Posted: Saturday, August 28, 2010 - 05:47 AM BST

Hi, my name is Jay I have 2 questions for anyone who would like to answer. One is this, my 1/72 scale tank spokes. Where the holes are or where they should be are covered over by this tougher film plastic and my exacto knife isn't really doing the greatest job I was hoping for a technique on how to overcome this feat while making the spokes look as good as possible. Second I have just recently learned of Mig pigments and wanted to try them out. I am a first time user of Mig and would like to ask all of you who do use these to recount when you first started using them give me some do's and dont's and give me advice on what works for you. I'm using dry mud for a Soviet T-80B tank scale of 1/72 and I would also like to know what other favorite Mig types you use for a tank and where to apply the dry mud and how to make dry mud into "wet" mud. If anyone has a picture on how they did their Mig pigments on a tank please show me. Thanks for your help and please get back to me on this.

You may want to invest in a pin vise and a selection of bits for drilling holes.

Using Pigments, or Migments, is a challenge for most if not all modellers. Like using a airbrush, or doing washes, it takes time, patience, and a LOT of practice/experimenting on how you prefer them (your style so-to-speak). Here is a quick, handy link. There are a LOT of other ways to use pigments, and lots of other sellers, this is just ONE way.

And 1/72 scale work is different than 1/35, so all techniques will not work equally well. Something else to look into (I am not a 1/72 builder...)

Jay, if you want an example if 1/72 mud, you can check out this link. It's in the Braille Scale forum and uses a different approach from using pigments. Jacques is correct in saying that small scale is different. You not only require patience and a steady hand but often ingenuity as well. If you want to stay with 1/72 then invest in a set of fine pointed tweezers, including the self locking kind. It's not like large scale where you can get by with fingers, pliers and a chainsaw.

Cheers,
tread_geek