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Painting a Warbird, Part 3

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Painting a Warbird, Part 2 Lane Crabtree has been detailing how he painted his CARF Models P-51. In this installment, Lane applies squadron markings and the checkerboard pattern. Now comes the squadron ID alpha-numerics on either side of the star and bar. These are what I call single-stage paint masks as they only require one color to complete. Well, one more boo-boo as I missed another photo before painting the black. But you can see...

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