Hi, I got a problem similar to noob4life's. Am using Gunze's primer which have not much of a problem with my tamiya paint and solvent when i airbrush. I use to use tamiya's primer and the primer seems to react a bit too fast with my tamiya paint+solvent when i airbrush on top of it. Any of you "Sifus" have this problem. Would very much want to stick back to tamiya's primer (Coz i stay near 1 utama & also find tamiya's primer cheaper). Didnt test on it cause dont want to buy another can and later found out got problem.....

A bit the confused on what problem u're having. Can u describe more on what u mean when you said 'react a bit too fast'?

fyire: When i apply paint on to tamiya primer, sometime i notice the primer start to "melt". Result, i got uneven surface or worse, the gray color primer started to mix with the paint. Especially the paint is mix with a higher % of solvent/thinner and retarder.

Hi guys, recently i bought of Neon Evangelion kits, and completely built it, but there is somekinda "stickers" that cant be use whatever technic i try, bcoz of the manual is japannese it wouldnt be much help either, i even tear it up n no way its a sticker, i also "rub-at-the-back" of the paper also failed. so anyone around here know how to do it? its kinda cool n a must for the complete kit.
its not expired are they?, bcoz its stated in the box it was made in 1996
and what the most cost effective to remove those tiny crack mark on the kits joints, without using paints

Kit name: Neon Genesis Evangelion 1/100 LM HG 02 EVA-02

current condition:

Cut them out and place them in water! That wat i did! But those thing are nightmare, there are so soft that they tend to stick together easily!

I hate 1/100 stuff, and i will not go and buy another one anymore, shift to Revoltech!

put them in water? really?

submerge or just to wet them only? wow! i never thought like that

im so gonna have worse time ont the EVA 01 Type F then

anyway, thanks.. gonna try it later.

its a water base decal if you talking about old HG eva model...

let it float on the water for a few second than stick it on the surface...do it slowly as they like to stick together and once it stick together its as good as throw them away...

the background color of the sticker determine what base they are:

blue - water base/wet transfer
green - glue sticker/direct transfer
white - rub on/dry transfer

that's is very helpful, thanks.. hopefully it turn out well as i really like them emblem n all

are u mentioning a sticker in MG kit??

this apply to whatever decal out there...not only for MG...

they all are standard

Here's 2 links for decals
Water Decal
http://www.ghostofzeon.com/diy/waterslides/decalapp.html
Dry Decal
http://www.ghostofzeon.com/diy/drytrans/dry.html

What sort of paints r u using? If lacquer, then its a pretty tricky thing to solve, of which you can only do via trial and error, by experimenting with the ratio of paint to thinner. But from what you've described, it does very much sound like the thinner ratio to paint is a bit too high. But the problem with too little thinner is that the paint will dry too quickly, and you get brush marks.

Don't think I can give any concrete solutions for this apart from the trail and error on paint to thinner ratio, as I don't use lacquers for hand painting.

oh wow.. can it be done without that softener solution?

anyone know where can i find this decal softener here in JB

anyone kno where i can get a good design knife in PJ??

omg...den wat about 1/100 astray blue frame 2nd L??? i dunno wat's those decal's type le...i jz stick them like stickers

hmm does anyone know wat other color match with metalic blue ? i noob at color mix

This post has been edited by chriswoo: Sep 22 2007, 12:13 AM

try this website out http://www.colorblender.com/
great for lazy ppl ( like me ) or u have no idea which color to match
although it's a color matching for website but still it works for gunpla ..... just that u need to mix the color out ur self

COOL THANKS NOW I can mix and try liao XD

you u can stick like sticker...then its a glue base decal...
and somemore...even if HG and NG got a decal...then its most probally a glue type decal

glue type decal so far are the best and easy to apply unlike the water base but depend see how a modder use it