It depends who you ask, mostly. 🙂 Bandai has a habit of placing seam lines to coincide with panel lines… And if they need to place a seam somewhere and there isn’t a panel line, they’ll add one and put the seam on it. (Not too fond of that, personally…)
So for the most part, the seam lines are hidden or disguised, though there are…[Read more]
I have been holding off on building the MG Sinanju because I want this to be my first masterpiece, where I am it is very difficult to get the right tools to do the job especially paint, primers and topcoat for gunpla (not easy to order online customs is a headache) so I stumbled on tamiya spray paints and I got the metallic red, black and gold…[Read more]
Not a clue. But I can tell you how to find out: your model kit comes with a whole lot of excess plastic (runners) – spray some of those with your paints, see what happens.
Cheap SD kits or “first grade”-style kits also make nice victims for this kind of experimentation – though of course while cheap that still costs more than just spraying waste…[Read more]
…I think polycarbonate paints are mostly for radio controlled models (the paints are resistant to damage from fuel leaks, and formulated to stick to the polycarbonate shell of the vehicles) – but I don’t know what happens if you try to paint styrene with them. They might just not stick.
Thanks, i am gonna try to paint the excess plastic, i am more worried about long term damage, with chemicals the effects might not show instantly, thanks for your assistance 🙂
I imagine if the paint were going to do any damage, you’d see it by the time the paints are dry. To be on the safe side you could check the painted plastic a week or so later and see if anything’s gone wrong… But, thinking about it – since there’s kind of an expensive kit at stake, it’s probably worth doing a paint test on a cheap model kit if…[Read more]
This is the kit i have (http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN981597/Gun) released in 2013 so hopefully it will have the styrene frame, i have the stein otw as well 😀 ….
Will have to put my Blaze Phantom Zaku under the spray test and see what happens.
Yeah, should have mentioned, the one with the bazooka included is the one with the styrene frame. 🙂 So no worries about ABS, and probably no worries about the frame reacting differently to the paint…
I tried the spray today on some excess runners left them for around 20 minutes to dry off and the paint sticks just fine, then i went on to step number 2 which is apply a gloss coat to see whether there would be any reaction to the paint or not, thankfully there wasn’t leaving it on for a day or two to see if anything else might happen. To add to…[Read more]
It depends who you ask, mostly. 🙂 Bandai has a habit of placing seam lines to coincide with panel lines… And if they need to place a seam somewhere and there isn’t a panel line, they’ll add one and put the seam on it. (Not too fond of that, personally…)
So for the most part, the seam lines are hidden or disguised, though there are…[Read more]
I c thanks