Well I got a tin panel at lowes (Hardware store) by the air conditioning vents, tubes, and Ect, (you know the flexible duct tubing).
1.Found a piece of flat tin sheet about 25 inches x 37 inches ruffly about $10 USD. (Aluminum Sheeting is too expensive)
2. on to painting.. I just hit it the whole thing with a can of testors dark aircraft grey for the base.
Some testors Grey for the..wel.. grey
and some dark green for the green
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3. Time to paint the decals..
After looking at some pics find ruffly where you panel will be in relation to the plane (dose not have to be perfectly dead on)
For me my panel is on the left of a FW fuselage with only a corner of the cross..
SO after your research.. I just did some basic markings with a little testors white, black, and some masking tape.. I used a big T square to line the markings up squared in relation to the panel.
4.I bent it slightly to look like the natural curve of the airplane fuselage.. (Depends where and what plane panel your going to make)
5. got out my 30-30 and shot the panel!!!
6. then threw it in the drive way a few times to weather it then..ta da!
thats about it!
Oh forgot I took tin snips (still Hard to cut!) and cut around the edges to look like it was cut off a plane...now sand them becasue they are SHARP!
that's about it! Next one im going to add rivets and airbrush some nose art on it
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