How to paint the tip of a spinner?

[Guest]

Hi all;

Just putting the finishing touches to my Promodeller Me-410, and hit a bit of a snag. The front half (the 'nose') of each spinner is red, and the rear half is green. How do you paint the red half? There is a panel line around the spinner that shows where the demarcation is, but since masking tape is straight rather than curved, I can't see how to mask it!

Any ideas?

[Guest]

There is a solution Snapper. John in the shop has .4mm. this you can gently stretch around the spinner.

Laurie

[Guest]

if you are going to spray it, roll a tube of paper..straight tube...to the correct size to fit over the end of the spinner.

Obviously sized to fit tightly at the required paint line.

Might take a couple of tries to get it right.

Glue the tube so it stays rolled up.

If you can't hold it in place, and spray at the same time, then apply a little contact cement inside the tube

to make it stay. Once the glue is dry and tacky, push it onto the spinner.

if you plan on brush painting...it still might work, but you'll probably have to do the glue sticky idea

to avoid bleed and underpainting.

A trick we use in airbrushing, when spraying paint against masking edges, is to spray a quick coat of

clear following the edges of your masking tape

...and then spray your paint colour.

The clear seals the edge of the masking where it contacts the surface and stops the colour from bleeding under the edge.

Any clear that does happen to bleed under the masking edge is much harder to see and easier to accept!

[Guest]

I'd just brush paint the red on. A steady hand and a nice thin natural hair brush and you're away

[flyjoe180]

Yep, hairy stick time.

[Guest]

well, if you handle a paintbrush like me, you'll tape it up and spray it! LOL

I may have misunderstood which half is green, and which half is red.

Obviously my suggestion is for painting the inner half, closest to the engine.

[Guest]

You can try masking it with Maskol

[Guest]

Cut a thin strip of tamiya masking tape so it's basically a thread or string of tape.

Stretch and stick to where you want it (i.e. in the groove of the panel line you mentioned), then add a few more lengths of thin tape backed onto the first, gradually working to a point where you can use thicker bits.

Hope this helps

Stuart

[Ian M]

I poke a hole in a used latex glove and then pull it down over the item to be sprayed. Works for me on most things that need a band or tip.

Ian M

[stona]

I've tried masking initially with a very thin tape, Ian's latex glove trick, sliding a rubber grommet over the article to be masked and even dipping the spinner.

I tend to go with the fine masking tape these days, though if you can make a really good, straight, cut in the finger of a latex glove that method works too.

Cheers

Steve