Paint color help

[karkka]

Do I have to thin ammo by mig, I don´t have any primer, but it´s going to be thick layer if i´m going to use primer, coat, and all the varnish with brush. More coats if weathering.

[Dave Ward]

Yes maybe you right. But I think it´s difficult to get a nice pant when brush large areas. and buy a few tank or airplane and brush paint them when I know its going to be bad. but maybe it´s just practice. I have tried brush paint the ammo by mig and it feels a lot easier then other brands, but still you get these brush streaks even on small parts.

Robert,
the first 30 years of my model making was done purely by brush painting, and with a little practice, it's quite easy. The larger the model, the more difficult it is to brush paint, but it is doable! Tanks are never finished to a high-gloss showroom finish, add weathering & a bit of mud _ a few paintbrush marks will be invisible.
A few members of the forum only use paintbrushes for all their models, to a very high standard, so don't dismiss it until you've practised on a few models.........................
Dave

[Guest]

Do I have to thin ammo by mig, I don´t have any primer, but it´s going to be thick layer if i´m going to use primer, coat, and all the varnish with brush. More coats if weathering.

Quite often, you don’t need a primer at all, but it depends on your paint. With water-based acrylics, it’s generally a good idea. But even if you can’t get a primer designed for plastic models easily, just go to a place that sells car paints and buy a spraying can of car primer, that will work fine on models too.

There is no need for varnish, most of the time, in my experience: you only need it if the paint underneath needs to be protected from washes etc. (and by that I mean: if the wash would dissolve the paint underneath — try it on a bit of sprue first to find out if your wash does or not) or because it’s fragile and rubs off easily.

[karkka]

How do I know if the paint will be fragile? If i´m going to use ammo by mig acrylic . If I´m ging to brush it I suppose I need to thin it more so I can apply a few thin layers without loosing details.

[Ian M]

How do I know if the paint will be fragile? If i´m going to use ammo by mig acrylic . If I´m ging to brush it I suppose I need to thin it more so I can apply a few thin layers without loosing details.

Try it on a plastic spoon.

[Guest]

How do I know if the paint will be fragile?

Most won’t be. I mentioned it because of a bad experience I had with Mission Models paint recently, which is very fragile. But you can easily test it by painting some leftover sprue, or, as Ian suggests, a plastic spoon or something; let it dry overnight and if you can rub it off it with your fingers or scratch it with your nails, the paint is clearly fragile. But most won’t be.

If I´m ging to brush it I suppose I need to thin it more so I can apply a few thin layers without loosing details.

Again: try it first. The sprue is a good place once more, because it’s the same material as the model and you can brush over some of the numbers and things that are on there to see if you will fill in details or not. If you’re building a tank or similar, the underside of the hull is also a good place to try paints, techniques, etc.

[karkka]

I got my two tanks now, really tiny stuff 1/72 but I saw on youtube that plasmo model build the same revell T35, but he is a big step ahead of me.

I got one shot primer form ammo, I tried it, and it seems to level really good. I was thinking about priming the parts when on sprue.

I was thinking about buying this book. I know I can get alot of info for free on youtube, internet, but they made a book for a reason i think.

https://pocketmags.com/the-weathering-magazine/how-to-paint-172-military-vehicles