It depends on what type of acrylic paint you have used. If it’s by Vallejo, then I would strongly recommend not doing it with an enamel wash, as Vallejo paint is water based and really really weak.
However, if you have used an alcohol based acrylic paint, like Tamiya or Mr.Hobby, it will be no problem whatsoever to do an enamel panel wash and use…[Read more]
Panel washes on top of acrylic paint is tricky. I’d first coat the paint with a gloss varnish (Future Finish works well for this) and what I’ve found to be the safest wash is artists oil paint diluted with mineral spirits.
future gloss coat
then afterwards use humbrol paints trust me when i say this because ive had problems doing panel line wash for a while and humbrol works great even if the glosscoat isnt completely cured if its like 70% cured it still works i only know because ive been using tamiya acrylics and there paints are really weak and easily chipped
This is a tricky one.. I have been doing this:
1. Tamiya Acrylics base color,
2. future (pledge) floor polish coat.
3. Sludge wash (distilled water, ground up black charcoal or other powdered color, a few drops of dish soap)
4. After sludge wash dries i wipe most of it off with paper towel and q-tips, just wet the tiniest bit with water..
5.…[Read more]
Oh yea. If this all goes horribly wrong, spray the whole part with Easy Off oven cleaner, and scrub with a toothbrush, then restart, the plastic will be in good shape but all the paint will be GONE.
awesome clean work! love the subtle shading. i see a lot of clean but solid color painted builds on other websites which makes the kits look non-scale and new out-of-the-factory… i don’t do a very good job myself but i want to be good at this style of work 🙂
Got it last Saturday 04/25 did not got a chance to open them till today. I started to get interested with Frame Arms so I bought bunch of them and some MSG.
I’m planing to buy a HG Astray Red Frame gundam but I recently saw review on the HG Astray Red Frame[Flight Unit]. Can somebody till me which should i buy ?
Haven’t build either of them, just the PG and I wished it came with the flight unit. So I would go for the one with the flight unit. If I’m not mistaking, the normal one is the one on the right?
I don’t see much difference, except for the panel lining.
It might be that they are carbon copies of each other and the only difference is the extra…[Read more]