I recently bough a 1/72 X-Wing scale model from Star Wars. I assembled it and decided to paint it instead of using the stickers.
Well, this is what happened:
It’s my first time to try to paint a small model by the way. I have Tamiya enamel paints. And yes, the colors are wrong. I’m not going to believe Ban Dai’s color mixing proportions anymore.
Can I still fix this? Any suggestions? How can I get to the same quality as this one:
How is that really flat paint job achieved? (by flat I mean it does not bulge or is not bumpy) I guess air brush? Can the same texture be acieved by hand using enamel paint?
unfortunatly I cant see your pics, but if you tried hand brushing tamiya paints straight out of the jar without thinning its not going to look so hot, even with thinning tamiya paints are hard to brush on larger areas.
Brush painting without leaving brush marks is a real art. I believe good brush painting is actually harder than airbrush or spray can painting. Spray cans do not leave brush marks, but the nozzles on most are quite large and can easily leave too thick a coat, or even run. When using most spray cans you must be quick and put on several very thin- almost a dusting- coats.
Hi! Sorry about that. Something went wrong with my image hosting provider (What do you use? I’m using Photobucket and I am starting to get annoyed with it.)
Anyway, here are the photos:
Yeah. I figured I should have thinned the orange paint after I painted the orange but I wasn’t sure. Now I am.
Thank you!
Oh, by the way. What ratio would be good for brushing? I see people say lots of stuff for air brushing but I couldn’t find any for hand brush.
As others have said you must thin out the paint. I have thinned it just tot he point where I think it’s too thin. Then you want to us a pretty dry soft bristle brush. Unless you are painting scortching on engine nozzles then use a fairly dry stiff bristle brush. It is NOT EASY. and if you have nozzle work you can do to practice on first thats probably best. I usually work the nozzels back to front. Mostly because the part farthest from the nose will have the most scorching and since your brush will have the most paint on it before your first stroke lay it where if you put too much it’s the easist to correct.
