I went to the Air Force Museum in Dayton this last weekend, stopped along the way back home to see the total eclipse, and attempted to paint the yellow rings on a couple of bombs with a yellow paint marker.
The museum was wonderful, the eclipse spectular, (although I couldn't get a photo of the...
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No more work until next week. I'm off to Dayton to the Air Force Museum. It's been far too long since I was there and they've built a whole new hanger since then. I'll also be able to see the eclipse on the way home Monday.
Thanks George, I put it o my watch list just in case, but I'd have to think twice before spending that much for bomb markings.
Hopefully the paint markers will work out, don't know it they will, it's just an idea I had.
Has anyone had any experience using them?
The bomb production line is up and running again, brass rod for fuses installed and painted with OD.
I tried to hand paint the yellow stripes as seen in the second and third pictures on one of the 250s, but it looked like cr@p so I wiped it off with some thinner. I ordered some fine tip paint...