Quick progress report on the Hurricane - dark green camouflage pattern (Humbrol 163 slightly lightened up with couple of drops of white) has now been applied. After frustrations with masking of the Spitfire, at first I tried to make life easier for me and gave the Blu-Tack a try. For those unfamiliar with Blu-Tack, it's a sticky mass used to... well, stick things together. The advantage of this material is that it isn't 'permanent' and can easily be removed from surfaces. At one time or other, some brilliant modeler realized that this stuff could be rolled into a 'sausage', which in turn could be laid out on the model surface and used to demark camouflage lines. There is plenty of movies on Youtube demonstrating this technique, so take a look at it if it sounds like something you could use.
In case of my Hurricane, I had however to go back to masking with transparent film. Don't know if it's the porosity of Humbrol acrylic paint or perhaps the formula of domestic variant of Blu-Tack is a bit different, but it turned out that when placed on the already painted upper surface of the model, the sticky mass 'sausages' left a light-greish discoloration that was almost impossible to remove or scrap away. I will definitely try this technique again in the future, but on this occasion it was a 'no-go'.
Once the masks were in place, some airbrushing did the rest of the job. Addition of dull green didn't make much to improve the appearance of the model, but it's at least now looking properly 'military'.
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