How to write messages on scale bombs

Tools 'n' Tips Article by Armando Soares in 2002

I would like to share with fellow modelers, this "tip" that I have been using for years.  

You can reproduce quite easily the hand written messages that are nowadays more and more evident in aircraft ordnance using either carbon paper (gray or black colored) or "Tipp-Ex"® (white) - the striped-kind used for actually re-type the error and then insert the correct letter, and that was sold on small envelopes, remember?   For this, you should use a sharp object (hard pencil will do) and the photocopied reproduction of the message.   Actually, this kind of "Tipp-Ex"® is even good for bigger inscriptions in a/c frames, namely late WWII white hand written inscriptions (numbers) often seen on Me-109s' and others, "prisoner" a/c, wreckage dioramas, armament block description both in aircraft or vehicles, etc.  After writing the desired message, number, whatever, just use your favorite brand of varnish and..."voila"!...

Armando Soares

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