mouse808 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 (edited) Hello all Not that it really matters for mine as there are other errors, but I've noticed (mostly with real photos) I can find of the Firebirds, they don't seem to have the black walkway (?) lines on the leading edge, eg Theres also a great shot of XM182 in here where no lines are show (alas I can't find that picture on the internet, so shouldn't share) Yet nearly all the models have the walkway lines, eg So just wondering if they did or didn't have them, or like a lot of these things, "it depends"...... Just interested Cheers Lee Edited January 21, 2022 by mouse808 typo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 From the photo of the real aircraft, I'd say they had them originally, as they're part of the standard aircraft maintenance stencils and you can see most of the walkway (aft, outboard and outboard part of the forward), but, when the Firebirds display scheme was painted onto the aircraft, the section from roughly level with the upper wing roundel to the fuselage was just simply overpainted. Does this help? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouse808 Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 Many thanks, yes that make sense. Going to be fun trying to cut them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 2 hours ago, mouse808 said: Many thanks, yes that make sense. Going to be fun trying to cut them Or you could apply them over the NMF, apply the decals, seal the decals then mask off and apply the red to the wings - kind of like what they did with the real aircraft (only they didn't have to faff around with decals or sealing them in place). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouse808 Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share Posted January 25, 2022 On 22/01/2022 at 16:25, bentwaters81tfw said: Wow nice photos, so I think we can safely say the lines were covered? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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