Haxian

Haxian posted a new activity comment 9 years ago

I found this guide helpful for creating rigging from sprue

http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=37536

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- Duvaio replied 9 years ago
  
  This is great, thanks.
  - Eyal Reinfeld replied 9 years ago
    
    I love the ship, just wonderful!
    For rigging, I tried using stretched sprue, but not like the guide in the link, as I couldn’t manage it.
    I cut them to shape and glued.
    Currently I used very thin fishing wire which works perfectly.
    I recommend UNI-caenis fishing wire, 20 denier and 30 denier.
    
    I learned about them from David Griffith’s superb ship…[Read more]
    - Duvaio replied 8 years, 11 months ago
      
      Thanks! I ended up using stretched sprue since it was quite hard to get caenis wire over here, but I glued it as posted in there. Been quite busy but I hope I can finish it and post pics soon, thanks for the help!
      
      Eyal Reinfeld replied 8 years, 11 months ago
      
      Cool, will be happy to see pictures of the rigged model 🙂
Haxian posted a new activity comment 9 years, 2 months ago

It`s essentially acrylic paint with gloss varnish on top

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Haxian posted an update in the group Intermediate Modeler – Modeling Competition 2013 9 years, 2 months ago

Posting again because the first time the images tripled up for some reason

Given the wording of the dates, I think I was on time to submit. Given that tragedy sort of struck, and the material I was using for the base was not nearly as transparent as it should have been, that`s something at least. Had to throw primer and then paint over the top of…[Read more]
- Osvega replied 9 years, 2 months ago
  
  Looking real nice!
  
  What did you use for the water effect?
  - Haxian replied 9 years, 2 months ago
    
    It`s essentially acrylic paint with gloss varnish on top
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