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Painting nameplates for ships
ron_harris
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Manitoba, Canada
Member Since: February 10, 2002
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 03:40 AM UTC
Hi all;
I decided to depart from armor and do a couple of 1/700 scale ships and was wondering if anyone had discovered a quick and easy way to paint those little nameplate things they like to throw in the kits. Or do you just toss them?
The only way I can think of is to lay off the coffee for a morning and use a steady hand after the background colour is dry and try and paint the raised lettering.
If anyone else has an idea that might work better or easier please let me know.

Thanks;

ron
BROCKUPPERCUT
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Rhode Island, United States
Member Since: October 29, 2006
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Posted: Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 02:00 PM UTC
how about this : paint the lettering with the color you want in enamle . let dry. paint everything with an acrylic , wipe off acrylic from lettering . im not a pro , maybe practce first . theoreticly it should work
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