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A pair of Academy P-38's for Tom
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Post invasion cover up? 
ij001
Well-known member
- Yep, the Redneck got it !!
Git'er done.
I got some panel lines cleaned up, found some more seams to fill. Waiting on Mr. Surfacer to do it's thing.
I got some panel lines cleaned up, found some more seams to fill. Waiting on Mr. Surfacer to do it's thing.
:woohoo:
I got color on it! Finally got the rough spots smoothed out enough and squirted red on her nose and one spinner. Can't remember which scheme I'm doing, the NMF one with no invasion stripes. Want to get this done to have a completion and get the bench cleared out. Might have it gloss black tomorrow. :zen
Shading looks great. 
Doncha just hate painting red? I've had to do it twice now on mine, just waiting for it to cure up enough to mask.
Doncha just hate painting red? I've had to do it twice now on mine, just waiting for it to cure up enough to mask.
phantom II
Master at Arms
Shading looks great.
Doncha just hate painting red? I've had to do it twice now on mine, just waiting for it to cure up enough to mask.
Interesting paint job
.Yep, I hate painting red . A coat of a light color primer or white prior to the red works best for me .
But still hate it :smack
Cheers, Christian B)
Sherman 18
Master at Arms
... The masking job was perfect
So I sprayed AK Interactive EXTREME Black base, stuff is very thin, doesn't dry like enamel and stinks like lacquer. I went through half the bottle to get a deep black on the top side, still need to do the bottom. Think I'm going to switch up to Tamiya Black. I sprayed the Chrome on a prepped piece of scrap just to see how it looked, didn't look like chrome. I'll watch their videos closer and see what I'm doing wrong.
AK Interactive Black Base.
Like I said, took several layers to get this dark. Think I may have built up too much as I see some orange peal going on, will sand that out tonight.
Test shot on the gear doors
Seemed kinda odd that it showed this stone type effect you see in some of the decorative spray can stuff. Maybe I was laying it down too thick. :idonno
Will do more testing but I have to say on first shot, not every chrome like I've gotten with other products.
Like I said, took several layers to get this dark. Think I may have built up too much as I see some orange peal going on, will sand that out tonight.
Test shot on the gear doors
Seemed kinda odd that it showed this stone type effect you see in some of the decorative spray can stuff. Maybe I was laying it down too thick. :idonno
Will do more testing but I have to say on first shot, not every chrome like I've gotten with other products.
Gator
Well-known member
Red over a light base is the only way to go. I love the OD finish.
Bob, in reading a lot about painting natural metal finishes, a car modeler made the observation that for chrome use a metallic blue base, not black. His reasoning is that natural metal and chrome have a blue tint in the real world. To test this, I got a can of Tamiya metallic blue spray paint and base coated a plastic spoon then sprayed the Spazstix chrome in an aerosol can on top of that and buffed it out. It looked darn good.
Just an idea.
Bob, in reading a lot about painting natural metal finishes, a car modeler made the observation that for chrome use a metallic blue base, not black. His reasoning is that natural metal and chrome have a blue tint in the real world. To test this, I got a can of Tamiya metallic blue spray paint and base coated a plastic spoon then sprayed the Spazstix chrome in an aerosol can on top of that and buffed it out. It looked darn good.
Just an idea.
Shading looks great.
Doncha just hate painting red? I've had to do it twice now on mine, just waiting for it to cure up enough to mask.
If you want bright red then paint the area white first. Same goes for yellow or orange.
B)
Thanks Kenny, might be something to try out.
Terry, I did that on mine, I'm just talking about the clean up, no matter how many times I clean the airbrush still seems like some light tint of red is coming out of it.