Hello all, wow been long time since I posted here. Ive been "trying" to build 2 of my favorite planes, b29-b17 1/48. I posted here few years ago when I attempted my first plane , the B29. that currently is tottaly destroyed in my closet under all my hunting gear. I got health problems so I haven't really been back to serious modeling. I just would spend a few hours here and there once in a great while. After I stopped trying to "fix" my b29, I got a b17. I have hardly touched it in the last three years. Now recently I started back trying to build and this time I thought it would at least be semi ok cus Ive learned allot from the other plane. Well , I didnt learn nearly enough for what I want to do with this plane. And Im to stubborn to Google and YouTube stuff. I dont just wanta glue it , paint and slap decals on and walla. As of now, the b17 is nothing but slabs of cut up plastic on my desk.
Very long story short, I ended up painting and stripping it at least 8x for a variety of reasons such as...it looks like shit, I need to change color, useing primer- not useing primer, its looks like shit, the paint is running again cus I suck at this, it just looks like shit and so on, ( same reasons why the b29 went to its early grave) Im at the point now that I hardly have a plane left and Im going to need a magnifying glasd to find the plane if I do anymore sanding. I know Im new and have 100000's things to learn yet. I was about to just have it join the b29 closet graveyard when I did something I should of done before I even attempted to model.
Watch the YouTube videos and ask for help. I was so concentrated on getting the walmart rustoleum paint as wall as tamya paint, that I never even thought about how I lost at least 80% of the details from the paint sand rinse repeat. When I seen other people's planes I was like wow and I really really really wanto beable to build like the pro's do SOMEDAY. I never knew about weathering and createing the exhaust smoke. And how there planes had such detail. And everyone was useing an airbrush and I have no clue what that was untill now lol. So Last night I stripped it for the final time and it fell apart in bunch of places but thats ok , I ordered 2 more tubes of tamya putty lol. I Also just spent 14 hours straight last night trying to use my knife to bring back the details that were lost.I still havnt slept yet lol. I ended up going way to deep in some places cus I cant make a straight line even with a ruler. I was so determined ....but I lost paitence quickly when my knife keep slipping out of groove and everything is just a disaster. Then I remembered I had dremel so thought I try it. I Found out almost immediately that a dremmil and plastic do not go together like soup and sandwich. That was VERY STUPID of me. So looks like 2 more tamya putty tubes are gonna have to save my ass again and if this keeps up, the entire plane would be all putty lol.
..that you can only see with a magnifying glass. Pfft *sighs*
The most important thing here though is Im having a blast watching myself fail over and over . And I am learning a ton of the do's and don'ts. So Im posting here for the ..."don'ts " ...I plan on doing and that is, I will not painting again untill I get an Airbrush and learn how to use it. Im tired of these spray cans and no matter how maney times and hard I try, I cant get the paint to look right.
So, I never used an airbrush and know nothing what so ever about it. I know i need a pump and I see kits on Amazon that come with Acrylic paint. Can someone help me on the basics and whats the best brand/place to get the whole deal. I want to get the pump with brushes and also paint as well. More like Airplane paint colors.
Sorry to chat up anyone who reads this but im delirious and dont even remember what I just typed lol, going to bed finally. Ill try, everytime I close my eyes all I see is ....lines...crooked ones!
Thanks guys