First go at modelling in ages ----- what stuff
Discussion
Hi everyone.
Love looking through the threads in here and was hoping you could offer some freidnly advice.
I've just bought this and want to replicate my old car:
Few questions:
What essentials would i need to get cracking. glue/cement etc
Can i use car spray paint to paint it as i want the colour match to my old car?
the rest will, most likely be painted with tamiya / humbrol paints, which are best?
going to take my time with it but appreciate any advice
Love looking through the threads in here and was hoping you could offer some freidnly advice.
I've just bought this and want to replicate my old car:
Few questions:
What essentials would i need to get cracking. glue/cement etc
Can i use car spray paint to paint it as i want the colour match to my old car?
the rest will, most likely be painted with tamiya / humbrol paints, which are best?
going to take my time with it but appreciate any advice
Hi - I'm in a similar state, so my 109 build might be of interest.
Number 1 thing needed is time.
Number 99 thing needed is time.
Everything in between is optional.
For working with the plastic, I've a scalpel with normal blade and a chisel blade, side cutter pliers (to cut the sprue), some emery boards and a fine sanding block (sand-paper around a foam core). A cutting board is worth it.
For painting, some detail and flat brushes, masking tape (low tack, you can buy various widths, but the normal width can be sliced up). I've bought some cans of primer; they're not mentioned in the colour scheme but key the surface and give a much better finish. (White would probably be best under a red top coat if you do use the official colour - but do check on a spare part in case the solvent isn't compatible with either the primer or the plastic.) A couple of varnishes (one matt, one gloss) are useful for intermediate 'fixing' coats and the final effect.
I've a drawer full of old (flip-top lid) Citadel acrylics. I'll find out this weekend if they're in fit state. Acrylics have the advantage of being water soluble, so less messing with smelly thinners and wash off fingers/desk/carpet/ceiling more easily.
I had the tools around anyway (including a pin-vice) from my youth and spent about a fiver at Wilkinsons for tape/sanding stuff, and double that for the primer at Games Workshop (a poundshop had much cheaper primer, but I chickened in case it melted the plastic). I've at least four local model shops, but they're all focussed on model railways (there must be a few hundred miles of 00 gauge laid in this town) so GW have bizarrely been the most helpful, even if painfully expensive.
Well that's where I am; I'm sure more experienced modellers will have better advice, and disown my comments with shaking heads.
Good luck.
Number 1 thing needed is time.
Number 99 thing needed is time.
Everything in between is optional.
For working with the plastic, I've a scalpel with normal blade and a chisel blade, side cutter pliers (to cut the sprue), some emery boards and a fine sanding block (sand-paper around a foam core). A cutting board is worth it.
For painting, some detail and flat brushes, masking tape (low tack, you can buy various widths, but the normal width can be sliced up). I've bought some cans of primer; they're not mentioned in the colour scheme but key the surface and give a much better finish. (White would probably be best under a red top coat if you do use the official colour - but do check on a spare part in case the solvent isn't compatible with either the primer or the plastic.) A couple of varnishes (one matt, one gloss) are useful for intermediate 'fixing' coats and the final effect.
I've a drawer full of old (flip-top lid) Citadel acrylics. I'll find out this weekend if they're in fit state. Acrylics have the advantage of being water soluble, so less messing with smelly thinners and wash off fingers/desk/carpet/ceiling more easily.
I had the tools around anyway (including a pin-vice) from my youth and spent about a fiver at Wilkinsons for tape/sanding stuff, and double that for the primer at Games Workshop (a poundshop had much cheaper primer, but I chickened in case it melted the plastic). I've at least four local model shops, but they're all focussed on model railways (there must be a few hundred miles of 00 gauge laid in this town) so GW have bizarrely been the most helpful, even if painfully expensive.
Well that's where I am; I'm sure more experienced modellers will have better advice, and disown my comments with shaking heads.
Good luck.
Halfords plastic primer followed by their top coat should be fine. Try to use very thin coats though - they do tend to go on thick. Metallics are a potential problem becasue the size of the metallic grain obviously isn't scaled down, and they usually look pretty naff when appplied to a small scale car. Depends on the specific colour though.
dr_gn said:
Halfords plastic primer followed by their top coat should be fine. Try to use very thin coats though - they do tend to go on thick. Metallics are a potential problem becasue the size of the metallic grain obviously isn't scaled down, and they usually look pretty naff when appplied to a small scale car. Depends on the specific colour though.
I was worried about that as I've seen do many that look like a 70s metalflake hotrod. I might buy some and give it a go. The metallic in it was quite fine iirc.
If not I might have to go for a tamiya etc metallic blue
Tamiya Mica Blue aerosol gave me a 'nearly right' metallic finish for a car I built some time ago
If they do a Mica Red that might have a small car effect that you could use
So best check with an online colour chart and if they have what you want look at the colour in the model shop first
There are dedicated model paints that do replicate what you are looking for but to do the painfully honest bit, my first port of call is the Tamiya paint aerosol range instead (six or seven quid for a small can), which actually lasted me ages and I used the blue as a base for a green topcoat touch up on my own car when the Racing Green I bought was too yellowy
If they do a Mica Red that might have a small car effect that you could use
So best check with an online colour chart and if they have what you want look at the colour in the model shop first
There are dedicated model paints that do replicate what you are looking for but to do the painfully honest bit, my first port of call is the Tamiya paint aerosol range instead (six or seven quid for a small can), which actually lasted me ages and I used the blue as a base for a green topcoat touch up on my own car when the Racing Green I bought was too yellowy
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