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Re:Masking - help please If you are able to get hold of some I would recommend Parafilm M. It's like laboratory cling film that will do just that...cling to your model without sticking to it.It's quite thin but rubbery so will conform to most shapes and can be cut. I have a box...

I buy up alot of the older magazines secondhand when I see them and what you are mentioning sounds vaguely familiar. Might be wrong but I will have a look through some of the older ones when I get a chance. I know where the books are...just a matter of searching through them. JO.

Sometimes if I know I am going to struggle with a figure I paint the eye first after my flesh basecoat. That way any mistakes are painted over throughout the course of the rest of the face. If they are helmeted you can even get away with blank dark sockets for eyes but the eye itself has to be...

Oh I'm sure you could dunk your netting in your Jack to give it a light colour stain but the question is..."Why would you want to waste it?"

Wow. This is one of those 'once in a while' great dios that really impress me. The level of detail in your work is eyecrossingly brilliant. I would drool to pull it off in 1/35th let alone Braille. Topping it all off is the realistic nature of the paintjob. No toys here. My best part is all the...

For goodness sake girl... put a pillow under emil's head before he gets a sore neck will ya!? At least, thanks to Jenny, I now know that 'The Breadcutter' is having squeezed cheese on his sanga. No really... can't wait to see them finished and posted with the 88. I was working on the same thing...

Having bought a Dready myself I can see why you have replace certain details. Great work by the way and very cleanly done. I don't think that ease of building and cleaning up a mini rates highly with Games Workshop and they need to take lessons from some of the armour kit makers. Why they put...

I agree with making it yourself....If I can do it it can't be that hard. Apply diltued white glue to a gauze swab and sprinkle on some dried oregano or thyme. As good as free and you don't have to worry about undelivered parcels.

Hey, don't knock the light up tweezers Iron Mike! :) I have a pair with a flatter grip that is perfect for putting fiddly little parts into dark recesses. Although, outside of scale modelling, I would imagine that they would really only be any good for nose hair removal. My sight went straight...

I was dreading the wheel spokes but so long as you take your time they go together quite well. The biggest headache for me was filling and sanding the joins down the middle of each tyre. Sanding and trying not to crumple the etch spokes was awkward but it is worth it in the end. You just can't...

Yes....that's the one. I will use pen and paper to keep track of it this time...Thanks!

I really like the way you are able to pull off realistic settings, more specifically the foliage. There is skill in making it NOT look like bunches of twigs 'plugged' over the base.Or a carpet of static grass floating on glue. It is a skill I have not mastered so I enjoy looking at the work of...

I am about to order the 5 Speed this week before I start work on the Voyager etch for my BR52. Until now I have been using pliers (rarely), but mainly just a steel ruler and a single sided blade. Having said this I have to admit that my carpet has been so well fed I am amazed it hasn't turned...

I know I have asked this one before but with the combination of moving to the new site, my PC being reformatted after crashing and my ratty memory I need to ask it again. Does anyone know what site the fantastic tutorial on making rifle slings out of tin foil and copper wire is on? The answer...

Gotta say I LOVE those wings.... but my mind winces with the pain that would have been involved over such a large area.

White seems the logical choice to highlight red with but unless you are very careful with it's use 9 times out of 10 all you end up with is varying shades of pink. Yellow can be useful but again you need to limit it's use to more extreme highlights or things will end up too orange. :angry: Red...

Thanks Rudi and Phil.... I will give his site a go.

A promise is a promise and I should post a pic before too long. I had put mine away for a while as I get bored very easily but your post has given me a boot up the frontally challenged body part. ;) They are now back out on the painting table.

Call it laziness, call it whatever you want but I really dislike mixing paints to get what I want if I can buy it already in a tube. Having said that... Does anybody know of an Australian stockist of Mig oil paints? I thought I did see one a while back but have not been able to find them again.

Thanks for that bit of information regarding the figures. I recently bought myself half a dozen boxes of TANK but they are Kharkov Panzergrenadieren SS and Infantry and I did not recognize yours. The detail is very crisp and they are well done. I cannot wait to paint them... but they have to...