Tamiya Tape: Love at First Slice

I like it too. My only mistake was in buying a roll of the widest size they make. Makes it tricky to pull off the roll in one length as it tears so easily in the middle. I'll buy narrower next time since I don't need it that wide anyway.

Get a roll of each, narrow and wide, to cover all your masking needs. Great stuff!!!

Handy tip: If you're using the dispenser, tape the two halves together otherwise the first time you drop it, the two halves fly apart instantly, launching your nice clean roll of tape onto the floor.

To prevent "bleed  under" , use a small brush and seal the edges of the tape with Future, before painting.  Works great!

Or use a cosmetic burnisher to press down the edges of the tape.  

Burnishing the edges works great.  I rigged up a burnishing tool using a hollowed out aluminum handle with a trimmed down chunk of teflon inserted into it.

floral arrangement tape is the same stuff and cheaper lol

if your painting canopies,  forget the tape.  too easy for paint to bleed through.  What I like to do is take dental floss and clear nail polish.   Put the floss over the canopy then "weld" it to the canopy with the nailpolish,  don't worry, the floss protects the plastic.   Do you painting,  then drop the canopy in a glass of Cherry Mountain Dew.  Let sit overnight and floss and polish are dissolved, but paint remains perfect.  I have won so many contests with this technique

Falcon10275

if your painting canopies,  forget the tape.  too easy for paint to bleed through.  What I like to do is take dental floss and clear nail polish.   Put the floss over the canopy then "weld" it to the canopy with the nailpolish,  don't worry, the floss protects the plastic.   Do you painting,  then drop the canopy in a glass of Cherry Mountain Dew.  Let sit overnight and floss and polish are dissolved, but paint remains perfect.  I have won so many contests with this technique

Will Diet Mt. Dew work too?

Falcon I would love to see the how to on that as I'm sure others would. No contest in my erea but anything. To make a canopy. Look better is always good.

I'm in the same boat RadMax8.  I've only used blue painters tape.  I picked up some tamiya tape last week and masked and painted a canopy for an apache I'm working on.  Far and away the best one I've ever done.  I'm hooked for life now.  lol.

same here, I was a big blue tape fan,  but now that i have tried Tamiya,  no going back.   Its an amazing product, especially with cockpit glass or any super thin masking areas.

only for the cherries here...

somebody sounds a little too "unconventional" shall we say