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BLACK OUTLINES

WHITE

BELLY HAIR (OPTIONAL)-DARK BROWN

CLAW SHEATHS-' DARK BROWN

Your model lion is now ready for painting. Follow the color scheme using a spray gun and a fine, pointed, eamel’s hair brush for the de-tails, or brushes only. Use a fiat finish dope, macie by adding 1 to 1% teaspoonfuls of talcum powder per 1 oz. of model airplane dope or lac-quer. Stir mixture fre-ąuently while using to prevent settling of the talcum. Use thinner in mixture for proper brushing or spraying consistency. Blend col-ors into each other for a

soft, life-like result. Use a gloss dope or enamel for the eyes.

The finał, step is to add the whiskers. Locate each hair follicle by spotting with a pencil, then prick smali holes at each location with a common pin or smali needle. Press hairs from any white fur into the follicle holes with the aid of tweezers, about thirteen hairs to a side, then trim to proper, irregular lengths with scissors.

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defined by going over them with a chisel-edged pencil after each application of sanding sealer.

To make the manę, first draw the hairline on the head and body (see Fig. 2). Rough-up the area between these lines with a coarse grade of garnet paper or your knife blade to form a good bonding surface for the water putty (ob-tainable at hardware Stores) which is used to build up the manę. Mix the powder with water to obtain a thick dough-like consistency and ap-ply to the manę area with the knife blade. Build up the basie shape, using at least two layers of putty and allowing each layer to harden before applying the next. When the basie shape is fin-ished, mix up a creamy batch of putty, using morę water than before, and let it run off your knife blade onto the manę in tiny riyulets to represent clumps of hair (Fig. 8). If done care-fully, no further shaping should be necessary. When putty has thoroughly hardened, apply two or three coats of sanding sealer.

The column of hair along the belly of the lion (see Fig. 2) is optional. The małe lion grows this hair only in the easy life of captivity. Lion trainers usually keep this hair trimmed back for a neater appearahee. This is applied in the same manner as the manę.

Fencing for ModeSs

• Matchstick bamboo such as is used for table mats makes excellent fences for model construc-tion. Cut bamboo so thread binding will keep fence from unraveling and cement to a fence frame erected with slim strips of wood. The bamboo is sold in various colors in any five-and-dime storę; however, if color needed is not available, merely paint with a paint-sprayer.—R. J. de C.

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