Tips for Detail Painting Your Models
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- In this video, I share with you some tips for detail painting your models. Detail painting is one of those modeling skills that make finished models look great and look like they were really difficult to build. I want you to know that detail painting is not as hard as you think and can be mastered with some practice and these helpful tips.
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See these techniques in action as I detail paint my Holt Hotel kitbash in this video: ua-cam.com/video/VLHaedh-2ro/v-deo.html
Finally an excellent and practical guide to hand painting. Not only do I model railroad, but I also do military scale models. Hand painting is woefully under taught, with major emphasis on airbrushing. While important, you just can’t do it all with an airbrush (well most people can’t) so you gotta break out the brushes at some point. Excellent call out on the Vallejo Model Color Line. They really do work best for brush. If anyone hasn’t use them, try them, just make sure it’s the Model Color line, not the Vallejo Air which is meant for airbrush. This video is excellent and great contribution to the hobby of model railroading and scale modeling! Thanks Ron!
Thank you, Ken. I agree. Hand brushing is under appreciated, under taught, and under done...and I think its fun.
I use a small bean bag to rest my hand on when I am detail painting. It works great!
That is a great idea. Where did you get it?
Seach for Bean bag wrist rest on amazon. They're typically used for using a mouse on a computer.
Look around the house, there's plenty to make bean bags out of. Old socks, pantlegs, towels... Make round, square, and triangular bean bags. If you don't have a sewing machine in the house, use hot glue. You can get the fill at craft stores. Besides a hand/arm prop, you can put them under the model to hold it in position for working on it.
Hey Ron. A way to fight skin over with paint? You might look at using a wet pallet. Or make your own. The company that makes the paint you were painting the windows makes a wet pallet for those paints. Just a thought.
Ron, do you ever find your hand shaking after painting ultra fine detail for a while when holding your brush in mid air, on a project like this one. If so make a sign painter’s stick. All you need is a wooden dowel or a wood yard stick long enough to bridge over your model, and some painters masking tape. In this case since the surface that you are painting is raised above your work bench you would also need some blocks of wood or Foam to build two platforms , one on each side of your model that are at least as high as the surface you are detailing. Take your stick and make a ball on one end with the painters tape and you are ready to go. Hold the the stick with wis your non-dominate hand, place the ball end on one platform and rest your hand on the other platform, then rest your other hand or wrist on the stick and paint away.
Barry
As a new HO scale modeler that requires reading glasses to even read a menu at a restaurant, this was a fantastic video Ron, thank you, gives me confidence as I build my layout!!
Excellent tips. Both from Ron, and in the comments.
Thanks so much for the tips Ron. Good to see you.
Mike
Hi, Mike. Always good to see you as well. Hope y'all are well.
@@RonsTrainsNThings We are doing good with a new Pup and staying home
Love this video. Really gave me some new ideas and processes. Thanks for sharing. Love listening to you on AML by the way, always insightful.
I definitely need to get some quality brushes and paint.
Love your videos Ron, lots of good info. Been watching for a while, but haven't subscribed until today.
Also keep a second damp brush handy. Small mistakes with acrylic paint can be wiped away with a wet brush before it dries.
Glad to see you back!
Wonderful points and tips (LOL) as usual. Thanks Ron.
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Hi Ron, I have just subscribed to you, I’ve been watching your channel for sometime though as I’m building a N gauge layout here in the UK and find that your channel is very informative, this latest one being no exception. Thanks for sharing I’m learning lot’s from you, cheers Ron, John
Very good Ron, thank you.
Thanks for the tips Ron
Great tips!
I always ask my wife do the detailed painting!
I have a bunch of Vallejo paints for my miniatures but hadn't thought of using them for my trains. Great tips Ron, thank you for another very informative video
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Great video. useful info. Well done
Thanks Ron. One tip. To keep your paint from drying out a wet pallet will help a lot for this problem.
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Some good tips there, Ron.
If I may add a couple of my own here in the comments for the viewers:
Think ahead when painting structures. Acrylic paint on top of acrylic paint, or enamel atop enamel, can at times interact negatively. I avoid this whenever possible. As I tend to use rustoleum type sprays as base colors, 85% of the time I detail in acrylic. Especially in regards to mortar detail. This also applies to freight car weathering and anything else. Plan your layers in advance to reduce dullcote layers and/or bad interactions.
A second great tip; I find that window glazing is too clean looking. I’ll use it for certain locations like store fronts where they are cleaned nearly daily. But frequently for houses, general commercial buildings etc I use the clear plastic packaging that Evergreen & Plastruct and a variety of kits (Pikestuff) materials are sold in. That has just the right amount of haze to be noticeable from 4 feet away, while not looking frosted. And let’s not ignore that it is free.
I added lakes, trees, roads currently I just finished paving it :)
Yup patience really helps on this kind of painting. I've done a lot of DPM models in N and HO. Have seen a lot of them on model rr's also. You might want to do a video on painting side walls and the back walls also. One detail that most people miss on these structures is the brick color mixing that shows up on older buildings. Take a walk through an alley some time.
Way back when these building were built they saved cost by using used brick and ones that got miss fired in the kennels. Used brick came from buildings that got burned in a structure fire. The bricks are black. Other bricks are white. Not sure what causes that but there is a lot of it. For burnt bricks I use a sharp Sharpie pen. For the white I use a white gel pen that I found at Michaels way back. Make the off colored bricks very random and scattered all over. They do not show up on the fronts of buildings or on the side that is facing a side street if it is a corner building. Then do some heavy weathering as the back sides usually didn't get hosed off or these days pressure washed.
Hi Ron Thank for the tips, How the helix going? Looking forward on seeing is soon
Jerry
Ron, do you have a Micro Trains Coupler Assembly Fixture. If you do, could you do a video on how to assemble the fixture and how to use the darn thing?
Make a wet palette to keep the paint fresh as you paint.
Hi Ron, question ,want to light caboose and passenger car, they call for insulated wheel ,what is the brand or number ,have a lot of new atlas wheel metal but can’t find anything on this mater, thanks keep up the great work
The tip where the painting should be done in the same lighting as that of the layout room -- I find many layouts poorly lit. And doing fine detail work ought to require bright lighting on the workbench.
Have you considered using a "wet palette" to keep your acrylics from drying out, instead of your plastic palette? Wargame-style miniature (hah! huge compared to N) painters seem to swear by wet palettes.
I'm not familiar with a wet pallette, but I will look into that. Thanks.
good vid
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What do you use to clean / degrease the base plastic? Cheers, Pete.
Warm water with a drop of Dawn dish soap.
Having never used Vallejo paints, what do you use to clean your brush after you are done painting ? Do you thin this paint before you use it? Have learned a lot from your channel , thanks for sharing
They are water based acrylics, so cleaning and thinning them with water is fine. Vallejo also sell their own thinners and brush cleaners if you want.
I do not thin Vallejo paints. They seem perfect to me out of the bottle. They make a separate line for airbrushing. As for clean up, just water.
@@chrisridd9423 thanks
@@RonsTrainsNThings I have been using model flex and tamiya. So I will be giving them a try.
What track and controlle(s) do you use?
I use Peco code 80 track and an MRC Prodigy Advance2 DCC system.
Where did you get such a big Veleho paint set?
I have a similar set in both Model Color and Model Air. I purchased both from Micro Mark. You can use my promo code ronstrains to save 10%.
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You can use Eric Hall's promo code, IMRROcom.
Now your ready to do a video on painting figures.
Extremely well scripted.