I get catalogs and emails selling 1/18, etc airplanes with perfectly painted canopies. bought a lot of them too. I assume these planes are built on the assembly line. I guess they have some great system to paint/mask large numbers of subjects, and do it without mess and fast?
I can barely crank out one decent canopy.
How do they do it?
Craig
I haven't seen one in quite some time, but they may actually mold the color it - mask and color coat the mold (or use a decal-like color transfer of some sort) for the canopy frame, and then just inject the plastic over it...
...life gets a lot easier with the right tools. And enough money...
I wonder if it is silk-screened. After all, if they can silkscreen markings on a complex fuselage shape, I guess the next step is a canopy.
I don't know about painting canopies on the production line but other markings are done by Pad Printing.
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