"Painting Austrian spiral flag poles" Topic

Does anyone have suggestions about painting the barber-shop spirals on Austrian flag poles?

This thread had some ideas such a twirling the pole while you hold the brush; laying the pole flat and painting one side, letting it dry and turning it over and painting the other side, and then touching up where they (should) meet; and using blue painter's tape although this was about a relatively wide, single spiral.
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A different thread about Austrian flags had one suggestion of using a black Sharpie first and then using red and yellow paint on either side of it.

So are there any other suggestions other than, "Very carefully"?

BTW, I thought I'd read such a TMP thread a long time ago about it but I couldn't find it.

I do horizontal lines instead; it's easier to do and it's similar enough for me. I also find spirals often end up looking 'messy'.

I tried doing spiral bands on a knight's lance.
First I painted the lance in its ight color.
Then, I tried to spin it slowly, like a lathe, and afvance the brush with the darker color up the shaft.
It was … not easy.
I suppose that with practice it could get easier. I simply gave up on painting spiral bands.

There was a thread a few years ago because I put this fellow on it:

Basically, I painted diagonal lines on one side, then turned the figure round and joined the lines up from the other side. Reasonably easy with practice.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Rob

GM's method works. I have done the same. Start with the white, then yellow in between the white, then fill in one side of the yellow with red and the other with black. Keep even spacing as possible. Make a few extra poles if needed to practice or discard. Don't try to match perfect scale of the striping….look for the effect on 25/28 and 15mm miniatures.

M aka WR
Merry Christmas for all.

P.S> for holding the pole….drill out a wooden block and place the flag/standard pole vertical for drying. Painted 40 or so in an evening last year.

Thanks to you and to any future respondents. Ho, ho, ho!

How do you paint a spiral on a model airplane spinner?
I'm trying to paint a black spiral on the spinner of a 1:32 scale FW-190 by wrapping tape around the spinner and painting over, but some parts of the tape keep coming off the spinner. I don't know if I'm using the wrong tape, or I'm cutting the tape at an incorrect shape (I cutting a wedge shape). The spinner is 1 inch in height from the base to the tip and 1/2 inch in diameter at the base.

On a 1:48 FW-190 I mounted the spinner on a rod, mounted the rod in my Dremel tool, and with the spinner turning SLOWLY, I painted the spiral with a striping brush.

On a 1:32 scale FW-190, I covered the entire spinner with 3M blue-painters tape. I covered it in pieces, burnished the tape tight to the spinner, and then CUT the spiral out of the tape. I added a THIN strip of tape to taper the spiral, and then airbrushed it.

Use Tamiya masking tape, best there is. In a pich you could try 3M blue tape and cut into strips. After you've applied it, use something(un-sharpened pencil) to burnish the tape down so it stays and paint doesn't bleed under it.

just spin it and draw a straight line down the side. it'll end up a spiral cause the thing is turning.

Carrage painters put pin striping on wheels by putting the wheel on a turn table, spinning the wheel and touching a liner brush to the wheel. With the pole or the spinner, I would put mount them on a cordless drill and set it on the slowest possible rotation and touch a liner brush to the surface moving itacross at a steady direction. Probably would take some practice to get the rate of lateral movement down.

I've always used Garrisonminiature's technique. Just hold the pole at an angle and run the brush up or down to get the angle, turn the figure around and complete the lines on the other side.

I had the same problem "spiral flag poles" with my 25mm French Army for my Napoleon in Egypt and the Holy Land.

During that period the French had spiral flag poles of Red White and Blue.

After doing two or three of them, they all looked like Jackson Pollock had painted them (they looked like ).

So I did all of them in Blue, like they were a few years later under the Empire.

>>So I did all of them in Blue<<

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