Alamo Dio in 1/72 scale

  I'll start by thanking all that have read my post. Since the post I've checked up on the suppliers of 1/72 scale Napolean style uniforms as that is what Santa Ana wanted his army to be dressed in during his reign as the Napolean of the West. The uniforms varied from the outlandish to the practical but always colorful.

 Old Revell kits remain, Italeri and Imex are all good as well and available though well-known hobby outlets. Hobbylinc and Internet are two that come to mind. I also discovered a gold mine at Amazon. com that supplies these kits as well and if you already have an account there it is the way to go.

 In all my 45 years of model building in 1/35, 1/48 and 1/87th it never occurred to me until recently that 1/72-76 would be a good choice and now that I have space limitations 1/72 seems the way to go. The kits I mentioned are all good choices and the reviews on each represent good detail. I could go on here but I'll keep further comments for later after I start the building and painting of the figures.

 Until later, again thanks for the input,

 johncpo

Good luck on the 1/72 scale dios, johncpo. I hated those soft plastic figure because no paint stuck to them!

There is something that works well suposedly to prime those soft figs.  For the life of me I can't recall exactly what...I want to say a thin coat of white glue for some reason. I remember priming something with it once and it working but I don't recall what. No idea why I'm making the connection, but I know I painted some green army men years ago using the square Testors enamel that took fairly well.  Maybe after a good scrubbing, that would work to prime them.  I have a bunch of the Imex 1/72s I picked up cheap.  After this weekend, maybe I can do a little experimenting on some sprue.  As it is, we're going to the air show tomm. ... ah today, and and iris thing Sun.

Thanks to both of the responses. I have an old set of Revell British in American Revolution that I starte dyears ago. I scrubbed the figures with warm water and dish detergent to remove the oils. I then primed them with white enamel paint.

I never finished them but they will make a good practice session. The idea of using a scouring pad also came to mind as I use them on all my plastic models to scour the plastic which helps the paint adhere better. This might work on the soft plastic as well. I use all acrylic paints and they should be OK as well as I use a hand-held hair dryer on Low heat that sets the paint. Kind of a poor-man's drying oven but it really works to harden the paint.

Thanks again as you have jogged my memory.

johncpo

I would suggest a search in the Figures posting on the FSM forum.  I'm thinking that I saw something about maybe priming with Future or some other product.