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Silver chipping question
Posted by TryintoModel on Thursday, April 6, 2006 6:44 PM
I wanted to try the silver pencil method of replicating chipped paint.  However, I must not be doing something right.  It seems extremely difficult to get good looking results using a silver pencil.  I am trying to do it after an application of future.  The silver just doesn't want to stick to the future at all.  The only place it will show is on a sharp edge of a panel line, but only on the very edge.  Is there a pen or something out there that I should be using?  Or am I applying the pencil in the wrong way?  Thanks for any help.

Dave

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  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Thursday, April 6, 2006 7:25 PM
I use it over a flat surface, not gloss.

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Posted by archangel571 on Thursday, April 6, 2006 10:50 PM

 MikeV wrote:
I use it over a flat surface, not gloss.

Ditto to that.  It's just like how you can't really use pencil to write over plastic surface.  You need a more coarse surface texture, hence dull finish or flat paint, to "grind" the powder off of the pencil.

-=Ryan=- Too many kits... so little free time. MadDocWorks
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Posted by TryintoModel on Friday, April 7, 2006 8:50 AM
Ok, so you wait to do the paint chipping until the very last, after you put your dull coat on?  Do you then apply another dull coat to seal it in?  Or do you do it before even putting future on?

Dave

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  • From: NYC, USA
Posted by waikong on Friday, April 7, 2006 11:46 AM
I sometimes put another coat on as the pencil will smudge. But I usually try to pu it on before the future coat, saves me a step.
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  • From: NJ 07073
Posted by archangel571 on Friday, April 7, 2006 1:05 PM

 waikong wrote:
I sometimes put another coat on as the pencil will smudge. But I usually try to pu it on before the future coat, saves me a step.

ditto to that.

you can just pull your airbrush away and lightly mist the chipped areas.

-=Ryan=- Too many kits... so little free time. MadDocWorks
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Posted by TryintoModel on Friday, April 7, 2006 1:10 PM
Good ideas guys, thanks for the help.  I don't know why I didn't think to put it on before the future or after a dull coat.  I guess I was tunnel visioned into thinking all my weathering needed to be done after a coat of future so that it can be changed if necessary.  Sometimes it takes someone else to point out the obvious.  :)

Thanks

Dave

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