Hope all are well and safe ,so once again instead straight ahead to what I had planned i took a sharp right and ended up with this ,its been in the stash for some time along with the little PE set from Hauler ,no major problems went together nicely? Well apart from ,you know how you give the instructions a once over before diving in ,well look at that i thought all the glazing on the cab fits from the outside oh well saves all that put it on your finger and try to fit it from the inside stuff ,had i turned to next page i would have seen that with the cabin on the rear its fitted from the inside ,yep all built and glued up oh poo i thought ,so trimmed off the over hang part that glued to the inside wall of the cabin ,now if window falls through the appeture (posh word) no way would one ever get it back ,so stuck to a piece of masking tape it was offered up fettled offered up and so on till a snug fit was achieved ,plus the usual stick it on break it off again bissiness no other probs
So far so good ,now the chassis is black wheels and all ,dam I thought why do these things happen why can't it be green like the rest of it ,it means priming it then painting that bit black ,yeh so , I hear you all saying well I'm a lazy sod and its all a bit like hard work ,now I have always been a great supporter of rattle can primer does what it says on the tin plus no setting up airbrush and cleaning away after ,at this point I had the brain wave dived in the cupboard and found a jar of mr colour surfacer 1500 in black mmmm two birds with one stone primed and painted at the same time ,so opened up jar(must be over two years old never even used it)and stired it up with my badger whizzer then topped up with mr color self leveling thinner to base of neck whizzed it up again nope still to thick ,added thinner till I could fit no more in jar but still to heavy ,so put three paint spoons full in the air brush cup topped it with the leveling thinner and stired with paint brush ,by now I recon 30 paint 70 thinner bloody hell what a revelation misted whole thing over three or four times using same mix each time so smooth and easy to use no runs no pooling or what i call paint bombs no more rattle cans for me this stuff is the biz.
So I might even get around to the green stuff tomorrow anyway will keep it in the loop as and when it happens Dave.
So far so good ,now the chassis is black wheels and all ,dam I thought why do these things happen why can't it be green like the rest of it ,it means priming it then painting that bit black ,yeh so , I hear you all saying well I'm a lazy sod and its all a bit like hard work ,now I have always been a great supporter of rattle can primer does what it says on the tin plus no setting up airbrush and cleaning away after ,at this point I had the brain wave dived in the cupboard and found a jar of mr colour surfacer 1500 in black mmmm two birds with one stone primed and painted at the same time ,so opened up jar(must be over two years old never even used it)and stired it up with my badger whizzer then topped up with mr color self leveling thinner to base of neck whizzed it up again nope still to thick ,added thinner till I could fit no more in jar but still to heavy ,so put three paint spoons full in the air brush cup topped it with the leveling thinner and stired with paint brush ,by now I recon 30 paint 70 thinner bloody hell what a revelation misted whole thing over three or four times using same mix each time so smooth and easy to use no runs no pooling or what i call paint bombs no more rattle cans for me this stuff is the biz.
So I might even get around to the green stuff tomorrow anyway will keep it in the loop as and when it happens Dave.
I'm finding the new AK paints better in that regard than Vallejo, but they're still not a patch on lacquer paints unfortunately. It's just a pity they are so stinky as it rules them out for many, as for ease of use and cleaning they really are night & day.