Plastic Model Kit Thread.

Glad to hear you got it stripped ok. Patience is key. I forgot to add before that you can make a nice little car body holder out of a wire coat hanger. Bend the two ends in so they press against the inside of the body and then hold on to the hook part. Makes it much easier to move the body around to get every nook and cranny.

 

Awesome! Post some pics and keep us updated! Am getting my modeling kicks through this!

 

Awesome idea, I'm going to have to get some wire coat hangers tomorrow.

I found some Panzer Gray and German Silver Metallic spraypaints, I forgot that I had a German half track in the attic with all my other supplies.

Starting my own little German army. I have a feeling camouflage will be difficult for myself.

 

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I like the Tigers in the panzer gray - I may must have to get another Tiger or two...boy, those German armor colors (that aint nothing, wait until you dabble in the Luftwaffe colors!) can get confusing... That's why you need to get an airbrush!

 

Are there any other ways of fixing a blemish on the base coat of a model without having to completely strip the car and start over?

The paint went on great until I started to do some details, I don't know how it happened, but hopefully this won't mean another reset.

 

Wet said the problem areas with some 600 grit sandpaper. You'll probably have to do some touch up again though. What type of blemishes are we talking? Dust? Runs?

 

What he said... depending on the size/amount of work, you can probably get by with a finer grit. Remember, you want it smooth because any scratches will show...

 

Runs, the area is about the size of a dime. I'll do that tonight, thanks guys.

 

Just be careful with sanding runs. Because the paint is thicker there, it takes much longer to cure up. If you start sanding and it looks kind of gummy, stop and let it dry for a couple more days before you start sanding again.

 

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It looks way better than before now, thanks. I'll wait a few more days before sanding it again.

 

Post some pics! I haven't been able to do any building in a while...

 

Here it is drying, the light makes it look like it has some pretty bad orange peel, but it looks way better in person. I'll edit in one more picture.



Here's the second picture:

 

Looking good so far! Keep us updated - am going through modeling withdrawals... Have you come up with a scheme for that Panther yet?

 

Thanks! It might take me a while to decide on a paint scheme for the Panther. I keep thinking to myself that I should keep it a simple German Grey, but I really want to try a multicolored camouflage like on the box. I have two Pz kpfw II tanks that I will work on before starting the Panther just to get some practice on how to paint camouflage somewhat proficiently.

I was looking at paint schemes earlier and I noticed there are both hard edge and soft edge camouflage schemes. I don't really like the hard edge camouflage, but I would probably need a decent airbrush setup to pull off the soft edge camouflage.

 

You can do soft edge schemes with a rattle can and some careful masking.

Method 1:

Cut your masking pattern out of paper and then tape it to the model with rolled up masking tape. The rolled up tape will elevate the paper from the surface, which when sprayed gives you a nice feathered edge.

Method 2:

Using blutack (sp?) or Silly Putty (yes, stuff from when you were a kid), roll out a bunch of small "worms" and then lay those down on the model in the pattern you want. Fill in the areas in between with masking tape, and then spray. The roll curling under at the surface will do the same thing as the elevated paper in Method 1, only not as coarse.

The key to both methods is to spray everything perpindicular to the mask. If you spray anything at an angle, it will get underneath the masking and change the effect.

-Dave

 

From what I recall, I don't think there where any Panthers in German Grey - honestly I think that was an early war color. If you don't have an airbrush when you paint the soft edge, you can always do the raised mask method mentioned by 2qwik... That's where you raise the mask a bit off of the model by something like rolled up tape or the like. The trick is not to paint going toward the mask so that none really creeps under it...this will give a fairly soft edge that would work nice on armor...

 

I really like that first method you posted, I'm going to make sure to try that out.

Yeah, I haven't seen any Panthers in German Grey at all when I was looking them up. I really like the multicolored camouflage so I'm definitely going to try that out.
(Now I just need to pick one of these:http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/thefgmforum/threads/panther-camouflage-patterns.352/)

Thanks again for the help fellas, I really appreciate it.

 

I'm in the process now of applying Aluminum foil to all of the surfaces that have a bare metal finish on my 1/48 P51. I spent about 2 1/2 hours on the wing section below. This is my first attempt at this. I should be applying the foil to unpainted surfaces but since I screwed up over a year ago and painted it, I'm sanding the paint down as best I can. It's a learning experience

 

^Is that just regular foil? The sell something called bare metal foil that is very thin with an adhesive backing.