"Painting strategy question" Topic

I have a bunch of 1/600th B-17s to paint in green over gray. I was contemplating using an air gun to paint the bottoms gray. Then flip them over and with an air brush try to do a controlled spray of green from the top and hitting the sides.

I would then follow up with a brush to trim up the green gray line with gray, covering over any green over spray. Since I have 64 of these to paint, do you think this strategy will work to save time?

The idea is the underside should be pretty clean.

That's how I would do it… ;-)

Sounds like a good plan to me.

Seems like the quickest to get the job done.

64??? What rules are you using for such a massive air battle?

I do something similar with rattle cans, but I just primer the whole thing in the underside color, then spray the top/sides with the cammo color. If I'm very careful, no touch-up is necessary, and I don't have to try to match the bottom color with brush paints. Using an airbrush solves this problem for you, since you can just brush on the exact same paint you previously sprayed.

The all-silver late war scheme is much easier.

- Ix

It's a giant Check Your 6! game the bombers are just targets that the fighters will attack and defend. The trick is you don't move the bombers, just slide the fighters down stream each turn.

Ix I going to, but the scenario is March ‘44 the silvers are just arriving into the line.

After the bottom is dry, you could put them on a thin layer of cheap modelling clay. This would insure the bottom is protected. And clay only cost a couple of bucks and can be used for other things after.