Bowsewr
New Member
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2012
- Messages
- 16
??? Hey guys i just joined the forums a few days ago but have been looking daily at this site and a few others for a few weeks trying to soak in all the knowledge i can about the hobby before i attempt my first model since i was a kid. Bear with me as I vent my Noob frustrations and any great advice from you guys would help. I went out and got my first kit, a P61 Revell Black Widow for a few reasons:
1) i currently dont have an airbrush and so i will be hand painting/spray canning so i wanted something with a more simple paint scheme (made sense in my mind at least)
2) I dont have a particular attachment to the P61 so if it turns out real rough then its not a huge deal to me. I want to get some practice in on models i get fairly cheap so when i do the ones that i want to turn out real well I've knocked some of the kinks out.
So i read up about all i could. learning all kinds about thinning, using dawn soap to wash the plastic, using thin coats, all kinds of good stuff. I went out and dumped a good amount of money on all my supplies, cut out my cockpit parts and did a good cleaning with dawn soap and let air dry. I come back and then hit my first road bump. I decided to spray can primer the flight deck (i wasnt sure if you primer the smaller parts or just the larger parts). Well that turned out as a disaster as the spray can spattered blobs all over it and then was WAY to thick of a coat, you couldnt see any type of floor detail anymore. Then i figured well screw it keep going. I got out of my zinc chromate paint and my little paint tray and decided i was going to put a drop of Tamiya thinner in the first pallet. I put my brush in the paint then dipped into the thinner (cause all the bad asses thin their paint to get into the nooks, but they also are using an airbrush...) and started going to town with it on the flight deck, different compartment panels, ect. It turned out like crap. The brush strokes were EVERYWHERE, there were parts that were really thick, parts where i had used too much thinner and it was way too thin and looked almost yellow.
So, as you can tell i've done a good amount of research but putting it to practice by myself without a person next to me giving tips has been rough. I even had youtube going with SMConsortium and scale model addict how-to's playing trying to be inspired. Im at the point where i cant figure out what to even be frustrated about. Am i going to have a hard time getting the results i desire without having an airbrush? Anything you guys/gals can throw at me id really appreciate it. Your the first i came to, this forum just about single handedly got me back into the hobby, and its going to keep me in it lol.
THANKS GUYS!
1) i currently dont have an airbrush and so i will be hand painting/spray canning so i wanted something with a more simple paint scheme (made sense in my mind at least)
2) I dont have a particular attachment to the P61 so if it turns out real rough then its not a huge deal to me. I want to get some practice in on models i get fairly cheap so when i do the ones that i want to turn out real well I've knocked some of the kinks out.
So i read up about all i could. learning all kinds about thinning, using dawn soap to wash the plastic, using thin coats, all kinds of good stuff. I went out and dumped a good amount of money on all my supplies, cut out my cockpit parts and did a good cleaning with dawn soap and let air dry. I come back and then hit my first road bump. I decided to spray can primer the flight deck (i wasnt sure if you primer the smaller parts or just the larger parts). Well that turned out as a disaster as the spray can spattered blobs all over it and then was WAY to thick of a coat, you couldnt see any type of floor detail anymore. Then i figured well screw it keep going. I got out of my zinc chromate paint and my little paint tray and decided i was going to put a drop of Tamiya thinner in the first pallet. I put my brush in the paint then dipped into the thinner (cause all the bad asses thin their paint to get into the nooks, but they also are using an airbrush...) and started going to town with it on the flight deck, different compartment panels, ect. It turned out like crap. The brush strokes were EVERYWHERE, there were parts that were really thick, parts where i had used too much thinner and it was way too thin and looked almost yellow.
So, as you can tell i've done a good amount of research but putting it to practice by myself without a person next to me giving tips has been rough. I even had youtube going with SMConsortium and scale model addict how-to's playing trying to be inspired. Im at the point where i cant figure out what to even be frustrated about. Am i going to have a hard time getting the results i desire without having an airbrush? Anything you guys/gals can throw at me id really appreciate it. Your the first i came to, this forum just about single handedly got me back into the hobby, and its going to keep me in it lol.
THANKS GUYS!