u/Rare_Grape7474

Firs time airbrush painting, im liking it not gonna lie.

I just finished the priming of this spit fire that im gonna paint in all metal, i started to look and i couldnt help but notice that i can never get rid of the seam lines without erasing some panel lines or detail, i use putty but for more smaller and detailed areas it proves to be quite difficult to properly sand it without getting rid of all of the details in the surface, this is more prominent in the fuselage.

How do you guys do it?? Use a more liquid putty like the vallejo one?? Any particular sand stick or maybe paper??

Btw, i used sand sticks for this.

I was going to paint the spitfire f.mk.22 with the paintjob mentioned in the title, but looking at all the acrylics i have that might fit the model i feel like im gonna be more certain after asking to other people about it.

I only have one sort of metalic red paint and the other is matt.

As for the rest of the plane, i only have silver on revell while the rest are either metalic grey, steel or aluminium.

Im gonna use the airbrush i just got, it was about time after been using it only to varnish my figures.

Are this colors good enough?? I should i go for another variations??

Not gonna lie to any of you, i lost the canopi so i just came up with this because i didnt wanted to just ditch the whole set after getting this far xd.

So im getting to the part where i have to apply wash to the, spitfire im making is already varnished when i applied the decals so the paint is not getting ruined.

I have applied wash to a 1/72 tank before, but seeing how the plane is looking, i cant help but feeling im doing something wrong here, the panels lines are barely noticeable.

Dont worry about the particulary dirty parts of the wings, im making a "being repared after a long battle" type of look, where it was flying low and all that.

I feel like im doing something wrong but i cant put my finger on it, the movie is still considerably thick

Got my first, thought about starting with something simple, so i varnished my spitfire mk1a canopi less edition (it took me a week to just accept in my soul that i lost it, never to be seen again but god dammit, im gonna finishi this plane), this layer is for putting the decals, ill let it cure before doing it so.

So in the meantime, i have a question, is it necessary to completely clean the airbrush (needle and tip included) or the whole fill the cup with watter/cleaner then cover the end with your finger and spray, dump it, and repeat a couple times is enough given you its all youre gonna do for the day?? Any suggestions are welcome :D

Done with vallejo raf dark green and vallejo raf dark earth.

First came patter i have done in general.

Should i apply one more layer to the wings to it can look a bit more uniform?? Could varnish work to hide the streaks?? Any suggestions are welcome, considering most people here probably are more experienced than me.

I used 1/2 ratio so the paint was reaaally liquid

3 layers in and i still cannot cover this properly with a brush, or am i doing something wrong??

I keep the paint 1/4 with the thinner...or maybe sky type s is just that hard to properly apply

I was going to paint the no.19 squadron patter in my spitfire(the one with a yellow nose and green and brown camo) when i realized the closest color i have to brown is leather brown, which i used for the seat of the cockpit, and olive grey, which is what i used for the rest of the cockpit.

Should i buy proper colors or this should be enough??

Idk if its the weather since its very cold here this time of the years or what, but this is the second one i have that got dry cement in the needle, any suggestioms in how to unstuck it or should i just buy another and be more careful?? Or get tamiya extra thin??

I think i can still use either putty or weathering to cover them....but still.

For real this time :D no broken parts, nothing! weathered and with mud texture to give it a more enviromental sense (:

I got so much fun with it in bought another one to do it again with a diferent paintjob now

Im gonna put wash in it to make it look more dirty, but idk if i should put the spare tracks, wheels, ammo and fuel boxes on it before doing it or apply it with nothing else on and then put the stuff on it, any a

Suggestions?

And yes, the turret and the hull are varnished

Im starting to think i should have used olive green and not cam olive green, maybe next time

And yes, the polycement is curated, so im throwing this into the trash