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mbp457 posted an update in the group
What are you building? 6 years, 2 months agoIve decided to keep working on my vual conversion.. the lower right needs a little more putty work ,but its going ok -
erwinphillippe posted an update in the group
What are you building? 9 years, 4 months agoI never expected hand painting would be THIS hard. I prefer spray painting from now on but since this is an SD scale, i still opt to finish it via hand painting.
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What’s giving you trouble?
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First is the thinner:enamel paint ratio; I don’t know how much is good enough.
Second is the drying and curing time.
Third is whether application of a second color and thinner on the same piece would damage the previous color (planning to paint the sword a silver but afraid it might mess up the red details there.Thank you for the concern! 😀
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Enamel paint goes through a chemical reaction as it hardens that makes it unresponsive to thinner – so layering and such are fine, if you give the paint enough time to fully cure.
This also can make enamels a bit tricky to work with, because if you’re not careful there are ways to disrupt the chemical reaction, preventing the paint from hardening…[Read more]-
Thank you for the detailed explanation, I will always keep these in mind. 🙂
And yes, I use a separate container for thinning my paints to keep the maintain the paint’s original condition. I think one aspect that I cannot fully grasp yet is the application of several coats (I’d like to see mine as is upon the first coat) but now that I am…[Read more]
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Basically, in hand-painting large areas, it’s usually expected that there will be some unevenness in the color of a single coat. If you can see brush strokes in your coat that’s OK (and it should even out after another coat or two) – the thing you want to avoid is brush marks that you can feel – if the brush leaves physical unevenness in the…[Read more]
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Thank you for the explanations; these are very enlightening and relieving at the same time as I now have a guide whenever I hand-paint. 😀 I’ll definitely have to use sandpaper on some parts once it cures to see how things react.
Wow, the show sounds very informative; I’m gonna watch it. 😉-
Yeah, Plamo Tsukurou’s practically legendary. All kinds of really amazing builds on that show, including several episodes on Gundam and other anime subjects. I don’t think they still make that show unfortunately.
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