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Originally Posted by MPWR
Paint looks great- but why spray white primer over grey, and then black paint? I'm thinking that the white layer isn't doing anything for you.
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Simple really, I only had Tamiya Fine Surface Primer in white when I was prepping the body.
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Originally Posted by Chieflongshin
i wondered too. I found tamiya white primer pants.
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How do you mean?
Tamiya Primer's are by far the best primers I have used out of a can. Nothing else comes close to laying down a flat surface that's easy to work smooth.
A couple of new pics.
The exhaust.
A little trick of mine.
I have a jar of Tamiya Flat Aluminium (XF-16) that I've added Tamiya Acrylic Thinner and a water to.
What this does, is make the paint go bad and seperate. After a while, all of the paint particles clump together at the bottom of the jar and you get a layer of the solvent on top. The reason I do this is so that now, I can paint using the clumpy part which leaves a nice grainy texture when it's dry.
You can see it a little better here
After that, I mix a little Citadel Skaven Brown Ink with Citadel Mithril Silver to get a rusty steel kinda of colour and use this to wash over the textured Tamiya Flat Aluminium.
This smooths down some of the grainy texture and takes off some of the shine that XF-16 has and you end up with this.
Drivetrain:
The molded on belts have been removed from the parts leaving just the pullies and the belts are replaced with Tamiya Masking Tape cut to size and painted Flat Black.
Normally, I replace the shocks and springs with some styrene tube+rod scratch built items with coiled wire but I wanted a quick build so I just painted them here.
First I sprayed everything Automotive Satin Black.
Then I carefully painted over the top edge of the molded on spring/coil with Citadel Skull White which I find is better for this than Tamiya's Acrylics (Flat or Gloss) followed by Tamiya Gloss Red (X-7).
Here, the belts have been done and I made a start on what I think is part of the throttle controls that are attached to the side of the intake plenum.
It's just little bits of 0.5mm styrene sheet drilled then cut (it won't work the other around) and painted Citadel Mithril Silver.
And that's it so far.
There were a couple of spots on the body that went through to Primer so my hopes for a two coat finish died rather quickly. I may just mask off and spray those two panels and if I do, I'll make a point of taking photos of that.