"Frisket -- anybody use this stuff" Topic

Does anyone out there use Frisket in their modeling / painting?

Any advice or cautions you can give me?

mjc

Its not too good on wheat toast

Not for a long time. Useful in model railroading for paint schemes.

Allen

Could you let us know what it is? sounds interesting

Lowtardog,

Please excuse my general ignorance on this subject. I know very little so any comment I make may well be misleading.

As I understand the stuff, it comes in a liquid form and a "film" form. You use it for masking and to create special effects (well maybe -- that's what I'm trying to find out about).

It's kind of like those masking kits you find in some of the Eduard Kits -- I think.

Sorry, not much help.

mjc

THats pretty close to what I thoguht it waqs, many thanks. I think it must be some fomr of masking paper? and form memory was used for printing and type setting. I suppose there must be a modelling version for airbrushing or some such?

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Allen

I've used frisket paper on several model kits to help me get sharper lines and sharp edged camo (like on 1/72 Hu-87 Stukas's). I scanned a camo pattern from a model kit's instructions and then ran the paper side of the frisket paper through my printer for multiple identical patterns I could cut out and use as a mask when I airbrushed a whole bunch of them. Not bad for relatively flat surfaces. It's very low tack so it won't' lift paint, but you have to burnish it down and then get to painting as it's lack of tack will cause it to lift far more quickly than masking tape.

One last thing, you can get it at most arts and crafts stores like Michaels and such.

It's a masking agent that comes as a stick-on paper or as a rubber cement-like substance that you paint or trace on.

What is the smallest plane it would work well on?

1/144th, 1/100th, 1/72nd scale?

I usually use 1/600th or 1/300th – I wonder if it would work on those scales at all?

Gracias,

Glenn

As I understand it frisket is american english for masking fluid.
This stuff is rubber solution.
I've masking fluid a fair bit, but for watercolour painting.
With watercolours the white is supplied by the paper – unlike acrylics you can't paint white over colours and expect it to work.
So you mask off lighter bits, do your wet on wet sky or field over it and let it dry.
You then rub off the masking rubber with your finger or a special sort of art rubber ( eraser to yanks ).
That laves the pattern you applied the masking fluid left on the paper in pristine white.
You can then glaze or whatever over.
For a scene with a tree in the foreground you can flick dots of masking fluid on first, wet in wet the foliage then use somem splodges for really bright leaves with the light hitting them. Or lines for light sort of zinging through the foliage in beams.

I do know for sure it'll rag your brushes in one go if you're not careful.
You're best using the longest haired brush you own – riggers for watercolours.
Wet the bristles, work in some soap before dipping in your masking fluid.
This stops the rubber getting into the ferrule since if it does you can prety much bin your brush.
Work fast!
Wash the brush frequently and make sure you dump it in a container of water if you're interrupted.

For models I dunno.
For 1/35 they do transfers designed to mask an area and be sprayed through.
I thought these were usually attached with low tack masking tape though.

If you get masking fluid in low detail I would think you'd have problems removing it.

In the states, ,there is frisket paper, usually sold in typing paper sized sheets with several sheets per pack and in the states it's distinct from masking fluid or Liqui mask-type products. I've used it on planes down to 1/100 scale with no problem, I'm not sure how well it would work at 1/600 or 1/300.

I use frisket paper for striped lances. Prime them white, cut a thin strip of frisket, wrap the lance like a candy cane, lightly spray it with a the second color (like red), peel off the frisket, and they are perfect.

Lucius,
Thats how we paint our jousting lances, the same way. I just laughed when I read that.