Painting Spinner Stripes

Try this....

 

Let say if the spinner is black and the stripe is white...

Paint the spinner white first. Then place the decal as you would normally. Don't place it for the duration, you'll want to remove it later. Then paint the spinner black(over the decal) and let dry. Then, remove the decal. Lift it with some mask tape. It should come right off. You should then have your white stripe where the decal was. Good luck

I used Microscale liquid mask for this just lastnight. Sprayed the spinner yellow over all. When dry coated with liquid mask. When dry used a new blade and scored the inner band. Used masking tape to remove portions of  mask I didn't need. Sprayed the red. When dry used the tape again to remove the the remaining mask. Worked like a charm.

Confession time – I've been absolutely terrible at this since I started modeling 30+ years ago. I recently finished the new Hasegawa Stuka and lo and behold, a spinner decal.

I fought with it for nearly two hours with no luck, I couldn't get it to settle down and line up, much less conform to the curves of the spinner.

I tried parafilm, not much better. I finally decided to try my hand at hand painting, which is relatively easy on smaller scales but pretty noticable on 1/32 scale.

I found a piece of brass rod that fit the spinner, chucked it in my lathe and adjusted the speed of the lathe as low as it could go. Then, with a liner brush and a steady hand, painted a line from the tip of the cone to the base. It was perfect, only had a couple of small touch-ups to make.

If you don't have a lathe, try a variable speed drill with a lock setting. The lower you can adjust the speed, the easier it is to paint the stripe.

Jeff