Christmas Group Build?

[dr_gn]

gruffgriff said:

Every cold snap I tell myself to knock up a winter bench in the warm house to keep model momentum up...haven't though and am both joyed and jealous of all your progresseseseses! Loving the updates!


I'll have one soon, promise. May your paint flow and masking not lift

I keep thinking I ought to bring my airbrushing stuff from the garage into the office. I need to be building my stash on an industrial scale if I’m to finish them all before I peg out. What stops me is the incredible mess I end up making during even the smallest airbrushing session.

[Prolex-UK]

dr_gn said:

gruffgriff said:

Every cold snap I tell myself to knock up a winter bench in the warm house to keep model momentum up...haven't though and am both joyed and jealous of all your progresseseseses! Loving the updates!


I'll have one soon, promise. May your paint flow and masking not lift

I keep thinking I ought to bring my airbrushing stuff from the garage into the office. I need to be building my stash on an industrial scale if I’m to finish them all before I peg out. What stops me is the incredible mess I end up making during even the smallest airbrushing session.

Same for me.

I have a heater in the shed which helps....

I also mix my paints in the house and put them into some hot water before going into shed.

At 64 i have appx 200 kits to do.

Have just had an ebay sale as well....

[srob]

Does anyone have experience of spraying indoors with an extractor setup through a window?

I spray in the garage and it’s ok, but a bit of a ball ache transporting things especially if it’s raining!

I’d love to spray in the spare room where my model bench is but I can’t help but suspect there will be some strong paint smells licking about!

[robemcdonald]

srob said:

Does anyone have experience of spraying indoors with an extractor setup through a window?

I spray in the garage and it’s ok, but a bit of a ball ache transporting things especially if it’s raining!

I’d love to spray in the spare room where my model bench is but I can’t help but suspect there will be some strong paint smells licking about!

I airbrush indoors with an extractor set up.

Tamiya lacquer paints are the only ones that get me moaned at by Mrs McDonald. Acrylics are absolutely fine.

[gruffgriff]

Prolex-UK said:

Same for me.

I have a heater in the shed which helps....

I also mix my paints in the house and put them into some hot water before going into shed.

At 64 i have appx 200 kits to do.

Have just had an ebay sale as well....

I too have a plug-in electric heater and am tortured by needing to have it take the chill off metal tools, plastic parts, aerosols sitting on top and me while in the shed and the sound of twenty pound notes being burned per minute.
Seriously, I found a coat of satin black dried in two different sheens across my CRX boot spoiler, a clear softer appearance in a strip directly over the wood strip it was double-sided to. Can only be relative temperatures of the plastic floating in space to that affixed to the stick....at least it was dry enough not to get blooms too!

Yeah, with you brother...I've had a bit of a purge, regretted every sale, still need 2 lifetimes to build even my humble stash...

[Prolex-UK]

gruffgriff said:

Prolex-UK said:

Same for me.

I have a heater in the shed which helps....

I also mix my paints in the house and put them into some hot water before going into shed.

At 64 i have appx 200 kits to do.

Have just had an ebay sale as well....

I too have a plug-in electric heater and am tortured by needing to have it take the chill off metal tools, plastic parts, aerosols sitting on top and me while in the shed and the sound of twenty pound notes being burned per minute.
Seriously, I found a coat of satin black dried in two different sheens across my CRX boot spoiler, a clear softer appearance in a strip directly over the wood strip it was double-sided to. Can only be relative temperatures of the plastic floating in space to that affixed to the stick....at least it was dry enough not to get blooms too!

Yeah, with you brother...I've had a bit of a purge, regretted every sale, still need 2 lifetimes to build even my humble stash...

I have a spreadsheet with purchase cost and sale cost.

Make a profit on most which is nice.

Wife will benefit from the unmades if I croak before she does.

Current themes are 1/35 modern british armour... 1/35 Romanian WW2 armour....1/72 RAF Support Command Passenger planes and a few Spitfires..

[eccles]

srob said:

Does anyone have experience of spraying indoors with an extractor setup through a window?

I spray in the garage and it’s ok, but a bit of a ball ache transporting things especially if it’s raining!

I’d love to spray in the spare room where my model bench is but I can’t help but suspect there will be some strong paint smells licking about!

When we were building my mates plane he fashioned a spray booth out of a single wardrobe got off facebook market place for free, a kitchen extractor fan, sourced from the same place and a battery powered led light.

The fan was fitted to the top of the wardrobe with the exhaust duct going out of his garage side door. He left the top hanging rail in place, and added holes for others so he could hang stuff up inside. This made for a neat self contained and effective solution which turned out to be cheap as well.

[jeremyc]

Got some colour on the body.

[dr_gn]

jeremyc said:

Got some colour on the body.

Brush painted? Very good finish if so.

[jeremyc]

dr_gn said:

Brush painted? Very good finish if so.

Yes, with a very small brush.

However, the camera flatters the finish.

It is, though, true to the quality of the paintwork on the original it is emulating.

[dr_gn]

jeremyc said:

dr_gn said:

Brush painted? Very good finish if so.

Yes, with a very small brush.

However, the camera flatters the finish.

It is, though, true to the original it is emulating.

I don't do much brush painting, but apparently flat brushes used in conjunction with thinned paint layers are very good.

[Zad]

Prolex-UK said:

Wife will benefit from the unmades if I croak before she does.

Whatever you do, leave instructions to not sell them at a general auction house. Having seen the Yorkshire Auction House on TV, and having seen various catalogues for online auctions, the auction house can rarely, if ever, be bothered to do any research, catalogue them correctly or even photograph the boxes.

For example, this is actually a specialist sale on at the moment, for which you might expect more attention to detail, and for them to spend some time and actually catalogue the items: "A group of 15 Plastic Model Kits from various makers to include Playfix, Fujimi, Hobbycraft plus". There is a photo, but search engines won't pick the text in that up.

If you fancy increasing your stash, knock yourself out
https://www.i-bidder.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/...

The Yorks Auction House in particular seem to specialise in "my husband croaked 3 months ago and I can't wait to get rid of all this rubbish he bought" which is quite often really expensive stuff, being sold for pennies-in-the-pound at a general sale.

[Prolex-UK]

Zad said:

Prolex-UK said:

Wife will benefit from the unmades if I croak before she does.

Whatever you do, leave instructions to not sell them at a general auction house. Having seen the Yorkshire Auction House on TV, and having seen various catalogues for online auctions, the auction house can rarely, if ever, be bothered to do any research, catalogue them correctly or even photograph the boxes.

For example, this is actually a specialist sale on at the moment, for which you might expect more attention to detail, and for them to spend some time and actually catalogue the items: "A group of 15 Plastic Model Kits from various makers to include Playfix, Fujimi, Hobbycraft plus". There is a photo, but search engines won't pick the text in that up.

If you fancy increasing your stash, knock yourself out
https://www.i-bidder.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/...

The Yorks Auction House in particular seem to specialise in "my husband croaked 3 months ago and I can't wait to get rid of all this rubbish he bought" which is quite often really expensive stuff, being sold for pennies-in-the-pound at a general sale.

Sad but I have a document with all the details of savings... Car and house insurance water rates c tax... Bottom of that is category on ebay and to list each item at 99p auction.

I do like to plan....

Thanks for the link.....

My new shed may be needed

[dr_gn]

Added some weathering, the main u/c legs, and the tailwheel door this morning:

[jeremyc]

Body done, glazing in, dashboard fitted and modification to move spare to bonnet complete.





Just a few lights and details to add, then fit the body to chassis.

[100SRV]

jeremyc said:

Body done, glazing in, dashboard fitted and modification to move spare to bonnet complete.





Just a few lights and details to add, then fit the body to chassis.

Not tempted to add the spare wheel dimple on the de-luxe bonnet?

[jeremyc]

100SRV said:

Not tempted to add the spare wheel dimple on the de-luxe bonnet?

That's way above my pay grade.

[Eric Mc]

Making progress on the Hurricane.

Because it is a very basic kit, I've had to cut out the landing light and navigation light apertures.[url]

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[46and2]

dr_gn said:

I don't do much brush painting, but apparently flat brushes used in conjunction with thinned paint layers are very good.

I brush paint. I've learned that a decent quality flat (no10) brush is perfect for painting large areas with as few brush strokes as possible.

Acrylics - need to be well thinned, it doesn't seem to matter if you over thin them (you just have to paint more layers), I've been using Revell aqua colour thinned approx 1:1 with X20A, seems to work ok.
Enamels - I've found that these are best thinned at about 4:1, Paint:White Spirit.

Its important not to take up too much paint in the brush, you need to take most off (so you can see the bristles). You also need to re-wet the brush with thinner (spirits/X20A/water) every few paint strokes so that the paint in the brush doesn't start to dry.

I found a youtube channel called Chilhada who uses a brush and Acrylics and gets really good results, you can see their technique in the videos.

[dr_gn]

I’m using Tamiya lacquer thinners for Tamiya XF- paints. For airbrushing, it’s much better at stopping tip-drying and spattering. I guess it might be also good for brush painting if it improves flow.