Mike C
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I love Tamiya X-22 clear gloss. I thin it using Tamiya's X-20A thinner, or methylated spirit (denature alcohol) @ 1:1 ratio before airbrushing. I always use this clear gloss for my pre-decal gloss coat.
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I wouldn't use nail polish remover to thin Tamiya acrylic paints. Tried that, didn't work that well. Personally, I used methylated spirit (a.k.a. denatured alcohol), or Tamiya's own X-20A thinner. These also work perfectly to thin Gunze Aqueous Hobby range.
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Hey Todd, what did you use to paint the burner can? Especially the petals. They have that carbon-fibre look like the real thing. Fantastic!
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Stunning. Beautiful.
I'm curious though... Why wouldn't you use the stores that came with the Academy set rather than from Hasegawa's weapons set? I personally prefer the weapons that came with the Academy kit itself.
EDIT: Unless you meant the Maverick came from Hase, while others OOB?
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Whoa! Nice!
Before I went into hiatus, I had wanted to build something like this, but was always discouraged by the masking challenge. How did you do yours?
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OMG! Your model is FILTHY!! LOVE IT!
Yes, this hobby can be very expensive, especially if you use aftermarket parts. Hence the reason why I normally build OOB.
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I have one of this compressors that I bought off eBay: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1-6HP-Air-Compressor-with-3L-Tank-Pressure-Regulator-for-Spray-Gun-Air-Brush/142294432796?hash=item212168bc1c:g:jtcAAOSwax5Ys7jq
Works well. Cheap/disposable.
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I normally used oil paint for panel wash, highly thinned with mineral turpentine. When cleaned with cotton buds dampened with turps can create oil streak effect.
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I was going to give you the links to my threads but then I noticed I needed to fix the pics since I rearranged my Photobucket albums. Mine are 1/72 though. Here are the finished threads:
1st:
2nd:
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Woo hoo! Another VF-102 50th anniversary build! Love this scheme. Built 2 of these schemes myself several years ago.
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I reckon if you're used to Tamiya acrylic, stick to them. I'm in hiatus right now (have been for a 3-4 years), but when I was still building, I only ever used acrylics, mostly Tamiya and Gunze/GSI Aqueous Hobby, and some LifeColor occasionally. Between Tamiya and Aqueous Hobby, I actually prefer the latter, especially their semi-gloss range.
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All Tamiya acrylic needs to be thinned before airbrushing. I personally have not used Tamiya Lacquer Thinner to thin their acrylic paint. I always used either Tamiya acrylic thinner (X-20A) or methylated spirit (a.k.a. denatured alcohol).
As far as clear flat for final coat, I'd use Tamiya's X-22 gloss clear mixed up with a bit of their X-21 flat base, thinned with acrylic thinner/methylated spirit then airbrush on. You need some trial-and-error to get the right amouint of X-21 flat base with X-22 - use some spare parts to test on first, obviously. Alternative to this, if you can get Gunze Aqueous paint, they Flat Clear (H20) that you can simply thin then airbrush - use same thinner as Tamiya acrylic. Note that Gunze Aqueous is acrylic, they also have lacquer-based paint called, I think, Mr Hobby.
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It's been a few years since I built anything, but.... I used to use the following:
Tamiya and Gunze Aqueous - either use Tamiya X-20A thinner (acrylic thinner), or methylated spirit
LifeColor - mix your own distilled water mixed with Windex @50:50 ratio. I've tried LifeColor's "proprietary" thinner, which did not work anywhere near as well as my own mixture
Vallejo - I only had very limited experience with Vallejo, but I used the same thinner mixture as LifeColor, which worked reasonably well
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OK. I think it's user error!
I was looking under manage followed content, and couldn't see anything. I should've gone to "Profile". All good.
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1 minute ago, SBARC said:
Mike....where have you been? Did you have kids or something? I was jsut reaching for the phone to send out a search party for you.
What content went missing?
ROFLMAO! Having more kids??? No freakin' way, man! I've already got 2 teenage daughters. Just life got in the way. Also, lost my bloody workspace. My daughters decided they didn't want to share bedroom anymore. And I've only got a 3 bedroom house, so.... The big one is going to Uni next year, so hopefully I can reclaim my workspace. LOL!
I used to be able to see all my old threads in my profile. But I can't see them anymore.
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Howdy fellas!!! I've been away from this forum and our beloved hobby for a few years. Thought I'd have a peek at this forum again. OMG! Lotsa changes! Also, it appears all of my contents have disappeared when the forum moved to different provider. What a pity...
I still can't resume building again for now. But will try to peek in every now and then....
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Hi, sorry for my tardiness in replying. I don't frequent this forum as much as I used to. I normally list the paint that I used on my project, but I just realised that I forgot to do that for this one.
- Brown: Gunze Aqueous H66 RLM79 Sandy Brown. The TwoBobs instruction sheet stated I should use this for the light brown, which I think is completely wrong.
- Green: can't remember exactly (at work now, so can't check my paint stash), either Gunze Aqueous H80 Khaki Green, Gunze Aqueous H302 Green FS34092, or Gunze Aqueous H303 Green FS34102
- Cream/Light brown: Gunze Aqueous H44 Pale Brown/Flesh
- Radome: Gunze Aqueous H305 FS36118 (Gunship Grey)
HTH.
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Can you get Gunze Aqueous Hobby Color where you are? Huge range of colors (lots of FS colors), intermixable with Tamiya acrylic. Thins with either Tamiya X-20A thinner, methylated spirit, or rubbing alcohol. Lays down beautifully, even better than Tamiya, I reckon.
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G'Day Tim. Welcome! Welcome!
I live in Melbourne. Normally build 1/72 modern(ish) fighters, but haven't built for quite a few months now. Ran out of steam....
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Sebastijan, yes I'm thinking about it. But I ran out of steam on this one, unfortunately. If/When I get my mojo back, I'll start another thread in the normal WIP forum.
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Alrighty... Time to face up to reality. I will not be able to finish this in time. Italeri gave me the impression that they might actually be casting replacement part for me. That was about 2 weeks ago. Still waiting for further update from them.
I might start a different in progress thread outside of this GB to keep y'all in the loop.
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WHOA! That is one great model. Looks so real!
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Thanks guys!
The "probe-thing" is called 'pitot' tube and you can easily fix it with a very thin, about 5mm plastic styrene tube.
I thought pitot tube was the "L" shaped thingy? The one on the F-16 is only a single one mounted on the lower right hand side, just behind the radome, while Hornets have two (one on each side).
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Thanks Thadeus. That's a good idea. I'll see about posing them in formation... :lol:
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It's been a little while since I frequent this forum, ever since I went back into hiatus a few years ago. It's nice to see that "do you pre-shade" question still comes up, which still generates the same debate.
I tried pre-shading a couple of times, but didn't like it, so I stopped and went post-shading route instead.