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Jaberwak posted an update in the group What are you building? 8 years, 7 months ago
Well taking a break from the Crossbone – technically its finished but i want to do the wash on it (i suck at panel lines) so i still need to do some gloss coats for it. So in the meantime. I finally decided to paint the Zaku Tank (one of the two kits i was going to use for last year hobbylink competition – but went with the other). Since its mostly a construction suit so i decided to go for a bang up rusty look of the heavy machinery.
I decided to try a different method than i used on the Kapool.
This time i tried creating the texture using the primer. It turned out rather ok despite running into some problems. I didn’t use Tamiya primer just Vallejo which has a rather rubbery consistency on the kit (thanks to that its very smooth) that made it hard to create the texture. After some try’s i was satisfied with a result (well at least for most parts). I think the glue method provided a quick and heavy texture on the parts but at the price of losing the details. The primer method made the texturing more subtle with almost no loss of detail.
Than came the usual rust job – rust paint base with brown details added with a sponge. I hope to do the gloss coat today (might as well spray the X-1 at the same time ^^) to seal the paint before the hair spray layer (this time im also gonna try using the salt with hair spray).-
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i wanted to ask u since ur also using tamiya paint how are u doing panel line wash
well before i was using aditional layer of gloss acrylic varnish and used the humbrol enamel thinned with petroleum ether. It somehow did work but the thinner was evaporating super fast so it was hard to get the right mix. Now i want to check a store bought wash (which strangely enough is acrylic based) . The preliminary test i did on the thrusters of the crossbone looked promising (they were painted with acrylic paint) but i think i would need to dilute the wash a bit more and definetly add a gloss layer to make the paint flow more.
i see but wht if i use humbrol and its thinner would it work or would it strip down my paint underneath i really hate it when it does that