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A month or so ago I bought myself an Iwata Neo airbrush as I've always loved the idea of spraying my own shells.

For the past few weeks I have limited myself to doing one colour shells as I would like to get used to doing even coats and not rush into overly complex designs... but yesterday I made an attempt at my first custom paint job.

Overall im pretty pleased, im happy with my orange fading and the sharpness of SOME of my lines, I'm not happy with the black drop shadow on white. and the quality at times with my lines.

Any feedback/pointers/C&C is more than welcome....thanks





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Nice choice of colours
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Old 22-05-2014
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my second shell completed tonight, Took around 4-5 hours in total including masking ect.
Need to order more colours and get started on some TC shells



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Tidy first attempts!

Don't be too hard on yourself, the accuracy with the scalpel and airbrush will come in time.

What is it particularly about the black drop shadow that you don't like? - I'm never keen on shading into white - it shows every trace of overspray and can look dirty. How about trying a colour that ties in with the overall scheme, rather than simply black. Less is more too!

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Tidy first attempts!

Don't be too hard on yourself, the accuracy with the scalpel and airbrush will come in time.

What is it particularly about the black drop shadow that you don't like? - I'm never keen on shading into white - it shows every trace of overspray and can look dirty. How about trying a colour that ties in with the overall scheme, rather than simply black. Less is more too!

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I was just not that happy with the consistency of the shadow and the shear amount of over spray, But black was not the best choice, I think I achieved a better shadow on the second shell.

What do you guys use for cleaning Alclad chrome from your brush? Createx cleaner and thinners did nothing to clean it out and took me a good 45mins to get it all out again.
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For cleaning up Alclad paints I use cellulose thinners the Alclad is lacquer based so you'll have to use a suitable thinner such as cellulose which will rip it from your brush in moments. Createx is water based (acrylic) so the thinner for that won't do anything really about lacquer based stuff.
Word of warning tho the stuff stinks so make sure you open up all the windows or if you can clean up outside even better.
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For cleaning up Alclad paints I use cellulose thinners the Alclad is lacquer based so you'll have to use a suitable thinner such as cellulose which will rip it from your brush in moments. Createx is water based (acrylic) so the thinner for that won't do anything really about lacquer based stuff.
Word of warning tho the stuff stinks so make sure you open up all the windows or if you can clean up outside even better.
Thanks for that, It will certainly make the job of cleaning Alclad alot easier

Do you guys use anything to coat the shell with once its all sprayed? to keep the water ect off?
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My favourite is Tamiya matt lacquer, but plain old Plastikote is fine, Faskoat is pretty good too (Faskolors own).

In all cases, let the paint thoroughly dry for a few days, then only dust it on in light coats, thicker coats on fresh paint seem to make the paint brittle, and prone to chipping off the shell in a knock.

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Latest Project for a friend, My third attempt with an airbrush.

I Had a few problems with the black backing on the chrome peeling up when I removed the masks, i had sprayed RCS chrome, then 2 light coats of black and left to dry overnight before removing the masks. Am I doing anything wrong?





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it is best to spray the chrome last to avoid that problem
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Great job buddy

Yes, try to spray chrome last if possible.
I have done it before last numerous times but you need to be super careful with your backing and what other colours need to go down after.
So yeh, try to spray chrome last if possible.
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Cheers guys

I have a few more shells sitting waiting to be sprayed so i will try to do the chrome last to see ow if effects results.

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A few more completed this weekend.









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Really nice, love the marbling on the blue .
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Yep, easy to see the progression from the first pics you posted ;-)
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A few recent ones completed this weekend. Pictures were taken late at night so they do not do them justice.









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Since when did 2wd off road shells get so small! the last off road car i owned was a Losi XXX



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A few more from the past week.









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two tamiya mini's for some committee members of the UMCC







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Another shell completed for a club member, I REALLY like this one

I tried to subtly splatter some paint into the lighter blue area without overdoing it.







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