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I personally use Apple Barrel Acrylics because they can be easily washed off. A few drips of paint and some water make a great sludge without all of the extra work of grinding pastel chalks or the messy cleanup of oil-based washes. All you need to clean up is a damp tissue, no thinner or chemicals needed. Cheap and very easy to clean up.

I was using a black Sharpie to mark up my model after some sanding and puttying, and the thought occured to me that a Sharpie could be used to preshade. The distinct black lines can be easily faded by sanding, and there are a plethora of colors not to mention very easy application. Has anyone attempted this before?

It's brushed over the majority of the bottom of the aircraft. I'll do a paint test first, and then consider my options. By the way, is there an easy way to prevent splatter? I try to keep the nozzle tip clean, but it begins to fill with paint as soon as I start spraying.

I was spraying Rustoleum "Painter's Touch" Flat White as a primer, and I got small droplets in some areas of the paint coat. I let the paint dry thoroughly and then proceeded to sand down the droplets. After I had sanded down all of the droplets, I thinly brushed about 2 layers of Model Master Acryl Flat White to cover up the little blemishes. It turned out fine, but now I have to spray a little more white in areas I missed. So my question is, will spraying the Rustoleum Flat White over my previous coats of MM Acryl White cause cracking? I've read many threads about this happening when certain

Yeah. I just use a Sharpie to mark up a recently filled gap. It dries almost instantaneously and can be removed easily. It works just like primer, showing you all the scratches and gaps.

I did it after I had painted the black onto the canopy. I suppose you could put it on before, but you'd have to mask off the yellow. AND WHO WANTS TO MASK?!

I had the same problem while working on my F-8 Crusader. I used Yellow Apple Barrel Acrylic because it dries a nice solid yellow. Shake up the bottle of paint, unscrew the lid, and then tap a pin vise into the paint on the cap. The result is a small bead of paint on the tip of your pin vise, which can be placed onto the panel line and then spread out gently. Any paint that gets over the panel line can be removed by running your pin vise through the panel line, which takes out any overflowed paint. The rest outside the lines can simply be removed with a finger because Apple Barrel Acrylics are