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AFV Painting & Weathering
Answers to questions about the right paint scheme or tips for the right effect.
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Brianlee
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Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 01:14 PM UTC
Thought it would be interesting to have a thread discussing construction, painting, weathering disasters and the method you used to save or try to save the model or subassembly

As my skills progress,I'm enjoying the saves more and more & learning lessons each time.

mogdude
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Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 01:36 PM UTC
sounds good to me
iamheaminot
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Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 02:08 PM UTC
Yes a good idea/theme
jasegreene
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Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 02:56 PM UTC
This sounds great also.
PzDave
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Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 05:44 PM UTC
Turpentine and a stiff brush and several rags.
Magpie
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Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 06:05 PM UTC
OK well here's one I had recently.
I painted a 1/48 F/A-18 with Tamiya Acrylics.
All good so far.
I did some post shading using a highly dilute mix of Tamiya Black thinned with Isopropyl Alcohol.
I then sprayed a fairly heavy coat of Tamiya Spray lacquer
....
....
DISASTER !
The post shade paint immediately dissolved an ran all over the kit making it a total mess.

Knowing I didn't have long before the spray set and sealed in the disaster I quickly grabbed the Iso Alcohol and sprayed a coat over the kit, this dissolved the lacquer and I was able to sluice it off with water, leaving the kit fairly clean.

Note to self: USE LIGHT COATS OF SPRAY LACQUER, especially the first one !
Blaubar
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Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 07:43 PM UTC
Nice recovery there.

I threw a baseball at the wall and it bounced off in an absurd angle (hit a nail that fixed a medal to the wall) and threw off and smashed my tender of the locomotive... I had to redo quite a bit but could salvage and reuse most parts.
Don’t throw stuff around next to your models😂 and don’t let baby’s in the modeling room. At least my nephew loves throwing things on the ground, luckily that were only figures.
knewton
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Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 08:26 PM UTC

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Nice recovery there.

I threw a baseball at the wall and it bounced off in an absurd angle (hit a nail that fixed a medal to the wall) and threw off and smashed my tender of the locomotive... I had to redo quite a bit but could salvage and reuse most parts.
Don’t throw stuff around next to your models😂 and don’t let baby’s in the modeling room. At least my nephew loves throwing things on the ground, luckily that were only figures.



Amen, I’d finished a AFV Club 3t half track and howitzer and left it on the work bench, when my then three year old son reached it. Suffice to say, the counter battery fire wrecked it good and proper. I was almost in tears. A stiff drink sorted it out.
Epi
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Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 10:39 PM UTC
Not a disaster but more of a tip on how to fix old kits.
I use Polly Scale Easy Lift Off to strip paint off of old figures I did way back when. As my experience got better and products got better, I tend to pull out old figures or even models and strip them and start all over. If I remember correctly, the Easy Off is no longer under the Polly Scale brand, but I can't remember what brand it is under now.
matt
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Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 11:44 PM UTC

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Not a disaster but more of a tip on how to fix old kits.
I use Polly Scale Easy Lift Off to strip paint off of old figures I did way back when. As my experience got better and products got better, I tend to pull out old figures or even models and strip them and start all over. If I remember correctly, the Easy Off is no longer under the Polly Scale brand, but I can't remember what brand it is under now.



Testors I believe.
Brianlee
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Posted: Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 01:01 AM UTC
Great stuff - sorry to stir up some bad memories haha


Keep'em coming --- my thought to self is typically "why didn't you just leave it alone!"


Again, the stuff I learn from the screw ups is immediately burned into the subconscious
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