more progress!
Skewered all the parts with the help of my dear cousin Yao Hua in the
afternoon. Bsically putting masking tape on satay sticks and sticking
the parts on. The parts were large and required quite alot of spage…
they fell off during primng too cos the were heavy and din stick
properly.
These are un-primed parts. Basically, if you wanna get an even colour
and good adhesion to the plastic parts, you will need to prime your
parts.This means an undercoat of.. yes.. what else? primer of course.
its a white or grey coloured aint thats got little particles of size
you can choose. from very fine (1200) to slightly coarse (500). I tried
to use the cheaper bottled un-thinned one, but its impossible to use an
airbrush to apply cos even the finest grains get stuck in the airbrush
and kill it. I had such a horrible time cleaning it once cos particles
got stuck in the hole where the paint came out… anyway i use it in
the larger single action airbrush i have, that one’s more robust and
has a larger hole which the paint passes through. Control of the air
and paint mixture is really lousy though. The primer here is canned
version because its MUCH more reliable, don’t need cleaning, but its
roughly 2-3 dollars more. This model was so huge, i managed tofinish
priming the armour only before the can emptied. Internals remain
un-painted and un-paintable until i grab my single action to spray on
my leftover bottled primer. If not i’ll have to get another can of
primer, but thats ridiculous. Will cost $10-$12. Will see how it goes
first.
So
when you’re done priming, the parts will all look the same colour.
don’t need to be too detailed, just a general coat will do. This primer
is whitish grey. I’ve painted the yellow parts before i realised i
forgot to take a picture. An the tinge or red you see is the insides of
the red parts you won’t ever see anyway so no point wasting primer and
paint on it.
Closer pic of the painted parts. can’t really tell from these pictures
the diff but its a nice matt even colour. Honestly the primer wasn’t
the best job ever cos the plastic had either oil residue or dust i
didn’t clean off and wash properly. Its probably due to the long
storage in plastic bags for about 2 months while i examed and got
involved with church stuff..Caused some uneven-ness but can’t really
see it if you just look at it from normal distance. Close up is a diff
story though. I might get some brass coloured paint for the internals.
wheee… those are nice. have a bottle of chrome i bought quite a while
ago which i’m using for the giant sword. Itll have to take probably
about 15 more hours to finish everything. Total time spent skewering
and painting today is 5 hours which brings it to a total of 15hours
already.