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 markers and will give it a shot with them.
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?
Looking good Glenn.
For these types of stripes, I usually paint the stripe colour first, then mask with thin strips of Tamiya tape, then paint the base colour.
Works most of the time, and any slight inaccuracy in the "curve" is hard to see unless really looking for it.
I'm not a super modeller but one of my biggest bug-bear has to be painting neat circles on the nose of bombs! I've tried the masking tape way but there is always an edge of the masking tape that crinkles so you can't get a nice edge. Well I came up with a simple idea of making a balsa wood...
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.