canopies and foil

Apply foil Burnish down Get a nice, new, sharp #11 x-Acto blade and trim around the glass. Get a toothpick and carefully remove the foil from the areas you want to paint. Reburnish corners if needed.

Alternately, for natural metal aircraft, do the same, but remove the glass part.

If you burnish just the egdes, removing BMF will be easier and a lot less residue to clean up, if any.

-- Chuck Ryan snipped-for-privacy@REMOVEearthlink.net Springfield OH

that seems to need a pretty steady hand.

Yeah, I concur. Use finger pressure for the glass area and lightly burnish the edges. For cutting I use an X-acto swivel knife (very tiny blade will swivel on curves) and your favorite magnifying device. After you paint, use a sharp knife to pull up one edge. If you leave them on for a year like I do (just call me speedy!) you can clean up the residue with naptha/benzine/lighter fluid. hth

The Keeper (of too much crap)

My memmory is little fuzzy this time of the day - but I'm almost sure there was an article on this in a recent FineScale Modeler Magazine. Their website lists contents of the old issues - maybe you can find it there.

Peteski

I *just* posted a message telling the world about my new web page about canop masking with Cheap Chocolate Foil:

My models:

bookmarked. thanks