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Tanks usually look sleeker since they get a custom built chassis nearly every time, the usual recipe for an armoured car is to take a truck you already produce and slap some armour around it. The result is rarely pleasant.
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Sparq posted:It's looking good. Can't you fix the small blue paint bleeding just by regular brush? I'm not used to such tidy paintjobs as I usually do dirt-laden crap-covered tanks and mechs. Given the nature of the paint I used and the fact that it’s pre thinned for airbrushing the only real option was to mask it off and respray the front. I don’t have photos of it but I’m far happier with the sharpness of the paint line now than I was. I’ve done small areas of overspray with a brush in the past but with white it’s not worth the hassle of brushing and it took 4 thin coats to hide the bits of blue that where on the white.
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If you folks want to see some absolutely jaw dropping car builds check out the Nandemo-Seisaku Youtube channel. Hes a hobbyist in Japan and there's no voice overs just soothing music. The amount of extra detail he puts in is insane. https://youtu.be/QUOQbVysjDs
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Charliegrs posted:If you folks want to see some absolutely jaw dropping car builds check out the Nandemo-Seisaku Youtube channel. Hes a hobbyist in Japan and there's no voice overs just soothing music. The amount of extra detail he puts in is insane.  That body finish.
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I have the Revell A-7 Corsair I'm doing for the quarantine and there's like this air intake that's 2 pieces, and there's a bad seam line inside the air intake. What can I do to fill and sand this seam line that is in a pretty narrow area that can't really be reached?
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For the sanding maybe cut fine grit sanding paper in strips?
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Phi230 posted:I have the Revell A-7 Corsair I'm doing for the quarantine and there's like this air intake that's 2 pieces, and there's a bad seam line inside the air intake. What can I do to fill and sand this seam line that is in a pretty narrow area that can't really be reached? Got a pic? Might help with suggestions.
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Gewehr 43 posted:Got a pic? Might help with suggestions. 
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Molentik posted:For the sanding maybe cut fine grit sanding paper in strips? I've tried, but its too deep to evenly sand/apply pressure. Also I know this brought up before, but between vallejo, alclad, and AK what is the best? I've heard they each do certain metal colors better but I'm not sure which Phi230 fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Mar 28, 2020 |
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if you have a chopstick or something similar you could maybe glue the sandpaper to it and fit it in there alclad is the best for metals imo but its also the most expensive and difficult
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Raskolnikov38 posted:if you have a chopstick or something similar you could maybe glue the sandpaper to it and fit it in there So if I'm not comfortable with lacquer yet, between AK and Vallejo what's good
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Arquinsiel posted:No needle files handy? Wouldn't a file be too rough?
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I never use sandpaper because I am lazy, but you can get different grit files in the same way you can with it. I'll eat through plastic fast though, so test on sprue and be careful.
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I'm not sure I can even parse what's going on in that pic. It looks like the inside is hacked up and melted? Looks like serious damage that might be very hard to fix. Maybe do a hardstand refueling/rearming model, with an intake cover on the plane. Can look quite cool with coverings and safety-lockout tags hanging off the armaments, with a nice wheeled genny and flight engineer tinkering on the plane. Bloody Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Mar 28, 2020 |
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Phi230 posted:So if I'm not comfortable with lacquer yet, between AK and Vallejo what's good I think Vallejo's metal color airbrush line is the only solid metallic acrylic out there. Maybe kcolors but thats much harder to get. The good line of AK metallics are enamel based.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I'm not sure I can even parse what's going on in that pic. It looks like the inside is hacked up and melted? Looks like serious damage that might be very hard to fix. It's just vallejo putty applied over the horrible seam on the inside, still drying lol
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   Hasegawa F15J kit circa 1988. Decals were tough, had quite a few just disintegrate. The nose portion was completely out of whack in relation to the body, not sure if there was a mold update or what happened but holy poo poo was it a pain. Not happy with how that turned out. Canopies continue to be my nemesis.
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Nah, the hosed up fitment sounds about right for the Hasegawa F-15. Mine had a jacked up nose and the wings weren't quite the same size.
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grassy gnoll posted:Nah, the hosed up fitment sounds about right for the Hasegawa F-15. Mine had a jacked up nose and the wings weren't quite the same size. It's weird how some of it fit together so well you hardly saw a seam, then another piece was potato like. Oh well, still turned out decent enough.
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So I ended up getting sanding strips which are just really thin sanding sticks, some "precision sanding tips" which are like Q-tips but with a grit, and I'm gonna try tapping sandpaper to a stick and I'm gonna test all 3 methods to see which is best for hitting these hard to reach areas
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After last weekends oversray action I carried on with decalling the porsche 956 this weekend. I bought some aftermarket decals made by MSM creations because the set that cam with the kit where rather old and yellow. They're lovely decals apart from the fact that they're so thick that markfit strong won't touch them. I'm gonna upgrade my setting solutions after this to microsol/set as poo poo can't continue the same way. Another difference is this is the first time the body will be done before any other parts of the car so I'll have the body done but I'll get the rest done over the easter holidays. I had to use the kit decals for the red and gold stripe and the aftermarket ones wouldn't conform.  
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New lockdown project has arrived. All the way from Russia despite the plague. Rather impressed with the mail service under the circumstances. Probably has only has a non lethal amount of corona in it.   Decal sheet says it was printed in 2010 which is weird as hell since I thought they hadn't made this kit since 1985, so I'm feeling pretty good since that should mean the decals are usable. 
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So my most successful attempt was taping sandpaper to a stick. That did the gaps pretty good. Overall, on this P-40 kit, I had a very hard time filling the gaps. It looks like poo poo, to be honest. I'm doing something wrong or this kit really does suck rear end. It seems all my attempts to apply thinned Tamiya paste or thinned Vallejo paste just never got the job done on seams, they are not even close to flush, and even applying a bunch of tamiya putty and sanding still doesn't look right or is flush. I'll post pictures later. I'm base coating it, so I'll be done tomorrow I think. Decals and Weathering are pretty quick in my experience. Does anyone have any resources specifically on sanding/doing gaps after applying the putty? Or how about resources on how to paint jet engines? I'm doing the Revell A-7A, never painted a jet before but I have all these jet engine effects but not sure how to use them. Phi230 fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Mar 30, 2020 |
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Carth Dookie posted:New lockdown project has arrived. They’re cartograf decals as well so they should lay down nice and flat really.
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Do I need to file down Tamiya putty before priming? I tried it for the first time and was a bit messy with it trying to fix gaps in a 1/72 Hasegawa F-18 which was a real pain in the rear end to work with compared to the usual kits I do.
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https://twitter.com/Tmk_and_kaede/status/1244192872435310594 Something is amiss, but what? Bonus hand masking: https://twitter.com/Tmk_and_kaede/status/1243482802533756929
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Taintrunner posted:Do I need to file down Tamiya putty before priming? I tried it for the first time and was a bit messy with it trying to fix gaps in a 1/72 Hasegawa F-18 which was a real pain in the rear end to work with compared to the usual kits I do. In my experience if you want a nice even finish then yes you should file it down or sand it before priming. The texture of the putty will show through paint if you don't. I sand it down with something coarse like 500 grit then finish it with something like 3000 grit to get it smooth. However I do car models so I'm looking for the smoothest finish possible. If you're doing military models it might not be as important.
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This virus is hitting people hard in weird ways Plasmo has gone insane. I’m not spoiling it, just go watch his latest project
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Dr. Phildo posted:This virus is hitting people hard in weird ways That's insane. That's a seriously good spray coverage for what it is. I love the fact that you could just quickly change nozzle size on the fly if you wanted to.
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Dr. Phildo posted:This virus is hitting people hard in weird ways Puddin posted:That's insane. He's re upped the crazy with his next video. He has been doing a stack of diy hobby tools videos between his notmal stuff lately though.
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Hitherto unknown levels of crapkit build power.
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Dr. Phildo posted:This virus is hitting people hard in weird ways Thanks, I hadn't watched any of his videos. He's bonkers. That's incredible.
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