Fred's Breakfast Bar

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Re: Fred's Breakfast Bar

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After numerous failed attempts to mask the red and green bands on the propeller spinner, I settled on painting it red, then placing a garden hose washer over it, and painting the green band. The washer was soft enough that it made a good seal around the spinner without scratching the paint. It worked well, but it was pure dumb luck that it was exactly the right size!
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What a beauty. For doing bands around spinners,bombs, etc, I use a similar method. I brought myself an "O" rings set off Amazon for a less than a tenner.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/419PC-ASSORTED ... B0055O9LKG

Loads of different sizes that come in very handy for different scales. I used them on my 1/72 Airfix Mosquito.

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The are good for fixing leaky taps as well. :grin:
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Thanks, Sunray! Great tip! I used to have a drafter's template of different-sized circles for this sort of purpose, but I seem to have lost it. The washer made a decent stop-gap measure. :)

The Mosquito looks terrific, and the white bands are very neatly done!
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Very handy tip about using washers and O rings; cheers both!
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That’s one for the notebook! Great tip!
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dollar19 wrote:That’s one for the notebook! Great tip!
+1 from me, that is indeed a great tip! Spinners have quite complex curved shapes and I find them to be generally a pig to mask with tape. Ditto bombs.
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Beautiful work Fred. Love the weathering and used look. Great tips on how to paint the strip around a spinner. I had never thought of that.

For what it's worth, the way I had some success with painting spinners is by gluing a sharp blade to a piece of plastic the distance I want the strip to be at.
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I then use tape or even masking fluid to cover the spinner and then placing the spinner and blade on a flat surface and turn the spinner against the blade. It makes a nice straight line. All you have to do is shorten the plastic for the other end of the stripe, cut and remove the unnecessary part of the mask. Makes parallel line easy.

I use something like this to cut parallel lines close to edges for painting. A blade is glued to a bit of plastic sprue that has been shaved down a bit to create an appropriately sized gap and then run the blade along the edge of whatever I wanted a small strip on. In this case it is the leading edge of a rotor blade, however, it could be used for the leading edges of wings etc.
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Since the sprue is a small point it will follow curves quite nicely too. Just be gentle so as not to cut into the paint underneath too deep. :)
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Genius! Thanks, Paul! :)
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Nice Splinter Camo on the 109!

Very good idea to use O ring to mask spinners. Very good result!

Too bad about the First Mouse haha Does the second worm have a better chance with the Late bird??
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Brilliant idea using the washers! I'm adding that to my bag of tricks.


Any more pics of the mossie? Or a link to a thread? It looks beautiful!
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More baby steps . . .

Added the following to the Arado: wing struts, wing braces (for the folded position), water rudders, and under-wing bomb racks. Still to go: canopy, tail gun, boarding steps, antenna, and rigging. Getting there! :)
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Superb! Can't wait to see this finished!
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iggie wrote:Superb! Can't wait to see this finished!
Thanks, Iggie! I think I can say the end's in sight! ;-)
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Looks stunning, and it's not even finished!

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Yes, this is a superb build so far.
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