Hello all
I'm building the Tamiya 1:35 Semovente. There is a white identification circle that needs to be painted on the rooftop hatches. Can anyone suggest the best ways to paint this circle? I'm painting the white first but cannot for the life of me figure out a way to mask this into the perfect circle to spray the sand yellow colour around it.
Any tips would be most welcome!
Thank you all again!
DG

Hello Douglas,
I do not know the place where it goes but can not you put something round (a coin?) over it and airbrush exactly from top?

Or you could go the other way and use a plastic drawing template for circles and airbrush the white paint. They cost about 1 euro and have templates for circles with 1mm of difference

If you have a pair of compasses you can replace the pencil part by a sharp pin and scribe out 2 circles out of a piece of the thinnest styrene you can find. It als works on masking tape if you are careful, I managed to do this for swastika circles on 1:350 ship kits. Pin needs to be really sharp.

Thanks guys. I'll try these suggestions for sure!

Cut a circle and either prepaint white and use the circle or use the "hole" to mask and paint the circle last.

Amazon has several circle cutters available here's one:
http://www.amazon.com/Darice-97585-Circle-Cutter/dp/B004GXBXXU/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_img_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1TDTK4GZCVX6ZNZRQQHQ

I just ordered the Exacto circle cutter.

My personal favorite tape is Frog Tape Delicate from the hardware store:

http://frogtape.com/products/frogtape-delicate-surface

Frog tape looks like Tamiya tape but it isn't exactly the same stuff. I think Tamiya is a little better but much more pricey and Frog tape comes in up to 2" widths. Not sure where you could get it in Ireland though (it is available on Amazon US).

Brilliant! Thanks mate!

Not sure if you have them there, but I've used those round pricing stickers that people use for yard sales. They are cheap and you get a bunch on a sheet of them. Wayne

Great idea! Thanks Wayne!