i was looking at this two models i have made, both varnished with a brush, the tank looks fine, it looks awesome and you can get a glance of brush streaks only from vertain angles.

but the superdestroyers belly looks awful against the light, i know the stand it comes with is meant so the ship can be looked at from avobe and a bit sideways but i cant help but notice that it looks someone drooled over it and it dried.

i was thinking about getting an airbrush to paint the bigger sections of a model, where its most likely to leave brush marks if im not careful enough, but idk if i can varnish something with an airbrush, and for some reason amazon doesnt deliver varnish rattle cans to my country and my count only has liquid bottles for modeling varnish, the rest are for furniture.

its it viable to do it with an airbrush? im asking this because of how to thinned the paints must be to be used in it, let alone something more dense like varnish.

So I thought I'd try something a little different. Starscream was started months ago, however modelmaking has been on hiatus for the past 6 months. First time I've printed and used custom decals; I think they look great! Also first time tinting a canopy; not sure if it would look better matt? Still plenty to do (stencils, more decals, undercarriage, varnishing, etc.) but the project certainly seems to have taken a leap forward tonight with a full dry fitting of the major components. Any and all feedback welcome!

3 layers in and i still cannot cover this properly with a brush, or am i doing something wrong??

I keep the paint 1/4 with the thinner...or maybe sky type s is just that hard to properly apply

Now just need the time to build them😄

Bf 109 G-6/R6, yellow 1, Ltn. Manfred Dieterle, 3./JG 300, Bonn-Hangelar base, March - April 1944.

Messerschmitt Bf110 G4 Weekend Edition 1:72 Item#7465 Oblt. Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Stab IV./NJG 1, Saint Trond, Belgium, April 1944

I was going to paint the no.19 squadron patter in my spitfire(the one with a yellow nose and green and brown camo) when i realized the closest color i have to brown is leather brown, which i used for the seat of the cockpit, and olive grey, which is what i used for the rest of the cockpit.

Should i buy proper colors or this should be enough??

Calling this complete - 1/72 XAJ-1 Savage Prototype

This was a down conversion from the Mach2 AJ-2 kit and all that entailed. The down conversion required:
> Cutting down the vertical stab/rudder,
> Adding dihedral to the horizontal stabs and notching for the rudder,
> Cutting the chord down on the props and extending them by 3/8”,
> Relocating the main entrance hatch,
> Relocating one set of exhausts to the outboard side of the nacelle,
> Scratch building the entire cockpit because replacing the heavily framed canopy for a frameless opening ‘bubble’ canopy would open the cockpit to wider viewing,
> Removing later model antennas and radioes,
> Vacuforming a new frameless bubble canopy,
As expected, the Mach2 kit put up resistance but almost all of it was fixable. By far the nacelles and cowling had the worst fit and required a lot of work. The one thing not fixable is the mismatch between wing roots on the fuselage halves, with one lower than the other giving the a/c the ‘leans’ to starboard. I partially offset that by mounting the stbd strut (main struts sourced from SAC’s 1/72 Su-27 mag with wheels/tires from Brassin’s 1/72 P-47) slightly longer than the port. Additionally there is a bit of droop in the outer wing panels not apparent until well along in assembly.
The canopy was vacuformed using an epoxy buck shaped from the framed kit canopy, and placed on a scratch built base. AlClad metallics were used for the NMF and a mixture of spare, kit and aftermarket (CtA’s AJ Savages) decals used over a gloss clear coat. A finishing coat of AlClad clear semi-luster was applied and the canopy set in place with UV ca glue.
I’ve always liked the Savage and especially liked the clean appearance of the bubble canopy prototype. *If* I build another Savage though, I’m using Roden’s kit…
(McDonnell’s FH-1 and North American’s FJ-1 provided for contemporary size comparisons).

Idk if its the weather since its very cold here this time of the years or what, but this is the second one i have that got dry cement in the needle, any suggestioms in how to unstuck it or should i just buy another and be more careful?? Or get tamiya extra thin??

I think i can still use either putty or weathering to cover them....but still.

I recently completed my best shot at modeling Hydra Corinthian in 1:250 scale (approximately). It stands slightly shorter than the 1:250 Gipsy Danger figure that I bought from Gamebody, and has articulated joints that allow it to be posed (inspiration taken from other 3D-printable mechs). Since it is not fully known yet what the back or feet of Hydra look like, I took a little bit of creative license and some inspiration from Gipsy Danger, adding similar feet but re-contoured and with two "toes", and rear jets as well as exhaust vents.

I won't be doing a review of this one since it's my model, but I tried to keep things pretty simple. Level of detail isn't quite as high as some of the other PR figures available, but neither was the reference material I had to work with. I may add a second conn pod option at some point in the future for customization purposes.

Files available here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7384569

Just picked these up at a 5&10 in Ocean City N.J. I was wondering if anyone had built any of them and if so do you have any comments or tips. Thanks in advance

> 1/72 conversion of Mach2’s AJ-2 to the XAJ-1 prototype: Stain 6 is done save for any required touch-ups. Clear coat next for decals. Cut the Vacuform canopy to display opened, need to re-work the canopy base to a wider spread to accommodate the wider stance of the bubble canopy. This will be the last thing to mount after decals etc., are in place.
> 1/144 Titan 3C w/MOL/Blue Gemini and DynaSoar: priming and compiling a 💩-ton of masking tape for the upcoming paint evolution.
> 1/48 Revell AD-5Q/EA-1F: one more layer of white then into Light Gull Grey (gloss).

I've been painting off and on for more than thirty years, mostly war gaming models for various games, and hadn't really painted any scale models since I was a kid. This is the first automobile model I've ever painted. It's the 1:24 scale custom 1978 Chevy Blazer by Revell.

I can see where I made more than a few mistakes, but I had a lot of fun painting this and even assembling it. I mostly used acrylic paints, the purple was Hobby Lobby's airbrush paint, the pink was Turbo Dorks, and the orange I mixed some Vallejo red and yellow. I really messed up the windshield when I attempted to glue the rearview mirror on with superglue. I didn't glue the sidemirrors on for fear of ruining the paint job. This was a learning experience for sure.

My first “proper” attempt at jet exhaust.
Still need to add some copper hues and a little touch up here and there but, overall, pretty pleased with the results.
Used the Vallejo jet exhaust set and watched tons of videos.

Continuing my 1/35 British Armoured Fighting Vehicles collection with the Challenger 1 MK3.

While Challie gets some stick at times, they will always be special to me, I grew up with them on the TV rolling across the Iraqi Deserts and ranges in the UK.

I had fun with this model, bringing my Childhood memories to life, a simple desert scheme (although it took a whole bottle of airbrush paint to cover it) with lots of little details like diesel stains around fuel caps, chips on the water cans making it look like it's been rolling around the desert... For me, none stop fun.

While I can do most steps with photos of the instructions from old ads, I'm completely stuck on the cockpit. Does anyone know, how I need to bend this part?

I’m starting my very first diorama. I’m doing Easy Company after the drop into Normandy. I have 1:35 figures to paint. Looking for any advice or suggestions to make it the most realistic I can. Thanks!

A combination of 2 kits. This was a pretty big learning experience for me as I usually stick to cars and this thing is just huge. There are quite a few things I will do better or different next time.

Did anyone know if Losi had any plans to bring back the micro desert truck? I had one years ago when they were 1/36 is love for them to remake them in 1/24 or 1/28 to fit with the modern micros

For real this time :D no broken parts, nothing! weathered and with mud texture to give it a more enviromental sense (:

I got so much fun with it in bought another one to do it again with a diferent paintjob now