I want to try my first Ambush style camo job on a Revell 1/72 Panther. I'm going to attempt the version with the small lines scattered on the larger portions on red-brown, green, and dark yellow. I don't know if this version has a name, it's not the one iwth the large dots. For those of you who have completed this scheme successfully, did you somehow airbrush these marks on or did you use a handbrush? It would seem to take some precise masking to use and airbrush. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

TIA...Kevin

Good LUCK in 1/72 scale

I don't really know what you're talking about. Maybe you should give an image as an example.
I painted my ambush scheme (the one with the small dots all over the vehicle) with a normal brush, since the dots look more irregular if you avoid airbrushing them.

Its called Ambush pattern, and It usually was factory applied Hard edged. Which means either brush painting or masking. The dots can be done with a brush, or which a homemade paper stencil, up to you really. For Airbrushing the hardege I would use Silly Putty as a masking agent.

HTH

ekke, I'll try and find an image to post. I should've done that first since my powers of description are definitely lacking.

Sticky, do you mean the larger patterns, not the dots, were hard edged?

Thanks, guys!

The whole pattern was hard edged dots and stripes.

Most ambush patterns were hard-edged with scattered spots of contrasting color, but there definitly were some with soft-edged patterns. A 'striped' pattern is misleading - they were more like wavy-edged irregular shapes. A really challenging and almost impossible pattern in 1/72 is a cloud pattern composed of interconnected and overlapping circles, obviously done with template in the factory. See the PzJager lV/70 illustration in 'my photos'.