Smoking tips for the non smoker

Anonymous

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November 2005

Smoking tips for the non smoker

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 21, 2005 12:54 AM

I have a couple of canopy questions for you experts out there. I usually do WWII aircraft, but have slipped those surly bonds into an EA-6B and a Viking, both have tinted canopies and yellow edging around the frame. Does anyone have a good technique for smoking the canopies and adding the yellow edge-within-the-edge?

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 21, 2005 1:13 AM

i have been trying to tint windows on car models but have not had much luck with it so far

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tlivancso

Member since
February 2004
From: Connecticut, East of the River

Posted by tlivancso on Monday, March 21, 2005 1:31 AM

Hello Stugeorge633,

You want to take a look a Swanny's web site, he is the guru of tips and tricks and has a great section on tinting windows, here is the link to the certain tip

http://www.swannysmodels.com/Tinting.html

But I would recommend going through his entire site it is excellent.

Cheers
Thom

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 21, 2005 7:38 AM

I recommend Swannys site also. But I don't have the patience to try the method he does. I have used plain food coloring and future with good results. Swannys method is better but food coloring is just plain quick.

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zokissima

Member since
July 2003
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted by zokissima on Monday, March 21, 2005 9:48 AM

I have heard of people spraying Tamiya Smoke as a layer of tint.

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ckfredrickson

Member since
April 2003
From: Halfway back to where I started

Posted by ckfredrickson on Monday, March 21, 2005 10:51 AM

For the yellow framing, I seem to remember reading that you can get decal film that's plain yellow (or you could print/paint clear or white film to get the same). Tape two #11 blades together, and use that to cut thin strips of constant width.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 21, 2005 11:25 PM

I second Zokissima on this one. If you have a speady hand and decent da ab you can tamiya smoke those canopies

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