Skull Leader

well you could always check your local hobby shops, comic book stores too sometimes they’ve got kits in there. other than that, I guess you just have to wait for a restock or pay the amazon price.

Hi,
I use only acrylic paints, so not experienced with solvents.
However, a simple spray booth should also get rid of the solvents fumes (unless your spray without pauses for long periods).
The one I’m using is the one reviewed here:

it should be also solvent proof due to filter and material used for the…[Read more]

well I’ve been painting with mr.color lacours for a couple of years using a normal spray booth and haven’t blown myself up yet. The one I’m using has the fan in the back and blows the fumes to the sides, and as far as I know the fumes aren’t getting to the engine but could be wrong on that part.

anyways the one I use is Mr. Super Booth, it’s…[Read more]

maybe the oil wash is causing the silvering (thats what i have heard it called) once it reacts to another layer of top coat? at best its a guess. got no idea how to solve it sorry.
maybe gloss coat then decals then another gloss coat before oil wash.

Your silvering cuz yeah oil n next coat interaction. You need to coat, decals, coat,weather, then final coat.

Hope that helps josh

Ah,welcome!
I started a mere 7 months ago, but since I’ve gone from out-of-the-box builds to owning my first airbrush set and having a dedicated modeling area. So be warned, you may go further down the rabbit hole then you expected.
I’m in Queensland, Australia, and there is no such thing as gundam in a brick and morter store. So everything comes…[Read more]

I’m afraid there wasn’t such big parts. 🙂

…with the size you could maybe rip some from a cheap toy almost, or just make your own or take from another 1/48 kit, age 1 with a heat hawk maybe :3

i have not found that a primer coat saves me a noticeable amount of paint, however, depending on the colors that you are painting over or to ie painting over a red with a white, or painting a part silver. a primer makes a huge difference. i find that a black primer under a silver, gold, or mica red makes the final color look amazing

as for grainy…[Read more]

Not so much saving paint as improving the quality of the finish, and giving your paint something to stick to (unless you are painting by hand), although if you are worried about paint in general sticking to the plastic, just give it a wash in luke warm soapy water.

…so what was your plan/question, im confused, you want us to help fund your project, you need help choosing your kit and or choosing the direction you need to go?

I saw it in my local store, you can try ebay but don’t think is cheap because is EX model.. I thought you want the bigger size by Pair Dot that hlj throw out sale year ago.

That is mirror finish chrome not silver. There are many like Alcad II or if you really want that chrome, try a Japanese brand (I can’t remember the brand) or MGM chrome powder (Taiwan), only chrome powder can such effect and of course it cannot be seal with clear coat.

If you are from America, this will not be a problem as there is number of…[Read more]

I found that if you are careful painting chrome silver, you can get a close reflection effect on parts. Also, like Kuroneko said you can always use paint or pigment that was specifically meant for a mirror-like reflection.

Ive had pretty good success using alclad II chrome sprayed over a coat of gloss enamel. As far as chrome powders, I’ve heard good things about kosutte gin-san, although its a bit difficult to find.

Prepare to do many masking.

make it easy to understand…after your primer, gloss black or semi-gloos black, then metallic color. Like Gold will be on black if you want your gold to shine. The rest are the same, black will be yor base color for all metallic color. The clear orange and clear yellow, are they suppose to be clear or metallic? Try…[Read more]

I would to protect them. Any type of paint will do, gloss, matte, satin. As long as it doesn’t interfere with the pre-existing paint.

You don’t need any clear coat on tire decal, btw, is not dry transfer…is decal but printed opposite like high-tech decal. The way of doing it is cut the tire decal with water, wet your tires too, then flip the decal (means the decal is facing tires and decal backing is facing you.) After it sit on it, removed water and slowly removed the decal…[Read more]