Swanny turned me onto this solution for adding markings to missiles: Pactra tape! The stuff comes in a roll with six different widths. Swanny’s suggestion was for adding yellow stripes to bombs, but I figured it should work just as well for the black and yellow stripes on missiles.
The attached photo shows a Sparrow and a Sidewinder in 1/72 scale that are from the Monogram F-4J kit I’m building. I just laid these on the scanner and captured this image.
I used the thinnest width tape on the Sidewinders, and the 2nd thinnest on the Sparrows. I need to check my references, but I think I need one more, thinner, black band on the Sparrows, behind the front fins.
The tape looks thick on the Sidewinder, but that’s because the missile has raised rings molded where I put the tape. You can see another raised ring at the tail of the missile.
Regards,
-Drew
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