Canopy Painting.

I've masked off my Tomcat canopy (did this quite a few months ago). I've been racking my brain on how to keep paint spillage from getting under the canoopy and ruining the canopy from the underside.

I'm just wondering if a blu-tak sausage shaped to fit under the canopy would be sufficient enough in keeping paint spillage from getting on the canopy inside? Or should I turn around and put Tamiya tape under the canopy to absolutely prevent any seepage at all?

These are the questions that I've been asking myself because the whole point of trying to figure out each and every step has not been crystal clear to me. A lot of people may say that might be a bit too much "thinking" on a hobby, but well...I don't like making mistakes. But maybe a part of this hobby is to learn as you make mistakes. ~sigh~

I'm going to have to strip the cockpit again so that I can actually turn around and prime the whole cockpit with grey primer. Then apply some tape to the sections that I want painted control surface black.

My wife gave me an idea of saving some "baby food" jars and using them to mix paint...or set up the mixture of thinner/paint for flat finishes of Modelmaster Int. Black (3 parts paint to 1 part thinner) (according to Testors = Gloss; 3 parts paint to 2 parts thinner. Flat; 3 parts paint to 1 part thinner)

Still Need To Finish That F-14

I really need to get going on that F-14A Tomcat that has been languishing on the model shelf for quite some time. But first of all I'm going to have to strip the paint off the stuff that I've already done because they didn't come out the way I wanted it to.



I would like to strip off the paint on the cockpit tub and the instrument panels because they should have been done with flat black...and would have turned out better with grey primer. And I did a somewhat passable job on the canopy with the masking off. That may allow me to paint a flat black...allow it to dry and then spray a coat of gloss gull grey over it. I'm going to need to get a spray rattle can of flat black. I have yet to set up my airbrush. Maybe I can see if this F-14 will prove that I can actually do this hobby. I guess it's gut-check time.



Well, at least I do have several of the paints that I need for this. FS16440 (Gloss Gull Grey) and Flat Black (I would like to make sure that it comes out flat black), the last two times, it's come out glossy.