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Painting Questions, Tutorials and Guidebooks Discuss Invasion stripes in the Modeling forums; I was painting some invasion stripes on a P-47 called "Touch of Texas". (A Dubya Favorite I'm sure!) There are ...

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    Invasion stripes

    I was painting some invasion stripes on a P-47 called "Touch of Texas". (A Dubya Favorite I'm sure!) There are 5 stripes. I found out they turned out are just a little bit wider than the instructions show. Probably about 1 or 2 feet over width. (In 1/48 scale I mean! ) The last stripe, instead of surounding two guns, only surounds the last one.

    It doesn't look too bad, maybeee a bit big, but was there a standard width for Normandy Invasion Stripes? How about P-47's, was there differances between groups and such?

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    Maybe this help you a bit.
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    One thing about invasion strikes though, they weren't pretty.

    Applied with a brush in most cases and not pariculary accurate

    I think theres enough modellers licence when painting these so you can never be really wrong, unless you paint the whole wing black and white

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heinz View Post
    One thing about invasion strikes though, they weren't pretty.
    I don't agree with you Heinz.In mu opinion the stripes made planes more colourful.Especially to these with the standard US camo used in ETO.

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    Applied with a brush in most cases and not pariculary accurate
    Because they also had never been accurate in reality.

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    Thanks for the pictures!

    I bet my stripes turned out in the end to be about 22 inches wide or something. But like you said, you can't go too wrong with stripes!

    Yeah, I hand brushed them, and used strips of tape to make a nice rectangle.

    But the white paint shows some cracks, so I'll have to fix that. I'll show a picture of the plane when it's done. Hopefully by November.
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    Waiting for the pic.

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    Wurger I like the invasion stripes.

    I just meant more people are over accurate with masking on models.

    THerefore there is a fair bit of flexibility when painting them

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heinz View Post
    Wurger I like the invasion stripes.

    I just meant more people are over accurate with masking on models.

    THerefore there is a fair bit of flexibility when painting them
    Ah...can You see?I understood it in different way .So OK.

    It is true and now I agree with you.Recently,I've read an article about building a minature of Mustang III flown by Stanislaw Skalski.The author decided to make the model because the invasions strips were painted on the aircraft much more accurate than on others.

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    Wurger,

    Great info. Do you have similar drawing for P-51's

    Thanks

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    Hi,
    Unfortunately, not now.I have somewhere something like that but where.....

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    For 1:72 they quote them as being 8mm, but not sure on 1:48. I hate painting the things; wings you can live iwth but trying to get them on the fuselage! Argh!
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    It's really tough! They turned out worse than the wings, but I'm hoping they look pretty cemetrical.

    Have finished putting the decals on, I will coat it with future tonight.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Negative Creep View Post
    For 1:72 they quote them as being 8mm, but not sure on 1:48. I hate painting the things; wings you can live iwth but trying to get them on the fuselage! Argh!
    Hi guys,
    I think you need some ideas on how to make these stripes on models.
    The one which I've tested many times is to cut thin ( 2-3mm) stripes of selfadhesive paper tape.And then stick them to the model.These thin stripes have better abilities to be fitted to surfaces.The free of tape areas between stripes you can mask with Humbrol Maskol for instance.Certainly the basic colour ( white ) should be put on a model.

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    Scalemaster from california,USA make a nice set of stripes in various colors.I use the white and black sheets for invasion stripes.Maybe too acurate but look nice on the model.Model is a 1/72 Airfix.
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    Last edited by otftch; 11-26-2007 at 10:43 AM. Reason: new photo

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    Looking nice.I did the same for my earlier model of Spit Mk.IX.I used decals I made myself.It is one of the ways to make them on a model.

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