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Color Loss and Instruction Difficulty

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  • Member since
    May 2022
Posted by Eugene Rowe on Saturday, January 6, 2024 6:14 PM

Also be sparing when applying glue to minimize the problem.

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Friday, October 6, 2023 7:50 AM

Hi Bill!

      Yes, you are correct. Doing the color pencil thing on the edge is a necesary part of building Paper Models. It's especially important on pieces with expansive sides. I have found pencils that work in the art  section of Hobby Lobby!

       The set I bought has I think, about seventy or eighty colors and they blend easy too! Plus Clearcoating with Artists acrylic over coat allows you to to paint them too!

  • Member since
    September 2012
Posted by GMorrison on Thursday, October 5, 2023 11:50 AM

That's a good observation. Also, it's been a while but I run a pen of the same color along the edge of the cut part and that ink needs to be waterproof.

Bill

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Color Loss and Instruction Difficulty
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Thursday, October 5, 2023 11:30 AM

This is just a heads Up!

       When assembling your paper Model?, be careful about wiping glue away that might squeeze out around a part. You may also wind up removing the color printing for the deck or hull. I put the question mark there because Most I have built are Not paper as I see it. Paper is that upon which you write and comes in multi sheet tablet form.

        The Average Paper? Model is printed on a medium to heavy Cardstock. Sometimes light stock and the printing isn't really well done. Looks good, till you start your work, then looks like waterstains everywhere, that is not your fault! I have found between companies this can be a big difference. I have a Maty-Modelarz-S.S.United States(1/400).

         Their models are NOT the easiest to finish out because of this problem. BUT, they have fascinating subjects. So, I buy and build them anyway. Their biggest challenge is always their instructions. So I just start at number 1 and work through the numbers and fold indications. That works!

       

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