Alison,we have started a section on airbrushing that might help you use the airbrush.It was my first time and Steiners and we did ok,I had to strip my tank down after messing up but even that is not so bad.And i'm sure you could do just fine if you give it a try.I practice on cardboard to get eveything just right then try it on the model.If everything goes wrong then ovencleaner will strip the piant off and you just start over.Don't sell yourself short as I had never used airbrush before and have been building ship models most of my life and hand painted many.Take a look at the thread and see what it all about.SAX
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ok, my first numpty question (there is going to be lots more...)
Re: ok, my first numpty question (there is going to be lots more...)
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Re: ok, my first numpty question (there is going to be lots more...)
White spirit will do Alison or you could get thinners in your local model shop just use a little the paint gets thicker when you get the tin half empty no matter how long you stir it.
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Re: ok, my first numpty question (there is going to be lots more...)
alot of the rlm colours came as a paste and had to be watered down and mixed with fuel or oil , and they were applied with rag , brooms or as crispy said mixed thin and thrown at the tank via a buckettiger205 wrote:geez, how on earth did they manage that??? How on earth do you paint with a bucketCrispy wrote:
Best of all, we're painting WW2 tanks! They are supposed to look messy and rough and the real things often had their top coats applied with a bucket (no brush) in the field!
btw Tony said your zimmerit was nothing short of genius, he was so impressed with it
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on second thoughts lets not go to Camelot ,it is a silly place
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I remember a few years ago in Tamiya Model mag a guy had faithfully copied a reference photo of some WW2 German armour with an improvised camo scheme that had been roughly applied in the field. He'd spent ages recreating the paint drips and splashes, muddy foot prints and damage in 1/35. The final model looked just like the photo.... but as a scale model it was pig bum ugly :-[ ! Looked just like he'd spilt a bottle of paint all over it.
In the article he came to the conclusion that you have to apply a certian amout of artistic licence when doing this or it'll look like a child attacked it with a house brush ::)
In the article he came to the conclusion that you have to apply a certian amout of artistic licence when doing this or it'll look like a child attacked it with a house brush ::)
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Re: ok, my first numpty question (there is going to be lots more...)
you should see my D.I.Ytiger205 wrote:geez, how on earth did they manage that??? How on earth do you paint with a bucketCrispy wrote:
Best of all, we're painting WW2 tanks! They are supposed to look messy and rough and the real things often had their top coats applied with a bucket (no brush) in the field!
btw Tony said your zimmerit was nothing short of genius, he was so impressed with it
