- Member since
April 2005
- From: Baton Rouge, LA
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Posted by T_Terrific
on Thursday, December 15, 2005 3:31 PM
Well, lessee, the Monogram P-40 I built had the numbers and "meat balls" for the stars to build it pre-war, but I chose to build it early war without the striped rudder.
So I would just seek an AM decal set that looked like it might do the job as far as American star sizing and scrounge some numbers and letters, etc. As for the rudder the red/white/blue scheme is so easy to paint, I frequently throw the decals away since they hardly ever fit right anyway, and have the rudder's edge the basic color, so I have to touch it up anyway. All I do is paint the rudder Modelmaster Insignia white, then hand-paint some insignia red horizontal stripes, and finish off with an insignia blue vertical stripe. Since it is nothing but straight stripes, I don't even bother to mask, since the touch-up is so simple. A Testors No. 1 brush does the whole job.
If someone points at a wrinkle or something, I just say "Let's see you do better"
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