Painting techniques - stright lines

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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Hi all,

I’m painting a ship’s body, and need to paint long stripes with different colors. How can I do it so it’ll be stight and that one color won’t “ride” the other? What’s the technique?

Thanks!

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for this, I direct you to our good friend Masking tape. Put down a strip of masking tape (dont use regular tape, wil damage the paint) where you want the stripe. It will give you a clean line without touching the paint udner it. Search the forum for it, youll find a ton of stuff about masking tape, I couldnt live without it

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2" blue 3M Painter’s tape. It’ll hold a tight demarcation line without lifting anything underneath it. Plus at 2" wide, you won’t have to worry about overspray if you’re getting a bit heavy handed with an airbrush…

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Use colored decal paper…cut the stripes and place them on the model…why paint something so thin when you don’t have to?[2c]