Some thing I'd thought I'd share.

[racer917]

Originally Posted by gionc

I'm surprised by the polishing way he done: I'm pretty sure that those scooby would be full of thin scratch, looking from a close distance: he still using an hard and "violent" way to polish with wide movements. Yes the result seem good from a shitty camera but he done a lot of things against the "normal" way, for example masters reccomend to use airbrush with wide movemets ever from outside the subject, seem he's doing a german WWII cmouflage LOL

BTW the thing that surprised me more is that he spry in the room without booth, he dress a mask only with uretanic that smell less than a TS primer or laquer... pretty comic: surprised also he's stillalive at his age LOL

also seem some japan guy like good food LOL

aahhh, 'mon gionc,
You make it sound like there's ONLY one way of painting/polishing. Obviously he's found what works for him. You can ask 20 people and get 20 different answers. You need to find what works for you and not limit yourself to what the "masters" recommend. Maybe he IS a master.

[pirata12]

Some things I've learned and some questions...

- I spray like that too! Fast and no sparay booth. But I have ventilation. Clearly this isn't the way to go?

- Now I've seen how weathering should be done. Never actually seen it. (Can someone do a video of how to panel line?)

- Why would you clear coat and polish a model that you will weather so heavily and hence try to reproduce a rough finish as mud would in real life?

- How does he get the airbrush to spray so finely (he gave the exhaust a small shot without covering the whole back of the car!!)? - (I have an Iwata)

Final note. I agree with a lot of your comments. He has his way of working and it works for him. I wish I could replicate his way of 'nothing groundbreaking'. For us newbie's this was a huge lesson and extremely helpful!
Thanks for sharing this!!

[gtidude]

i think hes only 13 years old...hence small room, no booth

[AllAlone.Gz]

13 years old? He looks older. Well anyway, maybe he used a booth off cameras. He did have this thing when he was spraying the body that resembled a booth. But who knows. So has anyone made out what the programs name is? I want to see more builds by this guy. He specializes in scale model cars. The others in the videos, specialize in dioramas, WWII vehicles, and gundam figures. You guys should watch the rest of the videos.

[bhop73]

Originally Posted by gtidude

i think hes only 13 years old...hence small room, no booth

That's pretty rediculous...

Japan = small rooms for the most part. How many 13 years olds do you know with facial hair? Add to that his Japanese heritage (generally takes longer to grow facial hair, at least it does for my friends), plus they show him driving a car in the beginning.

I don't know for sure, but i'd be willing to bet money that all the modelers in these videos are professional.

[rsxse240]

- Why would you clear coat and polish a model that you will weather so heavily and hence try to reproduce a rough finish as mud would in real life?

does your real car get dirty? when you clean it does it not still shine brightly? if you want realism for weathering, why not do it as in real life?

besides, you NEED a clear coat to get the decals to adhere without silvering. then you need to seal the decal to the paint with another coat of clear, although, vinyl graphics are generally more of a semi gloss, or just not as shiny as paint. I saw, some years ago in SAE, that it's more accurate to NOT clear coat your nascar decals for this reason.

as for the paint booth, who needs one? if you don't care about all the other stuff in your room, like your computer, other built models, your lungs, why even bother with a spray booth? haha

I don't care for his spray technique, but it works for him, so I'm not going to complain about it, it obviously works.

scribing panel lines is easy. I generally use the back of a #11 blade that has had the tip broken off, or a new one if the lines are very fine.

-Ken

[rod_k2]

Originally Posted by pirata12

- How does he get the airbrush to spray so finely (he gave the exhaust a small shot without covering the whole back of the car!!)? - (I have an Iwata)

I think his airbrush is a tamiya HG super fine Airbrush. Or an HG fine one. It sprays verrrry thin lines. I think it's not apropriated to these models. I think they're better to do some graphics,paint some little stuff. It would be quite hard to paint a body,

[bhop73]

Originally Posted by rod_k2

I think his airbrush is a tamiya HG super fine Airbrush. Or an HG fine one. It sprays verrrry thin lines. I think it's not apropriated to these models. I think they're better to do some graphics,paint some little stuff. It would be quite hard to paint a body,

I use an Iwata Eclipse, which is similar to Tamiya brushes.. (actually, Iwata makes Tamiya's brushes) I did this test to show someone once that you can get fine or wide spray with the brush. Personally, I think these brushes work great for all applications.