New to site and just bought 1st model in about 30 years

[Guest]

Hello everyone.

Been thinking for awhile now about buying one and finally yesterday after seeing it reduced i bought the Revell Ferrari 3 Car Gift Set from ModelZone.

I was just wondering is it normal when buying a set that you only receive a few of the colours you actually need???

Only i was abit suprised to see theres about 9 other colours i will need to buy.

Thanks

[Guest]

Hi and welcome.

Yes it's quite common, most kits, (airfix certainly), will give mixing ratios of the supplied colours to make other needed colours.

However, I recommend that you start buying colours in a paint of your choice and start building a collection, you'll be surprised how quickly your paint selection builds and it's always nice to have a few to hand, theres plenty of choice out there too, Acrylics by Revell, Tamiya, Humbrol, Xtracrylix, Vallejo

Enamels by Humbrol, Tamiya and many others.

Acrylics are good friendly starter paints but each have their merits, I use a combination of both depending on the subject matter.

[Guest]

Thanks for the info

I contacted Revell and they mentioned there are usually enough colours to finish a model to a decent standard.

I did notice it mentions about mixing colours and thought thats not a problem, till i then realised one of the colours i needed for mixing i didnt have.

When it comes to mixing colours whats the easiest way to do this???

[Guest]

You'll need a measuring device, a small syringe or a medicine cup or similar.

(i've had little joy in getting accurate colours when doing this and with the Airfix ones find they don't thin and spray well), however your experience may be different, if brush painting buy a couple of decent quality brushes, Royal and Langnickel do nice ones and aren't too pricey but any decent branded model brushes will do.

It can be tricky balancing the quantities, read all the instructions and check what needs painting which colour.

[stona]

Welcome to the forum. Just to add to the good stuff m1ks has given you,I use disposable pipettes (properly known as pastettes I think) which you can pick up from lab suppliers. Some model shops may stock them.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

Welcome to the forum Reece

Richy