Alright, i have a few questions here about painting as this is my first time trying. My questions are:
1. is it nessecary to sand the entire kit and coat it with a layer of surface primer before painting?
2. which tool is more recommended for painting, especially metallic paints, an airbrush or just a normal brush?
3. is there any form of spray…[Read more]
1. No it’s not really necessary. I don’t sand my kits, I just apply a coat of primer of the pieces for the paint to stick onto the piece.
2. I would say airbrush for all of them because unless you’ve been practicing for a long time or are willing to do many hours of sitting and painting light coats of paints with a hand brush, airbrush will yield…[Read more]
1. Sand where necessary, say to remove a nub mark or a moulding line. Otherwise undercoat as necessary. Some paints can go on straight, some benefit from undercoat and some require undercoat.
2. Airbrush.
3. Future Finish
4. Yes, Alclad metallics need just a single (often light) coat on top of their gloss black primer to work wonderfully. They…[Read more]
1. Okay, I’m going to be brief. Yes & no. No you dont need to, you can just wash your parts, to remove residue left over from manufacturing, but, it is a good habit to at least light buff every surface to increase bondingwith your paintprimer.
Far as priming, its dependent. If your changing colors, light over dark, its a must. If its same or…[Read more]
1.no but it’s a good idea, but do keep in mind that paint, including the primer on joints will increase the friction and too much friction will make parts hard to move and can cause them to break. in other words mask the joints before spraying.
2. I’d say airbrush if you want to paint an entire piece. For details it can really depend. Raised…[Read more]
I’ve had bad silvering on water decals after applying a flat topcoat. so after asking I tryed a gloss coat over top decals before flat coat and wasstill having a lil silvering. My new question is would future finish give me better protection for decals from flat topcoat.
I FF before and after water slides and that works fine. When I finally put a flat coat on top, to me the water-slides look totally integrated into the kit and look real.
Hey Guys i have a question, I am about to start my first PG of astray red frame but I am unsure if i do the panel lining on it as i have looked at lots of pics and videos and i don’t see much panel line work on it. Do I just do the little panel lining like the divets and stuff or like panel line the whole thing?
There’s not much in the way of traditional panel lines on the kit, but there are some indents that do benefit from some lining. I’d just do what you feel works well.
ok cause I usually do allot of panel lining or i just kinda follow the box art as well but from this PG astray the box art doesnt show any panel lining and just wasnt sure if people just build then as they are kinda pricey to mess up.
Hey guys, I was building my MG Nu Gundam Ver. Ka and much to my surprise Bandai decided to throw me challenge. There is a runner that has a total of 8 pieces that have been affected by a molding issue (I think it’s related to the cool down time and handling). It’s definitely a runner that should not have passed in the product quality process. Any…[Read more]
you know i am building the same kit and one of the hands had a whole lot of extra plastic all over the fingers and the part that you use to help hold the weapons. i was able to clean up most of the extra plastic around the fingers and they work fine if a little tighter than normal, but the attachment piece was a loss. it wouldn’t rotate no matter…[Read more]
Thanks heaps for the suggestion and reply. Yeah that would be pretty annoying. I was actually thinking of going to gentaikits for replacement parts but it could get pretty pricey or try and reshape them myself even though it’s a little risky. But yeah Vegeta does really great work.
Luckily I contacted the HLJ Parts department and they said that…[Read more]
Ok, making a custom kit bash, tell me, thinking of strapping a hg build booster onto a gm custom.
The back connectors look the same (as in where the backpack connects) as the ones the hg wing gundam use, hoping to use the same peg connector part since it gives a nice natural looking connection, and trying to avoiding using the…[Read more]
No, that’s plenty big. I use a .2mm needle with enamels and have so far not encountered a single clogging problem. Just make sure that the paints are properly thinned.
The Krome comes with a .2mm and a .3mm so that will serve you very well. You can use the .3mm for metallics as they are usually a little thicker .