Hi everyone, this is my first post! Nice meeting ya all.
My friend gave me a Tamiya 350:1 Yamato for my B-day and I am determined to do a good job on it. Nevertheless, this year is her 60th Anniversary of sinking and it gives me more reason to make her look nice.
I finally got back into this hobby after a few years of not touching it. So I proceeded to buy all the tools needed such as paint, brush, cutters ..etc. I also purchased the Anatomy of Ships: Yamato and Requiem for Battleship Yamato to further educate myself about this magnificent ship. In addition, I also purchased Mike Ashley’s Ship Modeling Basics Book.
To do a nice paintjob, I purchased many Tamiya paintbrush of various sizes and got 4 different shade of brown and tan to accurately paint the deck before applying a final layer of thinned gray.
I also purchased this air compressor (TC-20T TC-20T, second one down):
http://airbrush-depot.com/scripts/depot.exe?pgm=compress.bbx for my airbrush needs.
My airbrush will be the Tamiya Spray Work HG Trigger tyle (http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/item.php?product-id=74510) (anyone has any experience with this airbrush? Any good or comments?)
Now I am in the process of slowly sanding away all the problematic injection molding marks and masking the deck so that I can spray paint the superstructure with Kure Grey.
I guess I’ll hand paint the deck since its too hard to air-brush it..
So for the experienced pros out there, am I in good shape to build a magnificent model? Any tips and recommendations for me?