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Getting there with the GT40. I think it'll be a while before I do another car they just don't capture me like the planes do but it's aight. The rear engine compartment of the Fujimi kit sucks, it doesn't fit. I think the easiest thing to do is just to assemble the body and glue the rest in place to fit best as possible but we'll see
He cute
3rd for revell is ok sometimesalmost done with this bf 110 i cant wait to move on
anyone made the SCUD from trumpeter? got the chassis done years ago and restarted recently, working on the cab now.
>>11758867not yet, but its in the stash. baby bereg is pretty close tho. Make sure to test fit how the cab fits into the chassis, it's a pain in the ass since you cant see where the fit issues are. I had to trim those front hooks extensively.
>>11758659tiny boy :)
>>11758893yeah the bereg has the same chassis but only one cab instead of two. Thank you for the advice, I'll be sure to test fit it first. yours looks like it's coming along nicely btw
Grabbed a few AK acrylic markers at a show recently, they are quite good for bullshit like cockpits or pioneer tools and do well without priming. I wouldn't do a whole model in them but for kids or people not in a position to easily airbrush, not absolutely terrible under some weathering.Which begs the question, because its AK, what are they really for a fraction of the price.
>>11759616Probably permanent markers. I found that using a fresh Sharpie or Marks-A-Lot produces a good gloss black with some time and patience. Not clue about the other colors though.
>>11758522can someone recommend a book on aircraft and/or ship techniques?
To the anon from the last thread that recognized the chassis for the RA2 Tesla tank I hate how much everything fits together, the turret ring for the M42 is slightly bigger than the turret base for the Tesla coils A conversion to make it into the render-accurate version is dangerously easy
Wake up babe, new Mr. Surfacer.
>>11760050>plastic colored surfacer Why?
>>11760062Depends what you're trying to paint over it with, pink is good for annoying colours like yellow
>>11760036ngl that looks so much better than the recycled BMP-T hull Border used
beginner here, got a 3m 6200 mask some 6001cn filters with a 3m 5n11cn pre fitter, when spraying my tamiya paint i could smell it, is the pre fitter i'm using wrong perhaps? or what other factors could be the case here
Do you have a beard? is it properly tightened down? I get some odor when spraying with my half mask with VOC filters if I dont tighten it properly.
hold your hands over the filters and try and breath in, if its easy then its not sealing properly somewhere
>>11760623You know, if you keep spraying without a mask until the burning sensation stops, you won't need to use a mask ever again
>>11760661its difficult to breathe in, but no sure why i still smell the fumes
>>11760675when you block the filters and breathe in your mask should suction into your face.
i'm trying to get into this hobby but it honestly fucking sucks, the gx100 paint and tamiya mr tool airbrush cleaner have fumes so strong that i'm feeling dizzy the second i open the fucking pot, and yes I have a ventilator airbrush box AND a half mask with vapour filter, doesn't seem to block itmr tool cleaner also seems to have melted all of the rubber o-rings in my $150 made in germany airbrush, so now I have to drop even more money buying a replacementand the thing I was spraying? I was trying to de-tack the masking tape but it has still ripped up a shit ton of lacquer from last week's sprayingso im sitting here with a couple hundred bucks of half broken tools and half broken lungs - what the fuck is this shit? are you guys all insane or something?
kek
>>11760870idk man is it really that funny? i'm just sitting here and im very sad
>>11760862Use acrylics and learn to brush paint some things. "Mr. Airbrush Cleaner" sounds like a meme product, there are a lot of household products that can work.
>>11760879are you really going to buy a new airbrush because you busted an o-ring
>>11760862switch to acrylicsbuy a replacement o-ringpeeling paint happens because there was no primer or left over mold release on the plasticYou made mistakes that have simple fixes and learned something for future builds. Yea it's frustrating and I could see taking a day or two off from building, but anything worth doing is going to have a learning curve. I'm pretty sure every single thing I've built, designed, studied, learned or done has involved a series of at least minor fuckups along the way.
>>11760862>half mask with vapour filter, doesn't seem to block itIf it doesn't block it then you have no vapor filter, just a particle one. In EU the organic solvent filter is indicated by a brown stripe. In burgerland they probably use a combination of numbers and body parts along with gang signs to distinguish the different filters so can't help you there.
>>11760862I just use a paint brush
>>11760862yeah the only reason to use lacquers is for priming and varnishing. I typically use mr surfacer in a rattle can and use acrylics for my air brush. as for cleaning your equipment; acrylic thinner, acrylic air brush cleaner, and water works. lacquer paint is not worth it, and acrylics are way less toxic.
>>11760862>are you guys all insane or something?Of course not. All these happened because mistakes were made somewhere. Yeah there's a learning curve but you can help yourself and take notes and learn from your mistakes.
>>11760862100% skill issues from going balls deep in the hobby with airbrush and hundreds of dollars worth of equipment instead of sitting the fuck down with a paintbrush and learning how it all works
>>11761384We need more gatekeeping.
>>11761473>he doesn't keep his first model from childhood around to remind himself how far he's comengmi
>>11761500When did you build this? The late Mesozoic era? At least I painted my first kit (kind of).
>>11761644I was maybe 5 or 6? I'm not sure why it wasn't painted at the time, maybe my dad didn't trust me with enamel paint. Here's my most recent Hurricane for comparison albeit in 1/48
>>11762115lmao dorf
>>11761500soul>>11762115soulless
>>11762149So true I wish I could retvrn to giving that little of a shit about the result and just having fun with it
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1a7QgBGEud/>In conclusion, let's summarize the Wheatfield kit. First, its advantages are excellent articulation, with unique movable tracks and suspension. Second, it offers good assembly with a small number of parts, the fewest photo-etched pieces, and is the easiest to assemble in about 12 hours. Then, the disadvantages are: 1. The marching lock is from a post-war version, requiring the interior to be cut out and hollowed out for wartime use. 2. All road wheels and rocker arms lack casting texture, requiring manual application of putty. 3. I dislike the orange peel texture on the turret, and the turret and hull are not from the same version. 4. The gun barrel is split in two for the purpose of selling printed parts, making it difficult to stretch; the barrel should be seamless, and the lack of a plastic muzzle brake and the textured printed parts require sanding. 5. The turret rails are very shallow; I recommend using a 0.8mm drill bit to enlarge the holes, otherwise they are unlikely to glue properly. That's all. Thanks for your support
>>11762227>rocker arms lack casting texture, requiring manual application of puttyyou are gonna hide them behind 24 kilos of acrylic mud, who gives a shit
>>11762227>The gun barrel is split in twoShould be punishable by at the very least weekly lashings.
>>11761500We should've stopped you then.
Polishin' me plastic. Gave them a few coats of GX yesterday. They're getting a nice shine but the state of my decals are shocking. Giant decals conforming around curves with holes for vents is a fucking nightmare.
finished the revell bf-110 g-2 didnt enjoy the build very much and it took me much longer than any model ever has. despite this it looks pretty mediocre and I also absolutely half assed the final stretch. cant wait to start on something else
as bad as it looks, this is the GOOD side
>>11762409why are you saying it's bad
>part pings off tweezers >can actually see with my eye where it's flying >gone >no trace of it for five days now I can only assume the goatee version of me is right now wondering why he has two part C39's on his bench.
>>11762369NICE! I want to build a bike at some point. that said, anyone know where I can find a matchless vickers 8b2 kit in either 1/35th or 1/16th scale? preferably with a crew or at least a crew set that can accompany it?
>>11762540why don't companies color their plastic in high vis colors? I feel like this would solve a lot of issues.
>>11762613because every other aspect of building would be highly annoying to my autistic senses. Even 'army man green' plastic can turn me off of a kit.>>11762540i use a flashlight placed close to the floor pointing outwards, gives every little thing a shadow. got a pretty high success rate with it, i dont have carpet though either
>>11762395Other than the fact that it looks really washed out it's nice. Other than that weird stripe on the nose come looks fairly clean so idk what you're complaining about.
First attempt at a scale model as opposed to spess mahrens and things like that. Great fun, really enjoyed nuilding the ancient Dragon kit in the end. Been daydreaming about starting a series of dioramas all with different nations' modern MBTs and different styles/moods
>>11762444>>11762650the major things you can see in the photos are the step at the wing root and the part on the nose where I forgot to fix where the clear coat dissolved the color coat. theres a few really ugly seams if you look around toobut there are many other bad things I did on this build and that makes it mediocre>fuselage to wing seam is atrocious top and bottom>didn't read instructions on decal placement thoroughly enough so the balkenkreuz and the EM on the other side are in the wrong spot and it looks really dumb>pilot end of the canopy is wonky due to it being in 3 parts that don't really align really well>missing a bunch of kit pieces and PE details on the canopy like control panels, electrical boxes, handles etc>didn't fix the seams on some parts good enough or at all>wrong colors>exhaust looks a little weird and I didn't have anything to drill the holes outmostly just being nitpicky about my own work, its certainly not the worst one I've ever built. had I not lost interest so hard halfway through I could have done much better
>>11762825nice work, the color fading looks really good
>>11762898I think the overall impression is pretty good. But it's exactly self awareness like this that makes the next model a better one than the previous one.Might I suggest one improvement to finish the BF-110? It's hard as tits to find pics of that aren't simply other models, War Thunder or drawn diagrams, but the V-shape antenna from the two vertical stabs to the spike you have on the canopy is the kind of detail that really takes a model to another level.
>>11762825the wash is really cooloils?
>>11762966>>11762990Thanks anons, I haven't actually used any washes as such - I just drybrushed up from the black-green shade colour to the highlights in stages then dropped some panel liner into the most prominent details
>>11762825Nice job on this classic.The IR lights look artistically valuable but I'd rather go with just gloss black. Because that's what it actually looks like.
Are there any kits of "movie tanks"?
>>11763162Pretty sure there is one of the Fury Sherman given how many dogshit model builds I've seen of that one
Finished! Big decals are really dificult.
>>11763162you can recreate the king tiger tanks from battle of the bulge quite easily
>>11763041Yeah I think whatever I do next I'll restrict myself to realism/traditional scale painting techniques to try and get a feel for it. For this one I stayed right in my mini painting comfort zone and I'll happily paint cartoony gems/lenses etc all day
>>11763179Doesn't the current Italeri M-47 even come with these decals from the movie?
>>11763220The Tamiya rebox does
>>11763248that's unbelievably soulful tbdesu
>>11763162https://eu.warlordgames.com/products/hollywood-tiger
>>11763162This is quite an interesting theme. The T(iger)-34 from Saving private ryan would be fun, as would the Panther (Leopard 1 wearing a hat essentially) from A Bridge Too Far.
>>11763173badass dude, the decals look really good
>>11760062Its made for mecha fags who are turbo obsessed with painting everything in flat colours. Usually they just blast innerframes or joints in Nazca Mechanical surfacer and call it a day. Now Mr hobby has released a "primer"/surfacer to compete.
>Chinese modellers hate individual links >Western modellers hate individual links>Eastern euro modellers hate individual linksYet most new tank kits still keep forcing them in despite most modellers not building their tanks in dioramas where it would take full advantage of said style of tracks.
>>11763625is that duxford
>>11763775I assume there is an order of magnitude less expensive to make them into a multi-piece live track type and slightly less to make them into a link and length typeThere is some compromise made somewhere to appease the maximum amount of people
>>11762540Update: it was stuck in a random cobweb in the corner of a windowframe.
>>11763775Honestly old-school rubber tracks should be acceptable for kits depicting modern MBT-s, since their "live" tracks are under tension and don't sag.
>>11763248Yeah, that was it.
>>11763804yea, no, this is not how weathering should be done on a model, I tell ya kid I was stationed in Germany and was looking at the M60s (remember those, hoorah :salutingemote:), they never came back with their bellies so clean-Bill ===================================William BurgerIn my 'stash - Revell M1 Abrams 1/35, Trumpeter M1 Abrams 1/35, Tamiya M1 Abrams 1/35, Tamiya M1 Abrams 1/48 On my bench - Academy M1 AbramsIn my Garage - 1988 Pontiac Firebird, 2016 Chrysler Pacifica (for the ol' ball and chain) USPS 1993-1993 Dishonorably discharged (OORAH) Wallmart veteran 1993 - ongoing IF YOU STAND AGAINST ISRAEL, YOU STAND AGAINST GOD!
>>11763872>USPS 1993-1993 Dishonorably discharged (OORAH)kek
>>11763872Here in the east it seems to be the opposite. >"The sergeant-major would have drilled out asses till next month if we turned back our vehicle for last parade in a condition like THAT! Our tanks had to be spit-shined spotless!" >builds every WP vehicle showroom clean in a semigloss green >simultaneously builds WW2 krautshit that's chronologically fresh out of the factory with gate-guard/range-hulk weathering
>>11763775it's the worst when said individual links are also multiple parts per single linki think it's the select few hyper realistic autists who demand the individual link tracksi don't see why kits can't have the individuals and the vinyl tracks at the same time, i know tamiya released a few kits that had link and length tracks along with the belts
>>11763775I'm waiting for the day they make articulating parts on the sprue like you see on gundam kits. imagine having workable tracks ready to go as a single part.
>>11763775I would not "hate" them but fucking Trumpeter and probably most others just suck at actually making them.>Gates at the most retarded parts instead of places you could nip them off cleanly>Ejector pin marks in the most visible place>Oh by the way each link is in fucking 3 parts>Made out of the most soft AND brittle mix possibleLink and length is probably the best way if done "okay", but shit link and length makes me just wish these retards just cast the whole chassis in one piece and I could save 80% of the build time.Rubber tracks are so shit 99% of the time that I have been forced to print single link tracks for 1/72 kits.
I'm not a tankfag and haven't finished a tank model since I was like 8 so this is just me thinking out loud but wouldn't it be reasonably easy to make a "pre sagged" track piece that fits the wheels naturally and shows its own weight...? And just split the whole track into maybe 5-6 pieces? It seems rubber tracks and individual links are both extremes of something best solved with simply making the parts molded in a way they seem weighty
>>11764828what you are describing are link and length tracks, yes they already exist
>>11763872Soulful post
>>11758728how much fun was masking the canopy?
The tank unironically has too many doodads on it, the engine deck is littered with crap
>>11763786It is indeed.
>>11763775Haha. Literally me.
>>11765075I would put spare tracks on the front plate. it's not bad but it's a bit too warhammerish for me. as far as fantasy tanks go I think kow yokoyama nailed it down.
>>11764942not bad just tedious. i always buy eduard or otherwise pre cut masks for stuff like this because no fucking thank you
what a faff
How much of modelling 'advice' do you think is just outdated information passed as truth from out of touch boomers?>YOU SHOULD NEVER PAINT IN WINTER>said fuddlord Jeff after his wife wouldn't allow him a modelling space and banished him to an uninsulated unheated cuck shed
>>11766109A shitload. Like the fucking floor polish.
>>11766109washing your models before painting isn't always needed. I think I only had paint adhesion issues with one kit and it was from some small scale eastern european manufacturer
>>11766109I don't think I've ever gotten advice from a boomer, all the hobby advice I've received was from youtube or instagram
>>11766277Well not directly. Just their out of date advice has become regurgitated so much that people accept it as how things should be done.
>>11766320I watch the person perform and explain the techniques involved, with the added benefit of seeing the final product. the age of the techniques doesn't matter, it's the end result. I mean working in grayscale *grisaille* has been around since the middle ages and aircraft moddlers/warhammer slap slop dudes use it all the time.
>>11758522>yep lets add pre painted parts for our expensive massive 1/35 p51 mustang that will get ruined when timmy uses cementwhat the fuck is border thinking?????
>1/35 plane
>>11766109Ever using enamel paint
The nearest hobby lobby or hobby town near me isn't really NEAR me, more like an hour on freeways to get there even if it's in my metro area Does Michael's or other places (Lowe's? Home Depot) sell matt cutting boards like in >>11763173>>11762369 and your other photos?Help a noob out Remember, y'all were me at one point and my dad never taught me shit unless we're talking changing oil or tires.
>>11766691https://googlethatforyou.com?q=Michaels%20cutting%20mat
>>11766691check their website and see if they have it in stock. I really recommend you look for specialty hobby shops near you though.
>>11766702Walmart and The Bald Billionaire also have websites and I don't even need an interstitial site to search for cutting mats on either. And Walmart at least has physical stores but they also don't have anything near me that isn't an hour down several freeways, friend.In fact, the Hobby Lobby I would go to because all the old lady sales clerk's remind me of my Grammy is one building next to the Walmart in the South Bay.Michael's website already told me they had a bunch of mats available for pickup. They also told me they had prices from $13 to $89.Y'all are buying those $89 mats?
>>11766691https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00RO1CD9O?th=1it's just one of these
Is there a color chat for which paints are appropriate to use in an oil dot filter depending on the base colors?
>>11760036>>11765075Yo, friend is building this guy and destroyed the suspension from not knowing any better. Is that the tamiya or AFV club kit you tested earlier in the thread?
>>11767009oh and show a size comparison between the hulls of the base kit and m42 if you can
How do I get better at putty and sanding? I’m using tamiya white putty. It get smooth to my finger after I sanded it but once I painted it was obvious where the seams were
>>11758522Respect to you, lads. I was hooked on the 40k plastic crack pretty bad for a while and thought I'd try some planes. I got some cheap Hobby Lobby kits I knew were crap, but put them together well enough, but I got filtered HARD by the painting. IDK how you guys do it, but like I said, respect.
>>11767009It's the Tamiya one, the hull is about as tall, but slightly shorter and less wide Since the turret ring is slightly bigger, you can use the M42 turret base to hold the Tesla turret
>>11766598whomst is this kit made for?
>>11766120What is so bad about the floor polish? I use it and find it very easy to work with. It has good properties.
>>11767154for a top notch solution use ca glue, ca filler, and instant set spray. for putty, use so much it becomes a positive detail on the seam and sand it flush with a sanding sponge or file.
>>11767154>>11767584Black-pigmented CA glue is by far the best way to fill gaps, it's more shock/crack resistant than the clear stuff and doesn't shrink or reactivate the way most air-dry putties will. For the larger gaps use two-part epoxy putty like Milliput.
Godamnit these zero design window masks fucking suck. They're 10x tackier than masking tape but also never cut correctly.
>>11766174That's more of a "better safe than sorry" thing, like laying down gloss varnish before decals. Sure you can do it without, but to be sure you get a better result, you'll take those extra measures.
>>11758522decided to go heavy on the weathering with this one. gato was a bit undercooked out of fear of fucking it up. the rusted panel edges didn't work as well as i imagined. but i do quite like the look of sponge+oil, especially on the lighter gray.
Trying oil dot filters for the first time, I'm not seeing any results
after getting poison ivy on my face that made me look like a beluga whale with down syndrome, and throwing out my back last week, we're back on the bereg. Would not recommend the tire rack, jerry rigged this whole thing to avoid two steps of painting, but the tires were only loosely fitted and didnt make it any easier. And in the end it still took two painting sessions.
>deep cleaning my airbrush>shear the ptfe needle screw seal while trying to swap the paint off it>dont get mad>buy a HP-CSlooks like im getting a new airbrush
>>11765865She looks so well made and pretty, good job>>11766109>Don't paint your models out of sunlight or you will get the paint wrong>>11766174Only ever had these with large trumpeter aircraft, sometimes there's black/brown residue left visible on parts
>>11770066check 'em
>>11768752Ok, one could do that but IRL those only served for a couple months before the war was over.
>>11769402You may be using too much thinner. The idea is to kind of grind small amounts (like, dab with the end of a toothpick) in and then streak it, at least how I do it anyway. I think I watched Mike Ranaldi videos although everyone hates him. You can also use it to post-shade panels etc. I came to it because I got fed up of the "clean but rusted" style that I don't think exists in nature.
>>11768752Yeah thats way too much for an active-duty sub, you could do a diorama shipyard with it in mothballed condition, that would be neat
>>11770066>Don't paint your models out of sunlight or you will get the paint wrongSunlight vs cool light bulb vs warm light bulb vs daylight bulb makes a huge difference. My dad does some traditional painting on and off and he only painted during the day for this exact reason. Though it has more to do on how you intend to display said model. If you think this is bs, go get your brain checked.
>translate random jp modelling tweet>they're complaining about someone selling decals>YOU DIDN'T GET PERMISSION>IT'S ILLEGAL>DID YOU ASK THE CORPORATION?Someone had the audacity to sell decal sheets for commercial airline liveries. The nihongo are not ok.
Is it possible to clean the stem on can? It was working fine then one day the nozzle clogged and then paint started leaking out of the valve stem.They don’t make this color anymore in flat and the can is still full so I’d like to salvage what I can so I can finish painting this model and move on
>>11770657Prime goyim material those people. Only after the "Digital Millenium Copyright Act" did the requirements start to get a license for each and every logo or design. Now a kit of some P-51 Mustang has a "Boeing licensed product" sticker on it. This is such a grift.
>>11770846Leave the nozzle component in thinner and hope for the best
I throroughly regret doing this. I had the bright idea to try and drill out each individual square of the grille but very quickly made an absolute mess of it and decided to just cut my losses and open it up completely. I was going to try scratch building a new grille with PS sheet but I think I'm stupid or something, I couldn't figure it out.Thankfully I found someone on ebay that sells 3d prints all the various different grilles these trucks had IRL, specifically for this kit so I'll just order one of those and continue onamt 1/24 78 ford truck
>>11770611>My dad does some traditional painting on and ofI do to. Ofc it looks different, you can still account for the differences if you know what you are doing, even moreso in models than in paintings since you rarely mix colours and mostly use premade tones that do not change. Painting something at day or night or any light looks different only under the light the model is still the same, as long as you do not try to adjust the paints you use during night in order to make it look like it does in sunlight while it is in different conditions then you will not have any issues. In traditional paintings if you use acrylics especially you always need to mix tones and often merge colours on canvas/paper which you will have to do with one consistent lightsource otherwise it doesn't fit. Sunlight is best since you will mostly see the finished painting in sunlight but it's not imperative.
>>11770657Japanese modellers themselves tend to have more confidence than skill anyway. I have seen Twitterbro tier stuff from Japs when it comes to stuff that is not a car or a mech, so I do not even take them seriously for a lot of what they say, advice or otherwise.>>11770856>North American>Owned by Rockwell (now Collins Aerospace)Where does Boeing fit into this? I have seen what you are saying on models, but I don't see how Boeing is involved.
>>11771169Rockwell sold North-American to Boeing in the 90's. If you do a wikipedia deep dive on all the mergers, splits and acquisitions of everything Rockwell, it's quite the timeline.
I'm moving into a new apartment soon where I'll be able to have a much nicer modeling setup than I currently have, would it be utterly moronic to spend $700 on a DR150 compressor? On the one hand it's one of the best compressors on the market, it's refrigerator compressor level of noise, it's apparently extremely well built, and it's not like I'll miss a meal if I buy it. It seems so irresponsible to spend that much money when I can buy a small harbor freight compressor for $150 that's a bit louder, sure, but it's a quarter of the price. >tldr, what compressor does /smg/ use?
>>11771406I use a Sparmax TC-610H PLUS which is about half that price. It's already overkill and if you mainly do armor modelling you can get away with those handheld compressors.
>>11771576I have one of these too, but if money was no issue I'd go with the quieter one. The sparmax is pretty loud. It's still a great compressor though.Cost me about £164 ($220) in 2017 and now it costs nearly £300 ($400)
>>11770657They do not sell the Girls Und Panzer water decals anymore and they're extremely rare to find inside Japan as well. If you're not going to reprint them then I will continue to buy them from Aliexpress or alternative copycats. Tough shit.
New kitbash.
Is it finally time to upgrade from my trusty Whirlwind II?
>>11771743THAT'S THE WHIRLWIND BUDDY
The limited-edition chinkmata arrived. Pretty impressive kit, especially the price (approx $42 on preorder sale, will be $56 later). >good amount of sprues >indi-link tracks >precut masks for digital camo >3D printed parts for the APS >UGV and robot-dog which are whole another kits EXTREME DOWNSIDE: >no color codes for the camouflage What the fuck were they thinking? Trying to pair together two very similar sand colors and a green without color codes, hoping it won't look like shit? FUUUUCK!
>>11772154find a picture of the real tankget a color code for the camo from an online color finder *google it*match paints to the colors ???profit
>>11772154Not an armorfag, but isn't Takom hated by the folks in this thread because of poor fit among other things? Or is that RFM?
>>11772258My biggest gripe with the takom US tanks is how they handle sprue gates Thay are stupid big and placed in the most obnoxious way possible It's not helped by their plastic which is a bit too brittleThe fit is ok, but nothing spectacular, gaps and bad fits are generally hidden
>>11772258I've built two Takoms so far and they're fine. It's probably some bitter rivet-counter boomers nitpicking because it's not their favorite brand.
Opinions on these old Tamiya bike kits? I assume it was originally released when the real CX500 was. I've never built a bike kit, nor any civilian vehicle to begin with, but I've been going down the motorcycle rabbit hole lately.
>>11772534Even if the mold is from the 80s it's still probably better quality than modern fujimi/aoshima. Tamiya bikes fall together they're really fun to build. I just bought 2 more bike kits I need to hide from my gf lol. Tamiyas ninja h2r and the new cb1000f I got good eBay deals on.
>>11772534non-japanese subjects when
>>11772651Woupd be nice if there was a company that did old English bikes
if I only had the shelf space and an industrial compressor...
>>11772740dont let your memes be dreams bbshelf space be damned im building RR guns
>>11772744you are a braver man than I
>>11771731how does that work exactly?
>>11772746its a pretty high chance of failure, but w/e. Going to try a mix of sheet styrene for major boxy components, 3d printed parts for details or complicated designs, and maybe some custom PE. Most of my scratch build stuff ends up in the trash, but each time it gets a little better and I got ideas on how to make this one work.
>>11772651Your best option is WW2 BMW's, Zündapps, M-72's, and Harley Davidson WLA's in 1/35.
>>11772759good luck anon I hope it turns out well
>>11772651>>11772776Meng make a couple of tasty 1:9 beemer bikes too. I kinda want their resin girl figures as well.
>>11772534they're great and you can even get detail kits from tamiya themselves for them. real chains, more realistic brake disks, etc
The eternal question, whether to paint the backsides of clear vision blocks silver or black.
Not necessarily plastic model related, but what are your guys thoughts on my teaming up with a smaller RC manufacturer to hopefully have a few models made? I have all the skills and knowledge that I need to do this, just not sure if I should do it.
>>11774528With all sincerity, do you have a market to sell the models to? Would seem a waste of time money and effort if not.
>>11774452silver then black
FREE HOOKERS The lack of opening hatches is the definite fuck up of this kit (despite what the box says), the drive wheel is still a standard T-whatever one so you can use any spare rmsh-type or the Russian double pin tracks I don't understand why the matte coat (AK ultra matt) just doesn't want to work, leaves a slight sheen like the tank is covered in morning dew Finishing touches will include some chipping and maybe a very diluted dark wash on the Tesla coils
>>11775421looks cool, but shouldn't you ham it up more if it's from c&c
>>11775574RA 2 is just grey and red with silver coils RA 3 is olive green with red highlights I don't have shark mouth decals
>>11771406Ghaleri claim to have an ultra quiet one as well.https://www.gaahleri.com/en-gb/pages/gtx-778
First time entering a model show and I won bronze for my category. Also one a couple of raffles. One last drawing and I am in for a Zucchini Mura kit.Twitterbro also entered, apparently.
>>11775969Good job, winning medals at competitions actually keeps me motivatedI will go to my second international one early June
>>11775973Thank you. I will be entering something what into the show in Orlando this October. Not sure whether to do a blimp, an airliner as my next entry.Picrel is my entry.
Can I adapt a Paasche hose to the badger airbrush or should I buy a new hose? This one has a moisture trap in the line so I’d hope it would be cheaper to get a conversion adaptor instead
>>11776038Motherfucker do the threads match?Yes -> you canNo -> you can't without an adapter
>>11776048I literally said can I ADAPT, did you read the post?I’m asking if there is a conversion for paasche to badger or if need to buy a new braided hose and moisture trap
>>11776038is the end of the paasche hose the standard 1/8 connector?
>>11776068I’m not sure because I only have badger airbrushes, but the paasche fitting is a larger diameter than the one on the airbrush. The other end of the hose fits a 1/2” compressor fine
>>11776052No, I forbid you.
>>11775969How did the NHS Charities Hawk do? I wouldn't have thought that kind of thing would be welcome round these here parts boy.
>>11776094Thats not very nice
>>11776114Was another bronze recipient for aircraft in 1/72. Silver for 1/72 was an Idolm@ster F-16 (I spoke to the builder and have a picture that I will share later). The judges just pass judgement on build quality: seam management, painting, etc. I do believe that size could play a role too as gold for aircraft across all scales was a 1/18 Harrier, but it definitely deserved the award.Also the X-29 guy is a Gundam builder normally. I encountered him when I was picking up my model again.
>>11776180As promised.
>>11776502what kind of person makes something like this
>>11776652The kind of person who still writes in block letters as what I presume to be an adult
>>11776652someone that know what fun means and dosen't have stick up thier ass.
>>11776652An Asian guy. I do not have any pictures (I meant to have taken one, though), but he had a custom samurai mech in the Sci-Fi category.I started one of my raffle drawings today (a 1/144 two pack from LS containing a N1K2 and a B6N2). I started with the N1K2. The fit is rather sloppy but not surprising for 1970s 1/144 stuff.
Bored so, guess I'll post all of my stuffFound a really cheap table second hand that just rolls in and out from under deskcheap compressor, white spirit for cleanup, MLT for lacquer thinning, enamel thinner, oil thinner, Mr surfacer primer spraycan, gloves, tissue paper roll, Mr tool cleaner for lacquer cleanup
airbrush, one of the older steenbeck models. Medical tray is the 'mix and cleanup' area, one egg cup is filled with airbrush cleaner and I dip the parts in with tweezers and brush, other egg is water where I will just wash out the airbrush cleaner from the parts since it can damage the sealsInside drawer we got tweezers, misc wood lollipops, scrap spars, pipettes for thinners, disposable small pipettes for misc paints like ak extreme, foam, the jam jar is the makeshift airbrush dump for excess paint, it has two drilled out holes in the top, I need to change the tissue paper pinned down under the lid every once in a while
I focus on 1/72 ww2, so these drawers are perfect sized, I tend to stay on only two projects at any time. Top bf110 and under that is p51cbottom is metal tools and paintbrushes
I decided to go enamel paints, I regret it now, but I still feel like enamel makes a better final metallic sheen vs acrylic, which looks too plasticy to meI think I got these drawers from MUJI Japan storeI use gx 100 gloss and gx114 matt for varnishingToolbox was a gift from sister, some japanese thing
glues epoxys decal setters, cockpit PVA glue, rigging line, uhu (uhu is such a nice tack)
tin is filing/sanding stuff, nail files, glass sandpaper, there's even a tiny metal file in thereplastic box is clamps
and a sneaky peek of the good stuff not pictured was the air extractor box as it's packed away atm
>>11777643Can you take a better picture of that Ju-87?Which kit is that?
>>11777761airfix 1/72, one of the first models I made
>>11777643is that a seafire
>>11777898land based xiv spitfire in the RAF's temperate sea scheme, I don't know if it's historically accurate but it looks cool
>>11777780where is the swastica?how can you call yourself a scale modelist if you don't have an entire sturzkampfgeschwader 1488 "Vgh.. GroBgermanivm" ready to go?
>don't really like bugs >chinkshit vehicles in stash: >ZTZ-59 >Type-69 (export) >ZBD-05 >ZBD-86 >ZTZ-100 >J-10A Never ask a racist his most built country.
>>11777901that scheme was mostly for the fleet air arm. so if accurate, it must be some weird outlier like raf coastal command, or faa land based. it does look cool though
>>11776652Ace Combat fans. I haven't build one but I have the Mirage 2000 of this kit sitting around literally because it was in Ace Combat 6 and I've been trying to get all the releases for the game series.
>want a three colour version >Like the 521 decals moreHow to cope
>>11778215>Never ask a racist his most built countryfar right and I mainly build commie shit. such is life
>>11778333Use paint and decals as you want anon. Join those of us on the dark side. I just painted an F-16C in air superiority blue and nobody can stop me. Wuhahahahaha!
>>11778403Actually I mean an F-15C which is really no less evil a crime against rivet counting! Hahah!
>>11778215I don't even know shit about chink vehicles but I got couple of Trumpeter kits from megahobby before they closed because I thought they looked cool>1/72 q-5yi>1/48 z-10 helicopter
>>11778412>1/48 z-10 helicoptercool im doing the original
>>11778422I picked up the dragon/dml ka-50 in 1/72 a few weeks prior at the local model show too. I need to find some replacement decals for it since the kit ones are obviously trashed from age and will definitely explode into a billion pieces the moment they touch water
>>11778333>>11778403>>11778405Real paint schemes are boring do whatever you want but put in effort
anyone know if theres any good out of the bottle matches for the castrol livery green? These tamiya decals are actual hell. Not only did they not adhere to the decals in a lot of places, they also ripped easily despite being thick, and best of all there are spots where the wrinkles never went away no matter what I triedi gotta stop buying rally car kits
>>11778442didnt adhere to details, not decals
>>11778442>>11778443Had the same experience with mine, and did not succeed in color matching with my Italeri or Vallejo bottles. Fixed it by adding dust and mud to affected areas mostly but looked pretty shit because it was my first go at that stuff
>>11778449yeah if anything I'll just do what I did on the last rally car I built and just cover up my mistakes with dirt and weathering
>>11778215>pole building sovietshitkurwa you're right
>>11778442https://www.hiroboy.com/Castrol_Green_Paint_30ml--product--13152.htmlif you're not a britbong expect to pay out the ass for shipping
>>11778333You know you don't have to do what the instructions (which usually have something wrong anyway) say, right?
>>11778449hmmmm I think I'm gonna paint up my gustav in this scheme
>>11778627good find. hobbyworld USA looks to have both the red and green in stock. it seems zero paints does the martini racing colors too, that would have been nice to know when I was building that focus.
>>11778779>his builds are incorrectshameful
>>11778835Glad you could find a USA distributor.
>>11778891Wait until you see the RAF A-10 I'm going to do
Currently removing mould lines from a canopy. Polish, polish, polish. I am attempting to do this graciously as after all, one could complain about every stage of construction and finishing as "too much work".But seriously, mould lines on canopies, fuck you.
>>11779473>Polish, polish, polishbobr kurwa, ja pierdole, siema Grszegorsz
>buy aftermarket 3d printed grille for car>doesn't fitwow its just like buying aftermarket body parts for real cars
>>11779808You deserve it for posting pictures like that
Academy's Bradley. It's cheap. But is it as bad as it is cheap? Or will it look like an oldschool Tamiya? Simple, but still decent with a good painting and weathering job?
>>11778333It's not like the scheme painters are 100% correct. It's just an educated guess anyways.I'm okay with people doing whatever, either wild anime shit or mix and matching historically plausible shit. What rustles my Jimmies is when retards simply do random shit that is the "Hollywood historical accuracy" type shit and then justify it by "well it's uhm not historical" okay but why are you painting it as it would be then? And I don't mean "oh he used the wrong shade of RAL 6788" I mean if you leave your tracks sprayed in two tone camo and painting your german tank light brown instead of dunkelgelb that's not "non historical" that's you being lazy and/or retarded.
>>11779808Is that done with a Sony Mavica?
>getting filtered by a 12 part 1/144 kitIs it over for me?
>>11781551What about it is filtering you? Maybe you're just getting old.
Build stage:Bf-109F4 (icm)Bf-109E3 EduardPaint stage:Tamiya chi haPz-3M takomAcquired:Ka-52 1/48 with addonsTamiya tirpiz 1/350 with addons and wooden deckBorodino 1/350 zvezda with addons and wooden deckKv-1 1942T-34 UZTM
To celebrate VE day, I got myself a vespid 1/72 JagdpantherLooks like the joke's on me, it comes with 12 3x2mm PE side skirt holders that you have to bend into a complex shape I love PE so much, bros, I wish every kit was entirely made from tiny PE parts
>>11781654easy peasy
>>11781663I don't want solutions, I want to be angry
>>11781598The fit. No two parts line up. My fault for picking up a LS kit, instead of ordering a Takara, Bandai Wing Club or F-Toys kit. (It is a Shiden-Kai and a Tenzan).I am only 21... I don't want to build Boomer scale just yet.
>>11781708Picrel is a good part of my stash.
>>11760623Found my issues all my equipment are bootlegs, guess you should never go cheap on these things
>>11781729>Stop war
>>11781811How it came from Super Hobby. Was one of the first people to have snapped it up when the shipment came in. The plastic is nice and it looks better than what Trumpeter, Hehxing/4D or Revell will give you (avoid the Revell like the plague, it is based both on a T-10 and a Su-27 and recreates neither well). No clue on what the Dragon, F-Toys and Tomytec kits are like, so I won't pass judgement on those.
>>11781811war is the best thing to happen to this hobby with nations rolling out new equipment, we get to have more models Casualties and destruction are an acceptable loss
>>11781862>war is the best thing to happen to this hobby No it's not, everything gets ruined with cope-cages, slat-armor, and barracuda nets. Classic hardware gets destroyed and replaced by soulless UAV's, and missile spam.
>>11781871I would like to make a transition to airliners in an even smaller scale like 1/300 or 1/400 (Dragon made kits in this scale). One can dream, but for now I an doing 1/144 military for the most part. Shame how most modelers find 1/144 too small and this gets in the way of me getting what I ultimately want.
After building 2 fujimi kits in a row I'm doing a fuckin tamiya kit. Kawasaki Ninja H2R. It's just falling together. Used mr finishing surfacer for the first time and man that is a sweet primer.
>>11781886how are you going to do the black chrome fairings?
>>11781917I was going to try and copy the technique plasmo did by buffing gloss black with chrome powder. But I can't find any for sale.
>>11781917>>11781932Although saying that, there's powders for nail tech which are almost certainly the same thing uschi van der rosten or any modelling company is repackaging and marking up.
I'm very happy with how the Tesla tank is turning out
>>11781989No black lines in the camo?
>Boomer scale1:48?
>>117820081:35
>>11782008For aircraft? Yeah. The models are too big to be easy to handle and too small to be centerpieces, as a rule. Of course things like bombers would be an exception, but 1/48 P-51s, et al. are very big, yet not big enough to be head-turning.>>11782086That is more for armor folks, but I cannot speak as to how they feel for their scales.
>>11782297I can't wait for my gf to ask me where my 1:32 zero is supposed to go when I build it
I like 1:48 more because it looks substantial 1:72 is just too tiny, might aswell build 1:144Same for ships, always 1:350 never 1:700
Finished up my Fujimi GT40 after spending the past month playing with my R/C cars instead of making models. The kit is not great, but it was a present so that's alright. The front glass for the fog lights instance simply doesn't fit when the lights are fitted, the front suspension is ridiculous, and the engine detail visible from the back didn't even remotely fit. I also screwed up the glass elsewhere with glue.Because of these things I decided to just weather it based on some pics of the car from '66 with a lot of brown brake dust on the (silver) wheels and so on so it looks battle-worn at the least. Pretty happy with it after all. Getting back to regularly scheduled Jet programming now
juggling this build and the rally celica at the same time since I have to wait for the castrol paint to arrive to continue with the celica.the ford is shaping up nicely, I just need to clear coat the body and then pick out the details, after that its just about done
>>11782753Is that dirt on the front right of the hood?
>>11782755I've never had a flawless paintjob but in this case I think its just weird lighting
>>11782686Can't see the fit issues in the finished product. The weathering looks quite different from modern racecars, namely the lack of rubber specks on the front.I started a Fujimi 917 recently, but it went to the pause pile due to the awful fit. The windscreen was the biggest issue, everything else I could fix.
>>11782806>>11782806There is a noticeable error in the front right fog light which simply didn't fit, and then I ruined it further by putting too much glue on it. With the weathering it's not so obvious though. The look is based on pics I found on Getty Images of the cars from various races that year, they seem to be mostly browned up with brake residue and not have the tire lumps at all (makes sense given the very different tires back then)
>>11782008>>117822971/32 for aircraft generally besides ww1 biplane figthters. 1/48 for jets. 1/48 props aren't hilariously oversized unless its a bomber.
I will never know if I aligned this correctly
>>11782686that's a really nice blue, what color(s) did you use for that shade?
>>11783256Vallejo Sunrise Blue (game air, not model air) I'm pretty sure. It was the lightest of my light blues and based on the chart that should be it.
>>11781989>AGS are plugged with chrome butt plugsWhat did he mean by this?
>>11778333If it has a Dunkelgelb base, then the Inspectorate 2 directive of 18 Feb 1943 specified olivgrun and rotbrun. Any vehicle example with either of those colours can wear both and be accurate, if not to the specific vehicle in question, then to the intent of the directive (i.e. broadly correct). The single-colour vehicles are the anomaly and when presented like this it's a snapshot of the vehicle at a specific time where, for whatever reason, it is not painted to spec. This does not mean it was not painted to spec before or after this snapshot. For more enjoyable german camouflage autism, see link:https://panzerworld.com/german-armor-camouflage
>>11783448https://www.german-smallarms.com/dkgp.html
There is something funny and cursed about a canardless Eurofighter... It's like seeing Burt Reynolds or Nigel Mansell without a moustache
>>11781885Well, I do find 1/144 too small but sometimes I come across a kit and slap it together for fun and I have to say I am often impressed by the level of detail. Last thing was the Revell Tornado and Eurofighter. And they have a very nice fit.
>>11758522I got my hands on a cheap Airfix 1/24 Harrier Gr.1 kit but it is missing the decals. Does anyone know if there are aftermarket ones? Airfix customer service couldn't help me.
>>11778333Dude, there is no way to know the 521 wasn't painted in three colour camo. Those colour profiles are just speculations in most cases. Is there like one grainy picture of the vehicle from 200m covered in dust? And MiG Goymenez says it was only green and dunkelgelb? Lel
>>11783542The easiest way to check this stuff is going on super hobby and finding your kit and scrolling down to see what they have of related products. They don't have any for this one unfortunately. https://www.super-hobby.co.uk/products/Hawker-Siddeley-Harrier-GR.1.html You can of course check scalemates and see if anyone ever made any, but the problem with scalemates is that they will list peepee poopoo home manufacturer sam woolsocksworth that made two sets for his local ipms chapter and refuses to make them again and also died 2 years ago as if those decals actually exist for anyone. The good news is that in 1/24 you should be able to paint most of the markings that are big and visible easily.
Does anyone know any good retailers for WAVE model kits? I can't find the Taiko no Tatsujin model for under $60 :/
>>11783722HLJ or any other japanese store. Wave has shitty international distribution. Surugaya sometimes has them for just over japanese MSRP with "free" (more like 1k yen with the fee) shipping.
>>11783733Thank you!I ended up looking around and found two cheap options (via Nin Nin Game or 1999w/ZenMarket) so I'm just waiting for my ZenMarket quote.I hate having dollhouse arcade autism because Wave seems to be the only place to do it right and they hate shipping here.
This year's Shizuoka Hobby Show coming damn soon. I would like to see a Tamiya 1:24 kit of the Toyota GR GT kit, but the real-life vehicle isn't expected to enter production until next year... so I doubt Tamiya is going to show off a prototype of a kit until next year's Shizuoka. What are you expecting to debut there this year?
>>11784036New Platz 1/144 aircraft release and maybe a new F-Toys collection (though the Century Series re-release and KanColle battleships were both announced not too long ago). An EC-2 or RC-2 from Aoshima (again 1/144) would be welcome too. Apart from that, unless Tomytec or Doyusha announce something (they won't), then I expect/hope for nothing in particular. Much of what I want comes from the Czech Republic if not for these aforementioned companies and formerly Takara and Bandai.>>11783537For me, I find it perfect, so long as they are good kits. 1/144 is pure fun at the best and excruciating agony at the worst and there really is no in-between. At least Mark I, Miniwing, Zvezda, F-Toys and Brengun have plenty of high quality options. I tend to avoid Revell because they are a mixed bag. Avoid their Su-27 like the plague.
>>11781708eduard mig 15 in 1/144 had great fit
>>11784173On the other hand the 1/72 Eduard Mig-15 is a total piece of shit
>>11784173So I have heard, but Eduard left 1/144, which makes their stuff hard to find. The only alternatives are Ozmods and F-Toys (plus Anigrand, if you buy their T-4). I hope that Mark I or Miniwing does something about this soon.
new tamiya killer just dropped
>>11784730Watch it be a 1:24 109
>>11784730>revell>tamiya killer
>>11785057>>11784730>Italeri kit rebox
I love workable tracks but I hate putting them together
>>11784036only new thing revealed today that aren't robots or gooner kits is Aoshima is now making 1/72 snapshit jets starting with the T4
>get home at like 18:30 >have to lay down because of my fucked back till around 20:00 >neighbor told me they can hear my compressor through the walls and they can't sleep >from now on have to finish spray painting by 21:00 >have at best an hour every day to lay down maybe one color Fucking sucks major dick, but otherwise the neighbors treat me right, which is a rare blessing, so I guess shouganai.
>>11785372Aoshima is introducing more people into the hobby that way, I like what they are doing, even if they are snapshit, I'm sure you can make something nice outta them
>>11785429do it in the morning
>>11785429can you move the compressor somewhere else?
>>11785434I go to work in the morning, and I can't show up covered in paint. >>11785437In short, no.
It's the Tamiya 1/35 Fukuiraptor you've all been waiting for.
Snapfit
>>11785454>>11785457It's funny how they decided dinosaurs should be 1:35 scale, as if there isn't a 65 million years distance between them, and everything else that's in 1:35. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IieuC0IflkE
Took only 3 hours to bend these miniscule side screen holders, almost lost 2 pieces I want to blow my brains out
>>11785429Can you afford to rent out a storage unit?
>>11783522Got the masking down for the squadron logo now I think, take 3 is good enough to go on the plane anyway
>>11784200shit don't say that i bought a mig15 uti in 1/72 because the smol one was good fuck i hate poor fit
a santa maria in a sea of flowers in the morning sun.
>Trumpeter color scheme is inaccurate How many times has this happened? Apart from every fucking time?
I managed to wrestle most of the Shiden-kai into something presentable. The kit is equal parts filler and kit thanks to a fuselage seam, a vertical stabilizer gap, a gap on the underside where the wing meets the fuselage and horizontal stabilizer gaps, but at long last it is ready for paint.Any suggestions on detailing landing gear bays in 1/144? They are barren (the 1970s 1/144 experience) and it is annoying me a ton.Also what is a good base for a diorama that costs $2 or less? (Do not want to spend more than what I did on these two kits). I might make a display base featuring wheel chocks made out of green stuff. What about figures of ground crew?>>11785788Wonderful picture mate.
>>11785454>>11785457>Fuk U Saurus>Fuk U Raptor
>>11785457finally I can make my autistic diorama
>>11785429You can build a box for your compressor with foam in it to insulate the sound. I've seen this in a book for airbrush illustrators from the 80s.
>>11786483I don't know whether that's good for the motor's cooling.
>>11758522its fucking over, dragon is dead
>>11786656RIP, but serves them right for killing off their 1/144 line.>make best 1/144 747>discontinue it
every time Nightshfit posts a video, my blood pressure raiseshow exactly does his paint handle so well? how are his brushes so pointy and absorbent? how is his superglue always super fast and never sticking to anything else? fucking how?
>>11786738>how are his brushes so pointy and absorbenthe's using retarder and isn't treating his brushes like a child.
>>11786738Nightshift videos are good content, but bad tutorials. Most people can't reasonably replicate his 9001 step process.
>>11784730Their recent F-15s in 1/72 are very nice so there is a way forward for them.
>>11786776Most YouTube folk suck at tutorials. Best way is to experiment on your own.
>>11786656I read this a little bit like Dragon is going to sell 3D models for you to print rather than sell plastic kits which if done as a part of (and not the entire) business might not be retarded. But it's very fuckin corporate slop levels of wank the way they write it
>>11786656time to buy dragon kits and sell them in 5 years to boomers on facebook for an inflated price
>>11786656>3D technology>digital assetshell yea, my failing business now has to compete with dragon. Hopefully the alcoholism will overtake me before I run out of money
We did it JOEYbros we fucking WON
>>11785461tamiya knows it's wise to corner the autism market by allowing people to have scale accurate dinosaurs and tanks fighting each other
are dinosaur kits just pre-painted snapshit
>>11786506Me neither. But then again there are also very silent compressors, like the Italian Werther line. Those used to be sold via Revell. But they are pricey. But those your neighbor wouldn't hear.
>>11787073all the boomers will be dead or demented in 5 years and the market flooded with their decades worth of models
>>11787686>all Revell/Monogram>tooled no later than 1977>all 1/48 or larger>all priced higher than when they were newYeah.
>>11787291>mikromirProbably will be out by 2045. I am still waiting on releases promised to us in 2023 by them with no sign of them coming out soon. Their finished products seem nice, but they work at a glacial pace.
>>11787701You forgot to mention:>100 kit stash, only 5 vehicles represented>P-51>Sherman>Bf-109>F-4>Tiger 1
>>11788045You missed a two others:>F-14>UH-1
>>11786656Their molds got bought up by the same guys who saved shitty hawk. MBT70 is apparently getting some improvements as well, hope they managed to secure that 1/72 saturn V.
>>11788397
>>11788398We have a million billion WW2 krautshit, we don't need more, holy shit
You have realized pre-shading is a pain in the ass requiring masking of areas for no good reason and post-shading actually is much easier to control the result of, haven't you anon?
>>11788397>>11788398I hope someone picks up their World's Elite Forces and Nam series.
>>11788485I never understood preshading? Isn't postshading enough?
>>11788523I genuinely don't get it either. I assume there's some sort of historical reason for why you would want that but post-shading is so much easier it's completely retarded to do anything else
>>11788485It's good fun masking these liveries by hand, feels like making racing driver helmets or something like that. Beats the fuck out of another ghost grey jet or panzer dunkelgelb krautmobile
>>11788570You should do some WWI stuff. Not necessarily lozenge (unless you want to), but just a little something.
>>11788596I hate making rigging with my shaky ass hands and tweezers and that, anything more than a WWII plane antenna makes my skin crawl, so not in this lifetime
I tried to use everyone's advice with pictures, but they are still crap, so forgive me. This is the Shiden-Kai, ready for gloss and decals. Colours were custom mixed for everything Vallejo and AK with the propeller slightly tinted red with a Vallejo ink. I know that this is not very good, so I would like to improve.
>>11788613A second one in different lighting.
>>11788614>>11788613Well never take pics like the first one again for one thing. You need more light than the second image too. Anyway, where's the canopy? Leaving out the canopy and leaving out painting it is a huge mistake a lot of noobs make it makes every plane look like shit if you don't even try. It's hard to see with the pics but the paint looks like it should be thinned a little more as well
>>11788617This is my 84th model, canopy is separate, I have some of my Japanese paint mix, I just want to add it as a last touch, so I can adjust the placement. I will probably paint it tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7POVNz69P8I'm here for the autistic spergouts.
>>11788437they prob sell well, diecast companies has been spamming the same few fast and furious cars non stop too
>>11788617I have to agree with you, I see so few modellers glue the canopy on very early in the build. Instead they save it for after the model is painted, they glue it on but the lack of a seamless transition looks so fucking ugly.Why do they do it? I will never understand.
>>11788614>>11788613So, what do I have to do to unlock this thing?
>>11788685>84th modelThis is where I stop taking you seriously and know you're posting someone elses total garbage for lulz, you don't get to 84 models not realizing you need to thin your paints and turn on the fucking light for a photo>>11788884I even glue it on for open cockpit builds. It's just so much easier to glue it very lightly and pull it off after the fact than it is to make it look identical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hXwppZnJpMSome great footage this time.
>>11789032I thinned them too, to a consistency that is thin enough to be smooth, but not too thin so it beads up and runs. It flows like milk. Should it be even thinner?My lighting is even worse right now, but I will post with a timestamp.>>11788884I guess that makes sense.
>>11789087If it further helps, my IQ is actually about room temperature, of you read it in F.
I just finished an old Esci 1/72 Tu-22. Was good fun.
>>11788527The main difference for me is that with pre-shading (like black and white) I don't need to mix colors. I use them as is. With post shading you have to lighten up the colors. That's why I do preshading.
Livery done, engines to go. And all the loose items I didn't paint this time around of course. Might seal up a gap or two I've found around the model before doing any of that though. >>11789141I don't understand what makes that easier than mixing a tiny bit of white in the cup after you spray the model down at all. One you have to be hysterical about layer thicknesses and cover up areas where you are gonna spray later with a different color because the base coat will eat up the shade effect if you just cover the whole model, the other you simply spray each color, shade a bit and then move on to the next.
>>11788884>wash model with canopy attached on early>canopy fogs>or>spraying>canopy is molded in multiple parts and isn't tamiya quality fit>paint somehow worms its way inside and now you can't remove said paint without destroying the canopy in the processbut i understand. When a kit has its windshield partially molded to the panel on the nose like on tamiya tomcats or GWH kits I glue those in and cross my fingers that no paint bleeds through during painting.
>>11789158Rot typhoon? yummersAnd is that the 1/48 revell kit? Is it as bad as everyone claims it to be?
>>11789192Yes it is. Specifically the union jack airshow one. I am really not finding all that many problems building it, I can't speak for accuracy because it is honestly not really something I care about for these Ace Combat builds. It's fitting reasonably well, less work in getting things to fit than my recent 1/48 Hobby Boss builds (especially the Rafale M was a total piece of shit), and a total arsenal of ordnance to put on it. The decals are lacking, I assume because it's an airshow model (all the cockpit decals aren't even on the sheet for instance) , but until now I really don't think it's a bad kit at all. The ASSEMBLY ORDER and INSTRUCTION MANUAL however are shit and there's too many steps and weird shit like step 16 or something being a pre-assembly of something you need to attach in step 50. But you kinda know to expect that with Revell.
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