Flyboys --Treadheads:
I'm getting ready for my next campaign which is the Riseing Sun campaign and I want to have all my chop stixs in a row, but this will help me with all my models in the future.I noticed all you guys build than paint. How do I do that and still paint the hard to reach places or all the little extras? Please help.

Whiterook,
A lot of us like to build and paint in subassemblies. A few like to build everything first, and a few like to paint first.
It all depends on the vehicle for me, whether it's open top or not being the major factor. If it is, I'll build the gun assembly, the interior walls, and the suspension. Then paint them all before attaching permanantly so I can get good coverage. Closed vehicles you can pretty much assemble most of it before painting. I also like to paint the bogies before I attach them...especially with overlapping road wheels like a Tiger or Panther. I usually like to leave tools and such off the model until I have the base colors sprayed, but not always it just depends on the colors and my mood I guess.

Planes, I paint then build, then touchup where requied..saves all the hassels of masking, over spray etc. Armor I build then paint, excpet for the wheels, which I spray while on the tree, then assemble....

I assemble the cockpit, and landing gear assemblies. Then i build the rest of the plane. Put wet tissue paper into the cockpit and into the wheel bays, then paint my plane with my airbrush and paint.
Then I add the landing gear, and other unimportant stuff Antannes and stuff like that. I just brush paint those I don't spray them.

Then I decal, weather and then I am done!

~Chip #:-)

I usually paint in subassemblies. Painting each individual piece is tedious because when u glue the pieces together there is all that shiny glue residue you have to touch up. It gets really tedious...