My first tip has to deal with beginers painting. I have found that until you have the money or the desire to air brush professional looking models, paint markers are the way to go.
Paint markers are available at just about any Wal-Mart, Kmart, or your local hobby shop. These paint markers are relatively inexpensive and do a terrific job of detailing for the way they are set up.
They are avalable in a many differtent colors (check your local carrier for the choices). As far as I know there are about 13 or so colors available. There are a few that I reccomend buying A.S.A.P.,
Flat Black, Gloss Black, Silver, and another color of your choice, to play with and learn how they all work. I have not had very goo luck with the white marker, for that matter the only time I use white is when I can spray-paint it on.
My second tip is about the location of your model area. You should pick a place that is out of the way. It should also be closable. A closet makes a good place to keep your stuff.
If you are not able to keep your models in a out-of-the-way place then you will need a place that can be left alone for a few hours, while your parts dry enough to put them in some type of a covered carrier.
Speaking of cariers, I use one quite frequently. You can find or get them almost every where you look. My mother found a neat cardboard box at her work, she brought it home to me and I tokk it directly to my "Hobby Center"
and put it into use. It looks something like this:
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As you can see you can find a carrier anywhere!! This particular one has a place for vehical bodies and a place for other smaller parts.
The next thing you ought to think about is storage. Not justr the sorage of completed models but also uncompleted. I reccomend findind some old furniture at a yard sale or something like that. Try not to buy the
best looking piece there, but something that can get paint all over it (it will happen!!). You will also need to find some storage place of unbuilt models. I sigest a hutch, one that has a glass top. This way you can use the top of it as a display case.
The bottom will then become your model storage place. There are many option, you find what works best for you!!
Another good thing to do is to start a scrap parts box. You can use the parts you save on other models. I sigest the you find either a plastic box or cardboard. It should probobly be a box that can be covered.
By saving trees (the plastic that holds your parts) you can then you that to detail engines with.....
The trees can be cut into stripes about 3 or 4 inches long. These are the steps that you should take to put paint an engine with part of a tree-
1) cut the tree into pieces.
2) paint the block, or block halfs.
3) then don't put the oil pan on!!glue the part of the tree where the oil pan would go.
4) continue puting on the engine parts until the engine is complete.
5) CAREFULLY cut off the tree piece and glue on the oil pan.
My first tip has to deal with beginers painting. I have found that until you have the money or the desire to air brush professional looking models, paint markers are the way to go.
Paint markers are available at just about any Wal-Mart, Kmart, or your local hobby shop. These paint markers are relatively inexpensive and do a terrific job of detailing for the way they are set up.
They are avalable in a many differtent colors (check your local carrier for the choices). As far as I know there are about 13 or so colors available. There are a few that I reccomend buying A.S.A.P.,
Flat Black, Gloss Black, Silver, and another color of your choice, to play with and learn how they all work. I have not had very goo luck with the white marker, for that matter the only time I use white is when I can spray-paint it on.
Another good thing to do is to start a scrap parts box. You can use the parts you save on other models. I sigest the you find either a plastic box or cardboard. It should probobly be a box that can be covered.
By saving trees (the plastic that holds your parts) you can then you that to detail engines with.....
