Thread 11548733

Mentally Challengered Edition

previous thread: >>11527247

This thread is for the discussion of scale plastic (and resin, PE, wood, etc) models kit
-Post photos of your builds in progress and your finished builds
-Have your builds critiqued or critique others
-Discuss tips and techniques
-Ask for advice or give advice to others

Always remember:
Hit up your hobby homie for the good shit (glue, that is)

Some helpful guides to get started:
https://www.scalemates.com/
http://www.mediafire.com/view/1vf1aw7v91pz5pa/Airfix%20Model%20World%20Specia%20%28Scale%20Modelling%20Step-By-Step%29.pdf
http://www.scalemodelguide.com/
http://www.modelersite.com/en/area/98/scale-models-techniques
http://fichtenfoo.net/blog/model-tutorials-and-in-progs
http://ipmsstockholm.org/
https://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/
http://www.primeportal.net/home.htm
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156268995@N04/albums

Plus there are tons of people on YouTube with pretty good videos on techniques etc.

Some sites to purchase models, extras, and supplies:
>ebay
https://www.dersockelshop.de/ (GER)
https://www.scalehobbyist.com/index.php (US)
https://www.alfahobby.se/ (SWE)
http://spruebrothers.com/ (US)
https://freetimehobbies.com/ (US)
http://www.hobbyeasy.com/ (HK)
http://www.luckymodel.com/ (HK)
http://www.hlj.com/ (JP)
https://www.modellbau-koenig.de/en (GER)
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/m/ (JP)
https://www.hannants.co.uk/ (UK)
https://www.jadarhobby.pl/index.php?language=en (PL)
https://www.bnamodelworld.com/ (AUS)
http://volksusastore.com/webstores/scale/ (US) (Carry Mr. Color and GaiaNotes paint)
https://www.emodels.co.uk/ (UK)
https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/
https://www.super-hobby.com (EU/UK/RU/US/PL)
https://plastmodel.pl/ (PL/EU)
https://agtom.eu/en/(PL/EU)
https://exito.site/en_GB/index(PL/EU)
https://m-zone.pl (PL only)

first for second build
(and fucked up shading since I couldn't do it in proper way)

Why is my shitter in the OP?

>>11548761
Because there weren't a ton of new builds completed and I liked yours. I am the worst builder in this thread (too embarrassed to post my last fuck-up), so I guess I might be a bit kind, but I think the result is fine.

Also trying to get my foot in before the gay retard picks a model from Reddit and posts it as OP again.

Sorry for boomer rocking

has anyone here built one of the hasegawa super real figures? I was thinking about picking one up.

>>11548958
No, but if it is picrel, then hawt.

>>11548753
Did you not paint it

>>11549361
Paint is for queers

>>11548357
i don't want to be specific, but it's similar to mk4 fiesta

>>11548958
>facebook-tier boomer nonsense
grim

>>11549364
anon you are mentally challenged arent you

>>11549364
You tellem, jack
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>>11549446
>me reading this
My favorite part is the grudges boomers hold against random online services.

I remember a boomer's watchmaking website, where at the bottom of every (coded from scratch) HTML page was a gif of a dog pissing on the Ebay logo (1999-2012 version) for some reason. No explanation.

>>11549427
I've never used facebook so I don't understand the reference

I've never tried my hand at building a plane, right now I'm working on a 1/144th f16. the build is almost done and I'm just now realizing how fucking cool planes are.

I got a resin printer and man, the future is here...

>>11549446
>Disclaimer: I do NOT consent to the use of my profile or likeness without my express written consent. If you use or sell my profile, my posts, or my likeness without my permission, you will be SUED in a court of LAW. You have been warned. Copy + paste this in your SIGNATURE to show Mark Zuckerberg we mean business!
my absolute favorite, especially when they post reference pictures with obnoxious self made watermarks to prevent them from being used anywhere else. Everyone in the picture is dead, the person who took the picture is dead, but since you bought some grandmas photo album on ebay, this picture that otherwise would have been lost to history can now only exists to the wider world as partially ruined. All because captain dipshit thinks hes going to write a book or something, only to die and have his collection end up in the trash, or at best, on ebay once again.

I may come back with a list of the absolutely bizarre boomer traits I've seen that have pushed me away from traditional modeling forums.

>>11550274
>All because captain dipshit thinks hes going to write a book or something, only to die and have his collection end up in the trash
Are boomers more like dragons or more like dwarves?

Their stubbornness and pettiness makes me think dwarves though. There's probably a dwarf stubbornly making mid-tier crossbows for nobody, because matchlocks were invented.

wtf is up with you faggots talking about boomer shit? how fucking old are you dudes?

>>11550342
35, and my hatred for that generation has only grown with time, so I'm going to continue shitting on them.

>>11550300
This is a tough one, but I may side with you. For example, they're obsessed with home value, but if you tell them it's a non-liquid asset that can't be traded for a better home in most cases as all home prices have inflated, you'll get the blank stare as they refuse to take in any new information that challenges what they think is important.

Anyway, since everyone wants to hear more, have some boomer poster characters
>Boomer cop throws a shit fit like a high school girl. Makes a vague post how no one respects him and everyone's mean to him. Deletes all his other posts, effectively taking his ball and going home. No one else has any idea what he's taking about and try to reason with him. It's known hes a cop since it was so important to him it was in his user name
>Boomer weirdo with chip on his shoulder. Tons of posts about perceived racism against him, lots more with bravado and talks of violence. Wild card, posts picture of 50+ yr old wife publicly, referring to her as 'nubile'
>Boomer autist. Never posted a build, never posted a helpful tip or technique related to actual physical modeling. LIVES to correct people, just waiting in the wings for someone to call something by the wrong name or point out a flaw in logic. Often condescending and snarky to boot.

It's funny how the most boomer hobby around has the most anti-boomer general

>>11550868
>the most boomer hobby
Scale modeling is far from being the most boomer hobby

cool another insufferable thread

>>11551215
They're doing their warm up laps for the time they become the boomers...

I know it's obviously an active war with an interesting combo of donated vehicles from around the world, but man am I tired of seeing builds of Ukrainian marked equipment regardless of build quality. There's just so many people making them and they are, with the exception of some cool scratch built cope cages, some of the most boring schemes and builds around

>>11551398
>I'm just so tired of the boring Ukraine fellow wecterners

Could someone please tell me what's so special about those mr.hobby and meng nippers that they are almost 100$?
What some sort of unobtanium bullshittery is used and folded over 9000 times in them that they are this pricey?

>>11551484
Looks kinda high quality.

>>11551484
the single bladed ones? they seem like a shit meme to me. people admit that they wear out faster, and you will still need to clean up the thing you're cutting anyway

>>11551537
Oh yeah Bob, and you know this from 30 years of smelling the finest Testors glue and Humbrol fumes and never touching any of these fancy tools, right?

>>11551548
smell my balls bill

>>11551537
they're for cleaning up nubs and gate traces, basically xacto knives in nipper form, don't use them for anything other than that to avoid wear

about done painting the kondensator, forgot the rubber mudguards

>>11551634
and the reason im so slow with that build is that I immediately jumped into the HIMARS once construction was done

Single blade nippers are a huge waste of money but glass files are great. Buy good quality ones for nails, hobby products are always overpriced.

>>11551934
>glass files
meme shit, eats parts and polishes them without consent, still doesn't beat good old sandpaper

What is it with the dozen boomer roleplayers here? I thought this thread is for scalemodels?

>>11552030
We're not all boomers here.
- Jim, 300th Latrine Digging Battalion, Malmedy Massacre Survivor.

>>11550868
>The most boomer hobby
But enough about model trains

>>11551934
I swear half of the people in this general have not taken a step outside of their garage in decades.
Do you not have online hobby stores in the US? I can buy specialty products for nearly nothing pretty much straight from the producer from all over Europe. Oh no, big bad EU makes everything seamless, easy to buy and fast to arrive.

>>11552042
Bro godhand is overpriced even in Japan. Even "cheap" Chinese single blade nippers are still going to be more expensive and fragile than a decent pair of dual blade nippers, which you still have to buy anyway because you shouldn't cut sprues or clear parts with the single blade snipper.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkqCwc5-tbA
Is this tutorial any good?
>polishing the needle
>sealing the nozzle with beeswax

>>11552092
You should be using a thread sealant on most airbrushes anyway. A quick search shows iwata and badger sell beeswax and tamiya has their own nozzle sealant too.

Sorry folks...but these are the only nippers I need...

>>11552033
>Malmedy Massacre Survivor
lel

QRD on nippers. I just use an X-Acto knife with No. 11 blade, plus some jeweller files and sanding sticks down to 1000 grit. Nippers always seemed like a scam to me.

>>11552045
10 bucks. 10 bucks is comparable to any fucking tool you can buy from a hardware store. 10 bucks is cheap as fuck for a tool that will last you forever. How do you break it? How does it dull? Cutting fucking plastic? With tool steel??? You retards are doing something you're not supposed to do or just making up shit. I used a 2€ pair of chinesium nippers for 5 years before I broke them because I tried getting some metal parts open with them which you are not supposed to do, they worked as good as the day I bought them. Also have a pair of single blade nippers that I've been using for 3 years. I have not done stupid shit with them and they work, are not dull and have not broken. Wonder why?

>>11552492
You use nippers to remove shit from the sprue (or runner would be more exact I guess) and then do the knife and sanding.

>>11552648
I see. I used a knife as the nippers and to scrape, then filing and sanding.

3 hours of carving and drilling (0.7mm) on this Godforsaken thing, this is the Type 22 radar of submarine I-58 from July 1945, kit is from AFV

>>11551634
>>11551635
nice! yeah I think everyone jumps between kits, I have two active ones rn. also sick setup

>>11552045
How retarded are you to break a set of nippers, especially the Chinese ones which are thicker than god hands

>>11553272
>thicker
Then you've completely missed the point of a single blade nipper and instead spent 5x more on a chinesium nipper that only bothered to sharpen one edge.

>>11553280
You are illiterate

How do I avoid orange peel when airbrushing?

>>11553592
Avoiding orange peel:

Thin paint properly (about 1:1, adjust as needed).

Spray at 15–20 psi.

Keep distance ~2–3 inches.

Apply light, even coats—don’t flood it.

Use proper thinner/retarder if paint dries too fast.

Make sure the surface is smooth and clean before spraying.

Fixing it: Wet sand with 2000+ grit and recoat lightly.

>>11553592
>I keep peeling oranges when I paint my models, how does this keep happening
are you like, retarded?

>>11553622
Yes.
>>11553600
Thank you!

How are Mirage Hobby kits? I'm looking at their M3 right now because for a 1:72 one it seems it's only between that and ssmodel

still can't find 1/20th scale animal figures :(
everything is either a pre painted toy, in 1/35th scale, or a dinosaur

>>11553063
ty, posted pics of the setup here before. It became pretty evident early on that I'd be dying alone, so I went pretty hardcore on building a setup.
Also the fit on the HIMARS is mediocre at best and I hope most of the bullshit gaps will get covered or remain hidden.

I want to do 1/350 ships
The 1/350 Kongo from Border models seems great and so does the Yamato and Takao from Veryfire
I wish they'd do British and German battlecruisers and battleships as well since the kits we have now are pretty crude
Too bad I don't have the space for them
No interest in USA ships unfortunately
>>11554146
Why not get a resin printer and print them?

>>11554424
for what reason would you ask for more german ships

>>11554424
>Why not get a resin printer and print them?
zero space, I barely have enough room for my hobby stuff.

which brands make the most detailed 1/35 plastic figures nowadays?
and which brands should I avoid?

>>11554806
Plastic figures will always be less detailed than resin figures, but Miniart has the best sculpt and the figures go for very cheap

Baby's first real attempt at weathering, not sure if there's anything that could be fixed/added, but I'm about ready to move onto other models

>>11555029
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3p_VuPIS2c

>>11548733 (OP)
Hey anons I am currently build a Tamiya 1/48 F4F-4 Wildcat. And I couldn't help but notice it didn't come with a pilot to be seated in the cockpit.
Anywhere I can find a seat Navy/Marine fight Pilot for the kit?

>>11555098
Make sure the seller can ship to your country, Super Hobby is unable to deliver to America right now...
https://www.super-hobby.com/products/WW2-US-Navy-Pilot-2-Engaged-2-Heads-50411049.html

They have similar seated WWII Navy figures too, search around for them.

>>11554806
hasegawa

This is my latest fuck-up. My first time doing rigging. I need more pointers.

bought some Aires resin parts. I hope they fit well because I really hate having to do a bunch of cutting and shit to add aftermarket parts

also eduard pe stuff for the cockpit
I can't wait to fuck this up kit somehow after all the effort!

>>11555206
looks good to me
>>11555222
>>11555233
checked
also have fun with your new project, I'm building my first plane right now and it's pretty fun. I messed up the masking a bit but it's not too bad and just requires a few corrections.

>>11554806
Lots of good resin stuff out there to choose from. For plastic, the new figures from Tamiya are generally considered the best in the market, although their range of subjects is limited to WW2. Avoid anything from Trumpeter.

>>11555222
I don't remember resin parts being that yellow, is that what age does to them?

>>11555278
Thank you. I dropped this model, so I had to reassemble it almost entirely.

>>11555104
>that much for 1 tiny figure
do resinfags really

>>11554453
Why not? There's not a single model of the light cruisers or the non Admiral Graf Spee Deutschlands.
>>11554424
There's Seydlitz from HobbyBoss. You can still do destroyers or submarines spacewise

>>11555321
all I ever see is kriegsmarine and ijn ships

>>11555029
The only fix is to throw it away and start again.

>>11555287
the last time I bought aftermarket resin stuff was a similar sickly yellow color, so its probably the color of the stuff they used

after seeing all kinds of methods being used to deal with visible print layers, I think the one which is the most efficient and also produces the best results is:
apply UV resin with a brush, insta-cure it after it has levelled itself, sand it with a rotary tool equipped with a polishing head.

>>11555287
No, that was the standard color during the 90s. Verlinden stuff was mostly yellow. Only later grey became more common.

>>11555601
Enjoy your miner's lung. Unless you are mentally deficient, none of the current resin printers will leave layer lines if you are not printing with a huge z step on purpose.

What color should I paint the Jumo 211 in this Stuka? I'm not autistic enough to have all the reference books and I found conflicting results online about whether it should be some sort of black or rlm02 like I've painted the surrounding engine bay parts

>>11555729
I know basically nothing of krautplens, but a quick search tells me that if it's an engine put into a plane, then it would be black.

In pics where the J-211 wasn't black it was either a museum restoration, an instructional cutaway, a wreck pulled from the ground with all its paint rotted away or a bare metal one being assembled in the factory.

>>11555654
nta but are you retarded? you know mask exist right? do you not wear a mask when spraying your models?

>>11556266
I would sooner trust a nigger to not stab me on the train than believe most of the retards here actually use PPE.

>>11556282
so your just retarded then

>>11550597
My god you're a whiny faggot.

>>11556351
YOU TELL HIM BILL

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impulse bought a new compressor with a tank because I'm tired of having a water gun instead of an airbrush
I can't wait for the issue to persist

>>11556351
the retard has been shitting up threads for awhile

>>11556387
Buy a moisture trap or several.

>>11556346
>your just retarded
They really do write themselves, huh?

>>11556479
>reeee you am die from resin
>hurrrr durrr no one am use pee pee eeee
>procedures to take tranny pills

I just used my old compressor that I haven't used in 3 years and after unscrewing the bottom of the tank and putting it down again about 1/3rd a cup of water came out

>>11556479
I already have 2, one as part of the pressure regulator and another inline on the hose. also have a dehumidifier running 24/7 near the compressor. even have an extra fan pointed at the compressor to try and keep it cool
still sprays water.

>>11552042
>Do you not have online hobby stores in the US?
They do but their packages always get stolen from the porch by their nogs.

>>11552042
They are expensive... Before the pause in shipments to the US, Super Hobby orders that met the free shipping threshold ($150) would be $220 or more from Squadron or Sprue Brothers, which frequently do not stock what you want or need, take longer to ship and have free shipping exclusions. Not to mention that domestic shipments would take longer too (it took 10 days for a shipment from Squadron, which is the next state away from me to get to my place, whereas Super Hobby took 6 days). Trust me, there is rarely an excuse to buy from domestic hobby shops.

Excuse me for speaking comparatively, but why pay more for the same products? Why pay more for inferior products, at times, from stores that rarely stock anything other than Round 2, some Revell, Trumpeter and a few Jap kits? (Not to say that Jap kits are bad, but their catalogues have nothing that interests me, personally). The problem with America's web hobby shops is that they are still stuck in the days of mail order, when carrying Tamiya or Hasegawa was enough to set yourself apart.

Anyway, has the German post suspended shipments to the US too? I am looking at some Luedemann and Classic Plane kits.

chipping done

but wait, theres more!

>>11557518
>>11557519
I hope you checked what's steel, and what's aluminum on Soviet armored vehicles. Because it's a lot of fucking aluminum.

>>11557537
of course I didnt

>>11556999
there's literally no advantage to being american in this hobby

>>11557550
Except being more awesome

>>11557550
It is probably the biggest disadvantage to have:
>Vallejo and AK near impossible to find
>"Who is this Mister Hobby guy?"
>"Never heard of a Mig Jimenez, never liked those commie bastard fighter jets anyway."
>No Fujimi, Aoshima or Fine Molds kits stocked regularly
>Not even Italeri is frequently stocked anymore
>No real kit industry unlike almost every country in Europe, Australia and Asia. Even some African countries are doing better.
>The companies that do exist only nostalgia-bait boomers.
>Speaking of which:
>"I know what I got know low-balls." (For a Monogram 1/77 Ford Trimotor being passed off as 1/72).
>No kits of interesting subjects (e.g Ryan NYP, F-101, etc.)
>No airliners stocked, usually (sometimes the odd Atlantis or Revell kit)
>Almost no Non-tank military vehicles
>Ship modellers are up shit creek without a paddle
I am so sick of it. All I wanted were since decent WWI models, but they only stock the same three Academy biplane shitkits that even 1970s Airfix manages to surpass. Excuse the rant, but I am just so tired of it all.

>>11554806
for resin bravo6 is unreal quality, especially his Vietnam sculpts but it's also brutally expensive

god fucking dammit, I bought the base kit of this in 2022 when it came out, bought a bunch of resin upgrade parts to turn it into the track version only for THIS to come out, I havent even touched my kit yet, i wasted so much money

>>11557674
leveling thinner and mr. surfacer 1500 have already been unobtainium for months

>>11555206
I also kinda fucked up my f16, I really hope the oil dot filter will fix it

>>11557622
I feel so incredibly fortunate to have several different hobby shops in my shitty midwestern US metropolitan area. They're surprisingly well stocked with different things.
one has
>stock from some of the "other guys", eduard, gwh, clear prop, icm, meng, arma, etc
>variety of paints including revell acrylics, humbrol, a decent amount of mr hobby, and even some old model master stock (but no mig, vallejo or AK)
>whole cabinet full of aftermarket detail stuff
>whole aisle of tools

the other has
>mostly the usuals; tamiya, hasegawa, airfix, round2 and revell stuff
>full selection of vallejo paints, some AK paint and pigments
>LOTS of gundam

we even have a model train shop that has anything you'd ever need for a diorama, as well as a bunch, if not the full line of ammo paints
Theres also a small hole in the wall shop that just opened recently dedicated to gunpla and things of that sort

america should start some kit companies

>>11557837
I think this hobby is too niche for new companies to emerge
You can go through the graveyard of failed new companies in scalemates

>>11556999
>Excuse me for speaking comparatively, but why pay more for the same products?

Sure, I agree. My local hobby stores pump the prices up to like 200%. It's cheaper for me to buy shit from Germany that have almost 3x higher wages. (I actually mostly buy from Poland or straight from producer in Spain).
That being said, if your options are either painting with fucking Testors or paying more at murican wages, then why torture yourself? I get that some parts of living in America are expensive, but I'm not sure you guys realize how much expandable income you have to spend on just stuff. I'm buying electronics at 150% prices compared to you while making less at an IT job than your burger flippers do.

these 90s trumpeter boxarts were something else

>>11558061
SOVL overload

>>11557837
It's been decades since production all shifted to China, and before that they were making them in Mexico. It would take very long to build up the facilities and manpower to get a new company in America up and running. Setting one up in response to tariffs is also too risky because the current admin is VERY unpredictable.

>cheap as shit chink airbrush seems to be dead
should I just buy another? I never used anything else

>>11548733 (OP)
Original decals disintegrated so I turned this into a german capture p51d. Balkenkreuz hasn't been put on yet but there are plenty of kits to cannibalize it from. This was a fun build if a tad ahistorical. Any thoughts and critiques? Academy 1:72

>>11558418
Different angle

What do I do about bubbles appearing when I brush on my paint?

>>11558500
Sand and redo it.

>>11557837
Atlantis is a new company, but their catalogue is all old Revell, Aurora, Monogram and Lindberg kits.

I would willingly start a company, but it would probably just be resin or vac-form at first. I need to straighten my life out right now too (not that modelling helps).

Any recommendations for model figures that are 1/12 scale or bigger? I had fun building the Moebius Death Dealer and haven't been able to find many others and it seems like I might have to get a 3D printer and scale up minis. Preferably military, sci fi, or fantasy, I'm not really interested in anime.

>>11558538
Is there anyway to avoid getting bubbles in the first place

>>11558655
Git gud and thin your paints properly. Too thin makes them bubble when brush painting.

What's everyone's recommendation for an acrylic primer?

>>11558665
Mr. Hobby. If you are in America, you are SOL and will probably be using hardware store paint three weeks from now anyway.

>>11558539
>resin or vac-form at first
It's all 3D printing now and some resin for cottage businesses, I wouldn't even bother with vac-form.

>>11558711
Fair, I did make my own vac-form machine in the past and there are a couple of German and British companies that still make vac-form kits (Aircraft in Miniature, Airmodel, Classic Plane and Welsh Models). I would probably just keep it to cottage type stuff, mainly WWI, aircraft and armor, plus airships across all eras, if I was going ahead with it. I have access to free 3D filament printing, my issue is that it is PLA only, unless I buy my own stuff. Is there any kind of filament that will not produce lines? If so, then I will create a CAD file and ship stuff to you guys for chicken feed.

I forgot to actually finish this one after I finished painting the bumpers and chrome stuff. Just gotta paint the grille and tail lights now

>>11559727
I wish I wasn't retarded

and now its finished.
I wish I could have figured out how to make the 3D printed engine work (it was 1/24 scale in a 1/25 model) but it didn't fit without a lot of cutting and I no longer felt it was worth it.
I got to try some new stuff out with this build
>kit bashing, cowl hood and interior gauges were from previous cars
>scratch building, made my own rear fender flares
>painting chrome
overrall I'm very happy with how this turned out despite not getting to use all the aftermarket stuff I bought for it.

AMT Ford Courier

>>11559833
Very nice detail work on the filthy cab interior. I can almost smell the cow patties on the floorboard.

oil shading, filters, some rust work and a little pigments. I might do some rust effects on my chipping. Currently experimenting with a nearly decade old bottle of clumpy enamel earth effects on the lower hull, so we'll see how that goes, yolo

rusty wheels. I wanna do this as a sitting hulk. Toying with the idea of doing a vignette base since I've never done one thats any good.

First time working with photo etch and I already want to kill myself

>>11560554
show us so we can make fun. also, get some flat jawed xuron pliers. perfect for holding small parts for cleanup and then for folding.

>>11560565
I haven't even gotten to the pieces that need to be bent yet

>>11560572
then why so blue panda bear? Is the superglue sucking penis? The proper type of CA glue and a fresh bottle of it make for a much more enjoyable build experience.

>>11560591
The superglue is freshly bought, but I didn't put any thought into what to get and picked up a cheap thing of super thin CA on amazon. Trying to keep/move the PE in place is ass, and no matter how far away I keep my fingers I somehow keep getting splatters of CA glue on my them

>>11560594
Head to any hardware store tomorrow and get a good gel superglue, I've never looked back

>>11560599
Any specific brands or products to look out for? I took a look at Menards' offerings before I checked Amazon, but none of it was safe for model plastic

>>11560605
this is what I use, never had an issue with it on plastic, just shake the shit out of it and squeeze out just enough to wick it off the tap with a toothpick and apply with that

>>11555309
That's why I buy most of my stuff second hand. Then it is only half price to begin with.