Invasion stripes

Mike, I believe that there was an FSM article on this a few years back. I can't remember which one it was right now but maybe someone will come along with it later.

E

Painting the stripes first strikes me as being a bit easier to mask.  And if your Thunderbolt is going to be natural metal finish, painting them first alleviates the headache of masking over NMF.  The biggest adavantage that I can normally see in painting things in their actual paint order would be so that you could paint the top item lightly and let the under color show through to simulate weathering.  In the case of invasion stripes, they usually looked pretty good, so I don't think that you would want to weather them in that manner in any case.

Andy

Hey Mike,

I think the article the guys are referring to might be this one. http://www.finescale.com/fsm/default.aspx?c=a&id=551

If not that exact article, it still looks to be a good reference.

Cheers,

Phil