paint, hit your test surface with whatever color you are spraying.
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When it dries, pull up the tape and see how well it worked.
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Do the same thing with whatever other masking method you wish to try.
This exercise will give you working knowledge of the process. You will learn a bunch of little things instructors always forget to mention. Almost all the material for the experiment was going into the recycle bin anyway.
Experimenting is highly under rated. People always try to jump straight from ‘never done before’ to ‘perfect’ with very predictable results. (I am very guilty of doing this.)
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Honestly mate I think that the best approach is to just use masking tape. Super easy, do the @Canmedic technique, couple of passes with the airbrush, and just like that you’re done.
Just, for the love of God, buy some masking tape or a circle template and have done with it.
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Just a suggestion for PE in future builds:
Water soluble, parts can be positioned and any excess removed easily.
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Thanks for the recommendation! After reading your post I looked up this stuff, read some reviews, and immediately ordered some for testing.
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Its a no-brainer.
Ordered.
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So, I have my (hopefully) last doubts about this model, the bags and the camo net.
Here they are:
And here’s how they look on the box:
The cover on the front looks grey with some dirt on it.
The camo net looks green and the bag looks like a different shade of green.
There’s also a wooden box (not visible on the model’s package) which I remember being some kind of reddish/rust color.
There’s also the radio, which I have no clue about.
And the rear viewing mirror. Maybe some silver?
What do you think about those?
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The camo net is going to be natural color like hemp or Manila rope
The rucksack was issued in an olive green fabric and faded from the sun plus was full of dust from the environment
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You could stick some aluminum tape on for a proper mirror effect.
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