Free Applewhite Pinwheel Part 5 Painting the 13mm Pinwheel

Note: This is the top of the 13mm T engine Pinwheel. You'll notice a expended engine nozzle inside the motor mount tube. That's actually a casing stuck on top of a painting wand dowel. When flying the model, the engine nozzle would be down and out the flat bottom side.

I wanted to give the larger 13mm Pinwheel some color and make it look more like the Pinwheels I'd seen as a kid.

The finished model was white card stock. I hit it with a light coat of Rustoleum Key West Lime. It took very little paint to brighten it up.

To add the black the forward triangles they were first outlined with a fine point Sharpie.

A standard Sharpie was used to widen the outlines and draw over the edges.
Set the side of the point on the side at an angle to edge the sides.







Finally, to fill in the large areas use a wide point permanent felt pen.
It might take a few applications to get it up to a dark, opaque black.




Here's the finished Art Applewhite 13mm Pinwheel ready for flight with a A10-3t engine installed. With the black areas colored in it looks more like a toy pinwheel.

The clay ejection cap is at the top, the nozzle is below!
This side faces up for flight.