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Canopies Canopies, oh my!

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: United Kingdom / Belgium
Posted by djmodels1999 on Friday, June 13, 2003 8:57 AM
You might want to try sticking on some pre-painted, thin strips of masking tape (or a similar tape) onto the framework. Saves painting them all and all that aggravation..! I personally only use paitbrushes for this work (and my trusty cocktail sticks to scrape off excess, dried-up, paint... But the tape system works wonder.
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 13, 2003 8:55 AM
The only mask that works for me is scotch magic tape - the green one.
I de- tack it on my forehead or the palm of my hand then cut about 3mm of
straight strips to line the canopy frame, then just fill in the rest with the uneven
bits.
Burnish the tape with your fingernail and spray away.
The small strips go around curves nicely and if you fold over a little bit of tape on the overlaps removal is sooooooo much easier .
Another trick a friend of mine uses also uses the tape strips ,but the remaining area is covered with liquid mask.
A lot faster but doesnt always work.
  • Member since
    May 2003
  • From: USA
Canopies Canopies, oh my!
Posted by nsclcctl on Friday, June 13, 2003 7:57 AM
Before I left for work this morning, I make my usual round through my model room in the basement. There sitting in the morning sun are two completed Thunderbolts and all the 1:48 WWII birds and a new F14 I completed in 1:72. Sitting there on the bench, assembled and waiting for airbrushing are a 1:48 Tamiya birdcage Corsair, a 1:48 Messerschmidt, a 1:72 F18 and now an almost assembled Academy B24. Oh the B24. As I ponder the color possibilities from easy on the corsair to a challenge on the Messerschmidt back to easy on the B24, I try to ignore those canopies. Oh, the masking on that birdcage, the curves on that F18, the messerschmidt, did I mention that canopy? Finally, that B24 with all that clear plastic. Somebody help!!!!! I hate masking canopies. I have tried the liquid mask and can't figure it out. Somebody please expolain this liquid mask to me. When to do apply it and so forth. Please let me finish these so I can move on to my 1:700 waterline Hornet.
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