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Painting nose spinners

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    January 2007
Posted by Gigatron on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:41 AM

If it's no too late, you may want to free-hand the red line (it can be thicker and/or sloppy, doesn't matter right now) and let it dry.  Go over it with some Future and let it dry, again.  Then, use a tape mask to cover over it.  Seal the edges of the tape with a bit of future and let it dry again.  Then spray with your yellow (may need a few light coats to get decent coverage).  When the yellow's dry, remove the mask and you'll have a nice, even, red stripe.

Now, as for why this method will work better - yellow has poor coverage and red is notoriously hard to cover.  Your best option is to lay down as little red as possible and then mask it off.  The mask is what will give you the sharp edges.  The future is to keep it from pulling up and the future on the edge of the tape is to keep the yellow from bleeding under.

-Fred

 

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    March 2003
  • From: USA
Posted by marzoo on Monday, December 14, 2009 7:48 AM

Thank you

Dave Marzola

  • Member since
    December 2002
Posted by Delbert on Monday, December 14, 2009 7:03 AM

Howdy Marzoo..

 

One way i've seen is to paint the spinner red.... then mask where you want the strip with a thin strip of tape and paint over with the yellow..... this way there is only 1 peice of tape to line up..

 

Delbert



  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: USA
Painting nose spinners
Posted by marzoo on Sunday, December 13, 2009 10:37 AM

Anyone have a technique on painting a middle strip on an aircraft nose spinner.  I want to have a red strip on a yellow P-51 spinner but can't figure out how to line up the front and rear tap masks. 

Dave Marzola

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