>>11674511
Fuck, wrong previous thread: >>11653721

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Well boys, I'm freshly divorced and in my tiny divorced guy apartment. Hopefully I'll get my production up this year. I've got nothing but time now.

>>11674525
That's awful, how much did she take?

>>11674525
Do you sleep in a racing car now, too?

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>>11674526
Not a dime. We kept completely separate finances and the house is in her name (for this exact reason) so it was an easy split. I've been quietly saving and I'll be able to buy my own house this year.
>>11674528
I am the the male living space meme. I figure there's no point in buying furniture if I'm just going to move in a couple months.

>>11674531
Good for you. Same for me, but having your home in someone else's name is always a bit uneasy. I mean I'm not worried but an autistic fuck like me that hates moving... at one point where there was talk about a potential split, I was mortified, but we both agreed we had stopped investing in the relationship and decided to actively deal with it and it seemed to work out.
PS. those fucking carpets in every single american house are beyond disgusting. Especially considering you wear shoes indoors.

>>11674534
Yeah, she would always scream at me to get out of "her" house whenever she was having a fit but ironically being married protected me because it is illegal to throw your spouse out on the street lol.

>>11674531
I'm incel and have never even spoken to a 1/1 scale woman, but what's the idea of getting married and still handling your finances in a way to make divorce easy? If you think the divorce is that likely why get married in the first place?

>>11674542
She threatened self harm to trap me in the relationship when I realized she is just using me and I tried to leave. I guess I'd rather she be alive and me unhappy than me be happy somewhere if it cost her life. Now she's in a much better place so she has decided she can do better than me and I'm finally out. My boundaries were no joint finances and my name was not going on any mortgage or loan with her.

>>11674542
>but what's the idea of getting married and still handling your finances in a way to make divorce easy
NTA, but being financially smart and covering your own ass. Also you can still have a shared account for household things or whatever you want, it just prevents straight up financial abuse. I've seen how even couples that don't really care for money in the moment and have had very civil breakups start to get petty over every cent when it comes time to split up. This is especially the case if you have shared loans.
I've been with my gf for like 7 years and I've asked her about marriage several times but it's just not something she sees as a necessity at all. I'm not sure what the english term is but we are just in a relationship that is pretty much like marriage without the paperwork.

/smg/ came for the models, stayed for the relationship /adv/ice.

>>11674525
>>11674531
This is how I live despite never being married.

I bring my completed models to my shop now since I ran out of space. Also the twice a year visitor is weirded out that I don't have a TV, saying it's "too quiet". But my rabbit seems to enjoy the peace and quiet, which seems to be the peak "lonely male in a tiny hole" pet.

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finished up this recently
i'm considering putting a couple more figures on it, but i'm uncertain

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has anyone ever ordered these metal model "puzzles" from temu? just a few bucks for a small tank, but if quality is shit then I'd rather not buy garbage.

>>11674648
I did buy a TIE fighter a while back and it's exactly what it says on the tin. Sheet metal that can be folded together. The connectors are shit and the only way to make it actually good would be to solder everything. It's cheap trash that gets sold in dollar stores and fairs, if that's what you expect, then it's great for you.

>>11674648
I thought about getting one of these, but working with PE already makes me want to blow my brains out

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>decided to get back into it after a long break
>Immediately blow like 500$ on a couple shitter 50 yo models, addons, brass, brushes and compressor

>>11674733
blame the boomers with too much free time who would rate kits low if they didn't have PE or individual track links

Looks like the first show near me is in Sarajevo
Hope GDI scum don't show up to destroy Temple Prime again

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Gonna give this AK preshade mask shit another go. I'm not fully convinced of this technique but it is at least quite easy to do and the result before painting looks rad. Should probably use this to make something like the fish pattern guy is doing at some point

>>11674786
Have you seen the plastic detail they were working with?

>>11674525
>>11674531
>>11674541
>>11674543
jfc this is more pathetic than me not having sex for 5yrs.

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Airfix dropping some new tool kinos in a few hours, please 1/48 first gen harriers.

>>11675656
new spitfire when

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hey dudes, what brand would you recommend for airbrush ready acrylic paints?

>>11675701
airbrush ready as in you don't add more thinner yourself? no idea
or just good paint for airbrush? tamiya is pretty good if the latter with their thinner, vallejo is also decent when you use their airbrush thinner in a 1/.25 ratio with a drop or two of their flow improver

>>11674915
>fish guy
looks good dude. I'm just waiting for the post with supplies so I can start the colour. Really fucked up the engine cowling by trying to prime it first before assembling. I primed it then test fit it before figuring that it would be easier to glue the pieces now rather than afterwards. Should have realised that the Italeri kit I was building was Italeri.

>>11675656
the only "kino" airfix can give us is moving production out of india

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>Heres your new airfix kit bro
I mean hasegawa kit was still okay besides lacking full intakes and missing a few rivets. But a welcome addition as zoukai mura said they wouldn't be doing a british phantom.

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new Canberra tooling for 1/72

>more jetslop

>>11675907
*jeetslop

>>11675892
Very nice, I can make it Argentinian

>>11675907
phantom is sovless but Canberra is soVl core

>>11674528
>Yeah I've lost it all but do YOU have three F-35s?

>reintroduce big hellcat
>replace good schemes with bad schemes
>increase price substantially
thanks I guess

Are the 90% discounts not a thing any more?

>>11675892
I'll only care if they tooled it to make way for a B-57 in the future.

>>11676350
not anytime soon, covid had kits flying off the shelves, all popular models gone in a few years. if they 90% now they'd have nothing left to sell

>0 (zero) new spitfires

>>11675892
this is the nicest of the new tools imo, it's not an amazing aircraft or anything but that little bombardiers nose station looks fun to paint up

>>11676433
They will release 4 more next year to fix this issue

>>11676478
it's a pretty cool aircraft

>>11675705
yeah no.... I'm looking for something like the mrp lacquer paints but acrylics. I know mrp has an acrylic range but I have no idea if it acts like the lacquer range and requires no thinner or flow aid.

Put 14grams of weights into my Warning Star instead of 15 thinking that would be sufficient and it's still back-heavy. Options now are either rip its wings off and put more in or make a little stand to prop the back up. Oh well.

got me eduard 109

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>>11674525
Congratulations bud

So apparently the chattanooga contest didn't grade on a gold/silver/bronze for the top 3 of each category, but instead gave everyone a medal with gold/silver/bronze. Whatever color medal you got was dependent on how close to their criteria you managed to get.

I've never heard of IPMS judges grading builds like it's a high school math test but apparently boomers are up in arms because it's participation trophy culture or some gay shit like that

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>>11674915
Better than last time I think. Still gonna need to post shade/highlight this for my tastes though

>>11676951
Build quality at my local IPMS would warrant this because they are so decidedly mid that they'd have to just draw who wins

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>please give us 30 great bri'ish pounds you fat old fart for rebox of a 90s era old as shit kit with below average engineering

>>11677091
but anon, think of the HobbyPoints!

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>>11674511
this nigger stole my pic
anyways, heres the final look.

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>>11677153
what is it with tamiya and turret numbers?

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>>11677157
that nice cast structure on the wield hull
fuck you tamiya
its not that hard to sand it off and when making new casts anyways

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>>11677165
tamiya xf dark yellow
some brown for corners n shades
pencil chipping
future (for aryan anons: Erdal Bodenglänzer für Kunststoffböden is the same. Spar group)
wash with oil colours + turpentine
some brown pastel chalk grinded to dust as dirt
mr hobby color clear matte h20
semen

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>>11677187
german booty

those kits need no sanding exept main guns
details are meh sometimes
price is good
geometry good

gonna add an antenna
and cut prism out of an old cd case

>>11675892
does it come with rhodesian markings?

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>>11677202
that would be the last fucking thing that shit island would do

>>11676951
This is Open Format. Boomers get mad about it because the contest doesn't get dominated by the same people every year so they feel cheated. Open is better because it's skill-based. If you do a gold-level job, you get a gold. This is generally much better than having new people bust their asses putting work in, only to get squat when Boomer Bill (who has been friends with the club judges for forty years) gets his trophy. Boomer Bill can still win his gold for his work, he just can't lock everyone else out. Open eliminates any suspicion of bias. But boomers would rather kill the future of the hobby if they can ride out a last few years of their glory days.

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one of the best AMT kits I've ever built and I'll chalk that one up to it not being a mold from 60 years ago. somehow melted parts of the canopy so this model is effectively ruined, but ignoring that I'd say it's still a 7/10 job to me.

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>>11677552
thought it would be fun to put LEDs in it so I did. I naturally fucked those up too, so one shines brighter than the other. no idea what I could do with the wiring so I just ran it along the stand and it will get displayed with the wire facing away so you can pretend its not actually there

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really not sure how this happened, I didn't do anything different or use a new product

>>11677091
they do some decent sales though. id prefer if things could just be a good price the whole time instead of overpriced 90% / cheap 10% of the time

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>>11677153
>
>>11677240
I need this
>>11677560
Capillary evil

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>>11677187
It takes 3 seconds to fix the white balance of pictures, please do it.
The model looks nice.

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>>11678111
Very nice panther, I am currently working on a tiger 1

>>11678104
>pic
Saw a pic of a burnt-out King-Tiger in rural Hungary. In the Soviet combat report it was three.

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>>1167

I'm sorry for annoying you but I got some questions. I never build something like this as a kid but I would like to try it out now. However I'm not really willing to spend a lot of money up front without even trying it first so I wonder does hobby glue (the white stuff) work instead of that special revell glue and craft store acrylic paints instead of those small paint pots?

>>11679540
>does hobby glue (the white stuff) work instead of that special revell glue
I don't think it will allow for the accuracy of application needed for model building. If you're looking to build model aircraft or armour, you should really get plastic cement. It's a different mechanism from regular glue and the end result is much cleaner. It costs barely 7 canuck bucks so it shouldn't be that much of an upfront cost.

>craft store acrylic paints
You could, but you shouldn't. The use case for those acrylics is too different from model paints, and you'll need several layers as well as having to do lots of mixing and thinning. You very much can do without, but frankly I think the hassle of having to find workarounds to get the result you want might turn you off from the hobby.

I recommend just biting the bullet and buying a cheap 1:72 scale model, finding out exactly what paints they use, then buying those paints along with a primer and thinner. Paint should come at around 4 CAD, and tamiya plastic cement costs around 9 CAD. Be sure to also have tweezers, small paintbrushes, a pair of small cutters and some sandpaper. You can do your first model from A to Z for less than 70 CAD worth of purchases imo

>>11679540
You can get starter kits that come with a small tube of glue and pots of the necessary paint

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>>11679574
>cement
isn't that like pro level?
>1:72
Are those easier than 1:144?
>Be sure to also have tweezers, small paintbrushes, a pair of small cutters and some sandpaper.
good, I have those things laying around here already.
>>11679642
>starter kits
buying it like this would be cheaper than most of those starter sets and I end up with more paints as well. All of it for just under 30 Bucks.

>>11679650
>isn't that like pro level?
Not at all, it's the basic standard for painting minis afaik. It just lets plastic parts meld to each other. You can put your two parts together, brush a little cement on the cracks, hold the two parts together for a minute or so and then you can set it aside to let it cure.
>Are those easier than 1:144?
I personally think so, because they are the right balance of "cheap enough that i don't care if i scrap it" and "big enough that I can actually see what I'm doing". Of course the size depends on the size of the actual machine it is based on. For example, I bought a 1:72 yak-3 to test some paints, and it is about 4.5 inches long with a 5 inch wingspan. If you're more comfortable working with something smaller, 1:144 would be cheaper, though beware if small parts that might fly off the sprue once you cut them if you're not careful.

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>>11679660
This would be the stuff I'm looking for right? Do I need gloves and a mask when I'm working with it?

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>>11679923
no, the only drawback from the glue is smell
if it drops on your hand it'll just turn into a crust in a minute, but given how the applicator works it shouldn't
watch a video on it, it's very easy to apply and doesnt drip
all you have to watch is how much to apply cause if you spread it around on a surface it will melt the plastic
>>11679650
you can also get a really shitty 1:48 cheap kit like i did, i got the icm (revell) 1/48, it's really bad but was only 15$, way cheaper than eduard 1/72 and will look ok just without fine details

>>11679923
I don't think you need ppe for plastic glue, at the very least I've never met anyone who bothers.

>>11679923
The chemicals in typical plastic glues /are/ irritants for skin and lungs, but you should be fine /without/ ppe so long as you have decent airflow in the room, and rinse your skin off if you get any of the glue on it.
So long as you don't have any extended contact with a decent quantity, it's practically harmless.

>ppe
don't be a bitch

Has anyone here thinned Mr Hobby aqueous with water? I find the fumes from the leveling thinner I own (I dont have the specific thinner for aqueous line) very bothersome and I dont want to fuck up with thinning with water.

>>11680327
If you're painting with a brush then yeah go for it, there shouldn't be any problem. If you're airbrushing though, you might want to use the actual thinner they want.

Something weird happened at my local Hobbycraft, they actually have a decent range, label shelves by manufacturers (and have added Hasegawa and, weirdly, Kotobukiya) and the prices are now merely expensive but not comically stupid. One is normally used to things getting ever shitter, not mildly improving.

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Finally got the paint to cooperate better, turns out you can't really expect good results from that airbrush that had it's needle bent into a loop and straightened out

>>11680327
I remember it being shit. use tamiya x-20a

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1/16 UE chenillette, lol. rough prototyping, I dont think i'll ever paint it

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Started this 'Revell' Ju 188 A-2 three days ago, some images of details in the cockpit.
It's originally a Dragon mold from 1990, the Revell issue has better decals tho and includes PE.
Its very straightforward, the entire interior has no more than 18 parts when finished, the seats are a bit inaccurate and the MG-81 Z is primal in detail but thanks to comprehensive decals one can make it look very saturized with proper painting

>>11681435
Revell is always best when the plastic is not from Revell. I give them that. Their reboxes are very often a better deal than the originals.

>>11675705
>1/.25 ratio
This is some next level retardation. Do you understand that this is a 4/1 ratio, correct? Why would you mix ratios and decimals?

>>11677091
But this one has the US flag on the belly :^)

>>11679650
>>cement
>isn't that like pro level?
There are some autists that refuse to call plastic glue "glue" because "It's plastic cement not plastic "glue"" while totally failing to realize that
>"A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together."
Making it as much or little cement as it is glue. Really you should be calling it "plastic solvent" if you want to be autistic about it. It melts the plastic and then it sticks together when the solvent evaporates.

>>11681193
I really wanna do something in 1/16th but holy fuck is it expensive, I was looking at some figures and they want 150 for em

>>11682370
I remember at one point in time the 1/16 FT-17 was cheaper than the 1/35 version. It's the only conventional 1/16 kit I've done, and just checked, it'll probably set you back 70-80 bucks now.

Who's got a good putty for gap filling? I got a jar of mr dissolved putty and it's just shit.

>>11682426
VMS flexy 5k CA black

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>still cant find a full takom AML-60 to buy
I'm so tired

>>11682426
I like Vallejo because its water based and you can use a lightly sucked cottonbud to clean it up and get a nice neat fill without sanding (may take two applications) but its probably just me being weird.

>>11682443
trusting you anon

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>>11678111
>>11678111
muchas gracias

just went to my local shooting range
and one if the ros is a modeler, he just made picrel. fokkinn banter at the range.

>>11682984
The execution is meh, but the idea aint bad. Every new headline makes me appreciate the retard wranglers he had in his cabinet during his first term more and more.

>>11682426
I'm using sprue goo, it's shite

>>11682426
Orange cap Tamiya. Sands like a dream, bond to the plastic and you can get high on it. Downside is it evaporate quickly and can solidify in the tube if you don't use it for a while.

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just ordered this dude can't wait to build and paint him :)

>>11682426
I have good experience with the one from Ammo by Mig Jimenez in grey.

>>11682426
I miss squadron green putty so much

>>11679957
>dude don't be pussy just get cancer
Ok bonehead

>>11679957
lmao retard it's not the 1800s anymore get your head out of your ass

>>11683804
>>11683903
I would say he's obviously joking, but I have met people that literally just LARP a 19th century coal miner, so I don't even know. Wear a mask people.

>>11683919
work blue collar and friends with many people that work on cars and stuff
anti PPE sentiment is very real and I have no idea why. gotta prove how badass you are for not wearing protection

getting glue on your finger won't give you cancer

What's the hardest part of building a kit for ye lads?
I have a GWH Su-27 sitting idle on my bench for like a week now and I keep putting off working on it cause I hate dealing with landing gear

>>11684013
Currently it has been actually painting something because I need to clean my bench to open up the airbrush booth, but then I need to clean my bench that is full of half-built shit so I start building some new thing and then my bench is too cluttered to paint... I have like 20 1/72 vehicles waiting for paint in the cupboard.

>>11684013
For me it is overcoming the loss of interest after the main assembly and painting is done. All the small bits and pieces. Maybe I should do those in the beginning.

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I bit the bullet and trusted the boomers praising new italeri releases
Oh boy, have I been mislead
This is the allegedly new tool semovente M42 75/34, the first italeri kit I bought in 5 years

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>>11674511
y'all suck

>>11684131
ew chinkslop

>>11684060
>comes with original Italian pubes
what else do you want?

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My first model ever, 70s tamiya chi ha
Gonna paint it something vaguely resembling something japanese once my airbrush arrives
I got gahleri gt 918, is that good? Saw the reviews are pretty positive
Planning to try some basic weathering and modulation + signals with gloss varnish

>>11684013
figuring out the order in which to paint and assemble things
then I make a plan and don't follow it at all

>>11684013
So far actually figuring which paints to use and what techniques work for what i like, color theory etc

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Well this is a very large box

>>11684416
how many parts anon?

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>>11684688
a decent amount, but not as many as the Rex.

>>11684724
nice rex!

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The fuselage panel lines of Dragon's 1990 Ju-88 are inconsistent variants and partially omitt or make up detail entirely.
>>11682002
True, their best originals are all from the late 90's until 2010, several large and rare new molds (Ju-290 the first injection mold, Ar-555 never built, new Lancaster, new Halifax, new B-17 etc), they had greater times. Idk why they don't keep producing luft-46 aircraft or fill marketgaps, they did in the past and there's still opportunities (a Ju-252? Or Ar-232?) left. Similiar with their new mold Do-17 from the 2000's, they had one release in Europe, made zero variants until after 20+ years of doing nothing ICM gave us the other variants. Revell can be good but they are lazy due to guaranteed gains by selling 60 year old bf-109 and p-51 in every toystore in central Europe. At least they offer other manufacturers molds for cheap.
>>11684724
Can you post the A6M

>>11674584
nice, I think 4 guys is enough unless you wanted to maybe add some infantry or something

>>11684013
>fill seams
>sand the filler
>scribe details I just sanded
>fuck it up every time
>fill, sand and scribe said fuck ups, repeat

>>11684801
Yeah, a lot of those Luft46 kits had their moulds made in korea by Academy. That's why they are decent. What's shit about Revell's own kits is the inconsistency. Like their new 1772 F-15 kit is very good. Then they come out with the 1/32 F-18 which is a catastrophy which even features an apology for the flash and casting defects in the instructions.

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>>11684801
>A6M
my dusty ass zero sure. I built it maybe 6-7 years ago and fucked it up a bit. I weathered it like I was dry brushing a warhammer mini and put a far too heavy coat of spray can matt varnish on it.

Still looks nice on my shelf and it was really fun to build.

Strongly considering trashing a kit. It's been sitting for probably over a year now, and I just got back into it last night. I've got all the individual track links built, sitting in a bin ready to be assembled into the track runs... and the fit is dogshit. Within 10 links, more than half need to be trimmed and the connection is weak at best. It's the hobbyboss Vickers Medium Tank MKII, and there are no aftermarket tracks. My only options are to try and struggle through, or try and 3d print my own. Both are extremely unappealing, especially for a subject I dont care that much about.

>>11684160
Diddyblud is mad lmao

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If I knew that interior work will be just white with the occasional xf 84 sponge chipping, I would have done it much sooner

>11685374
>niggerspeak
brown hands

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just started building again after a huge break, first kit was a 1/43 bbr Benetton b194 white metal kit turned out okay now doing a kinda shitty protar 1/24 Ferrari 412t2.

Holy shit, hobby mio paints are so nice and easy. With the huge break I was expecting trash but this is excellent. No primer except over filler putty where i primed with normal non primer hobby mio, then hobby mio red followed by hobby mio gloss clear.

Sus about these decals tho theyre cartograf so it should be good but the bbr stuff went on so flat I didn't bother hiding edges. this stuff ill probably need to do that.

>>11685572
I should clarify good for gloss lmao they dry a bit slow making them kino airbrush ready gloss but I don't even know if they sell flat out of the bottle.

got bits of dust in from that slow drying time but idgaf I'm back from a break its good enough

>>11685277
I got a kit. God I can't even remember what it is but the box had a cool black and white grid pattern and it was i think part resin part badly molded plastic MB some white metal.1/72 airplane

Anyways the fit was so bad and miserable and it had so much putty that the wings just broke off while I was trying to do something so I tossed the entire thing in my parts bin

its been getting banged up and tortured in there for close to a decade now. eternal hell for the trash kit.

>>11684241
I used the shittiest cheapest amazon airbrush compressor for years and it was fine, I'm sure that will be fine as long as it has a tank.

Now I use a shop compressor because it also let's me use an air hammer etc very good for my other hobby /k/ stuffs. Its loud and jump scares you causing you to spill paint if it turns on but big tank so i just turn it on once, turn it off, and its good for a full 24hr.

And its a small tank by shop compressor standards I got it cheap on Craigslist.

>>11684241
>>11685582
Oh in terms of airbrush I used the cheap Chinese ones for years they're mostly fine and I didn't clean them right but now that I clean them properly I.....

No I don't clean them properly I use acetone idgaf if the rubber will melt eventually but that CSI creos one good for the moneys

>>11685583
in defence of my acetone practice I do the proper procedures using it which you can see ppl do on YouTube vids and acetone evaporates so fast and cleans everything quick . haven't ruined an airbrush yet doing it although I ruined one accidentally stepping on it 2 years ago.

>>11684013
assembling it desu

give me low parts count, also hate filler putty its an asspain. used to build a ton of plane kits which made me despise it.

same with perfectionist sanding polishing on a gloss coat like you do for cars all the time. A nice resin or white metal 1/43 car kit tends to let you skip a lot of that and have low parts counts so I've been into them a lot lately.

>>11685598
shit is fucked up cus ill go for beginner snap kits and garage kits as my top picks

>>11684045
have you considered just panting with stuff everywhere

I am a career having individual so I have a garage but also I sit on the floor like I'm pakistani and I don't even bother using my booth despite owning one.

just open the window afterwards. Paint doesn't get more than a few inches Bette it disperses.

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>>11684278
buy a basic set of colors you can mix of something that isn't shit like Mr color. Spare bottles so if you hit gold u can save the mix. Sometimes I even write down when i pipette in more paint if its a huge model (actually I only have done this airbrushing actual guns)

BUT some of my best results have come from going totally free hand. You can tell from the pic really and I forget the order of the first 2 but there's a reddish color sprayed from the bottom, yellow (which may have been first?) Most directions except you can see the warmth as a sort of gradient.

then a dusting of white only from the top. No paints mixed just free handing colors.

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>>11685614
*can't tell from the pic BAKA which is good because it'd be shite if it looked like it was painted with 3 colors

>>11685611
I kinda could in my bachelor pad, but now living with my wife at least for airbrush it's not really a thing I can just plant on the kitchen table and let loose. For brush painting I can claim small victories. It's more of an autism/mentality thing really. Just either need to limit the new projects or clean up the previous ones. Just have a bunch of other stuff going on in my life currently so the 5-15 minute pauses to build a bit are more convenient than the 60+ minute painting breaks. And all in all it's not that bad, as long as I have shit to build it's still progress. I guess where it will break down is when I get sick of painting and have nothing to build.

>>11685435
I always forget how good white and black chipping looks, are you going to add a filter or anything anon?

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>>11685577
i took a nap and then made an executive decision. tossed the kit in the trash. fuck it, one less piece of mental clutter.

Also said fuck it and called the HIMARS done

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I HURT MYSELF TODAYYYY
was cutting towards myself with the x-acto, as you always should, and it mighta slipped a lil bit under the thumb nail. civilians would never understand, but this the life we choose.

>>11685812
nice but I would add mud and weathing, although you can always come back to it on a rainy day when the mood strikes

>>11685844
that shit is so easy to overdo i just feel like it would get in places around the tires but i havent seen one irl

but i see the subtlety in anons approach and its kino. However also for the red amber turn signal light thingies please for the love of g*d do molotow liquid chrome either pen or u buy the tube and brush then use a sharpie.

Recently restored a built kit i got on ebay a 1/43 porsche 935k3 kremer and doing this to the lights made the thing look so much better

>>11685819
i have never induced any but a minor cut in scale modelling as i lock the fuck in

however once while imbibing alcoholic beverages, building scale models, and eating gruyere cheese on crackers i moved the knife from the models to the cheese and cut and my thumb bled profusely. Always use a different cheese knife.

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>>11685805
No, I plan to have it just with the crew hatches open, not going to spend that effort
The bonus for this kit is that you have panel gaps that probably correspond to the real thing

>>11685435
please do something to the seat too so it doesn't so out of place being pristine

>>11684060
You sure it isn't a reboxed ESCI? Italeri have been getting very cheeky recently in terms of being quiet about it on their kits

>>11685819
Nothing I enjoy more than slashing my fingers to shreds with a line scriber then rubbing dirty paint thinner into the cuts

>>11685957
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/italeri-6584-semovente-m42-da-75-34--1328727

I'm guessing it's this one based on the 75/18 mould from 2020?

>>11685277
zvezdas bt5.
i stopped after half a tube putty.
but i gave a well earned ending with a proper exploding fire cracker in the backyard. just recently found a road wheel there.

>>11685435
the mdtal parts look good, what are they painted with?

>>11686339
Vallejo chainmail
It's the best brush metal paint I have ever used, no primer, just 2 layers

>snowed in for the weekend
>roommate put a hard ban on me airbrushing anything because its too cold to open a window to vent out the smells
its so over bros

>>11675701
ive heard good things about vallejo model air and kaleido

>>11685819
Yeah, maybe you should've read the enclosed sheet with safety advice in 20 languages and not just throw it away?

>>11685819
cutting towards yourself is almost always better for controlling a cut as long as you have more grip strength than a toddler
praying for your full recovery big boss

>>11686490
It's not about grip strength it's about not exerting more strength than you can contain when the material eventually gives in.

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I'm kinda torn on what to get, either the M3 stuart initial production by miniart or the M3 by tamiya. also how are the miniart figures compared to the tamiya figures?

>>11686555
Tamiya, the probability of you finishing it and having a nice model is vastly higher.

MiniArt stuff can be nice but fiddly and what T does as a single piece will be a construction of three or four tiny pieces. If that is the kind of person you are, I guess its OK, but I know I'm not anyway.

New Tamiya figures are better than Miniart, Miniart is better than old Tamiya figures.

>>11686413
Two advantages of brush painting over air: you can do it in any weather and you don't have to be on the sex offenders register

>>11686413
do you have any leftover figures? you can always assemble and do a quick prime in the garage or something and then practice painting up figures and stuff

>>11686555
miniart has an obnoxious amount of parts, it is just too much, but their figures are good

do people buy finished models i see them listed on ebay sometimes

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>Anti-static brush
Does this actually do something or is it a meme?

>>11687227
Yes

>>11687227
I like to bid on finished models, got a few pretty nice ones cheap. Its cool to have something that someone put a load of work into.

>>11687227
Yes, they do. If you price your models cheap you can sell them off very quickly to collectors.

>>11685819
The thumbnail is unconcious!

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>>11685189
6-7 years!?
Is that Hasegawas 1:48 one? How did you improve the seat like that, is it PE replacement or drilled open? Colouring and panellines seem pretty nicely done, there's a tendency to overdo paintweardown on Japanese planes, but if you look at original images this is far more prominent on army aircraft compared to navy ones, its rare to see on any naval aircraft from built 44-45 due to their short lifespans. I built one myself for the 80th anniversary of Leyte Gulf, started on October 25th 2024 and finished sometime in February next year, its one from 653rd Kokutai, specifically from carried IJN Zuiho during the battle of Cape Engaño, it was most likely destroyed that day, only a few landed in the Philippines after the battle. Opened the 20 and 7,7mm barrels, and scratchbuilt part of the red radio device in the back of the canopy, PE belts added but not visible here.

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>>11687377
Yeah 7 years ago. No PE or aftermarket just drilled out the seat. It's the 1:72 Tamiya 60785. Can see the fucked up amount of matt varnish I put on it better here. Really didn't know what I was doing with that spray can.

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How the fuck do some people paint proper, round, centered pupils in 1/35? I'm wearing my watchmaker's loupe, and I can barely do irises.

>>11687495
Are you using something to brace your wrist?

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>>11687497
Yeah, but pupils, I couldn't even see it. I do irises with a watchmaker's oiler I retired, since even 000 brushes are too big.

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Might as well repost the shop Zero.
Is the Zero the official /smg/ plane? And the Type-97 the official /smg/ tonk?

>>11685819
I closed the safe door (cabinet size) on my thumb. Looks like it bled underneath the nail. And it's at the base of my nail, so it's going to take forever to grow down.

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>Want to build ROCAF and RHKAAF in 1/144 or 1/72
>No kits available
All I want is a F-CK-1 and an AT-3 and a S-76. The JSDF, PLA and even the ROKAF have a number of kits of their aircraft in these scales.

>>11687510
Never built a Zero, but they do seem popular, so are 109s. No clue on tanks.

Not that /smg/ does group builds usually, but I would be willing to float the idea of a Japanese themed group build? It satisfies just about everyone, I think, plus I am about to order a bunch of aircraft right now, of which most are tied to Japan.

>>11687227
I enjoy refurbishing stuff that's built but neglected. But i'm not paying more than the kit costs. I'm hoping to inheret, say, take a bit of the soul of an unknown deceased anonymous boomer and turn it into something i can proudly display on a a shelf.

But it has to be built, not a glue bomb that sucks, and also not pro tier where theyre trying to make cash building it pro. I want peers.

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>>11687597
Like forgive the actual shite lighting here but i got this thing built and whoever did it had poor fine motor skills because the edges around the windows and other little details were awful (its 1/43 so quite tiny) i redid all that stuff and im quite happy with it.

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>>11687495
just dot the eyes with the tip of a 00 brush, it doesn't need to be perfect
*yeah yeah I know le seem lines, you can't see it in the tank and I was lazy

>>11687305
I dont know what that is but i got a bunch of makeup type brushes super soft and big they remove dust insansaley good

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>>11687604
>1. brush size doesn't matter so much as how fine the tip is
>2. the pupil doesn't have to be the final step, you might find it easier to paint the pupil first then cover the excess with sclera, and finally cover excess sclera with skin color
>3. pupil will look more natural if it's not dead centre and more like pic related

>>11687605
It's a metal brush used to remove static from plastic so that the paint supposedly applies better.

>>11687564
Japanese groupbuild could do, but in a few weeks earliest.
Still have Ki-49, Ki-87, P1Y1-S in 1:72, a started B6N and entire Pearl Harbor set (A6M2/B5N2/D3A1) in 1:48 and untold 1:700 ships in store. 1:350 ones too but these cost an arm and a leg, take months, need detailing to absurd levels due to how much atuff is visible at that scale and I have nowhere to put them. Reminds me of why the 1:48 L2D conversion got shelfed

>>11687741
My stuff would not arrive for another two weeks. It would be an OH-1 (hence my pic), US-1 or XC-2, though I also have Japanese liveries for two EC-135s and a ATR-72 (though I intend on letting someone else build it). I might buy another kit, but I still have not decided, though.

I was autismposting in the previous thread, in case this may sound familiar.

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>>11687495
>centered pupils
Yeah that's how you get wonky looking dead doll eyes, buddy.

>>11687564
>>11687741
I would also join in a Japanese groupbuild with either a Nissan Skyline or a Suzuki Cappuccino

>>11684013
Figuring out which bits I don't paint so I can glue them on later, like trim on cars etc.

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>>11687500
I yearn to reach this level of autism desu
god bless

>>11687787
what did Yakub mean by this?

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>>11687787
Trumpeter made a figure of their founder?

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This is the only way I can spray laquers. Wedging it on my windowsill and kneeling on my bed to spray. Works ok though. There was no lingering smell in my room and only the occasional whiff in the mask cause I think it's getting in through my chin when I'm looking down.

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>>11688300
The green is way too strong and kind of ruins the look I was going for desu. The way it looked on the spoon is more to what I wanted and even though I used the same steps. It came out way more saturated. Maybe cause of the gloss black base on the plane and not on the spoon?

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>>11688303
The pearl sure looks nice in person though.

>>11688303
>Maybe cause of the gloss black base on the plane and not on the spoon
So not the same steps...

>>11688400
yeah that's on me. I think a really thin pale green over the metallic would've looked better rather than clear green.

>>11687871
>>11687741
Alright, group build (since 3 or the 7 people in /smg/ are going to do one) will start at the beginning of next thread.

How much time do you guys want it to last?

>>11687564
>Japanese themed group build

I have never done an /smg/ GB because it is always when I don't have whatever the X is. But I could at least scare up a Momi for this, possibly even a Tenryu.

>>11688573
One to three years.

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>>11688573
Can I enter Japanese projects I've already started but put in the shelf of shame?

I suppose I could start the Soya and probably not finish it.

>>11688573
3-6 months

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Breaking out the 1/350 Kagero it is.

>>11688667
I don't see why not, but how complete is the kit?
>>11688671
I think 6 months would be best. So it would end 6 months from the start of the next thread.

>>11688573
this>>11688640

>>11688766
>>11688811
Well two votes for one to three years.and two for 3-6 months.

Going to run a poll, which I will tally in a couple of days: https://strawpoll.com/wby5QxV1XyA

>>11688766
One is basically in the painting stage, the rest are just in various stages, a few pieces glued here and there but nothing too major

>>11686588
>>11686968
I got the tamiya kit, looking at the miniart kit it really is over engineered. but I did get some soviet tank crew by miniart.

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God damned wops and their literally retarded armor development
I don't trust them for anything other than a barchetta or a group B miracle

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If I meet John Italeri IRL, I will fucking break his face and throw his overpriced Italian fashion house man purse (hecho en Bangladesh) in a puddle
The tracks (allegedly new parts) are so shit they can't fit around the sprocket and in each other
In my struggle to put the tracks together, I forgot to paint the radio before I glued the casemate shut

Important!
https://youtu.be/PK6Dy8WgAUI?si=1q1JWG8YVg8B25dh

>>11689664
>spruesnbrews
I think I stumbled into one video from him a couple years ago and he immediately revealed himself as a liberal faggot from massachusetts, redundant I know. Never watched him again. If I want airhead, safe and feel good political commentary from someone whos views never evolved past what public schooling taught them, I'd bring up politics at family Christmas.

>>11689692
i found his videos on figure camouflage useful as a reference but that's the extent of it
as far as actual modeling i personally like scale model club 2

>>11689692
The guy prides himself on drinking and has a hipster beard, what did you expect? Same reason why I don't watch Scale Hangar 182 (whiny liberal sissy faggot who has a melty each time he thinks about Orban or Trump), Plasmo (Scale Hangar 182's best friend so a no-go by association) and Dash Models (because she has an OF sort of deal, plus she has a retarded building technique where she skips interiors on tanks and only paints after assembly has been completed).

In other words, most YouTubers, including those are retarded and I would sooner take advice from a boomer fudd. If you don't know how to do it, then teach it to yourself, that is the only way to do things that are not "the basics".

>>11690142
>Orban or Trump
Both narcissistic retards

>Plasmo
Mediocre, but very inoffensive

>Dash Models
No idea who you are referring to

I think you need to touch grass to be honest my nigga. In any case watching youtubers can be a great asset, but it does not substitute actually doing stuff by yourself. My breakthrough was when I realized I could spend as much time on one model as I wanted to. I see too many retards finger-painting their models in 5 seconds and moving on, of course you can't improve like that. At first spend as much time as you need to reach the result you are happy with and then focus on streamlining the workflow to actually manage to accept any kind of volume.

>>11690142
>no-go by association
Holy obsessed.

Peak woke-right seethe, my nigga.

>>11689664
>noooooooo please don't put me on the potential brand risk list arrrggggghhhh

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>>11683483
man working with resin is a bit of a pain but I seriously love this dude, can't wait to get him in the booth

>>11688671
Sure I might give it a go too, have a 1/24 tamiya nissan 300zx, have other models to finish before I start it but it should be interesting enough, will be first time building a model car

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Okay, if I want to commit to a Jap groupbuild, might as well figure out what to order. I don't want to commit too hard with 1000 part abominations, so I'll get some old molds Tamiyagem
Which one tho:
>1:48 Raiden
>1:48 Ki-84
>1:48 F-15J
>1:35 Type-61
>1:35 Type-74
>1:35 Walker Bulldog
>early PRC Chi-Ha Kai
>Trumpeter's Jap not-Gepard
>some 1:24 oldschool JDM shitbox
>any other ideas from anons
>pretend my 1:35 Chi-Ha is an entry for this goupbuild and isn't half completed already
Thoughts?

>>11690637
I have always liked the Hayate, though I am a bit partial.

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>>11682533
feel ya
took me years to find a takom 1/35 Austro-Hungarisn Skoda 42cm howitzer

picrel is the kuk Danube river monitor Temes II

>>11682533
If you order through a store, they may be able to get one for you
I got the Takom AMX-30B after waiting 2 years for the shop to find me one

>>11690153
>>11690168
What's your discord sis? :3

>>11690954
Oh hey. it's this guy again.

Russia lost :^)

>>11690954
Are you the zigger-tard? Don't you have a zigger thread to make and bump for 6 months by your lonesome?

i Just threw out $1000 AUD worth of model kits I've accumulated over 10 years

>>11691369
Don't you have like facbook marketplace or vinted down under?

>>11691372
Most of them were semi-built, missing pieces, destroyed pieces from being stored, etc

>>11691378
You could at least sell them as "scratchbuild meterial"

>>11688830
I am going to call the votes. The majority of people said 6 months, so starting next thread the gb will continue until 6 months after said thread. Knowing this board, the thread will autosage in 1-2 weeks from now.

>>11691446
What's the topic or model? I fully zoned out.

>>11691950
Topic is Japan. We have a handful of people interested, myself included.

>>11691955
Okay, I have a diorama in the works that very loosely fits the theme. I'll share it in any case (in a few months, looking at my awful track record), so I guess it's up to anyone if it counts or not.

>>11691966
I pretty much will just say if it is a Japanese subject or if it is in Japanese service (military or civilian) and is completed between next thread and six months from thread creation, then it counts. Try to make the GB as hassle-free as possible.

>>11692140
But if... directed by Hideo Kojima?

>>11692147
Metal Gearrrh? Probably best left to the gunpla/plamo general, but if you want to paint a Shagohod in some sort of alternate history IJA colour scheme, I'd like to see it.

>>11692237
None of the above. It's really something that got inserted into the to do list accidentally when I was buying the 1:350 German planes for my submarine diorama. Started out as a very vague idea, but thus far has been going better than I expected. Whenever I get ready to actually paint it, it's ready for the grand reveal. I'll be happy to at least count myself as contributing at least spiritually.

>>11692147
I will think about it, but you could tell me what it is.

Now that all my kits are gone, I will start with one kit at a time. Once I complete it I will buy another kit. If there are massive sales I will buy multiple kits but won't start them until I finished my current kit.
The only question is, which kit do I buy?
The new Takom stuff seems pretty good value

>>11692567
I could not tell you about Takom, but I would recommend a kit from FineMolds, Pit Road or Freedom Model Kits. Their new kits all seem to be of high quality, especially FineMolds.

>>11692567
the takom blitz kits are pretty ok, some parts might need a little bit of sanding and i've heard that the jagdtiger has some gaps that need to be filled
i'll vouch for finemolds like what >>11692598
said, their type 89 went together like a dream

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>>11692567
i wish i were you.
i've impuls bought 2 square metres of kits on amazon.

no time for building
but enough time on the shitter at work to buy crap on amazon
they know how to tickle my brain
at least i bought em when they were still cheap
and now i have smth to do till i die... from thinner fumes

pic related is 1/16 rc, full metal
11 pounds of chink pot metal
one of my most awful builds
you need the dremel and a carbon disc for everything
where you would use a simple exacto on plastic. glue, color, filler everything is more complicated when dealing with this chink zinc pressure cast shit.
and god beware of the zinc pest.

>>11692567
>The only question is, which kit do I buy?
what do you like

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>>11692567
Don't buy italeri, regardless if they are the only one making a kit in the topic you are interested in

>>11690837
Please more pictures (but better ones)

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>mfw trying vallejo chipping medium

>>11693580
It's great if you're making a diorama of a corsair that's been at the bottom of the pacific for 80 years

>>11693580
>>11693605
I think I'm onto something here. A little sand, some rocks, algae and cannon impacts on the canopy and then drowned in clear epoxy resin. I think that's how I would save a ruined paintjob. [spoiler]damn i might actually do something like that[spoiler]

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>>11693615
I accidentally found a method for making a seabed diorama base if you want to do this.
After you've made the base, apply a layer of Plaster of Paris about 4mm thick. Then lay a thin paper towel (like the cheap 1 layer industrial stuff or tp might work too) over the still wet plaster. Mist some water onto the towel. The wet towel will curl up on itself into a pattern that looks like shallow seabed, let it dry like this, apply some sand and you have a seabed base.

Pic related is a shit airfix kingfisher build that I used this for

>>11693580
i learned my lesson with that shit when i was first trying out airbrushing
in hindsight i likely speedran doing all the stupid shit on my first attempt, but at least i didn't ruin anything expensive

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>>11693877
>at least i didn't ruin anything expensive
wise. I'm just doing this on some revellslop for now
it mostly unfucked itself about an hour after that somehow

>>11693605
>>11693615
>>11693694
kek, nice idea. soulful kingfisher honestly

I wanted panel lines on my plane to stick out a bit more, but I never bought dedicated wash for that because I saw some other people use a lot of thinner on enamel paint to get similar results. In my case it was pretty mixed,
Some of my panel lines are clogged, which is not something I could have changed after the fact, but I noticed something else. No matter how much you thin paint, the mixture will never be any more watery than the thinner is itself. And neither white spirit nor turpentine are watery, they just have less surface tension than water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ0Q0LeL1CU
Look at this video, the wash practically runs by itself into the grooves. And I start thinking, whatever is carrying the pigment must be much less viscous than white spirit or any regular oil paint thinner.

So I took Isopropyl alcohol and thinned some old Humbrol paint I had laying around and now it pretty much behaves like the stuff in the video. Major difference compared to thinning with white spirit is that if the panel line is not deep enough, the mixture will even "run out" of the groove and spread as far as possible on a flat surface. So I need to reign it in somehow.

I will try adding some oil thinner, or even water to the mixture and see what happens.

>>11694660
I find it helps to re scribe panel lines and use a some extra thin tamiya over them after the fact. but I'm curious about the isopropyl alcohol technique you used, what was the percentage of the isopropyl you used?

>>11694955
The bottle of iso I have doesn't say what's the percentage, sorry.

>>11695062
no worries, I'm assuming anything around 80-90% is probably good enough

>>11695138
My next experiment will be doing this without varnishing the surface. I think the varnish I added was the biggest clog in the fine grooves. I'd also rather not try and re-scribe the lines, I already made an irreparable mess like that once.

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>>11674511
just got my first airbrush, need some practice models i can run through quickly. looking for kits that can be built real fast to an okish standard, so good fit and not too many parts. preferably 1/72 or 1/144 for really big stuff. i'm testing metal finish on this academy 1:144 c47 but fuck me this thing fits poorly. the dull alu basecoat turned out a bit rough, i think i sprayed from too far.

Want to a small model show yesterday and one of the guys (some Gen X in his 50s, if I had to guess) said that if you do not build tanks, then you are not a real modeller. So what do you guys think defines a "real" modeller?

>>11695232
Someone who paints and builds scale models is a real modeler. That retard can go kill himself with that retarded fudd gatekeeping

>>11695243
Not to be pedantic, but what about wood modellers who stain wood or cover the wooden frame in tissue paper or iron-on covering?

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>>11695266
It's a silly debate, but if you're adamant about it then we can drop the "painting" bit and it fits just fine.

>>11695303
It is, I was just thinking about the anon whose father built those wooden ships.

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Gott strafe it*leri!

>>11695150
using tape as a buffer *or even that plastic tape* can help prevent accidental scratches. as for the varnish, maybe you didn't thin it or something? I've never had issues with varnish causing surface imperfections. do you wash your models before painting? sometimes dust and plastic particles that are too small to see can add surface imperfections.

>>11695310
nice yellow!

>>11695232
how did he say it? was it just shit talking or was he serious? I mean if you build planes, cars, mecha, any subject really; you are a modeler.

>>11695362
He said that armor modellers were the only kind of modeller and that if you did not build tanks or AFVs, you were not a true modeller because you don't weather stuff as much and do not experiment with bullet holes or mud textures, etc. Sounded serious to me. What a fag LMAO.

>>11695412
If you're going to be an elitist gatekeeper at least be a ship guy. High end ship dioramas are for me the pinnacle anyway. And even then you'd be wrong.

>>11695428
It isn't the first time that I have heard butthurt elitists make retarded takes, this is the first time I found it discussion worthy. At another show a while back some other fag in his 30s insisted that helicopters should be kept with armor and not with planes because they are used like tanks, not like jets or something... To each his own I guess.

>>11695344
I did 50:50 Vallejo gloss and water. maybe the problem was in any of previous steps like painting or primer.

>>11695412
But I understand where he is coming from. I like planes, and I like them because I find their shapes and camo fun even if they look fresh out of factory, so I don't need to weather them much. But I really really don't feel like doing tanks and ground vehicles because I feel that if I just do them by the book they are not that interesting or eye catching. and I don't have a slightest idea without watching many tutorials how I can get them to a point I'd like them as much as I like planes.

>>11695412
so am I a real modeler? I do all that stuff but I build maschinen krieger mostly

>>11695921
>Ma.Kbro
What's cooking?
Yeah, I would say so, I guess I should have stated it when I shared the story, but I think that unless, you are a diecastfag, then you are a modeller. Most diecastfags are consoomers.

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>>11695926
>What's cooking?
not much trying my hand at getting better with my airbrush, practicing on a tank right now actually. it's the second one I've painted and the first one I've used my airbrush on.
this is the last ma.k kit I built, I posted it on /m/ a few days ago.

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>>11695933
this is the other half of the kit and my second attempt at hair spray chipping, also I didn't use an air brush for this pic, the first pic I posted was my first time using an airbrush. also I welcome all tips and whatnot.

>>11695934
I'm not that anon you're talking too. How do you achieve that chipped paint look?

>>11696018
He literally said "my second attempt at hair spray chipping". Functional reading is a basic human skill these days my dude, learn it, it will improve your life significantly.

>>11696028
I'm totally unfocused. sorry.

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>>11696028
lol
but basically I did a mahogany primer with an oxide primer zenithal then used oils to blend them together. after a topcoat I sprayed it with my gf's hairspray twice and used dark yellow as a base coat.

>>11674511
does anyone have experience with special hobby aircraft kits? do they go together well?

>>11696497
Depends. newer ones yes. Older ones are classic short-run and require some fitting, filing etc. This is often pointed out in the instructions though. So expect a bit more work than a Tamiya.

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I love when we have just a left, front and back view and you are supposed to imagine how the rest of the camo looks like

>>11696549
Nice sputtering

>>11695178
Can you get Roden 1:144 where you are? Take smth like a Convair 240 or that one Bristol 4mot

>>11696497
Read that molds after 2015/6 are generally ok.

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>>11696567
thanks anons

>>11696549
can't you just find multiple different subjects from different angles and make a composite of the camo pattern?

>>11695310
It's your own fault for building 1:35

>>11696549
There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

Where can I find good STLs for details like tool clamps?

>>11697101
and what's the other type of person?

i've been having my decals start to peel and crack on me somewhat recently
i'm not sure what could be causing it, i think it might be either the tamiya mark fit or the lp24

>>11697336
do you varnish before and after?

>>11697408
yeah, both with lp24
i used microsol after the initial mark fit and varnished after

>>11697414
I only ever use microsol and microset, maybe the mark fit and microsol are conflicting with each other? I honestly don't know how that could happen pretty weird desu.

>>11697430
it's only happened to me a couple of times
at first i thought it was the enamels/ oils that were causing it but with the most recent one i didn't put anything there
i'll try only using the mark fit and see if it still happens, you're probably right about the chemical reaction

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