What do you use...

Well my question is..what do you use to paint the details?? do you use a marker? or a 000 pencil?? if you use a marker....what brand is??
I mean...to do the some as the photo below.....how do you do it???
http://img157.imagevenue.com/loc467/th_40623_6_123_467lo.jpg (http://img157.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=40623_6_123_467lo.jpg)

most of the detail in that photo involves tracing and dotting.. for that i've always uses a silver Sharpie marker. for more detail i would suggest a bottle of paint, alot of tooth picks and a steady hand..

good luck..

Course, having one of these doesn't hurt either! :D

http://store.affordablelamps.com/lsm-180.html

Scott

Course, having one of these doesn't hurt either! :D

http://store.affordablelamps.com/lsm-180.html

Scott

Lol, that's what I use...pretty expensive tho... got mine for around 45bucks. As for the detail part I use lacquer for the base and enamel for the details. I too use toothpicks, but I slit the toothpick into 3 or 4 parts so that they are extra tiny...

One thing to keep in mind when you do details like this is that you should leave yourself an escape route.. meaning that you will be able to clean up a muck-up without harming everything else.

I use different methods depending on the end result wanted.


On this one I first put in Baremetal foil and them painted with gunmetal.
After the paint dried I carefully scraped the paint away from the raised areas with a sharpend chisel shaped match.
Then I put some red on the needles.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/proosen/American%20Muscle/General%20Motors/Chevrolet/1959%20Impala/Interior_12_resize.jpg

Otherwise I prefer to dry-brush things like meters, I used to go the toothpick way before but today I feel I have better control with drybrushing.

Yet another way to go is a little like the BMF-way but with paint instead.
First paint the whole dial with the colour you want on the digits with a lacquer or enamel and when that's thoroughly dried paint the meter background with acrylic paint.
When this is dry you can take a small cloth and a little solvent on it to wipe away the background colour from the dials and there you go. In the best cases you can even read the dials on the meter.

The best tip I can give you is to take very little paint on the prefered tool. Otherwise, when you touch the area to be painted it will disspose a large blob of paint and believe me, that's not much fun at all.


Good luck!
Niclas

Not to go off topic, but is that the dash from the Revell 60 Imapala Low Rider kit?

If so, does it look like a good kit?

Thanks!
Scott

Not to go off topic, but is that the dash from the Revell 60 Imapala Low Rider kit?

If so, does it look like a good kit?

Thanks!
Scott

'60 no, good kit yes!:grinyes:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/proosen/American%20Muscle/General%20Motors/Chevrolet/1959%20Impala/Finished_13_resize.jpg

Sorry to rob your thread.
Niclas

I have tried to paint details in a 1/24 bike with a toothpick and it works fine!!! Thanks a lot you all for your help.....next step...the lamp!!! Cheers!

'60 no, good kit yes!:grinyes:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/proosen/American%20Muscle/General%20Motors/Chevrolet/1959%20Impala/Finished_13_resize.jpg

Sorry to rob your thread.
Niclas
Very, very nice! :thumbsup:

Okay... sorry about the hijack... back on topic! :grinyes:

Scott