BR Resin Spinner - painting help

Antenociti · Post by **Antenociti** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:44 am

I've got a couple of these http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 6627520730 blade runner spinners which are roughly 28mms cale or 1:58 and cast (not that well) in solid polyester resin.

After cleaning them up and getting decals printed (the bits with the kit are just printed onto sticky paper) and re-producing all the small components ( impossible to remove from the big blob of overcast resin onto which they were stuck) its now undercoated and ready to paint.

I'm intending to airbrush it using prismatic sapphire alclad 2 with an ovecoat of a deep blue to get a nice metallic blue.

My questions is concerning how to paint the canopy area and in what order to do so:

One option I am considering is to do the canopy area in prismatic red or gold to represent a "gold" layered canopy area similar to some aircraft. With that or any other covering i'm sturggling to work out how best to paint it and maintain clean lines for the cockpit lining strips (which are very thin and raised) and so on and so forth.

I've got various liquid maksing fluids, masking tapes and so forth in the arsenal but dont often do this sort of model so any tips would be very much appreciated.

Post by **TER-OR** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:27 pm

Wow. That might be tricky.

You've got a few options. A nice pliable masking tape like Tamiya is a good option, and shouldn't damage any finish.

Another option is to find some decal film the color you want and apply it later - most cut very well in the wheel-type paper cutters.

Liquid mask can work, but it gets progressively more difficult over long areas, in my experience. It works great for greenhouse-type canopies, but with a good sharp curved blade you might make it work.

Lt. Z0mBe · Post by **Lt. Z0mBe** » Fri May 12, 2006 12:34 am

What about masing with Silly Putty? Works like a charm and won't attack finishes. Don't use too much, though, or it will run down a bit.

Kenny

Antenociti · Post by **Antenociti** » Fri May 12, 2006 4:28 am

Ordered a load of the pre-cut tamaiya masking tapes from HLJ as i've got multiple uses for that anyway!

Post by **TER-OR** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:40 pm

I use a couple widths of the Tamiya tape, it's very convenient to have the thinner tapes on-hand.