Aircraft Recognition and Formation Lights

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Techniques
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Many aircraft have lights. On WWII aircraft they used a series of lights for night time recognition and many have various lights for formation flying at night. Many times these are represented on models as mold lines or molded in the plastic. I came up with a tutorial on how to make these more realistic using Acrylic Gel Medium and Tamiya clear paints. You can see the tutorial on my website at https://davidsscalemodels.com/tips-and-tricks/recognition-lights/

Here are some pictures to see how they look:

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They look great.

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Thanks for posting, they look great. I noticed in the link to the acrylic gel on Amazon, people are also buying Mod Podge with the acrylic gel. I have a ton of Mod Podge, do you think that would work in place of the Liquitex version?

Any thoughts on doing wing tip lights? I use clear sprue or plexiglass; drill out a bulb and paint with transparent red/green. But at 1/72 it’s pretty fiddly!