In my experience, lacquer don't make the plastic brittle at all unless you overspray it but you can test paint on empty runner if you not convince. Also all spray paint was lacquer even most of the hobby ones. BTW Mr. Super Clear was lacquer spray, the Acrylic ones is Mr. Topcoat (The small blue one)

As for paint layers, that the perfectionist way of making it. I usually skip gloss coat since gloss paint is good enough for panel wash.

Even then it pretty hard to find on most places.

Thanks Khai62 for your input. If not mistaken, you are Gaianotes user right? Which primer you usually use?

Well majority of my paint stock make of Gaianotes and Mr Hobby which both are lacquer but anyway i usually use Mr. Surfacer 1000 which is also good for painting metal parts as the mixture mixed with some metal primer. I also use Gaianotes Surfacer Evo on some occasion.

Thanks for the heads up!

Im trying to look for compressor for airbrushing for gunpla....does anyone using this mini compressor? how does it perform? any comments?




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Hi. Can sifu2 here guide me on how to resin casting? And where's the best place to get the materials around kl/selangor. Thanks!

Anyone has experience getting air compressor from Taobao to Malaysia? Any restriction on delivery?

anyone has experience using Sparmax SX0.3D, previous one the trigger controls both air flow & nozzle opening, but this one looks different. previous one trigger spring broke after using less than 5 times, so decide to get better brand but not too expensive, rm210++

u want something that has filter & humid control. some comes with small glass tube to trap the humid where you can purge the liquid by pushing a button, it also has auto trip function when you aren't using the brush.

u can use normal cheap compressor in hardware shop as long as they can provide stable pressure and hook up ur own filter/water trap, but beware those compressor are not designed for continuous running it will get hot easily so you have to manually turn it off when pausing or give it some cool down time.

Hi guys..I would like to know if there is any shop that provides building and painting service/finishing for plastic models? I have a star wars xwing and tie fighter to build and paint but i know it wont look great if i do it myself..im willing to pay some money to get it done.thanks guys..

Anyone here has experience with Vallejo surface primer? It seems good to be pre-thinned and can be used with AB directly.

Hi a gunpla newbie here

Can anyone recommend me which thinner to use?

And whats the difference between mark softer and mark setter? Should they both to be use together?

I did search it online but everyone opinion is different @@

If do you mean by paint thinner, it depend on what type of paint you use such as Enamel thinner should be use only with enamel paint, Lacquer thinner with lacquer paint and so on.

Mark setter is the one that set the decal in place while Mark softer soften the decal so that it able to stick to curved surface better. Personally while i have both of them, i use Mark setter the most since most gundam decals only placed on flat surface.

Anyone know where I can get Testors Model Master Metalizer spray? Had one can of "stainless steel" but its running out and need to resupply

Link below

http://www.testors.com/product-catalog/tes...er-paint/sprays

Also looking for alclad II Lacquer Chrome spray/rattle can or spaz stix mirror chrome?



This post has been edited by kLvru: Jul 14 2015, 05:49 PM

This is from GSI Catalogue:

I'm using the mini compressor now, the cons is that max 1.5 bar output and it's not can't maintained stable output, might be a bit problem on continuous spray but since most parts r small it's ok. It will gets heat up n stop once you spray over 2hours. So you might have some paint finishing problem if it's not properly used.

In case u ask y high pressure. Metallic paint will required high pressure above 3bar to get optimum finishing, less than that might get spotty metallic finish instead of smooth one.

Got mine from taobao no issue at all rm110 include shipping for mini compressor, filter and air brush pen.

Mine also heats up but only wait for a few seconds n cn go back to work.

You can pre-thinned your own and put in eye drop bottles. So far I spray everything using lacquer and even strip paints on parts using lacquer thinner 3 times on bootlegs also no issue. If you're still not confident enough try on runners 1st.

well there are also a few reminders, when you assembled it there are a few parts require do seam lines removal (its the line after assemble 2 parts)
might be tricky on polycaps if you wanna do seam lines removal, so if you plan to skip that then easy disassemble everything and only group by color

bare in mind that some parts plan to color assembled the inner part might gets difficult and will show the color difference (if doing parts color change)

hehe if you're using mini compressor shud be around rm80 or less from taobao include shipping, but for the big guys that usually weight around 4kg i source a few alternatives taobao seaway shipment that can offer cheap shipping option that you can get big compressor around rm320 with tank and rm200 without tank.

i have been sourcing and planning for an upgrade when the time is right (now rm a bit low and rmb a bit high)

anyone know where i can get Kosutte Ginsan Chrome powder or MGM Magic Powder Chrome?

http://www.jshobby.cc/goods-1486-MGM+Super...by+Tools+).html