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Nice grass advice, I'm going to have to try that at some point. Cool buildings, too!
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Most wargamers (like me) don't bother with a charged dispenser or anything. Jut throw that poo poo in a salt shaker, sprinkle on, gently blow on it from a few angles to get the semi-random real grass look.
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Never stop posting Baronjutter. I love the graffiti on your rolling stock. Could you explain your process?
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How I do it is I take my filthy already mostly weathered car and slap some water-slide decals on top, horribly fumbling and ruining some in the process. Then I notice the edges are quite visible and soak it in solvent and attack the edges with q-tips pushing the whole decal into the details, sometimes cutting it with a blade to get around ribs. Then if it's not totally terrible I spray the whole thing with some sort of dull-coat and do a bit more weathering. How you're SUPPOSED to do it if you want good results: Paint the whole train with "future" furniture polish, wait for it to totally dry. Put the extremely well cut decal on, sometimes with a little bit of fresh future just under the decal area, not totally dry but still tacky. Use some sort of decal solvent to help get the decal a little soft and mushy and really mash it into the detail of what ever you're putting it on. Wait for that to dry. The future should sort of suck the decal down and help hide the edges. Then spay with some sort of dull-coat. Another option is to just draw with pencil crayons, which are a great way to get lovely tags vs awesome graffiti mural things. I've started doing this with mixed results.   Yes, this box-car is decorated for the popular minecraft mod distribution system known as Technic Platform by very own goon Kakermix, art by Olloth, technical assistance by Cheapshot. You can also print your own decals on over-priced decal paper. This was my first custom decal, an adorable minecraft creeper. This was before I figured out to set my printer to secret higher quality settings.  This was my next attempt at pencil-crayon graffiti.   Fingat for scale I wasn't happy with some of it so did my best to "erase" it (pencil crayon is a surprisingly permanent substance!) and added some water-slide decals to mix it up a bit.  This is a brand new unweathered train. It's extremely high quality but looks almost CG it's paint is so crisp, it also looks very plastic. Here it is next to my 2 other more "finished" trains. They have both been lightly weathered so they look like they've existed for more than a few hours outside.  And here is a tiny adorable steam engine that I did not paint or work on in any way, it's not even mine it was just visiting my city.  It's super tiny, smaller than a thumb.
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Nice. My dad did some model train stuff when I was a kid and seeing that really takes me back. You're working with N scale, yes?
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This is good and you should feel good.
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Hello scale model goons, I just bought my first (well, first in the last... 15 years?) model kit, the Revell A-10 Warthog (1:44). Also picked up the touch-n-flow kit and an x-acto knife, because I usually just blindly follow directions in posts. However, I got pretty lost when I started shopping for paints. My local craft store stocks Testors, and another brand that I think is just a Testor's sub-brand. Anyway, I was able to find "Aluminum", but then couldn't find anything called "dark grey." No "Chrome," but I did find "Auto Chrome". Same deal for pretty much every color listed on the side of the box. How do I, as a person who's totally new to this, figure out which colors I actually need? Relatedly, is there a difference I care about between enamel and acrylic? Annoyingly, acrylics seemed to be in greater supply, but only in bottles twice as large for twice the price.
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Manufacturers tend to give color listings for their own brands of paint. Honestly you can just take the instructions with you and eyeball the appropriate colors from another brand, or mix your own if factory colors aren't doing it for you. Lacquer paint dries almost instantly and is durable but is very noxious (spray outside or in a vented fume hood). Acrylic is water-based and easy to clean up, nor is it very toxic (can spray in a well ventilated room) but can take weeks to fully cure and even then is somewhat delicate. Enamel is the compromise between the two extremes that most people settle on. I'd suggest using whatever's easier to get in your area.
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Baronjutter posted:Model train layout shots   Are you building a home layout, or are you part of a modular club? It almost looks like N-trak spec, but not quite.
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It's a section of what is to hopefully be a much larger layout once I get my own place. I don't know what space I'll have to work with but I'll grow from this layout. It's sort of a seed I'll plant in my new place one day. It's got the end of a tram loop and a hidden under-city return loop for the choochoo. So I can grow the railway and tram from there. I've got a bunch of plans based on typical bedroom sizes but I'll not know till we actually buy a condo...
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More Train goons should post in this thread. I Love model trains (even though I get to work with 1:1 train set during the week).
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I think most train people have their own train focused forums they go to. I'm pretty active on some of them my self! It's mostly old conservative white guys but there's a few under-40's out there too posting and such....
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Made a few more builds since I last posted, hope yalls don't mind some automobiles. This is a Ferrari 360 Modena I finished back in January. Went together well, though I did gently caress up the front bumper trying to do a wash on the panel lines, prompting a spray over that stands out slightly. Other than that, I'm satisfied with the build:     Next is one I just finished last week, a Mercedes-McLaren SLR 722. I've always really dug the matte black look on sportscars, so I decided to give it a go. I personally think it suits this car fantastically.    Little bit of a gap here since the hood didn't close all the way from previous takes, but I think it sums up the profile of the car well 
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Baronjutter posted:I think most train people have their own train focused forums they go to. I'm pretty active on some of them my self!
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To Celebrate finally getting to the end of this thread, I'll post some models I've actually completed and am not embarassed to show to the internet. Airfix P-51 1/72 (New Tooling!)   Airfix A6M2 1/72 (New Tooling)   Revell (of Germany) Go229 1/72 (reboxed) 
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Does anyone know where I can get better decals for the Revell F/A-18c? This Kit Canada has only ever flown the A model. While I'm at it how about for Revell's 1/144 F-15E and F-16C models?
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Jonny Nox posted:Does anyone know where I can get better decals for the Revell F/A-18c? If you want Canadian decals, then this site has you covered.
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AIrfix Seafire FR47, 1/48th. I started this about a year ago meanining to finish it in a weekend, but then, you know, life. Anyway, done now.  
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That's actually the opposite I was looking for, but now I want a CC-177 being escorted by 4 CF-188s in 1/144 hanging from my ceiling. Also before I get too agnsty over whether the variety of plane is correct, I should see if the differences are easily correctable. Because if it's just a different engine cooler vent, or something, I don't really care.
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Unkempt posted:AIrfix Seafire FR47, 1/48th. I started this about a year ago meanining to finish it in a weekend, but then, you know, life. Anyway, done now. Lovely. Was the kit well made? Also, is that a porthole behind the cockpit?
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Nebakenezzer posted:Lovely. Was the kit well made? Also, is that a porthole behind the cockpit? It's a really nice kit in fit and detail, but there are three weird issues; the rear cockpit bit doesn't fit at all, the gear legs just don't fit in the holes unless you cut off a flange bit, and there's nothing to actually hold the folded wings up like that; I had to superglue them, and one actually just came off after I took the pictures. Everything else is great though. And it's a 'porthole' for a camera, I think they did a bit of photo-reconnaissance with it. No camera in the kit, though, so don't look too close.
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So... does anyone know of any 1:72-ish drone kits that aren't Italieri? I like the idea of having a Predator or Reaper to stick on the table for Force on Force when relevant but the Italieri kits are more than twice the price of a normal 1:72 plane and kind of hard to find around here.
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Arquinsiel posted:So... does anyone know of any 1:72-ish drone kits that aren't Italieri? I like the idea of having a Predator or Reaper to stick on the table for Force on Force when relevant but the Italieri kits are more than twice the price of a normal 1:72 plane and kind of hard to find around here. I know for sure Platz has them in 1/72 (also the X-47B) but they are expensive too. I've seen at least one other manufacturer (also expensive) but don't remember which one. Jonny Nox fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Feb 28, 2013 |
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Never heard of Platz, and I can't navigate their website because I am a terrible person.
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Arquinsiel posted:So... does anyone know of any 1:72-ish drone kits that aren't Italieri? I like the idea of having a Predator or Reaper to stick on the table for Force on Force when relevant but the Italieri kits are more than twice the price of a normal 1:72 plane and kind of hard to find around here. Revell Germany makes a reaper in 1/48.
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Arquinsiel posted:Never heard of Platz, and I can't navigate their website because I am a terrible person. Well now I can only find the ucav on online vendors, so maybe I dreamed the whole thing. I'm pretty sure my LHS has them on the shelf though.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Revell Germany makes a reaper in 1/48.
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So before I make a terrible mistake: glue first, or paint first? Or does it just depend on the part of the model?
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Doc Faustus posted:So before I make a terrible mistake: glue first, or paint first? Or does it just depend on the part of the model? Glue then paint unless there are some detail areas that will be inaccessible after gluing, in which case glue major subassemblies and then paint.
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Always glue first. Glue will gently caress up your paint.
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Glue everything easily accessible, then paint. You don't want to paint a plane cockpit that's already glued in.
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Yeah my workflow seems to be Paint inside of fuselage if needed Assemble then paint/decal cockpit assemble boddy sans landing gear, landing gear doors, antenae, missiles, etc tape cockpit and paint paint missiles/etc on sprue final construction future (sometimes) decals (Future, oil washes, weathering whatever) Satin or flat coat if needed. Actually, missiles always go on as absolute last thing edit: Remember that future really likes to have a day to cure before it stops reacting to thinners
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big_g posted:Let me be the first to say this is thoroughly gorgeous. I also like your photos can you tell us what set up you use please? Thanks, It's just a white gloss paper canvas with a a lot of bright lights, I've recently graduated to a DLSR from an easier to use point and shoot, so do forgive me if my pics look a bit iffy. Unkempt posted:AIrfix Seafire FR47, 1/48th. I started this about a year ago meanining to finish it in a weekend, but then, you know, life. Anyway, done now. Jonny Nox posted:I know for sure Platz has them in 1/72 (also the X-47B) but they are expensive too. I've seen at least one other manufacturer (also expensive) but don't remember which one. It's actually the Platz kit in a Italeri boxing so get it if you can, though their decals have less variety. Pierzak posted:Glue everything easily accessible, then paint. You don't want to paint a plane cockpit that's already glued in. Or do you mean paint anything easily accessible then glue? Sticking the brush into the cockpit hole is kind of a bitch. Morgenthau fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Mar 1, 2013 |
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Morgenthau posted:Or do you mean paint anything easily accessible then glue? Sticking the brush into the cockpit hole is kind of a bitch.
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Morgenthau posted:
Thanks - the wings come separated or together (there's actually two completely different sets of wing parts), but as I said above, there's nothing to attach the two folded halves of the wing together except glueing them along the edge, which is fragile at best. I probably should have drilled holes in the ends and made a little 'hinge' bit from wire or something to strengthen it, but I wanted to get it finished. Up next:  - because I've been playing too much War Thunder
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Make sure to include additional pylons for some 3x500kg bomb action.
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What do people use for filler? I use Vallejo's filler (basically acrylic medium and marble dust) which is awesome for filling gaps and seam (spread on, wipe off with water, bob=your uncle) but doesn't take well to sanding. I am trying to avoid organic solvents though which means most one part fillers are no good. Is there one I missed? Or does Tamiya Grey not stink like the squadron stuff used to?
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I use Tamiya Basic putty. It has a smell, but I can't smell it if it's on the other side of the room from me.
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Olloth! :3 Edit: No Pun Intended posted:More Train goons should post in this thread. I Love model trains (even though I get to work with 1:1 train set during the week). I'd enjoy reading more about that, if you don't mind. Is there a 1:1 choo choo thread? Sun Dog fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Mar 2, 2013 |
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Sun Dog posted:I'd enjoy reading more about that, if you don't mind. Is there a 1:1 choo choo thread? In Automotive Insanity: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3394711
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