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Painting green windows on single piece canopies using Tamiya Clear Green?

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  • Member since
    April 2006
  • From: Denver, Colorado
Posted by waynec on Friday, January 10, 2014 3:00 PM

i will have to try this.

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    January 2007
  • From: Pearl River, Louisiana
Posted by claudez on Friday, January 10, 2014 10:41 AM

I have found that future tinted with food color works out fine..

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    February 2013
Posted by Raven Morpheus on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 4:15 PM

Thanks, I'm going to give it a go tomorrow so I'll see how it goes.

I nearly had a disaster on my hands today whilst spraying some parts of the Academy 1/35 Bell 47 HTL-4 USCG I've been working on.  

I was taking the gravity feed pot off my airbrush to rinse it out and I didn't keep it over my work mat and at an angle so it wouldn't drip...

...and I dripped a couple of drops of Vallejo Model Air black on the tablecloth on the table I paint at (our dining room table)...  SurpriseOops

...luckily it came out in the wash!!

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    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:14 PM

Yes, masking off the rest and then airbrushing the inner surface of the greenhouse windows works just fine. You will need to thin the Tamiya paint as you do any other Tamiya paint for airbrushing.

 

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  • Member since
    February 2013
Posted by Raven Morpheus on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 5:34 AM

Yeah but if I dip the whole canopy I'm liable to get the clear green all over the canopy.  The canopy is looking a bit second hand already (due to my ineptitude in gluing a piece of plastic at the bottom to use as a tab to keep it in place).

I think I'll try what I'm thinking of doing, masking off the parts I don't need to paint clear green and then airbrush it, if I mess it up I can at least remove it with fairy powerspray if I need to.

According to a thread on Swannys model site I came across after posting here someone has had good results with un-thinned Tamiya clear green airbrushed in layers onto windows, so hopefully I'll be able to get the same results.

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Cameron, Texas
Posted by Texgunner on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 9:04 PM

You might be able to tint some Future with acrylic paint and dip them.  I had pretty good luck tinting a canopy pale blue.

Gary


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    February 2013
Painting green windows on single piece canopies using Tamiya Clear Green?
Posted by Raven Morpheus on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:56 PM

Hey there

I just realised that on the Revell 1/72 HH-3E Jolly Green I'm building that I need to paint the top windows of the canopy green.

I have some Tamiya Clear Green and I'm wondering how to go about it.

Last time I used Tamiya Clear Green was on the 1/48 ESCI UH-1D rotorwash kindly sent me, and I just dipped the two top windows into the paint because they're separate and I could do that (turned OK in my opinion, although I had to have a couple of goes at it, stripping with Fairy power spray in between).

So I'm wondering if this time, especially as the canopy is a single piece so I can't dip it, if I can mask off the the canopy inside and out with Taymiya tape, apart from the two top windows and then airbrush the Tamiya Clear Green onto the top windows on the inside?

Any tips on doing this would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

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