Day Fighter Scheme document

[Guest]

stona: Thanks. I am now set for all the paintwork.

[stona]

." One modeller said he just makes the depth of the yellow paint in the dish = 4" and dips the blades in.

I paint the yellow blade tip first,covering slightly more than the area to remain yellow. Next I mask of the relevant amount (in 1/48 4" is only 2.1 mm) and paint the rest of the blade,black in the case of a British aircraft. Finally remove masking to reveal nice yellow tip.

Black will cover yellow whereas the other way around........good luck.

Many,many models have far too much yellow,sometimes about a scale foot!

Cheers

Steve

[BarryW]

I paint the yellow blade tip first,covering slightly more than the area to remain yellow. Next I mask of the relevant amount (in 1/48 4" is only 2.1 mm) and paint the rest of the blade,black in the case of a British aircraft. Finally remove masking to reveal nice yellow tip.Black will cover yellow whereas the other way around........good luck.

Many,many models have far too much yellow,sometimes about a scale foot!

Cheers

Steve

I use pretty much the same method. 1/8th of an inch (in real measurements!!) is about it on 32 scale aircraft.