Hey guys how’s it going. I know that there are some here who want to get into painting and not sure on what paints to buy or just have some questions. So iv’e written up a review for the Tamiya Acyrlic paints (flat, gloss and metallic) to help out those who might be interested. Just click on the link below to see the review on my…[Read more]
Not a problem at all , i’m glad that it can help someone 🙂 If you have any questions, you can contact me here or leave a message on the post and i’ll get back to you immediately
Great blog post. I don’t use the Tamiya metallics, but I do like their gunmetal, especially with a flat coat. The other gem of the Tamiya range are their clear colours – smoke (grey), red, blue, yellow, green and orange. They all work great airbrushed over metallics, or hand painted for details.
Thanks heaps man. Yeah the Gunmetal is actually very nice. I’ve never put a flat coat over it before but will definitely give it a try. Ive got the smoke enamel but haven’t tried that one yet (just haven’t had time to try recently).
But thanks heaps for having a look and i’m really glad you liked it 🙂
I’ve found uses for all their clear colours so far – they’re really useful! I used many of the clears here: http://www.graemenattress.com/wp/pg-chars-zaku-ii-part-10-frame/ hand painted on the frame, and the smoke was used to darken the indents on the panels.
Nice work on the frame – looks great! Yeah i was going to buy some more of the clear colors but realized that I still had the Vallejo Air clear colors left untouched. I wasn’t sure if I needed the smoke but thought I might as well buy it just in case.
Haha nice, at least I now know that buying that smoke was a good idea.
Sorry about the late reply – I wanted to give the clear another try before I commented on it. The Vallejo clears are actually the only ones iv’e tried so far. When they are sprayed on, they have a very dull look. They kind of look like I sprayed a clear color followed with a…[Read more]
Tamiya clear colours all come out really really shiny. They generally need some thinning as they’re quite thick, although that’s ok for hand painting details, it’s not so good on the airbrush.
They don’t mix together though. If you want purple, don’t think you can mix clear red and clear blue – you just get mud. If you want a clear purple you’ve…[Read more]
Oh okay, looks like i’m going to be buying some Tamiya clears in the near future 😀
That’s too bad with the mixing issue it would have been very handy to just mix together but nothings perfect i guess. I’ve never tried mixing the clear colors of the Vallejo though so dont know how that would go. But yes, they would work very well to change an…[Read more]
I love figuring out new paint techniques. I just found a new look on my RG Strike Freedom’s dark blue sections: Tamiya gunmetal, Tamiya clear blue, smoke and then a layer of Createx clear blue. The Createx went on a touch spotty, which made for a finely mottled look that adds great depth to the piece when viewed close up, so a really lucky accident!
I gloss top coated it before putting the stickers on. Now there’s gloss coat on top of that, drying. I should be able to get pictures perhaps this evening.
Yes, doing multiple coats to make an effect is a lot of work! But sometimes it’s the only way to achieve the effect that I like. For instance, Createx pearl blue looks great as is, but Createx…[Read more]
I’ve definitely got to try out that gunmetal/smoke combination sometime soon. Iv’e never tried the Createx paints either. I wanted to try the fluorescent paints from Createx but its a little too expensive to ship here unfortunately.
Yeah that’s true sometimes multiple coats is the only way to get the results you want.
I used the gunmetal/smoke combination on the backpack of RX078 V3.0 that I just finished. It came out well. I also used it on some of the RG Destiny wing sections.
Hey guys. I’m new here. Just wanna ask a question. I’m planning to get Valvrave kits and I don’t know how to mix clear pink for the effects parts and how to paint clear parts with normal paints. I’m kinda new in hand painting and have use gundam markers quite a lot. So, any tips?
Welcome bro!
Any clear colour can be made by tinting a clear base (literally a paint without any pigment) with a colour of your choosing. Or you can be lazy like be and just buy the clear colour.
I haven’t done very much hand painting but from what I understand you will need a retarding agent to slow the drying process if you use fast drying paint…[Read more]
Airbrush is too expensive and have to get a painting booth with it. My mom wouldn’t let me do a huge mess in my room. Maybe when I get older and have that kind of budget, I can afford one. Airbrush seems to be very practical.
Hey guys, started painting my models with enamel paints and it turned out really good. The only problem is that I dont know what topcoats I should use for the models because I need to panel line the models and apply a finishing flat coat over the enamel paints but only have Vallejo Acrylic top coats (because i’ve used tamiya acrylics previously).…[Read more]
Acrylic is fine over enamel. But don’t make the mistake I did! Enamel takes a while to cure, even if it’s dry it’s still curing. Once you put a protective layer over it, like an acrylic coat, you’ll slow down the curing process even further.
Actually if you are moving onto stinkier paints, go straight to lacquers. Both require ventilation and respirators, so use the tough stuff 😉 I haven’t looked back since using mr color.
Mr color dries quickly and cures in less than 24 hours. I’ve managed to paint a hguc banshee in one weekend, that’s priming, base coat, post shading and…[Read more]
Yeah, I saw the banshee and both the FA and your Banshee look really nice man. I was originally thinking of switching to lacquers when I made my move from primarily acrylics but don’t have a spray booth of any type and only have a 3m dust mask, one of the cloth ones that have like a cage in the center. So I just have to spray outside hoping that…[Read more]
Thanks heaps for the quick responses guys. Unfortunately, its night time and there’s quite poor lighting conditions at my desk so the pictures I took turned out pretty poorly. Im definitely no where near as good as you guys @bloodnut38, @beldin but i’ll post some pictures when I finish. But im working on the Wing Gundam EW at the moment.