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Hello everyone again. Codyr's attempt at painting a model got me to thinking back to the time when I first started using an airbrush. I remember being in the fourth grade in this incident. I had just finished building a 1/144 scale 747 with decals included for Air Force 1. I had painted the gloss white base coat and had let it dry for two weeks. I was ready to mask the airplane off but was side tracked by a small problem. I couldn't find the masking tape. Between my Dad, and my two brothers, (who all till this day are active model builders) the masking tape had dissapeared. Me being quite frustrated with this little incident not wanting to be held up came across a roll of duct tape. I thought AHA! I will use this. And proceeded to mask off this 747 model with duct tape. I was quite pleased with my self as it was the best masking job I had done on any model since. and when I was done masking proceeded to paint the blue. But all did not go well afterwards. As we all know, duct tape is comepletly the wrong thing to mask off a model with. Because of this when I proceeded to peel it off it wouldn't come off, and I had to enlist the help of my dad. Who was also quite perplexed. We ended up soaking the model for several days in water which separated the plastic backing paper from the adhiesive and then used an automotive adheisive remover to remove the glue off the model. The model was eventually completed and lasted many sessions flying the President of the United States on and off my layout. (He always switched from Air Force 1 to his presidental car on my layout. My layout at this time was a triple track oval with cross overs between them with an airfield in the middle) Since then my modeling skills have improved the layout was rebuilt two more times before it finally succumbed to dry wrot, and the model suffered the indignity of being scrapped when one day while moving boxes, one landed on it and I didn't feel like repairing it. But I still get a chuckle and bear an amused smile on my face when ever I think back and remember the model I once masked with duct tape. Have a nice day everyone, James
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