I’m painting an Airfix 1.72 Buccaneer today. Spent last night w/masking tape prepping the canopy. As I’m finishing the second coat (I went the easy route by using a spray can), I notice that I didn’t mask off the INSIDE of the canopy…nice.
Doh! Time to break out the thinner.
pics or it’s not that bad as you made it sound. LOL!
We all done stupid stuff like these.
That’s pretty good! Not quite as handy as when I glued A-10 gear on backwards though.
Sorry mississippi
Thinner and future my bring it back.
Sorry to hear.
That said, I appreciate your post because It’s just so nice to know I’m not the only person who does stuff like this.
Sorry that it happened to you. It does remind us all of our own screw-ups, though.
I once very carefully listened to what was then an “old timer in the hobby” describe to my newby mind how to mask off a canopy with some “fancy tape” that was available back then. I think it was that black masking tape sort of stuff used to draw out circuit layouts on poster board?
Anyway, I listened very carefully, went home, masked off the canopy frames with the tape, remembering to tape over the back side with some larger tape.
Sprayed a great looking coat of Japanese Green on that canopy and let it dry. It was one of the Japanese Torpedo planes with allllll that glass framework.
It dried beautifully, no stray dust, or any blemishes.
so, I got out the tweezers and started removing the tape.
And then I almost cried.
I had masked off all of the frames, and the back side just great,and had done an excellent job of keeping the paint off of the frames, and laid a perfect coat of paint onto all of the windows.
I had accidentally combined the “painted tape for frames” tip with the “masking with fine tape, and then filling in the windows” tip.
That model set in the “box of doom” for a while, and then when people started selling Vac replacement canopies, I finally finished it.
Cheer up, Glenn,you don’t get to become an expert without making a few mistakes now and then.
Rex
Thanks, y’all. It’s one of those things I can laugh at after the shock wears off; especially since it’s fixable. At least this time isn’t as bad as when I grabbed a can of flat white when I meant to use Dullcote…
After you mask it off,glue the canopy to the model with white glue.Seals it up so that the paint cant get to the inside. 
I’ll have to try that next time. BTW, nice Buc! Is that the Airfix kit?
Yes the Airfix 1/48th version.
Very nice build, philo426~
Thanks!