1/6 Scale Vinyl Stormtrooper Build

[darth_myeek]

..orange-peel effect,

Ok now your worst nightmare happened, but you can fix anything. I've been there, and done that to a guitar neck last winter, and the advice was to sand down and refinish. Someone will chime in about how to get back down to square one. I've heard oven cleaner, BUT that might only be for RESIN, and NOT Vinyl. So test on scrap if you do, because I don't know if oven cleaner melts vinyl. (testing is always good) I think you were spraying too close, or too thick or, in too humid of an environment. Also need to make sure you've washed any mold release off the kit. (dish soap and water, I believe will remove mold release agent).

 

[Amish Trooper]

At that scale would wet sanding with a high grit fix the orange peel?

 

[Too Much Garlic]

i can get another of these bad boys pretty cheaply, so might do that

Yeah, that's usually how it is with recasts.

At that scale would wet sanding with a high grit fix the orange peel?

I think you would be hard pressed to fix something like that in that scale by sanding. Too many small details that would disappear. For such a result as seen in the pictures, the only way to save it is to strip it and start over.

Looks like either the paint is too thin or applied at too high pressure.

Also... for white, an idea would be to spray on the primer, try to sand that smooth, then spray on matt white to get the base color done. Never spray on a thick layer. Go thin and barely applied and spray several times building up the color... and then you can finish with either gloss white or a clear coat - the gloss white may be risky and run... the clear coat may get tacky and sticky.

 

[duke2k7]

right then...


1. It was a humbrol acrylic gloss wite rattle can - designed for such tasks.

2. Was in a dry, not too humid area.

3. Shook the s**t outta that can for ages!

4. I have an idea....

I also have white base primer (matt white) - what about stripping back, painting in the white primer, detailing the black and possibly a clear-coat? i knowfor a fac that the primer wont orange peel, as it didnt before...

 

[blipper]

The primer might be a good approach (at least a couple of coats), maybe get some very fine wire wool/wet and dry, give a gentle rub down and buff with some turtlewax color magic (can get from Halfords)

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Try the primer approach. It might prove to be better than gloss spraypaint, which I always find is always too thin for such small jobs and will either run or not cover properly.

 

[duke2k7]

i am not a happy bunny.

I will strip the helmet back to vinyl, then i am going to use the primer basecoat, then the black matt detail, possibly rather than clearcote, just get an acrylic case to put him in...

 

[blipper]

Don't be too despondent Duke. I believe the conclusion of a recent United Nation study revealed the modeling hobby is roughly 1 part unhappy bunny to 3 parts happy bunny, so you generally work out on top.

 

[d_jedi1]

on mine, I used the white primer and once that was good and dry, I coated it with Future floor wax (I think it's produced bby pledge now). It's nice and shiny but didn't give me TOO much trouble.

 

[duke2k7]

quick update...

covered the already-grey primer'd legs with white primer base, and have now started to paint the undersuit parts black matt. looks good for a first attempt.


will post pics on monday

 

[SingleSeat]

I'm not quite sure what happened but I said everything to do in post #11, including how to fix it and move past the inevitable errors. Hope you stick with it.

 

[duke2k7]

I'm not quite sure what happened but I said everything to do in post #11, including how to fix it and move past the inevitable errors. Hope you stick with it.

Thanks for the post. I am (following the legs being completeed) relatively happy now for my first attempt...

I sincerely appreciate everyones help too, its made this build a little easier..

 

[duke2k7]

well i took my time, and tried a few things, here are the legs:

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Looking good.

 

[duke2k7]

another small update...

coming along now..

 

[duke2k7]

just as an aside, take a look at the images attached - this was the helmet after being stripped with brake fluid.. dont it just look like a really weathered sand-troopers helmet?

Cool...

 

[Nwerke]

To avoid orange peel, try warming your rattle cans in a bowl of warm water before you start shaking them, spray at a constant distance, and make sure you're not getting too wet a layer of paint down. It shouldn't be so dry that it furs up, either. Just find the sweet spot.

Seconding that welcome to the RPF, by the way!

 

[DS Operative]

Does applying in thinner coats help?

 

[duke2k7]

well guys,

I've been absent for a while, but the trooper is done (apart from the helmet, which I'm taking my sweet-a$$ time on!)...

what you think for my first attempt?

All comments are welcome, even the bad ones, after all, its the only way I'll learn and get better...

 

[duke2k7]

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