Hey Deon, excellent video to highlight painting can really make a difference. Those motorcycles really offer a challenge and you've got the metal parts especially engine and frame looking very realistic.Looking at the Scout reminded me of building a very large cockpit. That black looks very smooth did you mix that? . I believe it was late 60's that the solid material under the hood, ( bonnet), was discontinued. Over time it had a tendency to gather a lot of dust that couldn't be cleaned and would sometimes drop down onto the engine. They transfered the material to behind the firewall to help with the noise. Of course our cars didn't switch from being like tanks with large amounts of metal until the 90's when the foreign competition introduced smaller vehicles with better gas mileage I must get more proficient on my airbrush. Lately I've been cheating on my small 1/72 fighter kits with rattle cans. The paint does go down nicely but its very limiting on mixing colors. I did get a 1/72 kit of a Vulcan bomber this week and its huge . It will definitely need airbrushing. Next week I've got 2 1/48 kits coming that will also require multi colored surfaces. I'll be anxious to see the motorcycle finished out. The political chaos is still prevalent in many ways and dominates our daily lives. They key is to make the transition which won't take place until 1/20/25. The population is feeling a little better, but our executive branch is in shambles and exacerbating European tension, the trick is going to be keeping Putin at bay until Trump can convince him to " relax", sorry about the digression from modeling. Cheers Bob
The Italeri Lancia is an old Protar kit from early 80's, I built it when it came out, but it didn't have the sink marks, so that might be a change of the plastic used. The Yamaha bikes are superb to build, I've done a few and really enjoy them.
Oh yes thats right you did mention it was Protar. I forgot you had said that. Would love to have seen yours. i guess i should try and do it well and fill the sinkholes. Yes i absolutely love the Tamiya bikes
The engine bay would definitely be black but the underbody would be a mishmash of unpainted (frame) to primates parts and if the body was dipped it might even be body color.
Very good explanation help me to much !gracias!!!
glad it helps. Cheers
Hey Deon, excellent video to highlight painting can really make a difference. Those motorcycles really offer a challenge and you've got the metal parts especially engine and frame looking very realistic.Looking at the Scout reminded me of building a very large cockpit. That black looks very smooth did you mix that? . I believe it was late 60's that the solid material under the hood, ( bonnet), was discontinued. Over time it had a tendency to gather a lot of dust that couldn't be cleaned and would sometimes drop down onto the engine. They transfered the material to behind the firewall to help with the noise. Of course our cars didn't switch from being like tanks with large amounts of metal until the 90's when the foreign competition introduced smaller vehicles with better gas mileage I must get more proficient on my airbrush. Lately I've been cheating on my small 1/72 fighter kits with rattle cans. The paint does go down nicely but its very limiting on mixing colors. I did get a 1/72 kit of a Vulcan bomber this week and its huge . It will definitely need airbrushing. Next week I've got 2 1/48 kits coming that will also require multi colored surfaces. I'll be anxious to see the motorcycle finished out.
The political chaos is still prevalent in many ways and dominates our daily lives. They key is to make the transition which won't take place until 1/20/25. The population is feeling a little better, but our executive branch is in shambles and exacerbating European tension, the trick is going to be keeping Putin at bay until Trump can convince him to " relax", sorry about the digression from modeling. Cheers Bob
yes- try and schedule some airbrush practice. The Vulcan will certainly need it
The Italeri Lancia is an old Protar kit from early 80's, I built it when it came out, but it didn't have the sink marks, so that might be a change of the plastic used.
The Yamaha bikes are superb to build, I've done a few and really enjoy them.
Oh yes thats right you did mention it was Protar. I forgot you had said that. Would love to have seen yours. i guess i should try and do it well and fill the sinkholes. Yes i absolutely love the Tamiya bikes
The engine bay would definitely be black but the underbody would be a mishmash of unpainted (frame) to primates parts and if the body was dipped it might even be body color.