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  • Member since
    April 2006
  • From: Denver, Colorado
Posted by waynec on Monday, April 15, 2013 9:12 PM

assuming you are just masking the entire glass area and not the frame you might try liquid mask. probably too late for this but i have a couple of helos in the queue and it was suggested painting around the window opening a couple of mm with the final coat color. that way if you mask with tape it doesn't have to be 100%, ie a little tape overlap on the fusalage would still have the correct color underneath.

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Monday, April 15, 2013 12:23 PM

You could buy some masks for it, Eduard does a set.

www.hannants.co.uk/.../EDCX148

I have found there mask sets to be really useful for those multi pain windows. If i can't get hold of a mask, i always use tamiya masking tape and a fresh scalpel blade.

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  • Member since
    January 2013
Masking for Paint
Posted by eagle_fixer on Monday, April 15, 2013 10:47 AM

Guys...getting ready to paint my C-130H.  There is a lot of "glass" on this plane...my question is this...how or what is the best thing to use to mask off the "glass" for painting?  

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