laying out checkerboard paint scheme on thomas morse scout

[elevatoranj]

I am wondering how to paint in the checkered area at the front of the Thomas Morse scout. I have masked off the area and painted the rest of the plane and I have not glued the nose cowl piece on yet. I would like to hear from anyone that has ideas as to the best way to accomplish this with a minimum of trouble. thanks, Elevatoranj

[cdwheatley]

There was a post by John M Oshurst recently over at the Virtual Aerodrome website describing how he painted a chequerboard pattern on the cowl of his Sopwith Camel, it may be just what you are looking for.

[JOhn M Oshust]

Checkering worth it but a nightmare! If you look at my Camel on Virtual Aerodrome you can see the Camel's cowl. Looks good I like it but it took 10 hourd, at least! I used 1/2 in masking tape cut into squares. As I went toward the nose the squares must be tapered. I painted the cowl yellow, then applied the tape. After tape removal I lightly sanded then slowy refined the lines with a small camel hair brush. Tonight I will do the rudder and elevator. Large checks, less work. The rudder is painted yellow and I will mask the tellow and paint the blue. I hope to have the pattern start on the rudder and finish on the elevator. Last nights effort resulted in failure. I already sanded reprimed and painted yeloow, again. I have a bottle of wine to help this PM. I hope for success. I am worried that if the Camel flys too fast the yeloww and blue will opitally blend and make everything green!

[JOhn M Oshust]

Checkering worth it but a nightmare! If you look at my Camel on Virtual Aerodrome you can see the Camel's cowl. Looks good I like it but it took 10 hourd, at least! I used 1/2 in masking tape cut into squares. As I went toward the nose the squares must be tapered. I painted the cowl yellow, then applied the tape. After tape removal I lightly sanded then slowy refined the lines with a small camel hair brush. Tonight I will do the rudder and elevator. Large checks, less work. The rudder is painted yellow and I will mask the yellow and paint the blue. I hope to have the pattern start on the rudder and finish on the elevator. Last nights effort resulted in failure. I already sanded reprimed and painted yellow, again. I have a bottle of wine to help this PM. I hope for success. I am worried that if the Camel flys too fast the yellow and blue will optically blend and make everything green!

[elevatoranj]

Well folks, I'm 'done for now'. I want to add wires and machine gun some day. Anj Some body tell me how to insert pictures[/list]

[JOhn M Oshust]

Go join Virtual Aerodrome. Easy to post photos. http://virtualaerodrome.com/

[Flyguy172]

Here's to help you with posting pics

Flyguy172: There was a topic on how to post pictures on the forum but, it got delete. So I guess I will explain (or at least try ). You click that little img button and then you type the image URL (or copy paste it) and then click the img* button (it will be in the same place as the img button). The picture URL is special, I guess you could say, it will be something like this http://www.tamiya.com/english/products/ ... o_top2.jpg note the “jpg” at the end, if it did not have that “jpg” at the end it would not work. Here is an example of a picture you can’t post http://www.guillow.com/HiResImg.asp?prod=507 . The easiest way to find URLs with jpg at the end is to do an image search (I do mine at yahoo). Now if you want to post your own photo it has to have a URL with jpg at the end. Now I don’t know exactly how to get that “jpg” at the end but I do know this, on the deleted topic a guy gave the URL for a website where you could post pictures and it turned them into jpeg URL. An easy way you can tell if it is a jpeg URL (or similar like bmp, jpe, jfif, gif, tif, tiff, and png) is that there will be nothing but the picture. Oh and in case you don’t know, a URL is a web address.
Well that was my best shot explaining how to post an image, might have not been that good but hey, at least I tried . Maybe someone else can do a better job explaining this but I hope this helped at least a little bit. Maybe this can help out a bit http://balsamodels.com/phpBB/faq.php?si ... d7c615c#24
Happy Holidays

lenard: Just to add to flyguy172's post on posting images. If you want to post some of your own images you can use a free picture hosting service like photobucket. Once you upload your image to the service it will tell what the URL is for the image.

Hope this helps. But I prefer VAD myself to. See you next month and have a great summer.

[elevatoranj]

Thank you guys very much!! I have a photo now on VAD and I am happy with the way the checkering turned out. Flyguy, you must get lost for hours in a bowl of alphabet soup, LOL< thanx again you where a big help. Anj

[supercruiser]

Shorty's basement has black/yellow checkerboard tissue. Don't know the size of the squares. Take a look: www.shortysbasement.com