F-86 of Capt. Charles McSwain Suwon, Korea (1953)

[Wurger]

There isn't the best way Harry. Either you may use a masking tape or make your own decal strips. Both ways requires some of patience. Each of them is a mixed blessing.

 

[B-17engineer]

Will have to figure this out with masking I suppose!

 

[Wurger]

Harry, if you decided to use the masking tape, the way of making these strips is the same you use for applying of the bands on fuselages for instance. The difference is that you have your model painted silver. You have to protect the already painted areas and limit the applying of the yellow colour to areas of the strips. Look at these pics. The guy painted the D-Day strips using the Tamiya masking tape. Because these invasion bands consisted of white and black strips , the white colour was applied as the first. However you don't need to apply the white colour because you has already applied the silver one, right. One tip though. Your strips are of the yellow with thin black strips at edges. As a result you have to either paint the yellow colour as the band of the total width (= black+yellow+black) and then apply the black colour over the yellow paint masking the right, yellow strip of the correct width with a strip of the masking tape. Or you may apply the yellow strip of the correct width ( only the yellow ) and then apply ( attach ) the black narrow strips at the side edges of the yellow bands. I hope this can help.

Pictures : Artur Domański at the Modelarstwo z pasj? ? Zobacz w?tek - P-47 - Stalag Luft III - I Wanted Wings (Tamiya 1:48 )

 

[Rogi]

I did this one for our group builds, masked almost everything and painted, here is a link, I used Tamiya tape on a 1/72 Sabre. Post 75 has some of the results:

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/-19-aircraft-nose-art/1-72-86f-aircraft-nose-art-gb-38019-5.html

It is a tedious process

 

[B-17engineer]

Thanks guys! Im going to spray all yellow (including the black edge) and then mask the black

 

[Lucky13]

Best of luck H!

 

[Wurger]

Yep ...

 

[B-17engineer]

Paints are on the way.....So then hopefully I can get this guy done and start on a P-61 I've been itching to do

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far Harrison!