Hi guys
I'm back to go with you all through the last few bota that we need to start producing, we have so far covered the pliers to cut the plastic from the sprues, the tweezers and the clamps. So time now for the last bits, and at least one of them brings a great discussion to the modelling world.
First things first we start with the component that ensures that all your components stay secure in place once you remove the clamps, that's it you may have guessed by now, I'm talking about the glue.
There is a few brands and types available on the market as you can see on the picture.
You will have people saying that they are all the same but not quite, on my personal case, I use the Revell and the Humbrol with the thin needle for “big” jobs where we have more space to work and there isn't so much risk of the glue spill out and damage your model, some say that the adhesive power is greater as well on these ones. Then you have the Tamiya thin that is the one that I most commonly use, this glue comes with a tiny brush inside that allows you to have super control of the application, usually you place the parts together and then add the glue on the seem and the penetrating power of this glue weld the plastic together.
And there you go, the basis of the glue is covered, time to move another must have on your bench for starters, a couple of knives.
On the picture, you can see 2 types of knives, the chirurgical style and the traditional Xacto. There is plenty of blades available but once again in my personal case, I preferred the thing end ones as you can do most of the jobs with this ones. The main thing to get the best out of them is to keep them sharp so that they can look after you. Careful that sharp knives usually mean deeper cuts hahaha.
And finally, we find ourselves on one of the biggest controversies of the model scale beginners, paint brushes or airbrush???
Personally, I always say you should go for the airbrush, difficult to get started but once you get the hang of it you can manage to get awesome paint jobs.
On the picture, you can see 2 of my beauties. The double action badger with a fine tip and the Aztec. The Aztec has a particularly that is it can do either single action or double action on the same airbrush. At the moment you might be asking what means the double and the single action.
A single action airbrush, once you press the trigger, the air mixes with the paint straight away, and the more you press it down, the .ore air/paint you have. On the double action, when you press the trigger the air comes out, but the paint only starts mixing when you pull the trigger back, the more you pull back the more paint you get. So it's is really a matter of personal taste. Most of the people on the hobby reckons that the double action ones are the better. Personally, I like both so I'm suspect on the subject.
Do not forget that this does not invalidate the fact that we need some paint brushes, in order to paint the figure of the pilot on that 1/72 model or the small details on the cockpit on the aeroplane.
Now we are ready to start producing models, so on the next step We will be starting to build a spitfire at 1/72 were we are going into depth to all that we talked on this step and the other previous 2.
Hope you guys like it, Will try to keep it simple so that is easy to follow.
See you guys soon.
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