Funnel Bands? Got it Taped!....ACW Painting Part 16

Literally. Taped I mean. I am using masking tape to mark the edges for the painted funnel bands on the city class ironclads. Each of the ships had a unique colour for identification purposes and these were as follows:

• Cairo - grey (not yellow as I originally thought)
• Carondelet - red
• Cincinatti - Blue
• Mound City - Orange
• Pittsburg - light brown
• St. Louis - yellow
• Louisville - green.

It was a little fiddly cutting out 3mm strips to go around the funnels but it will save me a lot of hassle later. An alternative would be to use sticky labels coloured and just stuck on where needed.

I am aiming to have these ready by the close of play Sunday so watch this space!