Papa 695s Airfix 1/72 Mustang Lollipoop.

[wasdale32]

looking good - Airfix spares came up with the right decals so I'll build this one next

[papa 695]

Thanks guys, nice and shiny now.
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[papa 695]

Went to the modeling room yesterday, sat down and just looked and looked and looked, then got up and walked out.

[rtfoe]

Went to the modeling room yesterday, sat down and just looked and looked and looked, then got up and walked out.

:tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy: Happens very frequently for me too... so that solves the reason for my snail paced builds.

Cheers,
Richard

[papa 695]

Got the red painted, but had a little setback. Parts of the silver have pulled away, the large one on the front is an easy fix, that’s getting a green coat of paint.
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[Guest]

Here’s to hoping you won’t see a ridge along where the silver came off, though.

[Guest]

That's what I like to see a real modellers workbench laid out to build models not set up as a showpiece layout. Like your model progress by the way.

[papa 695]

Here’s to hoping you won’t see a ridge along where the silver came off, though.

I'm going to scrape off all the silver paint up to the panel lines, so there hopefully shouldn't be any ridges.

[papa 695]

Like this
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[Guest]

That should eliminate the problem, yep

[papa 695]

Well I think it worked.
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[stillp]

I agree, it worked very well!
Pete

[boatman]

HI Ian enjoyin your mustang build so far an I know this a bit of a stupid question but why do you guys spray the model black ? as your answer hopefully will help me on my future builds of my kits . Please remember im fairly new to plastic kits

[papa 695]

HI Ian enjoyin your mustang build so far an I know this a bit of a stupid question but why do you guys spray the model black ? as your answer hopefully will help me on my future builds of my kits . Please remember im fairly new to plastic kits

Hi Chris when using Silver or any of the metallic colours it shows up better on a gloss black base.

[Guest]

why do you guys spray the model black ?

In this particular case I can see the point of black primer: under metallic paints, it can give the colour more depth.

Priming with black on general principles is, as far as I know, mostly a science-fiction/fantasy wargamer’s thing, and I doubt most of them know why they do this, other than because it’s the norm in that field. (And leads to many, many questions on forums such as, “How do I paint my figures white over a black undercoat? I tried and I need like a dozen coats!” :rolling