Painting the white circles on tamiya 1/350 CVN65

[salenship]

There are literately over 200 small circles on the flight deck that should be painted white and I found the best thing to do it with. I went to Joann's fabrics and got a opaque paint marker fine tip made by Elmer's. It was amazing how fast & easy it was and it really made the deck stand out great. They have other colors as well and I am going to buy every color they make.

[DEBVD]

Any pictures to post??

[salenship]

It keeps telling me the file is too big, I will have to get my daughter to load them for me.

[MareNostrum]

Could you also include a picture of that Elmer product so I'd know what to look for? Thanks.

[salenship]

try this

[salenship]

not finished with it yet

[salenship]

Elmer's painters opaque paint marker fine tip

[salenship]

I am building the Tamiya 1/350 CVN65 and I came up with a cool trick for the arrester wires! I looped thread through like it says but I tied them long in the landed position, I then placed a split shot lead sinkers to them underneath the deck so now the weights pull the arrester wires tight on the flight deck. now you can pull them like a plane would then the weights will pull them back in. I then went one step more and hooked rubber bands to underneath so they have a back-up as well. Sorry I did not take photos of the set up before I glued the decks down. The only problem was minor, the second from the back gets caught between the deck and the hull so I filed the hull down just a little at that spot.

[sgtryan13]

I can give ya a even easier way to do the tie downs next time- use a good quality silver colored pencil. just give it a twirl inside each tie down, and you are good to go. Now I know that the tie downs were painted white, but they weathered VERY fast and were a dirty light grey in no time. With the silver pencil, you get the weathered light grey look perfectly with just a coat of flat over it.

Another benefit to the pencil is that the results are perfectly uniform. Not trying to be critical of your deck by any means, but in the close up photo below that shows the elevator, you can clearly see that the white dots are not uniform in their size or shape. This is no fault of yours, just the limitations of the size of the paint marker.

[MareNostrum]

Elmer's painters opaque paint marker fine tip

Thank you, now I know what to look for.