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How do you paint machine guns sticking out or canopies?

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  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Sunday, October 24, 2010 8:15 AM

billy2cold

I do that and a couple of things happen, if I do a camo with the canopy included the gun ends up painted and when I touch up the gun it falls off inside the cockpit and it's gone.  What kind of glue do you use to glue the gun to a clear canopy?

Thanks,

Bill

I would use epoxy.  The other choice is the micro-glaze or similar, which is a weaker glue and may, as you say, come loose.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    April 2010
  • From: Nashville, Tennessee
Posted by billy2cold on Saturday, October 23, 2010 12:47 PM

I do that and a couple of things happen, if I do a camo with the canopy included the gun ends up painted and when I touch up the gun it falls off inside the cockpit and it's gone.  What kind of glue do you use to glue the gun to a clear canopy?

Thanks,

Bill

  • Member since
    August 2010
Posted by Iain Hamilton on Saturday, October 23, 2010 8:24 AM

Why not paint the gun completely, place in the canopy. Then, attach the canopy and mask the glass panels and the gun and continue on to painting the frame work? This may take some patients and acuracy in masking but should give you the result you are looking for.

  • Member since
    April 2010
  • From: Nashville, Tennessee
How do you paint machine guns sticking out or canopies?
Posted by billy2cold on Saturday, October 23, 2010 1:16 AM

I read where one modeler cuts the barrel off and reattaches it after the build or mask it or put the canopy after painting.  What is a good method?  Sometimes the machine gun falls off inside and there goes that.  Your thoughts please.

Bill

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