Picked up my two shipments from my mailbox in the states...
Well, the table I had planned to build and display the parts progress is too small. Man this thing is big.
Question for those who know more than I do about painting models (mostly everybody I'm sure)...
I was thinking of ways I could avoid having to cover it with a primer and then repaint the whole DeAgo, instead I was wondering if I could I just use the model color as molded, add missing colored plates and then weather the whole thing over that...What I don't know is if it need be (clear) primed somehow first (perhaps lacquered over first?), or should I paint the panels THEN seal with a layer of lacquer, then weather, then seal again? What would be best?
I did notice with tests I have done painting both acrylics and enamels on the untreated plastic, that the acrylics easily scatch off while the enamels are much tougher.
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!
imurme
Acrylics are always less durable than enamel but that really isn't much of an issue; unless you are going to be playing with the model a lot (I hope not with the DeAgo). I myself, usually pre-spray with a primer, then paint the other details in and rough them up a bit to make them look worn, then overspray with a clear matte finish to seal them. then do the weathering pass with oil paints, washes, spattering and possibly pastels to dirty it up and if I know it will be handled I'll overspray it again with another light coat of clear matte to lock that all down. I do suppose you could use the molded color as your base and just paint the odd panels, weather, etc. I really can't see a downside to that myself.
Holy crow, FINALLY received my second shipment almost a month after they billed me for it only to find the parts for issues 7 and 8 are missing. I'm getting some severely bad ju-ju about this project at the moment....
Seems like they can't even handle just putting in the right 4 issues each time. We don't want to confuse them any more than they already are.I'm still waiting on my missing issue 8, called them this morning and was told it had been shipped. I asked about the fact that they had sent me issue 13 instead and was told to keep it and would not be charged and that they would send issue 13 again when its time came. Seems a little daft when they could surely put a note on my account and just send 14,15 and 16 next month.
Seems like they can't even handle just putting in the right 4 issues each time. We don't want to confuse them any more than they already are.