Having never been a fan of decal slime lights, I tought about painting them in. I don’t know if anyone makes that color, but my idea was to use a glow in the dark paint. I had seen some in a fishing catalog, so I knew it would be waterproof but have not seen it since. Yesterday I found a water based gel paint made for fabrics by Plaid at Wal-Mart so I gave that a try. It went on goopy in it’s natural state and brushed easy enough. I’ll try thinning with water on another application. I was using an old snap-together kit from my son’s ceiling collection. Results were mixed, as I was painting over the gray of the model. I’m thinking a white base coat first will work best. The raised panel lines were a plus to the application because they held the paint where I needed it. Color wise, they are a little too yellow-y for actual slime lights, but for this plane, it was just cool to see them “flying” with their form lights on!
That’s a cool idea…
I’ve seen several different colors of glow in the dark paints, maybe a mixture of two or more will yield the desired color.
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CAM Decals makes modern US aircraft decals that come with the glow strip lights. THe decals are Excellent and really do glow in the dark, but shine really brightly under a black light.
They are available from BrookHurst hobbies.
Don
Don,
You’re kiddin’ me, right? These decals actually glow in the dark? Glowing decals… wow
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really?
It’s true, got a set for an F-14 I’m in the process of building.
A big orange Aardvark on the tail and glowing slimelights - class!
Blackwolf
I gots me a set of those deckals. I’l try and locate them (yeah, right) and bring them to the next coffee clatch meeting.