beartown550
Airman
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- Jan 28, 2020
Looking for paint brands and color choices for wing navigation lights.
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This sounds like a real good way to go. Thank you !!There are also 'clear' paints available, in both acrylic and enamel, in red, green, blue, yellow etc, with Tamiya and Humbrol being the ones I use.
These can be used where the clear lamp over is tinted, rather than the actual bulb.
I know that red is port side,and green is starboard, where were the blue and yellow lights used?Usually the lights were/are blue, green, red or "white" ( clear). To be honest any kind of paints can be used but these gloss colours seem to be better than the matt ones The set of colours depends on the plane that is going to be replicated. The paint should be thinned in order to get the quite transparent tone. The thinned coat can be applied either on primed with a gloss grey paint, the light cover ( moulded at the wing tips ) or on the ones made with the clear polistyrene if the light cover was made of the colour glass. Of course you may use the glass of the correct colour too.
However if the lampshade was clear you have to drill a small hole in that to imitate the colour bulb inside of the clear part before attaching it to the wing tip. Also the hole has to be filled with the correct colour firstly.
Here a couple of examples found in the net...
Making colour and clear light cover
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the clear cover without the colour bulbs..
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the clear cover with the colour bulbs ...
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The pic source: the Internet.