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Stripes are different sizes!! Hooobooy!

Wow. I can do that! Noooo problem!

Eager to see this come together. Keep building, my friend, keep building. Go with the OOB vibe.

Lyle! I could paint her in OD like the box art but I sorta kinda committed to the silver with all kinds of stripes theme. So many stripes! Command aircraft received a lot of stripes!!

speedgraflex wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 9:49 pm Stuart! Thanks mate I’m trying to decide if I brush paint silver—I think Humbrol makes a really great aluminum color as well. Is that your opinion? Humbrol and a flat brush, work small sections?

Humbrol do make some good metallic paints - especially in enamels (although I've recently sold off all my enamels and gone 100% acrylic). You could use a flat brush, that is the recognised ''norm'' with painting models, although personally I don't - I use a small round brush like a size 3 or 4 and just work the paint in all directions.

LyleW wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:03 am Wow. I can do that! Noooo problem!

You and me both. Piece of cake...


But it is interesting to see the stripes are different widths. Soldier on, Sir Bruce.... soldier on.....

speedgraflex wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:04 am
Stripes are different sizes!! Hooobooy!

Weird man, it's almost like they did not use a computer to design and cut their masks... bummer mon...

It kinda looks like the painter did one wide one from corner to corner first, then worked out from that one…

Nah, they are all the width of the brush except for the second from the front, where he must have messed up an edge and had to widen it to fix the mess.