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Plans This Year
8 years ago
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Working on collecting a modest array of paints and possibly brush nozzles. I stuck my neck out to acquire an airbrush of which I've made fond use of, however I don't count on being able to use it indoors for obvious reasons. This year I still have it in plan to acquire a turn (cake) table, a few bolts and screws for mounting, and some new computer equipment.
Colors that I'm finding I need before I continue too far in are Aluminum, Steel, Copper, Silver, Gold, Flat White, Flat Light Gray, Flat Gray, Flat Dark Gray, and likely throw in some more as I discover them. While they have certain mixtures for browns that I can use on these model kits, I'm finding that I may use a tea stain method for painting. The tea, I would have used a slow process of trying to find a shitty tea to use (I will not waste good tea) if not for the fact that earlier
Memokkeen had already acquired some. She sent me a good amount I'll be using for attempting to stain the sails of my model Galleon first. The surface of the sails are a semi-plastic material, which means that I can use one of either technique to stain them, but I believe that flat white paint will work as the best method to allow the stain to adhere. I wager it's best to do this to a $20 model first, instead of destroying a $1500 model with experimentation. Although, I do have plenty of test parts in case I need them.
Art: I'm not streaming for the time being, there seems to be a lack of interest so there's no point in beating dead horses. I will however continue to work off panel and I'll have no release times for anything I accomplish. If I stream at all, chances are that following last year's path, I'll be multistreaming with friends as a leisure, not a chore.
Notes: For the planned 5' model, I'm finding that it's good to have references that I obtained from obscured places, though in all reality I want to find the original model to see if I can gleam something that photos will not reveal. It's also possible that the reference photos sent by DeAgostini will help, though I haven't an idea at this time.
Another thing to note is that I've stopped myself from confusing the 5' model with the 32" model. This means I will not be using the 5' model for details that simply do not belong on the 32" model. this may come as a disappointment for some people, but for those who like studio accuracy, I'm breaking a lot of fan rule in favor of historic rule.
In short: No road sign above the cockpit, not this time, not sorry.
Colors that I'm finding I need before I continue too far in are Aluminum, Steel, Copper, Silver, Gold, Flat White, Flat Light Gray, Flat Gray, Flat Dark Gray, and likely throw in some more as I discover them. While they have certain mixtures for browns that I can use on these model kits, I'm finding that I may use a tea stain method for painting. The tea, I would have used a slow process of trying to find a shitty tea to use (I will not waste good tea) if not for the fact that earlier
Memokkeen had already acquired some. She sent me a good amount I'll be using for attempting to stain the sails of my model Galleon first. The surface of the sails are a semi-plastic material, which means that I can use one of either technique to stain them, but I believe that flat white paint will work as the best method to allow the stain to adhere. I wager it's best to do this to a $20 model first, instead of destroying a $1500 model with experimentation. Although, I do have plenty of test parts in case I need them.Art: I'm not streaming for the time being, there seems to be a lack of interest so there's no point in beating dead horses. I will however continue to work off panel and I'll have no release times for anything I accomplish. If I stream at all, chances are that following last year's path, I'll be multistreaming with friends as a leisure, not a chore.
Notes: For the planned 5' model, I'm finding that it's good to have references that I obtained from obscured places, though in all reality I want to find the original model to see if I can gleam something that photos will not reveal. It's also possible that the reference photos sent by DeAgostini will help, though I haven't an idea at this time.
Another thing to note is that I've stopped myself from confusing the 5' model with the 32" model. This means I will not be using the 5' model for details that simply do not belong on the 32" model. this may come as a disappointment for some people, but for those who like studio accuracy, I'm breaking a lot of fan rule in favor of historic rule.
In short: No road sign above the cockpit, not this time, not sorry.
Memokkeen
~memokkeen
Hope you enjoy doing the things you've planned for this year, and I hope I get to see some of 'em finished. c:
Daemon-Wolf
~daemon-wolf
OP
That's the intent. I have a couple planes to finish, gonna take the ones I managed to reshape (had to use a small heater to bake them and straighten them out after last year's fire and all) and see if I can do anything with them. As it is, they look good enough to resume trying to build, granted some of the parts are missing that fine detailing.
