Rommel 1/16th

[Dan9191]

This might help with the actual painting, it's 1/35 scale but I'm sure it'll work with 1/16th

Thanks mate just watched it and its a very good video and I understand how priming and the paints come together abit more now. Useful tips.

[Dan9191]

When you start to apply thin coats of paint you'll find that the lighter areas of prime come up brighter than the darker areas - the zenithal prime helps create a graduation of the colour from dark to light for you.

What paints are you using? What brushes? Are you comfortable with print thinning? Tell us more about where you are now so we can advise better where to move to next.

Right I understand now that makes sense cheers. Where I am right now is just sanding down the rough edges from the where they was attached. Basically finished. Then next week will be glueing few of the parts when im back from my cornwall holiday.

[Gavalaar1980]

Having painted 3 Tamiya 1/16 scale figures my process is:

1. Cut all the parts off the sprues then sand away/clean up the area you have just trimmed.
2. Remove any moulding lines with a scalpel blade from the plastic parts.
3. Dry fit all parts to check for exactness.
4. Assemble and glue the main body of the figure (excluding the head).
5. Fill any gaps (near arms etc) with model filler, then sand smooth.
6. Assemble and glue any guns and figure attachments/accessories.
7. Coat all parts with extra thin cement before priming.
8. Primer spray all parts (use white for best results).
9. Start colour blocking and painting the attachments. Then move onto the figure. Paint the head and face separately. Note that attachments will have be completely painted before assembly, including detailing.
10. Carefully assemble the figure. You may have to paint over any joining areas again to blend the mating gaps etc.
11. Assemble attachments to main body of figure.
12. Fit head to figure.
13. Detail the figure and remove any final imperfections etc.
14. Add decals to helmet (optional).
15. Base figure.

Finished! How did the build go?