OK clever people I need some help painting the canopy on my bubble top p47. (Miniart 1/48). I’ve spent too much time masking and cursing. What’s your secret to painting the frame?
Thanks
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Bare Metal Foil works well for me . Burnish down , cut along frame/glass junction with a NEW SHARP BLADE and peel away foil from areas you want painted. Leave foil on throughout rest of finishing process including decal overcoats . Remove foil from glass areas with a wooden toothpick cut to a chisel point . Clean up adhesive residue with mineral spirits.
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Spend the money on the Eduard masks - makes the model look fantastic.
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What amazes me is that the likes of Miniart can make the smallest pieces in plastic and pe. So why can’t they make the canopy frame as a separate piece?
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I’ve only done this once, but it worked.
- Take a piece of decal paper for laser printers
- paint it in the color you need for the canopy(in my case green)
- once dry, cut it in thin stripes as required.
- Just put it on the canopy
I admit, I needed to put two stripes on top of each other to have it sufficiently opace. I took the note that I would put a black stripe first if i would ever do that again. But a I usually build jets I’ve never done it again.
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i’ve done this several times and it works very well but i only used it on straight frame parts. don’t know how i would do curved areas.
Joe
another trick that sounds counterintuitive for a canopy with many tiny windows in a frame.
Put masking tape on both sides of a single “metal” frame, paint it by brush, let it dry and do the next one.
It spares you from having to cut out every little window