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Originally posted by Dark Skyline
Im just woundering, when painting a car body, do you guys use a spray can or airbrush?
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I use a spray can, i'm too lazy to set up an airbrush..and clean it :lol:
hint for spraycan painting: clean the model good before you paint, and soak the spray can in warm water before you paint..it helps alot!!

Originally posted by Tenzospy
hey powripper were do you get your models?? chinook and hobby west (they a little expesive) but they carry tamiya
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I get most from hobby west, but this subaru was a gift for christmas, my dad is a model pro, so i get most from my dad!:D
 
A good way to get over your airbrush fears of cleaning, is to buy a cheap aerosal style airbrush, they work pretty dang good and are pretty cheap. Plus the cleanup only involves paint thinner.
 
Spray bombs work well enough if you are careful with them. Turn it upside down every few minutes and spray it to clear the nozzle out, and do that when you are done.

BUT a small airbrush is not that hard to care for, particularly with water-base paint. It will also be very very useful for detail work as well as getting a nice even coat on larger areas.

That being said, man I wish I had time to build some car models. I'd love to build a series of WRC favorites. If I were you, I'd drybrush dirt over the sides of the car (look at pictures to see how the patterns look IRL) and splatter some mud along the bottom with goop from the bottom of an unstirred brown paint pot.

Nice work!
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
Spray bombs work well enough if you are careful with them. Turn it upside down every few minutes and spray it to clear the nozzle out, and do that when you are done.

BUT a small airbrush is not that hard to care for, particularly with water-base paint. It will also be very very useful for detail work as well as getting a nice even coat on larger areas.

That being said, man I wish I had time to build some car models. I'd love to build a series of WRC favorites. If I were you, I'd drybrush dirt over the sides of the car (look at pictures to see how the patterns look IRL) and splatter some mud along the bottom with goop from the bottom of an unstirred brown paint pot.

Nice work!
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thanks, I am thinking about doing the mud thing, but i'm scared I would mess up, I dont think i'm good enough to pull that off yet....
 
Plus, they make really nicely molded and detailed kits. Their kits go together better than any others I've ever built, look more accurate, and fit better.
 
Originally posted by powripper
thanks!! thats awesome....i've all ready made a list of the ones I want:D

-Lancia Stratos Turbo
-Nissan Skyline GT-R
-Volvo 850 Turbo Estate
-Enzo Ferrari
-Alpine Renault A442B Turbo
-Audi Quattro
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hope you have a lot of money, those things are like $40, and scince you said that things are more expensive there, thats like $60 or somthing:eek:
 
I've got 2 models going, but both of them are packed up @ the time. A '95 ZR-1 Vette with serious orange-peeling on the body, and a '55 Chevy. I also have yet to put decals on my '67 Vette. Also got a finished Testarossa and nascar.

What type of paintbrushes are the best? I don't really have any good ones yet.
Most of my models are Revell-Monogram. What are some other decent quality model makers?

And does anybody know where you can get replacement parts for out-of-production Revell-Monogram models? I've got a problem with the ZR-1's windows.

Thanks for any help...
 
Go to Tamiya. Far and away the best unless you want to spend $100+ on a kit. The choices are somewhat limited by the Japanese bias, but hey.

Beyond that, I always like AMT models better than Revell/Monogram. But Tamiya is best. Hasegawa next, but I don't know if they make any cars.

Don't get cheap paint brushes. Go to an art store and get good sable brushes, and expect to pay $3-$5 a piece. Look for sizes 0 through 00000 for detail work.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
Go to Tamiya. Far and away the best unless you want to spend $100+ on a kit. The choices are somewhat limited by the Japanese bias, but hey.

Beyond that, I always like AMT models better than Revell/Monogram. But Tamiya is best. Hasegawa next, but I don't know if they make any cars.

Don't get cheap paint brushes. Go to an art store and get good sable brushes, and expect to pay $3-$5 a piece. Look for sizes 0 through 00000 for detail work.
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I dont know why, but nothing on AMT kits ever fits for me, I think Im just stupid.
 
Originally posted by Dark Skyline
I dont know why, but nothing on AMT kits ever fits for me, I think Im just stupid.
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You should of seen my first model..... I "finished" it in a day. The body didn't fit on the chassis.... I crammed a lot of things in there. Glue was on the body..... It's near impossible to make a good model in one day. Unless you had a room full of chimps.
 
my polor lights funny car went together horrible, I dont recomend polor lights kits to anyone, unless you are willing and are able to do a lot of modifacations for everything to fit. With mine, the chasie was too long for the body, non of the windows fit in, the instructions dont label part numbers, there was like 3 ways to build the engine, and they were showing only one way in the instructions, and the chrome is plated over green and purple plastic:odd:. Overall, Polor lights kits just plain suck.
 
Originally posted by Slicks
Oh, and Powripper - is that metallic paint on the body? It looks pretty good.
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Thanks! and yeah it is metallic, its a little darker than what I wanted but it turned out well:D
and like what neon_duke said, tamiya is by far the best, the kit I got was like $50 canadian and it is so detailed, it even comes with mesh for the front grill, and dont go cheap on the brushes, and try to get many diffrent sizes, it will help alot!
 
Originally posted by Dark Skyline
hope you have a lot of money, those things are like $40, and scince you said that things are more expensive there, thats like $60 or somthing:eek:
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I have enough money sitting around...I think...well ok...for half of them anyway.........
 
Originally posted by Dark Skyline
hope you have a lot of money, those things are like $40, and scince you said that things are more expensive there, thats like $60 or somthing:eek:
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I picked one off of ebay, nib, for 18 bux. So, it ain't worse than others around here.
 
Originally posted by Dark Skyline
I dont know why, but nothing on AMT kits ever fits for me, I think Im just stupid.
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I doubt it's you. It's been years since I built an AMT kit and they were nothing like as good as Tamiya even then. They were just better than Revell or Monogram, who I never did like. Many of the cars I built were heavily modified anyway, so fit wasn't a huge issue. I built a number of scratch-built oval track racers, so most of the kits I used were just for drivetrains, wheels, body parts, etc. Most of the models I built were Tamiya military equipment.

Somewhere I have a box with a bunch of 25-year-old models carefully wrapped up in newspaper, I just don't know where. I'd like to see them again!
:(
 
Originally posted by codered_59
hey powripper, for your coat, did u use primer on the body prior to spraying it?
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no, justa few coats from a spray can, but the first coat was a light mist, and it worked out fine
 
These are my two babies. Despite being droped and crushed I think that I've managed to bring my F50 back to life. Well sort of.
I do have another Viper it's a Viper R/t10 But that's currently being repaired too.

Oh and sorry for the bad quality of the image.
 
I know. They've been sitting next to my T.V. for a year now. They've probably got that much dust from outside and the fact that my room is a converted single garage.
 
Originally posted by Dark Skyline
are you sure you didnt get the revel one?If you did get the tamyia one,wow you got a good deal.:eek:
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No, it's definitely a Tamiya one. It's not the first time I have bought models before. :D

It sucks that they aren't that cheap near you. You should shop someplace else. They are typically that cheap around here. IMO, the Revell version is nothing like the Tamiya. The body lines are a lot less defined and need a little bit of scribing to get them to be noticed after painting.
 

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