Who Is Into Scale Modelling?

[floppydrive]

what is papercrafts? is that a website? there is a website that offers free templates for scale models.

 

I like to get a floor plan and make my own scale model house. but i dont have a lot of materials, just foamboards, matboards, board paper, paint. still trying to find out how to make the glass windows and nicer doors. my furnitures are also all handmade using matboards but they take too much time i dont enjoy it. i dont know what to use for foliage too.

 

anybody who can suggest materials that i can use for my model house... i want to level up to buildings like condos or malls... thanks!

Hi! You can use acetate film for the windows and glass sliding doors. You can use trimmed green scouring pads for the foliage. Felt paper for the grassy lawn.

[Dr_PepPeR]

Hi! You can use acetate film for the windows and glass sliding doors. You can use trimmed green scouring pads for the foliage. Felt paper for the grassy lawn.

 

I didn't know you also made architectural models!

[floppydrive]

 

I didn't know you also made architectural models!

Hehehe. I don't, Doc! I made dioramas for tanks before and learned a few tips from architects. Of course, I enjoy looking at architectural models and appreciate the techniques they used to build them.

[Dr_PepPeR]

Hehehe. I don't, Doc! I made dioramas for tanks before and learned a few tips from architects. Of course, I enjoy looking at architectural models and appreciate the techniques they used to build them.

 

Oh I see. I've tried pushing one of the architectural models and they're very durable. I thought you could give me pointers for my dioramas.

[Piaggio]

Where can one get the small LED lights used in architectural models?

[smooth_af]

May mga sasali ba sa inyo sa IPMS? gaganapin sa glorietta this October I think

[MTBCommuter]

Knight Industries 2000 aka KITT from Knight Rider

 

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt302/CivicVTi_2009/DSC02761.jpg

 

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt302/CivicVTi_2009/DSC02764.jpg

 

Wooow!!!!

[Alucard_Fullbuster]

great topic ill try to drop by in glorietta if theyre still there i want to create one vehicle line a car but i want to have miniature

[CivicVTi]

@mahabangpasensya

 

Thanks for the compliment sir. Here is a recent pic of KITT out of his storage box.

 

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt302/CivicVTi_2009/IMG_0524.jpg

[CivicVTi]

Here are some pics of the original donor car the Knight Industries 2000 (KITT) was based on. It was a 1982 Trans Am Firebird and this model is in 1/24 scale from Monogram.

 

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt302/CivicVTi_2009/IMG_0537.jpg

 

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt302/CivicVTi_2009/IMG_0530.jpg

[CivicVTi]

The engine compartment

 

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt302/CivicVTi_2009/IMG_0534.jpg

[CivicVTi]

A work in progress...

 

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt302/CivicVTi_2009/IMG_0551.jpg

 

http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt302/CivicVTi_2009/IMG_0547.jpg

[Ghost13]

Hi... Great forum...

 

I'm into Scale Modelling but I'm still an amateur up to now...

I've researched a lot but I always ended up not finishing my scale models...

 

I used to buy WWII planes when I was a kid and wasnt serious enough and just ended up gluing and finishing the model... When I was in High School I found an Italeri F-16A for about a 100pesos bec. Tamiya Models is so expensive (I think even still now!) but didnt know how to use paints... then my sister bought me a genuine F-14 Tomcat 1:72 scale from the U.S. which has decals from the original movie - TOP GUN by Tom Cruise, but just barely started the cockpit and the front nose - (Somehow it was misplaced by my bestfriend who is now in Canada - together with the rest of my other Scale Models which were mainly Academy Kits). I bought a SU-27 1:48 Academy Kit in Seoul when I was in Korea last 1998 but also didnt finish bec. my painting was soooooo bad (I used spray paint cans) - this one I left behind from my workplace somewhere in the pacific but I bought it for a cheap price bec. I saw it from an old store in Seoul (like a typical sari-sari store) which doesnt really sell models but just happens to be there - and so I ended up bringing the big box in the Airport as additions to my luggage.

 

Scale Modelling however, brought me to love everything about every aircraft esp. US aircraft (F-14,F-15,F-16,A-10,F-22,F-117,Apache,Cobra,etc.) and Russian Aircraft(Su-27,Su-22,Mig-29,Antonov,Hind,etc).

For now I am here in Kuala Lumpur and hoping to start again and continue and happen to see Trumpeter Model Kits which has China Airforce Aircrafts and they are on sale for 50% discount last month.

 

Glad to hear from fellow amateur modellers. I hope you can provide Paint Techniques esp. for us amateurs who were having problems with paints and gluing parts.

 

1. Are Spray Paint Cans that good? or should we invest in expensive Air Brush Machines?

2. Are there cheap Air Brush Machines (locally made or Purchase Abroad)? Price Range?

3. How can we know when to use Spray paints or Brush?

4. how about using Putty? even now I still have problems with parts that have gaps when they are fitted?

5. Any Particular techniques in painting camouflage like mixing Green/Black/White/Brown?

6. Any tips about doing Weathering?

 

 

I read about using a clear top coat paint after finishing the paints and the decals to preserve the look. I also read that the 'mint' condition of the scale model also depends on the genuine Decals which are based on hard-to-find real insignias from the military.

 

Keep us updated and good to hear from this forum.

 

P.S. Any info on where I can buy the original TOP GUN movie F-14? as I've said it was already lost, and I wanted to buy again, but I can't search anything from the internet. Any info would be very well appreciated. I think my previous model kit was made by Revell. Thanks

Sir,

 

To answer your questions:

 

1) Depende po sa inyo, Spray cans are good if application is sa big surface. bur for smaller items, you can handbrush it. this is what I do since namamahalan din ako sa AB.

 

2) Those are china made. around 3k-5k sa compressor and another 1k-2k for the airbrush.

3) big surface na same color, pwede and spray, while smaller details are painted by brush.

4) for putty, a trick I learned is to delute it using the bottled plastic cement. easy to apply and hindi agad tumitigas. You need to sand the excess carefully.

5) Masking tape or a modelling clay / silly putty / blue tac can do the trick. you need to apply the most prominent color first. then using a modelling clay, cover the ones you want to retain. spray again. add the clay for the colors you want to retain then repeat. Spray lightly and you need to identify the angle of your spray for added effects.

6) I don't usually weather but you can look it up sa youtube. a lot of help and tips there as well.

[Ghost13]

wala ba medyo mura ng konti kasi medyo mahal talaga sa lils eh//hehehe...thanks for sharing...

Try JMN Hobby shop. They have one in Harrison Plaza and another branch sa Fishermall along Quezon Ave.

[Trante]

question about sanding, ano mashshare nyong tips about it? ang alam ko is start ka sa 250, down to 800 then 1k grits para mawala yung nubmarks. pero nakakatakot magasgasan yung kit haha