Silly Putty® Wheel Mask -- A Quick How-To by ChillyB

I don't know whether this has ever come up before in your modeling lives, but I found a need to mask the center of a wheel painted one color while painting the rest of the wheel another color. This is what I came up with:

Using a drafting template, I first select a suitably sized circle:
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Next, I use a small ball of Silly Putty® to fill in the circle equal to the thickness of the template:
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Finally, apply that circle of Silly Putty® to the wheel, taking some care not to distort it too much in the process:
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This is how they turned out last time I tried this:
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Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/995377.aspx

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