u/DomMcDon

I thoroughly enjoy watching his videos. He uses a lot of rattle cans. Primer and all. He also does great brush work too. He makes models look so easy. I’m over here airbrushing and brush painting. Meticulously going over every fine detail. I feel like he could possibly do a model per week or faster. At the end of the day, he’s producing built kits that look amazing, and I feel like I barely make progress and mine don’t look half as good. Is it just me, or is modeling more involved than he makes it out to be? Am I working harder than I should? Again, his models always look amazing. I just feel like I must be doing something wrong.

I’m not the best at airbrushing. I sometimes get orange peel. Most times it lays out super smooth. I use a $25 Timbertech airbrush from Amazon with and 0.5 needle. I’ve been able to dial it down to do really fine work, like the mini guys. It also sprays body’s and chassis’ no problem. I’ll definitely upgrade to Iwata soon. I think u/jonjon??? Posted a spoon pic of a cool redish pink color, and I decided $35 in HL paint was worth a try. 😂 2 silver base units. 1 black, 1 grey primer. A bunch of bright colors. I also updated my spray colors with a few of the crafting Krylons.

I just had a bday. My kids got me a model I would have never chosen, but am excited to build after the current bench work. I also got the vevor spray booth today. Happy to finally have something to protect me out in my shed.

My kids gifted me this for Christmas. I had worked on it, and boxed it up several times over the last few months. Not my best work. But, for my 9th model, I’ve learned a lot. Vallejo primer and paint for the body. Gx112 gloss. Not as glossy as I wanted. Mostly Tamiya acrylic paint. My last Revell did well with microscale decal solution. These decals only wanted water.

I’ve always been into the stranger things show. The first season was the best. I remember watching it with my son, when it first came out. He was about the age of the kids in the show at the time.

This model is really well made, by Revell. The sprue is almost as perfect as a Tamiya model. Fit has been great. It even has a few extra goodies like Hopper’s cowboy hat and a box of eggo waffles with a decal to go over the box.

First time using GX 112 for clear. I’ve done multiple coats. I was hoping for a better shine. Good thing is, it made the paint really durable.