Thursday, May 18, 2017

Painting

Time to start things moving on the workbench again.
I've had a couple of Shapeways 3D prints for a long time now. The had a clean a while ago (several trips through the soncator at work in beakers of Pyroneg (a lab glassware detergent) which seems to have removed the oily support (I can't smell it anyway).

I then primed with Tamiya spray paints . Hull Red for the DF

Up close the vertical lines from the printing process are visible, and I'll have to carefully sand them out.
And a Grey for the Bedford bus.


This has odd unsmoothed areas above the wheel wells which will be challenging to get rid of.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What colour undercoat would you recommend for Midland Red top coat? Reds tend not to have good coverage and the underlying colour often shows through.

Motorised Dandruff said...

Sorry I mised this.If you ahve a fossick back through theblog you can see how i paint my reds. Its in the Da tag. Basically I start with a red oxide and then 2-3 coats of Tamiya red.