Formation Lights

[coryprine]

Hey folks.... I am presently building the Academy 1/48 F-15E kit... newest version... The kit includes PE formation/slime lights. My question is... since there are no formation light decals in this kit, just the PE, what do I do as far as painting these to make them close to the proper color? I know of no paint in this color, not am I familiar with a decal kit for the f-15 formation lights....

[wardog]

Hey folks.... I am presently building the Academy 1/48 F-15E kit... newest version... The kit includes PE formation/slime lights. My question is... since there are no formation light decals in this kit, just the PE, what do I do as far as painting these to make them close to the proper color? I know of no paint in this color, not am I familiar with a decal kit for the f-15 formation lights....

There are probably a lot of methods you can try to get satisfactory results. I would think the easiest would be to acquire a decal sheet of any aircraft that has slime light decals and cut or trim them to the size you need. You could also mix your own paint that looks close enough to slime light color and shoot it over the clear carrier of spare decals. You could actually shoot it over the color portion of the decal and get away with it. Something I've always wanted to do is contact a manufacturer of wristwatch hour/minute needles to see how to go about acquiring the fluorescent greenish/yellow stuff they put on needles that makes them glow in the dark.

[Fly-n-hi]

I've used Glow in the dark acrylic paint with good results:

Not the greatest pic but you get the idea. The nice thing is that the glow in the dark paint is a really good color match to the formation lights.

[Netz]

Detail and Scale made them, I pick these up at the occasional model show.

Curt