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Kick the tires and light the fires!
Both- Some items are best painted before assembly, and others are best done after final assembly.
F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!
U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
- Plankton
LSM
Yeah...both. It depends on how easy the part is to mask and attach. Just remember if you decide to paint first then attach be sure to mask off the attachment points. You need to be able to glue plastic to plastic. I typically cut very thin strips or rectangles out of Tamiya tape to do this. But very small parts can be CA'd to the painted model.
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I just scrape off the paint before gluing, rather than masking. I keep an X-acto handle loaded with an old dull blade (even an old blade scrapes paint off quite well) as such scraping does dull a sharp blade fast. Sometimes instead of scraping I just drill a few holes, just through the paint and barely into the plastic.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
I agree with the the others...both.
I've even been known to paint parts while they are still on the sprue. Then I carefully remove the part, and finish painting. Many times, that's the best way I can hold the part in order to paint it.
On the bench: Tamyia Mosquito Mk. VI for the '44 group build. Yes, still.
On deck:
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