One thing that's real obvious in a lot of wartime photos of Corsairs is the presence of those neat lines of exposed bolt heads on panel lines. I understand the hairspray technique and it's perfect for larger blotches (like at the wing root) but what should I do for these VERY TINY pinpricks of silver? I've used teensy weensy dots of masking fluid before, but they're just too big and wind up taking up too much paint. Am I cursed with having to use a sharpened toothpick and itsy-bitsy dots of paint?

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Wes @avispa93, for applying very fine dots of paint, I sometime use a dentist tooth pick. Not sure if this will be practical to apply each single bolt.

@avispa93 first off I am soooo sorry for the late reply…I’m not getting email messages from any of the groups. I use a Tamiya tiny paint brush model Pro II # 87172 it works great. Sometimes the paint rides up on the bristles but I jsut wipe it on my hand and dip it again. But I dont do thousands of riveted :). Here is an example on my Yamaha seat etc

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Any good? I have one that I have yet to try.

https://www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/aluminium-alloy-panel-liner-at-pl-dspiae/