Mentally Challengered Editionprevious thread: >>11527247This thread is for the discussion of scale plastic (and resin, PE, wood, etc) models kit-Post photos of your builds in progress and your finished builds-Have your builds critiqued or critique others-Discuss tips and techniques-Ask for advice or give advice to othersAlways remember:Hit up your hobby homie for the good shit (glue, that is)Some helpful guides to get started:https://www.scalemates.com/http://www.mediafire.com/view/1vf1aw7v91pz5pa/Airfix%20Model%20World%20Specia%20%28Scale%20Modelling%20Step-By-Step%29.pdfhttp://www.scalemodelguide.com/http://www.modelersite.com/en/area/98/scale-models-techniqueshttp://fichtenfoo.net/blog/model-tutorials-and-in-progshttp://ipmsstockholm.org/https://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/http://www.primeportal.net/home.htmhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/156268995@N04/albumsPlus there are tons of people on YouTube with pretty good videos on techniques etc.Some sites to purchase models, extras, and supplies:>ebayhttps://www.dersockelshop.de/ (GER)https://www.scalehobbyist.com/index.php (US)https://www.alfahobby.se/ (SWE)http://spruebrothers.com/ (US)https://freetimehobbies.com/ (US)http://www.hobbyeasy.com/ (HK)http://www.luckymodel.com/ (HK)http://www.hlj.com/ (JP)https://www.modellbau-koenig.de/en (GER)http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/m/ (JP)https://www.hannants.co.uk/ (UK)https://www.jadarhobby.pl/index.php?language=en (PL)https://www.bnamodelworld.com/ (AUS)http://volksusastore.com/webstores/scale/ (US) (Carry Mr. Color and GaiaNotes paint)https://www.emodels.co.uk/ (UK)https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/https://www.super-hobby.com (EU/UK/RU/US/PL)https://plastmodel.pl/ (PL/EU)https://agtom.eu/en/(PL/EU)https://exito.site/en_GB/index(PL/EU)https://m-zone.pl (PL only)
first for second build(and fucked up shading since I couldn't do it in proper way)
Why is my shitter in the OP?
>>11548761Because there weren't a ton of new builds completed and I liked yours. I am the worst builder in this thread (too embarrassed to post my last fuck-up), so I guess I might be a bit kind, but I think the result is fine.Also trying to get my foot in before the gay retard picks a model from Reddit and posts it as OP again.
Sorry for boomer rocking
has anyone here built one of the hasegawa super real figures? I was thinking about picking one up.
>>11548958No, but if it is picrel, then hawt.
>>11548753Did you not paint it
>>11549361Paint is for queers
>>11548357i don't want to be specific, but it's similar to mk4 fiesta
>>11548958>facebook-tier boomer nonsensegrim
>>11549364anon you are mentally challenged arent you
>>11549364You tellem, jack I didn't have no fancy chinese teyma paints when I started with revell in '69----------------------------------------------------Fred "Big Hoss" Gonzalez POW-MIA Lost but not forgottanBless our troops!USMC 1977-1977 Dishonorably discharged Pump Operator 1979-1983Walmart greeter 1990-2006Walmart cashier 2010-Present4th place AMPS 1994 1/700 waterline vessels "I carry a .45 because they don't make a .46"TRUMP 2020 MAGAV-8 OR BE LATE!No replacement for displacement!"You can't fix stupid" -- Ron WhiteDa STASH:Academy Merkava II God bless IsraelAcademy M113A1 "Gavin" Hasegawa F-4J chinaman crapAcademy AH-64D Longbow USMC Hoorah "Bless American Soldiers"THIS VETERAN FOUGHT FOR YOUR FREEDOM..........show some RESPECT"You can't fix stupid"[Image Hosted by Photobucket]This is my brother in law Dale's 79 1/35 Panther before he died of lung cancer [Image Hosted by Photobucket]TRUMP 2020 #MAGA[Image Hosted by Photobucket]The STASH[Image Hosted by Photobucket]Disclaimer: I do NOT consent to the use of my profile or likeness without my express written consent. If you use or sell my profile, my posts, or my likeness without my permission, you will be SUED in a court of LAW. You have been warned. Copy + paste this in your SIGNATURE to show Mark Zuckerberg we mean business!Sent from my iPad via Tapatalk. Try Tapatalk today!
>>11549446>me reading this My favorite part is the grudges boomers hold against random online services. I remember a boomer's watchmaking website, where at the bottom of every (coded from scratch) HTML page was a gif of a dog pissing on the Ebay logo (1999-2012 version) for some reason. No explanation.
>>11549427I've never used facebook so I don't understand the reference
I've never tried my hand at building a plane, right now I'm working on a 1/144th f16. the build is almost done and I'm just now realizing how fucking cool planes are.
I got a resin printer and man, the future is here...
>>11549446>Disclaimer: I do NOT consent to the use of my profile or likeness without my express written consent. If you use or sell my profile, my posts, or my likeness without my permission, you will be SUED in a court of LAW. You have been warned. Copy + paste this in your SIGNATURE to show Mark Zuckerberg we mean business!my absolute favorite, especially when they post reference pictures with obnoxious self made watermarks to prevent them from being used anywhere else. Everyone in the picture is dead, the person who took the picture is dead, but since you bought some grandmas photo album on ebay, this picture that otherwise would have been lost to history can now only exists to the wider world as partially ruined. All because captain dipshit thinks hes going to write a book or something, only to die and have his collection end up in the trash, or at best, on ebay once again.I may come back with a list of the absolutely bizarre boomer traits I've seen that have pushed me away from traditional modeling forums.
>>11550274>All because captain dipshit thinks hes going to write a book or something, only to die and have his collection end up in the trash Are boomers more like dragons or more like dwarves? Their stubbornness and pettiness makes me think dwarves though. There's probably a dwarf stubbornly making mid-tier crossbows for nobody, because matchlocks were invented.
wtf is up with you faggots talking about boomer shit? how fucking old are you dudes?
>>1155034235, and my hatred for that generation has only grown with time, so I'm going to continue shitting on them.>>11550300This is a tough one, but I may side with you. For example, they're obsessed with home value, but if you tell them it's a non-liquid asset that can't be traded for a better home in most cases as all home prices have inflated, you'll get the blank stare as they refuse to take in any new information that challenges what they think is important. Anyway, since everyone wants to hear more, have some boomer poster characters>Boomer cop throws a shit fit like a high school girl. Makes a vague post how no one respects him and everyone's mean to him. Deletes all his other posts, effectively taking his ball and going home. No one else has any idea what he's taking about and try to reason with him. It's known hes a cop since it was so important to him it was in his user name>Boomer weirdo with chip on his shoulder. Tons of posts about perceived racism against him, lots more with bravado and talks of violence. Wild card, posts picture of 50+ yr old wife publicly, referring to her as 'nubile'>Boomer autist. Never posted a build, never posted a helpful tip or technique related to actual physical modeling. LIVES to correct people, just waiting in the wings for someone to call something by the wrong name or point out a flaw in logic. Often condescending and snarky to boot.
It's funny how the most boomer hobby around has the most anti-boomer general
>>11550868>the most boomer hobbyScale modeling is far from being the most boomer hobby
cool another insufferable thread
>>11551215They're doing their warm up laps for the time they become the boomers...
I know it's obviously an active war with an interesting combo of donated vehicles from around the world, but man am I tired of seeing builds of Ukrainian marked equipment regardless of build quality. There's just so many people making them and they are, with the exception of some cool scratch built cope cages, some of the most boring schemes and builds around
>>11551398 >I'm just so tired of the boring Ukraine fellow wecterners
Could someone please tell me what's so special about those mr.hobby and meng nippers that they are almost 100$? What some sort of unobtanium bullshittery is used and folded over 9000 times in them that they are this pricey?
>>11551484Looks kinda high quality.
>>11551484the single bladed ones? they seem like a shit meme to me. people admit that they wear out faster, and you will still need to clean up the thing you're cutting anyway
>>11551537Oh yeah Bob, and you know this from 30 years of smelling the finest Testors glue and Humbrol fumes and never touching any of these fancy tools, right?
>>11551548smell my balls bill
>>11551537they're for cleaning up nubs and gate traces, basically xacto knives in nipper form, don't use them for anything other than that to avoid wear
about done painting the kondensator, forgot the rubber mudguards
>>11551634and the reason im so slow with that build is that I immediately jumped into the HIMARS once construction was done
Single blade nippers are a huge waste of money but glass files are great. Buy good quality ones for nails, hobby products are always overpriced.
>>11551934>glass filesmeme shit, eats parts and polishes them without consent, still doesn't beat good old sandpaper
What is it with the dozen boomer roleplayers here? I thought this thread is for scalemodels?
>>11552030We're not all boomers here.- Jim, 300th Latrine Digging Battalion, Malmedy Massacre Survivor.
>>11550868>The most boomer hobbyBut enough about model trains
>>11551934I swear half of the people in this general have not taken a step outside of their garage in decades.Do you not have online hobby stores in the US? I can buy specialty products for nearly nothing pretty much straight from the producer from all over Europe. Oh no, big bad EU makes everything seamless, easy to buy and fast to arrive.
>>11552042Bro godhand is overpriced even in Japan. Even "cheap" Chinese single blade nippers are still going to be more expensive and fragile than a decent pair of dual blade nippers, which you still have to buy anyway because you shouldn't cut sprues or clear parts with the single blade snipper.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkqCwc5-tbAIs this tutorial any good?>polishing the needle>sealing the nozzle with beeswax
>>11552092You should be using a thread sealant on most airbrushes anyway. A quick search shows iwata and badger sell beeswax and tamiya has their own nozzle sealant too.
Sorry folks...but these are the only nippers I need...
>>11552033>Malmedy Massacre Survivorlel
QRD on nippers. I just use an X-Acto knife with No. 11 blade, plus some jeweller files and sanding sticks down to 1000 grit. Nippers always seemed like a scam to me.
>>1155204510 bucks. 10 bucks is comparable to any fucking tool you can buy from a hardware store. 10 bucks is cheap as fuck for a tool that will last you forever. How do you break it? How does it dull? Cutting fucking plastic? With tool steel??? You retards are doing something you're not supposed to do or just making up shit. I used a 2€ pair of chinesium nippers for 5 years before I broke them because I tried getting some metal parts open with them which you are not supposed to do, they worked as good as the day I bought them. Also have a pair of single blade nippers that I've been using for 3 years. I have not done stupid shit with them and they work, are not dull and have not broken. Wonder why?
>>11552492You use nippers to remove shit from the sprue (or runner would be more exact I guess) and then do the knife and sanding.
>>11552648I see. I used a knife as the nippers and to scrape, then filing and sanding.
3 hours of carving and drilling (0.7mm) on this Godforsaken thing, this is the Type 22 radar of submarine I-58 from July 1945, kit is from AFV
>>11551634>>11551635nice! yeah I think everyone jumps between kits, I have two active ones rn. also sick setup
>>11552045How retarded are you to break a set of nippers, especially the Chinese ones which are thicker than god hands
>>11553272>thickerThen you've completely missed the point of a single blade nipper and instead spent 5x more on a chinesium nipper that only bothered to sharpen one edge.
>>11553280You are illiterate
How do I avoid orange peel when airbrushing?
>>11553592Avoiding orange peel:Thin paint properly (about 1:1, adjust as needed).Spray at 15–20 psi.Keep distance ~2–3 inches.Apply light, even coats—don’t flood it.Use proper thinner/retarder if paint dries too fast.Make sure the surface is smooth and clean before spraying.Fixing it: Wet sand with 2000+ grit and recoat lightly.
>>11553592>I keep peeling oranges when I paint my models, how does this keep happening are you like, retarded?
>>11553622Yes.>>11553600Thank you!
How are Mirage Hobby kits? I'm looking at their M3 right now because for a 1:72 one it seems it's only between that and ssmodel
still can't find 1/20th scale animal figures :( everything is either a pre painted toy, in 1/35th scale, or a dinosaur
>>11553063ty, posted pics of the setup here before. It became pretty evident early on that I'd be dying alone, so I went pretty hardcore on building a setup. Also the fit on the HIMARS is mediocre at best and I hope most of the bullshit gaps will get covered or remain hidden.
I want to do 1/350 shipsThe 1/350 Kongo from Border models seems great and so does the Yamato and Takao from VeryfireI wish they'd do British and German battlecruisers and battleships as well since the kits we have now are pretty crude Too bad I don't have the space for them No interest in USA ships unfortunately >>11554146Why not get a resin printer and print them?
>>11554424for what reason would you ask for more german ships
>>11554424>Why not get a resin printer and print them?zero space, I barely have enough room for my hobby stuff.
which brands make the most detailed 1/35 plastic figures nowadays? and which brands should I avoid?
>>11554806Plastic figures will always be less detailed than resin figures, but Miniart has the best sculpt and the figures go for very cheap
Baby's first real attempt at weathering, not sure if there's anything that could be fixed/added, but I'm about ready to move onto other models
>>11555029https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3p_VuPIS2c
>>11548733Hey anons I am currently build a Tamiya 1/48 F4F-4 Wildcat. And I couldn't help but notice it didn't come with a pilot to be seated in the cockpit. Anywhere I can find a seat Navy/Marine fight Pilot for the kit?
>>11555098Make sure the seller can ship to your country, Super Hobby is unable to deliver to America right now...https://www.super-hobby.com/products/WW2-US-Navy-Pilot-2-Engaged-2-Heads-50411049.htmlThey have similar seated WWII Navy figures too, search around for them.
>>11554806hasegawa
This is my latest fuck-up. My first time doing rigging. I need more pointers.
bought some Aires resin parts. I hope they fit well because I really hate having to do a bunch of cutting and shit to add aftermarket parts
also eduard pe stuff for the cockpitI can't wait to fuck this up kit somehow after all the effort!
>>11555206looks good to me >>11555222>>11555233checkedalso have fun with your new project, I'm building my first plane right now and it's pretty fun. I messed up the masking a bit but it's not too bad and just requires a few corrections.
>>11554806Lots of good resin stuff out there to choose from. For plastic, the new figures from Tamiya are generally considered the best in the market, although their range of subjects is limited to WW2. Avoid anything from Trumpeter.
>>11555222I don't remember resin parts being that yellow, is that what age does to them?
>>11555278Thank you. I dropped this model, so I had to reassemble it almost entirely.
>>11555104>that much for 1 tiny figure do resinfags really
>>11554453Why not? There's not a single model of the light cruisers or the non Admiral Graf Spee Deutschlands.>>11554424There's Seydlitz from HobbyBoss. You can still do destroyers or submarines spacewise
>>11555321all I ever see is kriegsmarine and ijn ships
>>11555029The only fix is to throw it away and start again.
>>11555287the last time I bought aftermarket resin stuff was a similar sickly yellow color, so its probably the color of the stuff they used
after seeing all kinds of methods being used to deal with visible print layers, I think the one which is the most efficient and also produces the best results is:apply UV resin with a brush, insta-cure it after it has levelled itself, sand it with a rotary tool equipped with a polishing head.
>>11555287No, that was the standard color during the 90s. Verlinden stuff was mostly yellow. Only later grey became more common.
>>11555601Enjoy your miner's lung. Unless you are mentally deficient, none of the current resin printers will leave layer lines if you are not printing with a huge z step on purpose.
What color should I paint the Jumo 211 in this Stuka? I'm not autistic enough to have all the reference books and I found conflicting results online about whether it should be some sort of black or rlm02 like I've painted the surrounding engine bay parts
>>11555729I know basically nothing of krautplens, but a quick search tells me that if it's an engine put into a plane, then it would be black. In pics where the J-211 wasn't black it was either a museum restoration, an instructional cutaway, a wreck pulled from the ground with all its paint rotted away or a bare metal one being assembled in the factory.
>>11555654nta but are you retarded? you know mask exist right? do you not wear a mask when spraying your models?
>>11556266I would sooner trust a nigger to not stab me on the train than believe most of the retards here actually use PPE.
>>11556282so your just retarded then
>>11550597My god you're a whiny faggot.
>>11556351YOU TELL HIM BILL---------------------------I hide new kits in the shed, can't anger the SWMBOHappy wife happy life, third times a charm!
impulse bought a new compressor with a tank because I'm tired of having a water gun instead of an airbrushI can't wait for the issue to persist
>>11556351the retard has been shitting up threads for awhile
>>11556387Buy a moisture trap or several.>>11556346>your just retardedThey really do write themselves, huh?
>>11556479>reeee you am die from resin>hurrrr durrr no one am use pee pee eeee>procedures to take tranny pills
I just used my old compressor that I haven't used in 3 years and after unscrewing the bottom of the tank and putting it down again about 1/3rd a cup of water came out
>>11556479I already have 2, one as part of the pressure regulator and another inline on the hose. also have a dehumidifier running 24/7 near the compressor. even have an extra fan pointed at the compressor to try and keep it coolstill sprays water.
>>11552042>Do you not have online hobby stores in the US?They do but their packages always get stolen from the porch by their nogs.
>>11552042They are expensive... Before the pause in shipments to the US, Super Hobby orders that met the free shipping threshold ($150) would be $220 or more from Squadron or Sprue Brothers, which frequently do not stock what you want or need, take longer to ship and have free shipping exclusions. Not to mention that domestic shipments would take longer too (it took 10 days for a shipment from Squadron, which is the next state away from me to get to my place, whereas Super Hobby took 6 days). Trust me, there is rarely an excuse to buy from domestic hobby shops.Excuse me for speaking comparatively, but why pay more for the same products? Why pay more for inferior products, at times, from stores that rarely stock anything other than Round 2, some Revell, Trumpeter and a few Jap kits? (Not to say that Jap kits are bad, but their catalogues have nothing that interests me, personally). The problem with America's web hobby shops is that they are still stuck in the days of mail order, when carrying Tamiya or Hasegawa was enough to set yourself apart.Anyway, has the German post suspended shipments to the US too? I am looking at some Luedemann and Classic Plane kits.
chipping done
but wait, theres more!
>>11557518>>11557519I hope you checked what's steel, and what's aluminum on Soviet armored vehicles. Because it's a lot of fucking aluminum.
>>11557537of course I didnt
>>11556999there's literally no advantage to being american in this hobby
>>11557550Except being more awesome
>>11557550It is probably the biggest disadvantage to have: >Vallejo and AK near impossible to find>"Who is this Mister Hobby guy?">"Never heard of a Mig Jimenez, never liked those commie bastard fighter jets anyway.">No Fujimi, Aoshima or Fine Molds kits stocked regularly>Not even Italeri is frequently stocked anymore>No real kit industry unlike almost every country in Europe, Australia and Asia. Even some African countries are doing better.>The companies that do exist only nostalgia-bait boomers.>Speaking of which:>"I know what I got know low-balls." (For a Monogram 1/77 Ford Trimotor being passed off as 1/72).>No kits of interesting subjects (e.g Ryan NYP, F-101, etc.)>No airliners stocked, usually (sometimes the odd Atlantis or Revell kit) >Almost no Non-tank military vehicles>Ship modellers are up shit creek without a paddleI am so sick of it. All I wanted were since decent WWI models, but they only stock the same three Academy biplane shitkits that even 1970s Airfix manages to surpass. Excuse the rant, but I am just so tired of it all.
>>11554806for resin bravo6 is unreal quality, especially his Vietnam sculpts but it's also brutally expensive
>tfw local hobby shop's mr hobby stock has been dwindling even before the tarriff stuff and will definitely be getting worse
god fucking dammit, I bought the base kit of this in 2022 when it came out, bought a bunch of resin upgrade parts to turn it into the track version only for THIS to come out, I havent even touched my kit yet, i wasted so much money
>>11557674leveling thinner and mr. surfacer 1500 have already been unobtainium for months
>>11555206I also kinda fucked up my f16, I really hope the oil dot filter will fix it
>>11557622I feel so incredibly fortunate to have several different hobby shops in my shitty midwestern US metropolitan area. They're surprisingly well stocked with different things.one has>stock from some of the "other guys", eduard, gwh, clear prop, icm, meng, arma, etc>variety of paints including revell acrylics, humbrol, a decent amount of mr hobby, and even some old model master stock (but no mig, vallejo or AK)>whole cabinet full of aftermarket detail stuff >whole aisle of toolsthe other has>mostly the usuals; tamiya, hasegawa, airfix, round2 and revell stuff>full selection of vallejo paints, some AK paint and pigments>LOTS of gundamwe even have a model train shop that has anything you'd ever need for a diorama, as well as a bunch, if not the full line of ammo paintsTheres also a small hole in the wall shop that just opened recently dedicated to gunpla and things of that sort
america should start some kit companies
>>11557837I think this hobby is too niche for new companies to emerge You can go through the graveyard of failed new companies in scalemates
>>11556999>Excuse me for speaking comparatively, but why pay more for the same products?Sure, I agree. My local hobby stores pump the prices up to like 200%. It's cheaper for me to buy shit from Germany that have almost 3x higher wages. (I actually mostly buy from Poland or straight from producer in Spain).That being said, if your options are either painting with fucking Testors or paying more at murican wages, then why torture yourself? I get that some parts of living in America are expensive, but I'm not sure you guys realize how much expandable income you have to spend on just stuff. I'm buying electronics at 150% prices compared to you while making less at an IT job than your burger flippers do.
these 90s trumpeter boxarts were something else
>>11558061SOVL overload
>>11557837It's been decades since production all shifted to China, and before that they were making them in Mexico. It would take very long to build up the facilities and manpower to get a new company in America up and running. Setting one up in response to tariffs is also too risky because the current admin is VERY unpredictable.
>cheap as shit chink airbrush seems to be deadshould I just buy another? I never used anything else
>>11548733Original decals disintegrated so I turned this into a german capture p51d. Balkenkreuz hasn't been put on yet but there are plenty of kits to cannibalize it from. This was a fun build if a tad ahistorical. Any thoughts and critiques? Academy 1:72
>>11558418Different angle
What do I do about bubbles appearing when I brush on my paint?
>>11558500Sand and redo it.
>>11557837Atlantis is a new company, but their catalogue is all old Revell, Aurora, Monogram and Lindberg kits.I would willingly start a company, but it would probably just be resin or vac-form at first. I need to straighten my life out right now too (not that modelling helps).
Any recommendations for model figures that are 1/12 scale or bigger? I had fun building the Moebius Death Dealer and haven't been able to find many others and it seems like I might have to get a 3D printer and scale up minis. Preferably military, sci fi, or fantasy, I'm not really interested in anime.
>>11558538Is there anyway to avoid getting bubbles in the first place
>>11558655Git gud and thin your paints properly. Too thin makes them bubble when brush painting.
What's everyone's recommendation for an acrylic primer?
>>11558665Mr. Hobby. If you are in America, you are SOL and will probably be using hardware store paint three weeks from now anyway.
>>11558539>resin or vac-form at firstIt's all 3D printing now and some resin for cottage businesses, I wouldn't even bother with vac-form.
>>11558711Fair, I did make my own vac-form machine in the past and there are a couple of German and British companies that still make vac-form kits (Aircraft in Miniature, Airmodel, Classic Plane and Welsh Models). I would probably just keep it to cottage type stuff, mainly WWI, aircraft and armor, plus airships across all eras, if I was going ahead with it. I have access to free 3D filament printing, my issue is that it is PLA only, unless I buy my own stuff. Is there any kind of filament that will not produce lines? If so, then I will create a CAD file and ship stuff to you guys for chicken feed.
I forgot to actually finish this one after I finished painting the bumpers and chrome stuff. Just gotta paint the grille and tail lights now
>>11559727I wish I wasn't retarded
and now its finished.I wish I could have figured out how to make the 3D printed engine work (it was 1/24 scale in a 1/25 model) but it didn't fit without a lot of cutting and I no longer felt it was worth it. I got to try some new stuff out with this build>kit bashing, cowl hood and interior gauges were from previous cars>scratch building, made my own rear fender flares>painting chromeoverrall I'm very happy with how this turned out despite not getting to use all the aftermarket stuff I bought for it. AMT Ford Courier
>>11559833Very nice detail work on the filthy cab interior. I can almost smell the cow patties on the floorboard.
oil shading, filters, some rust work and a little pigments. I might do some rust effects on my chipping. Currently experimenting with a nearly decade old bottle of clumpy enamel earth effects on the lower hull, so we'll see how that goes, yolo
rusty wheels. I wanna do this as a sitting hulk. Toying with the idea of doing a vignette base since I've never done one thats any good.
First time working with photo etch and I already want to kill myself
>>11560554show us so we can make fun. also, get some flat jawed xuron pliers. perfect for holding small parts for cleanup and then for folding.
>>11560565I haven't even gotten to the pieces that need to be bent yet
>>11560572then why so blue panda bear? Is the superglue sucking penis? The proper type of CA glue and a fresh bottle of it make for a much more enjoyable build experience.
>>11560591The superglue is freshly bought, but I didn't put any thought into what to get and picked up a cheap thing of super thin CA on amazon. Trying to keep/move the PE in place is ass, and no matter how far away I keep my fingers I somehow keep getting splatters of CA glue on my them
>>11560594Head to any hardware store tomorrow and get a good gel superglue, I've never looked back
>>11560599Any specific brands or products to look out for? I took a look at Menards' offerings before I checked Amazon, but none of it was safe for model plastic
>>11560605this is what I use, never had an issue with it on plastic, just shake the shit out of it and squeeze out just enough to wick it off the tap with a toothpick and apply with that
>>11555309That's why I buy most of my stuff second hand. Then it is only half price to begin with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oHGXkZ-LdA>wet blending directly on the surface with acrylic paints what a madman
>>11561183where else would you wet blend
>>11561184literally this lmao I'm not sure the first anon knows what wet blending means.
>>11561229the boomer mind can not comprehend artistic skills, everything must either be airbrushes completely flat or have the most heinous, patchy, textured, absolutely DOSHIT paint coverage with a literal hairy stick that they DIY'd out of their ass hair, nana's old bones and glued together with glue made out of their intestinal parasites (they eat their steak medium rare)
I've built almost 30 models and still dont know how to use putty in a way that actually fills and hides seams. I dont understand how sanding it with a sanding sponge doesnt just get rid off everything higher than the plastic and leave it flush and invisible
>>11561521are you not using epoxy?
>>11561521Then don't use putty.>Get any brand of rubber toughened super glue>Put a drop of accelerator over where you applied the glue so it doesn't have time to flatten out>Knife or chisel away the excess>Sand it flushNo waiting time, no shrinking, no awful smell.
>>11561378Kek>>11561521Press the putty in the gaps with a stick and use a knife to remove it when it's dried out when possibly, also less grit
What's the best way to deal with chipped or ripped acrylic paint? I'd like to have it blend seamlessly but it seems like it can't be fixed simply by airbrushing over it, as the airbrushed paint just takes shape of the existing surface.
>>11562706Sand and repaint is probably what you have to do. Not sure if there is anything easier, though.
>>11561378>da booomer!rent free.
a couple more rounds of putty and sand fixed the seams. i forget every model that it takes 53 applications of putty before the seams go awayanyways splinter camo sucks
>>11562877rlm65 belly next. I'm not using the nose so thats why I didnt paint it
>>11562877the thumbnail looks like a ninja with yellow spots trying to punch a letter
all together now
really wanted to recreate the accumulated dirt and shit in the gun well that I saw in reference pics
deserves some proper pics, but I dont think its gonna fit in the lightbox. Still thinking about a little vignette where it's sitting on some unmaintained concrete, like in an outdoor museum no one cares about.
>>11563010>an outdoor museum no one cares about.this is kino
Visited Udvar-Hazy museum this week to see the treasure chest of one-left-in-the-world aircraft and MOTHERFUCKER had I underestimated how big a Do-335 is. It's fucking huge! Modern fighter jet size really, enormous for WWII. I don't think I've ever seen a photo of one where you could see something you "knew" for size reference so check this out
>>11563037On the other hand an Ar-234 is tiny. Pic is taken from my eye level and I'm 185 cm (6' and a bit) tall. The cockpit certainly wouldn't fit me. Go visit this place if you at all have the chance and like WWII rarities it's amazing.
>>11563010>but I dont think its gonna fit in the lightboxLightboxes are a meme.
>>11563132No, they are a convenient way to get good lighting and significantly up the quality of pictures. Are you the same retard that swears against primer?
Current my 'tism is turned on by IRIAF and IRGC aircraft. Can anyone tell me what are the essential kits to get in 1/72 for the more popular types (i.e best F-4, RF-4, F-5, AH-1 and UH-1 kits)?I am going to start by getting some Shaheds and a couple of Saeqehs to start with.
>>11563132Let me guess, you light your pictures with the family lighter.
>>11555029Just realized I put the gun mount in upside down, killing myself
>>11563007
>>11563373It's Heller, I emphasize with your plight I don't think you had a great time putting this together
>>11563346Great work not grasping the basics of photography. You get lighting (not good lighting) which obviously results in clearer pictures. Yes it's a step up from anons taking pictures of their dusty shelf with a candle lighting up the next room over, but it's nowhere near "good lighting".>>11563352No, I use a huge cardstock sheet for the base arching into background and several diffused lights from further away to make sure the subject is well lit.A lightbox is the real world equivalent of doing "mat_fullbright 1" in the console.Feel free to share your wrong opinions about how just nuking your figure with light is better than a minimal effort setup that has been thought through for more than 5 seconds.
>>11563037It's a twin engine plane after all.
I finished a diorama for the R-12 bike I started 6 years ago.
>>11563689
>>11563689>>11563692That's some good stuff.
>>11563689>>11563692that milk jug is something else, good job anon
I never visit this thread since I have never been able to get into kits though I do want to ask you anons something.I heard they stopped selling testors paint a few years ago and rebranded them under a new name which I forgot. I was considering getting Easy Lift Off to deal with paint on plastic but do they even sell it anymore? If yes what's the name's I should be looking out for and otherwise what are other products that serve the same role without being acetone based?
>>11563713Thanks, in hindsight there were a lot of places that could have used more work, but at least I finished something in a while, I guess.>>11563804It was actually one of the easier parts, even though I really dreaded doing it. Just got a fucked up super stiff brush and stippled gray paint from dark to light. I used the same technique on modern minis to achieve the digital camo look. I don't know what I'll do when this piece of shit brush falls apart.
>>11563836Testors is still available but it's shit. I don't understand why so many Americans swear by it. If you are brush painting, get Vallejo or AK. If you are airbrushing, get those OR Tamiya. Stick with one brand as far as possible. Buy the real thinners, don't cheap out and try to thin with Windex or some shit like a dumb boomer will recommend you to do somewhere. Don't go to Hobby Lobby, go to a real hobby shop or shop online at a real hobby shop. They know how to advise you and they don't sell snake oil.
>>11563875I didn't say I was going to buy testors paint? I was looking for the easy lift off product because everyone in the 1:64 diecast customizing sphere uses it to strip tampos off plastic because most paint strippers I ever hear about use enough acetone to fuck up the plastic.>Real hobby shopLet me guess, some obscure shop that's on the verge of bankruptcy because US economy is shiiiiiit and soon many large cities with stores like "Real Hobby Stores" will be out of business?
>>11563875Wow, someone not giving absolute dogshit "advice" in this thread. Thanks for the breath of fresh air, anon.>>11563885Are you by any chance schizophrenic? Or maybe suffering from aspergers? I have seen videos of meatheads being more coherent in their communication than you dude.
I was at my mom's place today and we just tossed out like a hundred bottles of Testors/Model Master that was left in my room. I'm so glad proper acrylics are available now.
>>11563890Thanks, I try>>11563885Please fuck off and leave this thread for good with that response. You're not worth anybody's time here.
>>11563890>>11563920Schizophrenic? I asked about paint stripper that's safe to use on plastic. The only one I know of is Easy Lift Off from Testors, hence why I even bothered to ask here.I wouldn't give you faggots shit if you had told me that, and not told me to look for a real hobby store without much else to go off of. You anons have bitched in this thread about stores and availability in the US and me pointing that out in response to you telling me to look for a REAL store is the straw that broke the camel's back?Go sound yourself with a poorly cut sprue. A boomer would be more helpful than you paint snorting asshats.
>>11563993is isopropanol not cutting it
>>11563993>help me daddy i need help for this very specific thing>go talk to a store that have specialists with the knowledge>NOOOOOOOOOO I WILL CRY AND PISS AND SHIT MY PANTS REEEEEEEEEEEE
>>11563993Look, I am not the others, but I would just sand the paint off with a fine (2000 grit minimum) sanding stick in circular motions and just avoid chemical stripping altogether. It is going to be time consuming, but if you wanted quick you would be posting in /dcg/ with your latest $200 1:400 model in the first place.I know what you mean, though. I used Model Master until the very end too and up until last year, that is all I ever really used.
>>11564032I didn't want to use sanding but if there REALLY is no chemical methods that won't fuck up the plastic, then fine...>>11564020I haven't tried that but I feel like that might not cut it against the paint they use for tampos on cheap toy cars. If it works good against normal acrylic hobby paints I'll definitely keep that in mind. Thank you.
>>11564128easy off oven cleaner or brake fluid will work
>>11563527yeah nah, mines got a brightness dial
>>11563836>>11563885> asks question that could have been easily found with google> asks in scale model thread when there are hundreds of other resources about refurbishing die cast vehicles> gets mad when someone answers based on using a brand name product for building modelsWhat did anon mean by this?
>>11564318They told me what paint to use, not the paint stripper. I already knew about paints like Vallejo or AK or Tamiya. Everything else in the first response was something I knew. Then telling me to find a real hobby store is vague as shit.I could Google it, but guess what? Whatever would've came up, you'd say don't go to it. Same shit if I looked at actual forums or YouTube videos.The only option left is either waste money guessing which thing does what, or I ask people I'd expect to know the know and not vaguely point me in the right direction because next thing I know, it won't be the right direction.Next time, I won't bother asking people who aren't one foot in the grave and instead let goyslop algorithms and dementia patients guide me.(I will be taking that pic though, marvelous monk)
>>11564309Yeah because that will help the box not light the piece from all sides uniformly.
>>11564365Learn to formulate a question first. You say you want to ask something, then talk about Testors not being available and then get angry when the answer also mentions Testors. Peak autism right there, and the socially retarded non-functional one, not the happy I know every little detail about my favorite locomotive type shit.
gaylords
>>11564395Considering more than half the first paragraph to the original question focused on ELO and paint stripping, that should have been a clue what the question was.It wasn't:>Which paint I should useIt was:>What paint stripper should I get for plasticHow does that not come through especially when I bring up a product that's meant to STRIP decals and weak paint AND also mention ACETONE.Here let me reword it for you since it didn't come through the first time.>What are good alternatives to the Easy Lift Off product by Testors.
>>11563836I can't find a straight answer as to whether or not ELO is still available. If you're in Canada, probably not since the government decided to ban fun and useful things. If you know what kind of paint you're trying to strip, you may have some alternatives. But if you don't know, I'm not sure there's an equally handy versatile substitute safe for plastics. If you happen to be in the US, you can at least still find ELO on eBay. If you happen to be elsewhere, depending on how retarded your government is then it, and all chemically-equivalent types, are probably on the NO FUN list.
I want to recreate my short-body Defender. But Hobby Boss only has a long-body Defender. I figured the most practical thing is to create a diorama that hides most of the rear half of the model, so that it looks like a plausible short-body Defender because the "wrong" features are invisible to the observer. AI picture for reference. I'd like to avoid building the diorama from scratch, is there an existing 1:35 building I can buy and use (or at least adapt) for my purpose?
I fucking hate Germans.
>>11564550Miniart makes some 1:35 building kits
>>11564671Yeah, and they're vacuformed and they're total garbage, absolutely hellish to cut, prepare and put together
so apparently on AliExpress and Temu there are tons of unbelievably cheap 1/35 buildings and bases. What's the catch? Something like pic related would cost 90€ normally
>>11564683
>>11564687Hahahahahahhahahahahahh...*wheeze*hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahah
>>11564687>Scale modeller SHOCKED he has to put something together and paint it
>>11564694who are you referring to?
>>11564694If you are really that dumb to believe that you can get picture A from picture B then I have some stuff to sell you.
>>11564431Maybe because more people here PAINT things rather than STRIP PAINT? Ever consider people might not know what ELO even is? When people hear the word Testors I would assume most would thing of glue and paint. Also, not being able to find a hobby store (locally or online) is your skill issue. Not those that respond. But keep arguing. You might convince someone of something. Regardless, I’m glad you liked monkey. Monkeys make everything more fun.
>>11564886> thingTHINKFuck you autocorrect.
>spent at least $2000 in five years on kits and supplies How bad is it?
>>11564973rookie numbers, this is 2025 to date. I did go on an ebay shopping spree early this year, something compelled me to build the stash, probably for the coming end times. >ive spent nearly twice as much on alcohol in the same timeframe
>>11564973Not bad at all to meh depending on how much disposable income you have. I made like 2k off of my 3d printer during the first few years of operation and supplemented all of my hobby shit with that income.
>>11564683A friend got some chinky KA-52 in 1/72 for peanuts and wants me to get him €100 worth of accessories for it
>>11565244A vehicle is different from a building though.With a vehicle absolute perfection in terms of detail and fit is demanded.With a building, you usually eyeball a cut of styrofoam and then you modify it very liberally. They aren't comparable, and that's why I'm not overly worried about quality with chinky buildings, it's VERY hard to fuck them up
Anyone else's Tamiya cement not up to the job? Instead of melting the plastic and fusing the two parts together it just sort of dries up and has this nebulous hold which doesn't stand up to pressure. I popped off my aircraft nose with barely any force and it's clear the plastic is still smoother than my cheeks.
>>11565273Either skill issue or wrong application. Extra thin is only the solvent. If you don't have any good fit you need to use something with filler in it.
>>11565318Don't have any problems with my Revell Contacta or Humbrol Precision. I'll just put it down to Tamiya Cement being a meme glue used by queers. Decent paint and primer though.
>>11565335your queer
>>11565254>absolute perfection in terms of detail and fit is demanded
just use whatever you have and can get you stupid pedantic faggots. i shouldnt be surprised an autistic hobby is full of spergs with sticks so far up their asses you can see it when they talkjust build some kits you stupid niggers
>>11565420Was this model kit range named by Meatwad?
>>11565335fuck ya mudda
>>11565420Some people are fucked in the head. But of course it's the lefties justifying political violence. Only when it hits them will they start screaming bloody murder.For the record I barely know who Kirk was nor do I care for any MAGA retards.
>>11565402>just build kits you stupid nigger
>>11564395kek
>>11558665People talk good about ammo oneshot/stylingrez. I would suggest using something solvent if possible even if it's rattlecan shit tho. Grips better, levels better, sands better, fixes better but it's not like it matters much in most projects.
>>11558500Use a wet palette.Don't stir like a maniac introducing a ton of air into the mixture.Invest into the proper thinner, avoid water as a thinner if you can. If you can't, use demineralized water. Use paint retarder (VERY important)Thin you paint a bit less. Never unload a sea of paint onto the surface, never let the paint pool, do more thin layers instead even if it's a hassle.
First car ever
>>11566221That's a bit small, how are you gonna drive it?
Looking for a decent 'loominum or silver spray can, for WW2/ cold war-era 1/72 planes.What's a good all-around can, any recommendations?>pic rel, cheapest I could find
>>11566538Alclad
>>11565517>Posts offtopic politics bs>Kvetches about political reply>Unironically crying chudGo back and never post again, reddit's queerboard is on your other tab
>>11565402what!? actual modelling in smg? >>11565509kys
Wow, lazy guy didn't even bother sanding the wheels.
>>11566573>no weathering>no color modulation>no scratches >no panel wash real tanks don't look like that
One thing that boggles my mind is why so many modellers make spare tracks rusty as hell.
>>11566585Don't forget the semi gloss paint. Where#s the matt coat?
>>11566698Either certified retard or bait but this was first result of "abrams spare tracks" and both running and spares are busted in rust, that's with almost a century of metallurgy and chemical coatings improvements over whatever they had going on during WWII. Also the logistics and operations of that war must been harsh on materiel compared to corporate style warfare of today so imagine the fucks given by crews back then to the hanging around spares.
I finished my NSX. Boy car bodies really demand perfection and I fucked it up a lot.
>>11566792Looks alright, but should the rear wheel be that far out?
>>11566802No the pegs on the wheels don't fit through the polybushes and I don't have a drillbit big enough to ream them out slightly.
>>11566782That's just dust and dirt, it's not like the rubber pads are rusting. Russian tracks are more similar in composition to ww2 tracks and hold up fine even when abandoned.
>>11566818>red dirtnow that's the funniest thing I read in a while. Again first page of "abrams tracks" pic related, yours in that pic are so rusted it becomes like a coating itself btw like in the damaged barrel where you can clearly see the rust in same tones as the tracks. For the record I don't mean to antagonize (you) but such ideas are retarded and factually wrong, now if someone wants to do a garage queen or an abandoned for million years pile of scrap or le painted pink tank tee hee no one is stopping you irl to do as you see fit but shut the fuck up about such mouth breather statements.
>>11566839Not rust. You're seeing the effect of the rubber pads being polished by friction. The underside of the tank is also coated with the same coloured dirt
>Burger tracks so shitty they start rusting while in operational use while you can pull slavshit tracks of decades old wrecks and use them just fine??? Who wrote this lore
>>11566877the west has fallen.
>>11562878Looking good. What kit is that? It will be a G, I presume?I built this 1:72 Airfix B last winter to get back into the hobby.
>>11566818Dude the tanks on your picture are covered in rust. Just because it's wet on your cherrypicked picture doesn't make it not so.>>11566871Please just stop posting. You have clearly never seen any steel/iron alloy object in your life. A fucking stainless steel pan rusts if you leave it too wet, how detached from reality are you?
>>11566905It will never ever look like how modellers are depicting rust on tracks. Simple as.
My two cents: I think slavshit tracks are a similar high-manganese steel as Tiger tracks. Westshit tracks seem to develop an orange rust layer pretty fast, but don't seem to dig deep, like the orange rust on the brake pads of a car.
>ITT: tankfags showing that carbros are nicer people
>>11566901yes, g-2. hasegawa 1/48>>11566961even outside of the modelling sphere, I've noticed all of the tankfags I know are just as insufferable and conceited. idk what it is about tanks that interest the shittiest people so much
>manufacturer cleverly puts fuselage join on a panel line>mfw filling and sanding it
>>11566961It's literally just one idiot.
accidentally snapped the plastic barrels off one of the 37mm cannons so I decided to try my hand at scratch building and used the brass rods I just happened to have ordered a few weeks prior along with the kit's muzzle things. hopefully its sturdy enough once glued in place.do I need to do anything besides scuffing it up to get my paint to stick properly to the metal? I've noticed even with primer that the paint is very fragile when I've painted photo etch partsgunze lacquer btw
>>11567167Get some Mr. Metal Primer
>>11567167You don't need to even sand them, but you do need to clean them. Any grease on there and that shit will not stick. Pretty much any proper primer will do the job. If you have a shitty one or really want to manhandle them barrels, then sure go ahead and sand them down a bit.
Hi /smg/.Normally I paint miniatures and such but I wanted to give a try to painting (small) tank model instead so I got this 1/72 Leopard 2A7. Is this camo correctly done? I used makeup sponge for it and correcting edges with brush stippling, then wash and drybrushing.
>>11567495NATO three tone vehicle camo is painted with pretty much sharp edges at this scale, no smooth transitions. The blobs themselves are usually quite round and curvy, not chaotic and spotty like yours. I'm not sure how the inital camo is painted, but I'm guessing airbrushed on, just fairly close up on the edges to have sharper lines. We used to paint any chips over with rattlecans during maintenance.Also nice job painting everything you were not sure about in aluminium metallic.
>>11567583Okay, thanks for clarifying. I'm not very experienced with IRL military gear. Is vehicle camo in general about round blobs with sharp edges?
>>11567633Depends on the pattern.
Benis :D:DDD
>tf theres no Dark egg shell gray in acrylic form that isn't dogshit hataka paints
Shitting bricks rn lads
>>11568944I wonder if you should solder that instead.
Still gotta do photo etch but I think the worst is behind me
>>11552092>>sealing the nozzle with beeswaxSeams kinda retarded when Gunze MrSealBoy 5000 Super Sleight Slick edition exists for only $18.99 for a 2gram pot
>>11555029Pretty god for a baby senpai
>>11564973>>spent at least $2000 in five years on kits and suppliesWould suck to be as poor as that i guess
I want to plumb the hoses and stuff for this engine with the included wire, but the instructions are incredibily vague and I dont know how to find reference photos.also the one I did put in already was a huge pain in the ass. I'm not sure how I manage to get ca glue that only actually holds together when I DON'T want it to
I'm building the Tamiya S35 and the kit has a clear piece that is on the bottom of the engine compartment Any anons acquainted with frenchoid tanks know what that is?
>>11569214>I dont know how to find reference photos.The engine is called Jumo 211 and the plane Ju 87. That alone should find you tons of pictures on common search engines. How is that so hard?
>>11569345very few actual photos I found are close enough to an exposed engine to see anything, or its JUST the engine with nothing attached to it. there are plenty of photos of other people's builds but they're pretty much all of the earlier or different variant which has pretty much nothing in common with this one besides the engine itself. the radatiors, pipes, fluid reservoirs, etc are all laid out differently
>>11569214>I'm not sure how I manage to get ca glue that only actually holds together when I DON'T want it toThat's all of the CA glue I have ever used. Debonder helps a bit.
>>11569342It's to check if the tank is upside down or not. It's only usable during the day though.
>>11569433Yeah, If you want to be extra autistic. There were also different versions of the engine itself. This guy has some resources:https://www.junkers-ep.de/jumo211/images/jumo211a-1/jumo211a-1.html
>>11569589Yea, but how do they check if the tank is right side up?
>>11569749You crawl into the engine compartment next to the baguette stash and peep through the glass. If it's mud or grass or sand, then the chances are high that the tank is right side up. If it is the sky, then the tank is most likely upside down.
Today's haul>new tools and brushes>more thinner>some new weathering effects>brush-on primer to try once my spray can runs out>bunch of vallejo paints so I'm not struggling with the drying time on my Tamiya ones>paint retarder and water-based gloss>2 cheap and easy model kits to practice all my new toys onFeel free to tell me how much money I've just wasted
>>11569913Well there's no Testors or floor polish, so that's a god start.
Basic painting done.
Has anyone heard of this store Navisart?https://www.navisart.com/This suddenly pop up as I was looking for some old Arpeggio kits but I can't find any info about this.
>>11569913>T-34>panzer Ihydrogen bomb vs coughing baby
>>11570846seems like bullshit to me the listed address is just a dirt lot industrial park and the prices are too good could always try calling them to see if you get a herro
>>11570846>>11571043This. Whe you search for models often fake shops come up, that have those for a very low price. You pay via paypal ususally and the money is gone. Those shops get deleted after some time and then new ones spring up. It's a scam.
I HATE PAINTING WHITE
Wip frenchoids, had to wait several months for paint to arrive
>>11571493I still don't have frogshit on my shelf. So many options though.
>>11571493was it shipped from the moon or are you in some backwater eurocuck country?
>>11571505They are fun to build, one downside is the wonky way the tracks on the S35 snap together, your index fingers will hurt Also fill up gaps where large molded pieces fit together like turret top and bottom and cupola halves on the S35 >>11571520Might as well be, I get the paint from the local official tamiya distributor, they order things on a bi-monthly basis and once they arrive all boomers converge to get all of it
>>11571493>fans of all "minor" nations get cuddled constantly by ok-to-great kits from trumpyboss, takom, bronco, meng, IBG, tamiya and finemolds>czechbros, yugonnoisseurs and italochads get jack shit It's unjust
>>11571583>italochadsYou'll always have italeri :^)
>>11571595given the level of detail and fit of shitaleri kits, I might as well scratchbuild the entire model myself
>>11571583>czechbros, yugonnoisseursWhere's my m53 milk truck ;_;
Stuka's coming along fairly well. I struggled a little with the decals for some reason, and this AK wash I tried out left a weird staining but oh well.Basically just have the few small bits I was afraid to add earlier in fear of breaking them off and losing them left and then its pretty much done
also I'm really proud of how the mud effect I tried on the landing gear worked out. it would probably look really cool with some 3d mud but this will suffice. all I did was load my brush up with some thinned oil paint and flicked the bristles over a toothpick so it splattered
>>11572114That's sick, but do get your hands on some pigments sometimes, it's amazing what a little texture can do
>>11571743Do it anon, become a scratchchad
and its doneHasegawa 1/48 JU-87 G-2 with Eduard PE cockpit and Aires resin engine.Even though I made lots of mistakes (thankfully you can't see most of them from the pictures :)))) ) this is definetly my best work yet
Well, the national model show is in 2 weeks, I plan on entering with 5 models, 2 in 72, 2 in 48 and 1 in 35Fortunately I will be laid off tomorrow, so I'll have plenty of time to procrastinate and panic before applying the finishing touches on the 35th scale model
>>11571878Sorry dude we are waiting too. No good manufacturer here who makes land vehicles only planes. Also owner of Eduard is fucking boomer redar who was throwing shit fits that he had order for 5k of new 1/48 mig21 f13 he was hoping for 20k. He was hoping for every boomer in world buying one. Also waiting ještěrka a ot64.
>>11573182He thought 20k people would buy a nearly €100 kit with a book that doesn't even have english text? When they already have about 500 mig-21 kits?
>>11573193Really? Seems a bit steep. I bought my Eduard MiG-21 (weekend edition though) for €15. I don't really think some Czech booklet and little bit of pe pushes that to a 100.
>>11573203
>>11573193Yes because lots of boomers rember it from their military service the f13 variant but he forgot most of Czechs can outhew a Jew so most boomers look at price said cool and bought KZP version for 1/4 of his price.
>>11573207lol. But then again there's always suckers, so maybe that works out.
>>11572943Looks great. Decals could use a little more weathering to blend in.
do you think the clear prop su-25 will ever come out
>>11572943Looks nice, but where's the pitot tube?Also, can you give a close-up of the guns?
>>11573694no
>>11573763next you'll tell me the kinetic g.91 isn't coming out either
>>11573705i forgot to put it on lolidk what you specifically want to see about the gun. its from the kit but I added the wire on the side and had to make a new barrel from brass tube when I snapped the plastic one.
>>11573769ur right
>>11573694It's still happening, Clear Prop may be starting over after getting permission from the Oleg Antonov Museum to scan their collection.
>>11573182>Also owner of Eduard is fucking boomerI stopped buying eduard kits after he refused to stop sucking off israel and ukraine, leaving the fucking boomer politics out of gluing plastic shit together, okay/
>>11574113>sucking off israel and ukraineI bet you buy chink and zigger kits, must be hard building models with neither a brain nor a spine.
>>11574113Of course he'd support Ukraine, Czech and Russian firms used to cut their molds there, it's a big player in the industry.
>>11573774No problem, I just wanted to have a bit closer look.Looks good.
>>11574139>my hobby MUST be politically aligned with CURRENT THING you are a totalitarian's regime ultimate citizen lumpenproletariats like you have been rampaging across all hobby landscapes and fortunately, as this hobby requires creativity, it is immunized from politick-brained mongoloids like you
>>11573155Good luck anon, I’m also going to be bringing three 1/35s to a show in a few weeks. Gonna be my first time so I'm pretty excited about it all.Haven’t even started painting one of them, I hope I can get at least one past whatever the first stage is.
>>11574156>brings up politics>waaah keep politics out of muh hobby
>>11574162I'm not the one sperging out over other people buying russian and chinese kits
>>11574174>spergs out about "Eduard refusing to stop sucking off israel and ukraine">I'm not the one sperging out:^)
I bought a chinese kit
not mine but wanted to share
>>11574139Me, I build chinks and ziggers, but only because the baddies with their exotic junk are more interesting. Maybe it goes back to my parents only buying me Cobra back in the day, they must have been cheaper than Joes, because they were the baddies.
>>11574201
>>11574201Pretty nice. >W DUCK
>>11574199May God have mercy upon your soul.
>>11574113Spotted the tankie faggot
>>11574161Good luck as well, last year was the first time I participated and got 3rd place in 48 scale On a related note, I found the head of a figure I lost preparing it for the 35th scale entry I guess my procrastination will be postponed
wouldn't be an Atrociously Molded Thing if it didn't have retarded engineering choices like making the inner part of the bat wings being seperate pieces for some reason
>>11574174Then why sperg out over Eduard? Why would you make that in any way an issue? I am in no way a philosemite, but if Israel made good kits I would buy them (fortunately they don't). I couldn't care less what some mush-brained boomer says or who he sucks off. Is his product good? Can I buy it for a cheap price? Good enough for me. That's like the people burning their own sneakers. You're only inconveniencing yourself.
Finished building the fishbed
>>11575216
>>11575216>>11575217Scheme?
>>11575234
>>11575140>Israel made good kitsFunny you mention this, I was thinking about Isracast kits and whether they were worth their price tag $200 for the Arava that I want). I might not find an answer here, though.Also I just buy whoever makes the best kit in that scale(72 or 144, typically).
>>11575237Nice, I did a late 80s GDR MiG-29 a few months back
>>11575241Very specific stuff. Again looks good, if I wanted it I would buy. But not at that pricetag. I would always search for closeouts or for second hand items at half price.
>>11575257Probably a good idea. I am probably going to make a list of what I want as right now, it is a bunch of harder to find subjects (mostly Yugoslav, Romanian, South African, Israeli and Iranian subjects) and then watch the prices at on-line shops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o625GbK1UQFinemolds 1/72 F-104
>>11575305Buy an ad.
boxman hath returned'st
Does anyone else save model boxes? I have been because I like the artwork and I store spare parts from each kit in their respective boxes, but its beginning to cause a space issue. Should I just pitch them?
>>11575937Yes. If the artwork is that good then cut it and just keep the flat piece.
>>11575937You can use a hair dryer to weaken the glue on the flaps and flatten them. Then store in a2 or a3 clear art binders.
>>11575820Fucking finallyGood vid at least
>>11575937I've got years of spares in one box. for nice box art I keep the top, with the flaps cut off>>11575977>1/48 vehiclesbased
>>11575977That Tamiya T-55 is what got me hooked on 1/48it's the absolute perfect starter kit
>>11575940>>11575977>>11576108Thanks bros. I tried simply collapsing a box before and it didn't really work. Flattening is a better idea.
https://x.com/grey_FS36081/status/1971739619755798574He scratch built a fuckin tog. absolutely based.
>>11576189>fucking warship camo
>>11576189Modelled and 3d-printed, not scratch-built.
FRESHLY BAKED:>>11576280>>11576280>>11576280
>>11576126Collapsing? How is flattening any different? Do you mean you just sat on the box?Also its super autistic to keep them in a binder. I'm a bit autistic, but even I have standards. I do cut out the front/back for when I need a reference and decide to go with the box art. For example Tamiya infantry has the painting guide on the back. I keep that shit in a ziplock with all the assembled models and their extra bits.
>>11576281You forgot the thread title
>>11576321Fuck, you are right... Too late now.
