- Member since
August 2006
- From: The Green "Mountains", Vermont
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 mg42gunner wrote: | | Hey Ian, I think you did a great job on a not so great kit. The PE adds to the detail and helps the build stand up to more detailed models.The decals do stand out a bit, did you seal them with a gloss coat after you applied them? This usually protects them from washes or dusty weathering that can make the edges stand out. I like the shell casings in the back, and think that at this scale it doesnt really matter if the shells are a bit big, as long as they seem fine when you look at them. What did you make them out of? |
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Thanks for the comments! Yeah for the decals, I did the same as always, a coat of future before, then the decals, and then another coat of future. On the last few kits ive built that way they came out great, even with lots of light on them and from different angles, they looked perfectly painted on, so Im not sure what i did. Next time ill try a few smaller coats of future on them instead of just one maybe. For the shells, I took a piece of wire that i found in my basement, rolled it until it was straight using all kinds of tools, and then painted it brass. Then I just used wire cutters to cup it to size. Other than drying paint, took me about 20 minutes from start to finish, and i still have a whole conatainer left. As you can see, the wire cutter didnt give me straight cuts though, the edges are jagged, maybe a different type of cutting tool would work better. And the really detail obsessed guys drill the shells so theyre holow, for the ultimate realism. I dont have that kind of patience, but they would look great if some body did put the extra effort in.
"Scanlon: work your knobby hands on the table in front of you, constructing a make-beleive bomb to blow up a make-beleive world."
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