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There's a lack of car modeling pics on here so check out the pics of the interior for Mazda Miata (ND) I just finished. I'm pretty happy with it except for the steering wheel. It's pretty awesome how you can paint things with super flat paints and then go over them with Tamiya semi gloss clear and it turns it into a very realistic leather look.     
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Wow, nicely done. You really captured the look of the leather and vinyl interior perfectly.
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Yes, that really does look like an ND interior. I can picture myself squeezing into one all over again. Anyway, what did you use for paint?
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Toothpick might be the trick to tidy up the edges of the silver paint on the steering wheel.
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Jonny Nox posted:Night Shift’s stippling! I like Night Shift and this is a good example of his focus on breaking up homogeneity on a model with things like texture and colour. It always looks way over the top at first, but the final effect is subtle and "realistic"
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Amazing work on the seats, what’d you use?
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FrozenVent posted:Amazing work on the seats, what’d you use? Thanks! The interior is Tamiya mostly flat black and hull red acrylic then glossed over with semi gloss acrylic. The upper parts of the door panels are supposed to match the body panels so I used Tamiya light gunmetal spray. The body has been painted and is curing now so I'll have pictures of that soon.
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ElMaligno posted:Anyone have any recommendation for hobby tables? Are there purpose made tables for hobbyists? I just use of those folding tables you get at Walmart.
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Huge album of pics from The Royal Tank Museum in Jordan. Tons of interesting specimens. https://imgur.com/gallery/ITrt0vC
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ElMaligno posted:Anyone have any recommendation for hobby tables? I mean, if I had my dream setup, I'd buy some adjustable height desks so that I could vary my work position. Sitting for long periods of time is the new smoking after all. As it stands now, I'm using a couple of business desks in my workshop from Bush Business Furniture. They're durable, reasonably inexpensive, and modular so you can build just about whatever you want.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Huge album of pics from The Royal Tank Museum in Jordan. Tons of interesting specimens.
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Arquinsiel posted:That's an unexpectedly comprehensive collection. My reaction too. Like, they have the stuff I actually expect them to have, then weird poo poo like this: 
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Is that an a-44? Gotta say, I got confused for a minute as I thought I was in the WoT tanks thread.
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I like the display with the Swiss Hetzer, the Kanonenjagdpanzer, and the Ontos
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JuffoWup posted:Is that an a-44? Gotta say, I got confused for a minute as I thought I was in the WoT tanks thread. That's a weirdly distorted T-60.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:My reaction too. Like, they have the stuff I actually expect them to have, then weird poo poo like this:
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Hi scale modeling thread. I recently decided to relive a small part of my childhood by purchasing a Revell P-38J kit with the intention of building the night-fighter variant it lets you choose. I have nothing other than the kit right now. Assuming this is just a one-off build, what tools should I pick up and what should I read to make my modeling and painting go well and not look like absolute poo poo?
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Minenfeld! posted:Hi scale modeling thread. I recently decided to relive a small part of my childhood by purchasing a Revell P-38J kit with the intention of building the night-fighter variant it lets you choose. I have nothing other than the kit right now. Assuming this is just a one-off build, what tools should I pick up and what should I read to make my modeling and painting go well and not look like absolute poo poo? Absolute basics for tools are a sharp hobby knife or nippers to get the parts off the sprue, then a file or sandpaper to clean up the seams and attachment points. If the kit came with glue, odds are this glue is thick and awful, get a bottle of Tamiya Extra Thin or similar product. This glue seeps into narrow cracks through capillary action and works really well with just a tiny application without making a mess. Painting is where it gets expensive. You're going to want primer (preferably in a rattle can so you can apply it evenly without an airbrush), appropriate colour paints, gloss varnish (never apply decals over a matte surface, you'll get air bubbles underneath) and preferably matte varnish to seal everything, also in a rattle can. For paints go with acrylics over enamels. They're easier to thin and clean up. Always thin your paints, it's better to do several translucent coats than one thick one. If you have an art store nearby, check that out, you might be able to get pretty high-quality paint for cheaper than at a hobby shop.
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Minenfeld! posted:Hi scale modeling thread. I recently decided to relive a small part of my childhood by purchasing a Revell P-38J kit with the intention of building the night-fighter variant it lets you choose. I have nothing other than the kit right now. Assuming this is just a one-off build, what tools should I pick up and what should I read to make my modeling and painting go well and not look like absolute poo poo? Your best bet is to go on YouTube and search for "beginner modeler" videos and you'll find no shortage of videos telling you what you'll need.
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Arquinsiel posted:That's an unexpectedly comprehensive collection. Apparently it's sorta like the king's 1:1 scale collection. Although I didn't see it in the photos they also have a Type 61 somewhere which is possibly the only post war Japanese tank to ever leave the country.
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This is all good. Thank you everyone.
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RillAkBea posted:Apparently it's sorta like the king's 1:1 scale collection.
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I need to brush paint some touch ups on this 1//72 truck, but I only have that olive drab in Vallejo air. Does anyone have a trick to thicken Vallejo air to use with brush?  (This is a cheap model I got to try out some techniques so I didn’t put a lot of effort into it but now perfectionism is kicking in.)
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Just paint it on directly and see what happens. It'll probably be fine.
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FrozenVent posted:I need to brush paint some touch ups on this 1//72 truck, but I only have that olive drab in Vallejo air. Does anyone have a trick to thicken Vallejo air to use with brush? Hello! Vallejo Model Air is fine for painting with unfancy hairy sticks. Don't worry about it and just slap paint onto that beauty.
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Sparq posted:Hello! Vallejo Model Air is fine for painting with unfancy hairy sticks. Don't worry about it and just slap paint onto that beauty. Way too liquid, I ended up using some white cap dark green. Once weathered it’ll be fine.   I need to get the actual camera out sometimes, phones aren’t good at macro work.
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Smartphones can take decent macro pics if you use the macro setting but yeah it doesn't compare to a real camera with a macro lens. The Miata is starting to look like a car. Still got various bits to do like the taillights. I messed up the decal for the 3rd brake light so I just painted it with clear red lacquer. I think Im finally starting to get a hang of the wet sanding/polishing thing.    
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Keep it up! My Katana is taking shape, but all my pictures have been poop. Oh well.
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Messed around a bit with Vallejo “environment” A texture best described as “your rabbit has diarrhea”
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FrozenVent posted:Messed around a bit with Vallejo “environment” I like that vallejo grassy mud stuff, it comes out nice if you're subtle with it. I use it on my tanks:  
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I built a strange German airplane earlier this week.   Airfix's old Blohm & Voss BV 141. Still decent for such an ancient mold, didn't use the figures as they're kind of lovely.
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Working on a diorama with two large water pours. Turned out kind of okay from a distance.
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Lavinia Spenlow posted:I built a strange German airplane earlier this week. Cool looking model, but the plane looks like a death trap!
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Gewehr 43 posted:Did you use epoxy or an acrylic product for the water? AK still water acrylic product.
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Ensign Expendable posted:AK still water acrylic product. That's mostly likely why you've got the water creep up the sides there. Acrylic resins tend to shrink quite a bit, so the center shrinks most and the edges appear to "creep" up any surfaces adjacent to them. Still looks very good though!
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:That's mostly likely why you've got the water creep up the sides there. Acrylic resins tend to shrink quite a bit, so the center shrinks most and the edges appear to "creep" up any surfaces adjacent to them. That was my experience with AK's still water product too. Same with the old school woodland scenics equivalent. For anything other than just the most basic, thin layer of water an epoxy is almost a necessity.
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