Alright guys/gals, I need to phone a friend...
The time is coming where the chopper needs to be "Magnumized". I need to paint the fuselage. I'd like to share my plan of attack and get some feedback before I start.
My plan is to prime with either tamiya rattle can or tamiya liquid surface primer. They're both grey, it's what I have on hand.
I'm under the impression that yellow should be the first color and to paint the entire chopper. Once dry, mask over the yellow where I want yellow stripes. Next, paint over the entire chopper with orange. When the orange is dry, add more mask over where the orange areas will be. After orange is masked, add brown last (last before clear and decals, that is... I'm sure I'll have questions about that later).
A couple of my concerns are having too many layers of paint, yet I'm not sure having yellow under only some of the orange is a great idea- same with orange under only part of the brown. I also wonder if grey instead of white primer may spoil my egg.
My apologies for not posting this under the paint section but I'm sure there is plenty of know- how here to get some valuable feedback. Any thoughts?
Thank you for the help
T e d
Oh, I'll be using tamiya tape and this is the paint I chose (no, this is not a tamiya commercial- just trying to keep everything in the same family):
