Hi, I’ve got an easy question. I am used to waterslide decals, but I am building a ralley kit as present, with a lot of big decals and during my last visit at my humble modelshop I bought decal softener and decal fixer. Since I haven’t used them in the past, I thought, I’ll ask if someone might has some tips for using them. The order of…[Read more]
If the decals are a bit old, like say 10 years, the glue isn’t that sticky anymore. In that case, one would use the setting solution. This is done by applying the solution directly to the model. There are some modelers whom like to add a few drops of the solution to the water, heck there are even modelers whom use distilled water for their decals…[Read more]
Many many thanks, for this hughe reply. The decals are indeed quiet old, so this will all he very helpfull and saved me from a longer research. Thx man!
Since I am not able to post a picture in the comments, I show it here. I had a conversation with John C. about building worn and repaired battlesuits with exchange parts. You can follow it at his Linebarrel post, which i recommend. And here is what i was talking about :
I am about to start on a HG Unicorn, but I want to make that phyco frame stand out (without changing the color). This will also be my first time using a top coat (I was planning on a matte for the armor) any tips?
Haven’t build an HG Unicorn, but I would suggest not spraying a matte on te psycho frame parts and paint a silver on the inside of them. Bandai does provide chrome like stickers for some kits to be placed on the back side of clear parts. Painting silver on te back side of tem would be a great and rather easy way of mimicking that effect.
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Cool Idea friendo! But I think paint sounds like it might be a bit dense, do you think I might be able to get the same effect with silver sharpie? I also have some of the silver foil paper left over from the Nu Gundam Ver. Ka, do you think that could also work?
It’s the idea for it being dense, just so the light reflects off of it. If you use a silver sharpie and do two coats, my guess is it’ll leave you with the same result, only a bit more easy. Build the Nu myself too, and that’s how I got the idea (and te PG Unicorn to be honest). If you could use some of the left over foil, that would give an even…[Read more]
Right on bro, will try that out and post the finished product here. The Nu was a really fun build, but those new 3.0 hands are the worst has anyone found how to make them hold weapons better? Also how many PG have you built? I have yet to build one, but I am looking to Char’s Zaku II for my first.
Yeah, the Nu us a really fun build indeed. I solved the “sagging” hand by gluing the rectangle piece that lets the hand swivel in place and used some super glue on the ball joint to thicken up that part too. Mine has been holding that long beam riffle stretched out for two years now without a problem.
Only build two PG’s as of yet…. My first…[Read more]