masking curves

KJ.......
.....'zactly Woodbeck
nice paintwork.......

......."great" modelling minds (unlike my own) think alike......

Take a mirror or something, any piece of glass. Put a piece of tape longer then you need and put it on the glass sticky side down. Take a sharp blade and cut a very narrow strip of tape and put it on the model to outline the place to be painted. then with bigger pieces mask of the area to be painted.
This is how I painted the nose on my stang... it 48th scale though.



-Jeff

Guys, Rik is exactly right in what he says about using thin tape, but I have found that sometimes even this is just too thick.

An alternative is to take a piece of wide masking tape, wider than the area that you are masking, and draw the shape that you wish to mask on the tape. Then taking a very sharp Xacto blade cut the shape out.

A good idea is to stick the tape on a piece of glass or a ceramic tile, and to keep the knife balde in the same position while guiding the tape under the knife.

You can buy good quality masking tape from hardware stores in rolls up to 2 inches/5 CM wide.

Karl

Hi, I have seen references to "fuse wire" in many articles but I can't find out just what the stuff is. I know it is some kind of fine wire used for detailing. I have asked at two Radio Shacks around here and no one knew..but I have received a reply from another source who said RS carries it. What might be an alternate name for it and what gauges does it come in?

Thanks to all for your help, Bob Beary

..........if i'm understainding correctly lito.sf, you're wanting to mask a miniscule area on a compound curve ?????.........
my ......art supply &/or drafting supply stores sell chart tape......a very very very narrow tape product, relatively inexpensive, with sufficient adhesive for modelling projects.....
point being.......the narrow tape will form easier around complex surfaces........
or
give Tamiya tape a try.......it's quite thin.......and cuts like a dream and you could make your narrow strips from it...........

hope this serves your purpose

yes, i would also like to know about this. ive seen this done by the guy who paints the bikes from occ.