Jim Thomerson

I LIKE MY MODELS to have striking, eye-catching, distinctive paint schemes. (OK, OK, gaudy! If it hurts their eyes to look too closely, maybe they won't see all those little mistakes.) The model under discussion here is a control line Sig Twister, built for the express and successful purpose of winning what turned out to be the "Gaudiest Twister" award at a Sig control line contest. I've been impressed with the painted metallic letters on hot rods, toy packages, and in rock-and-roll magazines, so I started paying attention to how they were done. It turns out that it is pretty simple-not beyond my limited skill with the old airbrush. Painted metallic letters and numbers are an illusion! There is no silver or chrome in the