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08-17-2015, 04:06 PM | #15 | |
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I always find it almost impossible to get a nice smooth gloss finish on a car model, whereas it's pretty easy to get a good flat military finish on planes or armor, and wear and dirt are easily applied with a dry brush. |
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Nice work on your model.
Tamiya also makes a 1/10 RC model. A little harder to modify Lexan, so I just have a 1.0 paint job on a stock 86 body. |
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Dip clear parts in Future floor polish. Makes them crystal clear and if you crew up you can just wash it off with some windex and start over.
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Me too. I now paint gloss subjects flat and then use (you guessed it) Future Floor polish to make them gloss. I use a pile of that shit.
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I remember back when I first started airbrushing models with acrylic paints, I would just dump the paint right in the cup and start spraying. I ended up with a chunky textured mess. After a little research I found that most gloss or semi-gloss paint needed to be thinned out with either thinner or distilled water, sometimes a 1:1 ratio or even a 1:2 paint to thinner. Made a huge difference in quality and ease.
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Shipping would have cost more since it would be heavier.
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Holy crap. I never even knew this kinda stuff existed. Forget buying the car, I'll do this instead
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Was my most recent. Going into the IPMS show in October once I finish the support vehicles. I am beginning to think we need a new thread for Military Modellers as there seem to be a few here.
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Looking forward to seeing the progress! I just finished a Series.Hyperblue BRZ
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I'm sitting here looking at all you guys with your models you made yourself. Last Christmas I had bought myself a Tamiya BRZ kit, but I realized I had to actually paint everything myself (I didn't have the time to do that) so I traded it for a AUTOart GT86 |
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By the time you get the kit, the proper equipment to do the job and learn the skills through practice by ruining a few other kits it would probably be cheaper to just buy the real thing.
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