Hi
Well it started out as a question but its grown to Questions...lol

For my second PX entry I plan to do a Fw TL Entwurf 3 in almost all metal.
I ask once I've applied the base ally colour how does Humbrols metalcote take Tamiya masking tape?...i.e. is it tape safe?

The plan is to tint the residue of the first base colour with other shades of metalcote to vary the shades of panels.

Also I assume it best to polish "after" all the shades of metalcote have been applied or ...is it better to polish as you go?

And having used metalcote for the first time on the 1st PX entry....After the camo was applied I masked off and brush painted steel colour to the exhaust nozzle. This dried very flat and when polished with Q-tips and soft yellow duster it was transformed, it really did look like metal. After that I futured and decaled and futured again but when I sprayed the dull coat on it was still ok but it had lost that first un-coated metal look.
So...after getting my breath back....I ask can you decal straight onto the polished metalcote without future and flat coat? And can future be painted over?

I ask because if I'm doing an all-ish metal job how do I retain the look of the buffed-up metalcote under the future and matt coatings?

Thanks and cheers
Peter

:-) :-)
Well...looking at the amazing response it looks like I'LL have to experiment.

[Clutching handfulls of metalcote tinlets and masking tape Flitzer disappears in to the oblivion muttering "I will do a test...I'm good to you...."...all in the interests of science of course.

I have a pair of gash fuselage halves from an old Airfix MiG 21(Now what did I do with the wings?).
I'll do four or maybe three sections, each with a slighly different approach and report on the results.

Will do pics if anything worthwhile comes out of it.

Cheers
Peter
:-)

Wish I could share some wisdom Peter, but I have never tried to mask over metalcoat.
So let us know how it turns out.
As for appling decals without a clear coat, I have done that with out a problem. Depends on the quality of the decals and the smoothness of your polishing.

Thanks Dave..
I'm about to digi-cam the results and will post soon.

Considering the way the sample piece was rushed, the results are quite impressive.
More soon.

Cheers
Peter
:-)