I am brush painting the chassis of my Tamiya VW New Beetle. The truth is, it is rather frustrating. I mean, looking at the user manual, it just looks so "easy", X-18 arrow here, X-?? arrow there. Damned!
Mine is so full of flaws, even with lots of patience and fine-tip brushes at my side. I spent 5 hours just trying to get the chrome silver area painted right, the trouble is their edges along the semi-gloss black, spills over here and there! See ugliness below.
In the end, I have to patch spilled areas with semi-gloss black, only to have the patched areas spilling over to the chrome silver areas, and repeat all over again.
I must be totally suck or there is something wrong with what I am doing. Perhaps it is simple --> my patience is not enough!
How the hell do the experts do it? Do they mask them and airbrush the specific areas? How do the experts achieve perfection? (looking at the catalog photos...)
Tamiya sell tons of kits, RCs, tools, paints and etc. related to scale modelling. The really weird thing to me is, what don't they come out with some series of scale modelling "best practices" or "recommended techniques" books? They have lacquer, enamel, acrylic paints and etc., yet there are no official explanations to which or why they have these varieties. I checked the Tamiya catalog but found nothing of these sort of information.
I know, I guessed yes there are, only in Japanese language and published only in Japan!
Wth sincere Thanks to everyone here in AF, I managed to pick up some valuable tips and techniques. And I learnt the most of scale modelling over here at AF. Really, I have never ever learnt so much than at AF.
Sorry for the ramble
