First go at modelling in ages ----- what stuff

[5harp3y]

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

[5harp3y]

[5harp3y]

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

[5harp3y]

Just seen a tamiya dark blue metallic which looks spot on