Originally posted by Shane
lol.. read the description...
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Gotta appreciate his honesty!
A bit verbose, though. Something tells me this is his only form of communication with the outside world. Either that or he's retired with nothing to do but wait for the paint to cure on his current project.
Some useful bits of wisdom:
. It is faster and easier to make your own production schedule in order to use your skills all at once. Curb your enthusiasm by building 5 or 10 kits of similar subject all at once. This allows you to do one certain function over and over increasing your skill and cutting down on the time needed to perform the function. After you've trimmed and prepared 10 kits for painting, your thirst for modeling will be slaked for awhile and all the glue and paint will be bone dry by the time you get back to work. Group Modeling also allows you to 'warm up' on lesser kits before you work on the 'main event'.
Maybe not 10 at a time. I find 2 or 3 at a time to be sufficient. I'll start 2 or 3 at once, set the better kits aside, practice on the cheaper kit and finish it (or declare it total crap and send it back to its box), then come back and finish the 2 better kits.
Scale Modeling is about what an object looks like from the distance the scale provides. If your eye is one inch from a 1/72 scale model it is like being Six Feet from the Full Scale Object. @ 1/72 scale the Nozzle of your AirBrush is the size of a Sewer Pipe. Since CamoPatterns Spray painted look solid from three feet and the tight curves and corners, nooks and crannies and engraved detail of scale models are a nightmare to spray paint, why would the Model Industry Promote Spray Painting when Brush Painting is Easier, Faster, and far Safer? Atomized Paint is so Dangerous that most Industrial Painting is done by Robots.
A good point I hadn't considered. I brush paint anyway, not so much for scale authenticity as for ease of use and safety.
. A Model Magazine is like PornoGraphy for Modelers, showing Guys Doing Beautiful Models with Equipment and Skills you Don't Have. Modeling Can Be Fun, Real Fun, if you don't get Bogged Down in Overly Complex Methods.
I hear ya, brother! I've gotten some good advice on things to try on kits I build, but I have yet to do any sort of resin-cockpit add-on like the ones that are in just about every model how-to in the mags. If a cockpit is missing detail, I just scratch build a couple of squares for a radio and trim some sprue for knobs, levers, and switches. For a reference I use the "Down/Left" and "Down/Right" views of airplanes in Aces High.
