Pete S-RCU

I'm painting my Panther and want to paint the ensignias on.
I made a plastic outline template of the star/bar. If I put masking tape over the area and use my plastic template to cut out the center area, paint it white. Mask the white area's, the bar and star. Then paint the blue.Remove tape and paint the two little red bars and I'm done.
That's my plan, any easier or better ways to do this?
I was thinking of the 3M blue masking tape, not sure how easy it is to cut with an exacto though.

Richard Buescher

Since I am in the same boat right now, I would just call Jerry at Pro-Mark. All you have to do is tell him the diameter you want. He will make a vinal paint mask that works very well. All you do is stick it down and peal away the area you want to paint. In my opinion they are very cheap compared to my time of trimming tape and masking....

Good luck!

erbroens

You can make paint templates in plotter cut vinyl, I recently grabbed in the www a pic of the full size star and bars for the A-4, and sent by email to a local plotter shop a .CDR (coreldraw) file with the vectorized draw in the exact size I wanted.

In my case I was satisfied in using just the vinyl graphics (they where extremely thin and well color
matched) instead of painting them.

BR, Enrique

Steve Collins

My Feedback: (8)

If your Panther is in the dark blue scheme like most Panthers, you will only need to paint the white and the red.

RalleKnalle

firt stick the paint mask for blue color painting

painting blue

stick the paint mask for white color painting

painting white

stick the paint mask for the red stripes (not pictures)

painting red

warbird51

My Feedback: (12)

When I painted my Ziroli Panther I first painted the area where the star/bars go with white. Then I cut the star and bar mask from vinyl and put them in place. Then the blue was sprayed on. If you paint the white over the blue, it takes more coats of white to cover the blue. And less masking over-all by doing it this way.