QuickSilver
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- Joined
- Aug 10, 2021
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Hello all. Getting back into scale modeling now as a middle aged adult after a long stretch of no modeling. The vast majority my builds were from my early teen years, all of them lost to time unfortunately. Mostly cars/trucks with the occasional aircraft thrown in. All sloppily hand painted and relatively terrible looking with thick paint and lots of visible brush strokes. Probably inhaled way too many enamel and cement vapors back then. My mom accused me on several occasions of getting high off glue fumes...she was probably right thinking back on it.
Picked the hobby back up again about 6 or 7 years ago long enough to build two cars, this time using spray paint for the bodies. Looked much better than the models from my youth but I was still never happy with the way they turned out. Now I've gotten the bug again and am going to attempt to step up my game and get some results that I can actually be happy with. I've gone with an airbrush setup this time around complete with paint booth and respirator. I've got zero experience with an airbrush so I picked up a nice selection of cheap acrylic craft paints to build my skills with before getting into the more expensive hobby grade paints. I've never done any weathering either so I'll be practicing that along side the airbrushing.
I'm a child of the 80's so Transformers and Voltron have a special place in my heart. I would really like to get into modeling more sci-fi type models, especially large weaponized robots. I picked up a couple of Gundam kits that I'm excited about trying to detail and weather after getting some practice under my belt. Looking forward to the journey and taking it a bit more seriously this time around.
Bill
Picked the hobby back up again about 6 or 7 years ago long enough to build two cars, this time using spray paint for the bodies. Looked much better than the models from my youth but I was still never happy with the way they turned out. Now I've gotten the bug again and am going to attempt to step up my game and get some results that I can actually be happy with. I've gone with an airbrush setup this time around complete with paint booth and respirator. I've got zero experience with an airbrush so I picked up a nice selection of cheap acrylic craft paints to build my skills with before getting into the more expensive hobby grade paints. I've never done any weathering either so I'll be practicing that along side the airbrushing.
I'm a child of the 80's so Transformers and Voltron have a special place in my heart. I would really like to get into modeling more sci-fi type models, especially large weaponized robots. I picked up a couple of Gundam kits that I'm excited about trying to detail and weather after getting some practice under my belt. Looking forward to the journey and taking it a bit more seriously this time around.
Bill