Hi,

Anybody have any tips on how to go about painting the stripes on Austrian flag poles in 6mm?

My stripes seem to spread and wander as I work my way around the post...

Regards,

Steve

Have you tried just painting thin hoops of red, white and blue instead of a spiral.???. Just a thought

I've only tried spirals not hoops. Took me longer to paint the flag poles then the rest of the miniature. Probably about 3 attempts, still not happy with it (painting surface starts to get blobby after the 2 attempt). I've seen hoops done on photos on bigger scales... I'm not sure/comfortable that it 'looks' right to me.

I guess I'm after advice like;

1) start with a base coat of white?

2) rough out the spirals with a soft lead pencil?

or maybe a fine point brush and black ink?

or maybe fine point felt tip pen?

3) rule of thumb for number of spirals that looks about right for the scale

4) importance of colours in the spirals. i.e. more red ones than black and yellow looks generally more pleasing

etc.