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I'm thinking about doing this for an anime-style armored vehicle. Its current scale is 1/72; I'd like to create a 1/35, and I'm trying to wrap my head around the process, as I've never done it before. Can anyone perhaps provide or point me to an example? I really wish I'd bought the blueprinting bo...

If you have a plastics manufacturer in your area, you could see if they sell a chemical called 'methylene chloride' or sometimes referred to as 'SC-94'. That chemical is similar if not the same as the commercial name Pro-Weld. You can get it in larger quantities, like 1L cans or bottles and the cost...

I was looking at a Model Master color called Champagne. Another method would be to mix some silver into gold and stir. More heavy on the gold side, maybe 70% gold to 30% silver.

Vaseline and Q-tips.





Seriously.

It sometimes depends on whether you use an accelerator or not. I've had the superglue dry up or just go rubbery if I left the accelerator too close to open CA or touched the CA bottle with an area that had accelerator on it. You can usually tell if it's from accelerator if you see a white crusty pow...

Both my fiance and I have used the Fleck-Stone spray paint before on the same model. With her Anubis model, check out the center of the StarGate base. The flat plastic was sprayed with Fleck-Stone to simulate sand, and then painted a sandy color.

The few I've done, such as the USS Earhart and the USS Challenger were done by making physical damage with Xacto knives and Dremel cutters and sanders, and then using a few shades of gray, black and silver to airbrush on the damaged look.

The way I've removed Micro-Mask is to place some masking tape rolled around my finger, sticky side out, and then dab the model. The masked area comes right up off the model. One thing I've learned about the stuff is to apply it thick! If the coat is too thin, it can really get stuck in crevasses and...

Hey Mike! Can't wait to see it!

BTW, how's the other 2500th project coming along??!!!

[chanting]One of us...one of us...one of us...[/chanting]

Thanks for the useless information Griffy! I found it very useful! I have those old blueprints but have never heard that story nor seen those pictures! Thanks!

OH WOW!!!

Mike just emailed me an unpainted test shot of the super-secret model of the .... whoops, almost spilled it.

For a 2500th model, Mike's sure gotten a lot more detail out of it than I would've thought possible. Can't wait to see it painted Mike!

WOW.....just..WOW!!!

Well, thanks to cojoker and Mike the Canuck, I have a 1/2500 Miranda in hand and I'll start my contest entry!

The intention will be the Saratoga variant based on a challenge from cojo himself!

(I think he just wants me to have a 1/2500 subject in my model gallery! )

I know what it is, but I'm not allowed to tell! :twisted: Neener, neener, neeeeener! (I actually provided the raw materials for his project....not saying whether it's a kit or not...you'll have to wait and be amazed.) I will say this....although it may not be unique, I haven't seen one done in my ma...

ditto Cojo! Thanks a bunch for the gift! I WILL get right to it when it arrives!

...and then Bob, I'm in!