Please help a novice with masking/painting canopies.

[Guest]

Hi Malcolm, Using Bare Metal Foil is not as time consuming as cutting strips of tape, I cut one piece large enough to cover the entire canopy , burnish it down then cut where I need to cut, I can do any canopy in less than 5 mins easily.

Adrian

Adrian,

I was referring to covering an airframe not a canopy, Bare-metal foil was originally produced as a way to reproduce an aluminium finish on models,(other finishes such as chrome were also available). To use Bare-metal foil,the foil was cut into panels representing the actual panels on the aircraft the pieces were then burnished down onto the airframe,the major difficult was making tidy joints between the panels, rivets would then be embossed using the teeth of a razor saw. To cover even a small model took many hours of work.as you were covering it panel by panel.

Malcolm

[Vaughan]

PDS I use this method. Using thin strips of tamiya tape and then fill in the gaps with larger pieces. This avoids cutting the tape in situ and damaging the canopy. Hope this helps

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