December 2020 Issue FSM

Build it ypur own way.leave off accessories until it had been cammoed..

Everyone does it differently depending how much service the vehicle and tools have seen,there is room for both looks.I like to attach all my tools and cables,then I spray everything.Then I will go back and carefully hand paint the wood handles and steel heads.I use pieces of index cards to slide next to or under the tool as a mask,it has worked for me.Jerry cans and stowage require more weathering and variation so I will do them off the vehicle and add them later.

There is no wrong way,I have seen plenty of models with the tools camoflauged along with the rest of the vehicle too.

Mrchntmarine

...This is somethinig i sometimes struggle with - to build 1st then prime and paint.  Prime 1st then build then paint or what...

I tend to follow a sequence that makes sense to me.  That's usually to clean the parts, prime most of them, especially those parts that cannot be primed once they are attached, paint those parts or assemblies that cannot be painted once they're in place, and then paint the exterior.  That's just a guideline, though, not a hard and fast rule.

Whether the items in the photos in the magazine were permanently attached before the modeler painted the exterior, whether they were tacked in place, or something else, I'm afraid I can't say.

I'll just sum up by repeating-follow the sequence that makes sense to you.

the Baron

 Mrchntmarine

...This is somethinig i sometimes struggle with - to build 1st then prime and paint.  Prime 1st then build then paint or what...

 

 

I tend to follow a sequence that makes sense to me.  That's usually to clean the parts, prime most of them, especially those parts that cannot be primed once they are attached, paint those parts or assemblies that cannot be painted once they're in place, and then paint the exterior.  That's just a guideline, though, not a hard and fast rule.

Whether the items in the photos in the magazine were permanently attached before the modeler painted the exterior, whether they were tacked in place, or something else, I'm afraid I can't say.

I'll just sum up by repeating-follow the sequence that makes sense to you.

 

Yep on the what makes sense to me - or the builder.  Tks.  That being said, Tojo touched on it too, attaching the parts and using cardboard or the like to act as shield when paitinng smaller parts already attached.  While i dont remember tif this article specifically states all the parts were added 1st, it shows them.  But like you said, they could have been placed then removed then glued after painting.  But, I have read articles in which it stares all the parts were done then painted.  Now i know.  To me, it seems like it would be very hard - but - ive never tried it.