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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: Rob Killick on May 25, 2008, 02:12:18 PM
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Hi ,
Short and simple (maybe?) .
How do the majority of you apply checkerboard patterns to your stunt ships ?
Thanks ,
Rob K.
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I did these checkerboards with a vinyl mask provided to me by Jim Snelson at Control Line Central. Worked perfectly!
http://www.clcentral.com/
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Hi ,
Thanks Ty and thanks Clint .
I really appreciate the help y1
Rob K.
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I have done checkers many times in the past. Use masking tape to mask out 1/2 of the checkers, (every other row and column) and shoot the color. Remove the tape, then mask for the remaining unpainted 1/2 of the checkers and shoot again. This allows one to do curved surfaces like cowlings etc. and is quite simple, only requires two masking tapings.
Don
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I'm afraid that I never seem to do square checkboard. I tend to stretch it around, bend it and try to get an illusion of movement (like a waving checkered flag). So I sketch mine out and use thin, fine line tape to tape it out, then mask and shoot. It works for me, but it's a lot of work to do the taping (or can be depending on how carried away I got with the design).
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Silver first, then taped off the red.
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Greg,
See, Greg understands. Just about like that. Very nice.
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Randy,
I probably don't understand.....I'm old, but I'm still learning.....I have a friend who is kind of like you and Sparky. He just looks at a plane and can give you 2 or 3 really cool ideas for a paint scheme. Me, I'm really a clunk, it takes me forever to decide what to do and I don't have a clue if it will look good or not. I just don't have the artistic flair. I try. The problem is you guys keep raising the bar higher each time I see one of your new planes. I would love to just come over and dig thru your scrap barrel, I'm sure I could find some junk there that would meet my standards. LL~ LL~ LL~
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Greg,
Last I checked, it wasn't a race. ;D
Sometimes I look at a plane and the paint scheme just comes to me all in a rush. I just follow the vision, as it were. Other times, I don't have a clue. I shoot a blocking coat and just try to let the shapes of the plane suggest something to me. And sometimes I struggle just as much as anyone. I look at this thing and nothing comes to me. I almost just left a plane in base white once because of that. Designer's block or something.
I spend a lot of time looking at a plane while building it, of course, but sometimes it's hard to tell anything until it's covered. Especially one of my "spidery" (as they've been called) structures. I do the best when I just let the shapes of the structure suggest a trim design to me. The new plane is really already mapped out. Should be very different compared to stuff I've done in the past.
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Ty, you'd know better than me. S?P
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<Greg, Last I checked, it wasn't a race.>
Randy,
Yeah I know, Just trying to give you a light hearted pat on the back. Cheers
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I tried something I had not done before on this last ship. You guys have probably been doing this forever, but I'm a little slow. When I wanted to plan the design I cut out some poster board in the trim shapes and sprayed them with my color choices and then laid them in place on the ship. Then I taped them down on the curved surfaces and that worked really well because I sure hated my first idea when I saw it in true color that way!
Will