Have any of you tried using something called Vinyl Fine Line Masking Tape for Automotive Paint? It comes in widths ranging from 1mm to 4mm and is supposed to be used for doing pin striping on cars. The description claims that it is highly conformable and suitable for masking narrow curves. They also claim that it has a low tack adhesive that leaves no residue if removed within 30 minutes. Sounds promising.
Don’t know about the vinyl fine line, but the 3M green fine line, at least in the 1/4 inch isn’t that flexible for curves. Norton blue stripe tape is real stretchy, and the narrower widths like 1/16 or 1/8 may work. Think the Norton may be pretty much like the Tamiya white tape.
Yes, like a compass. Check google, amazon, or EBay
Thanks Nathan! I’ll check that out.
AND…not to be a turkey a month too early, but…
Get out a good fine point round brush. Pray on it.
Chuck the bomb in a clamp.
Paint a semi circle on one side. Flip. Repeat.
Stick the boomie thing on the bottom of the model.
FaF
Minimize or avoid caffeine intake before doing this… [;)]
Hi;
I am late here. My idea always works for me. take the Bomb or missile and chuck it in a battery powered large drill. Now take the finest brush you have, or a good brand paint pen. Lay the bomb in a piece of foam with a wedged trough cut in it. Make sure the part of the bomb you need to paint is hanging out the end.
Now slowly paint your stripes with that paint brush, dipped in the right color, or Pen of the right color. When done you will be running circles around any bomb you see coming at you! LOL. T.B.
I have a slightly different take of the bomb stripes. Here is a 1/72nd scale 105 I dd a while back. Notice the yellow stripe on the nose. I did that by taking and applying a thin strip of yellow decal film. Compare that to the bombs hanging on the plylon. I did those with the paint method (and pretty badly too [:(]).
I don’t know why I didn’t use the decal method for the bombs!?!
Actually it didn’t occur to me until I saw this thread. I hope this helps.
That works for me for WW II bombs. Dip propellor tips, too.
I find for prop tips on larger scales I need a bigger depth of paint than I get on a pallet. I fill the paint jar cap to the depth needed and dip to that.
In case it hasn’t been covered before, New Ware [the space guys] make sets of kabuki-tape masks for various configurations of 1/48 bomb stripes.
Victory Models carry much of New Wares’ stuff:
https://www.victorymodels.com/search?type=product&q=Bomb+stripes
I will make photo copies of the bomb decal sheets and use those as stencils to cut out my own masks.
I’d just keep the decal sheet and never use the decals. They should work forever…a 1/48 scale Mk 82 bomb will pretty much always have the same dimentions no matter who the manufacturer is.