First model in a long time.

Hi, everyone. This is the first time I've checked out the model car section of AF. I picked up the Revel Integra R today. I haven't put together a model in years, and never one that I have had to paint. I picked up a few paints and brushes tonight so I could start at least on the engine tonight. I don't have a lot of money to spend on this reborn hobby right now in my life, so I will just be hand painting everything except the body. Here is a couple of pics of the engine so far... I'm not very pleased with how the red turned out, but I'm ok with everything else. I have read alot of the Q&A and other threads, it is a lot of stuff to take in. I'm just going to take my time and learn as I go.

http://www.skwerm.com/unclejpegs/model/engine1.jpg

http://www.skwerm.com/unclejpegs/model/engine2.jpg

Sorry for the poor focus on the latter one, but it shows what I'm talking about with the red paint.

good start. Welcome back to the hobby.

looks great
keep us posted!

Looks good so far. Keep us posted, and a mod should move this to the other forum.

One quick question, whats the difference between accrylic and enamal paints?

The main difference is that enamel paints are solvent based and acrylics are water based. That is, you would need a solvent to thin or remove and clean brushes using enamel paints, and just water to remove fresh acrylic and clean brushes. However, acrylic paints have gotten increaslingly sophisticated so now you'd probably need the thinner they make specifically for them to thin it.

Some other bits I've picked up along the way: acrylics dry harder and are more difficult to remove once they have dried, but enamels will always remain reactive to solvents. This is a drawback for acrylics if you want to unpaint a part, but also a drawback for the enamels since putting another coat of paint can often soften the underlying paint and cause some mixing. This happens more with some than others since some are "hotter" than others. Also, there is some rule about laying one paint on top of the other but I don't know it and haven't really had any problems personally. Somebody else here could probably give you a better idea of how that works.

Thanks, that tells me much more than I knew. And just FYI the paints I'm using are enamel.

I think I'm going to go back and paint the block silver. I don't know why the intructions said black.

HOLY CRAP :eek: I just spilled silver paint all over my parents' leather couch :banghead: Tip for newbies...... don't try to assemble a model near your parents' leather couch...... arg ... tryin to clean it up, not going so good, Lord help me. :crying:

Well after my accident, I had to spend a lot of time cleaning, and only got a little bit done. Here I added the header and intake.

http://www.skwerm.com/unclejpegs/model/engine3.jpg

http://www.skwerm.com/unclejpegs/model/engine4.jpg