A few photos Mark V and Whippet in high definition with my new gallery. I hope that soon we will add pictures FT17 ...There are some links to a forum with the construction of models from the beginning:)
My Whippet and Mark V is composed of several kinds of materials: cardboard, resin, aluminum foil, superglue:), cardboard, paint, real mud from the street and my river, pastels, fixative, a bit of wire:). To make molds for casting of complete parts, both models are too big for me: (. The high cost of silicone .... How do I build a model Whippet again, this time without aluminum foil. Paints a very bad and hard to stick to the cardboard ...
Andy
-- Edited by bigtank on Monday 20th of December 2010 10:58:16 PM
-- Edited by bigtank on Monday 20th of December 2010 11:04:37 PM
Hi Andy, Very impressive models. Do you degrease the aluminum first before painting, a wipe with acetone would help clean it. then a coat of primer before your top coats/weathering. Hth Paul
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Aluminum foil is too difficult to paint, so to combine:) I tried my way, even put on the delicate texture of rolled sheet for the entire model and is good, but still sometimes likes to loosen nit:) from the model. Aluminium foil is in addition to painting, nice to have fun. For glued to cardboard, can be done engraved panel lines, rivets can be squeezed on the models of aircraft, on a piece of rubber can be raised to do things. The film itself is beautifully done concave mirror reflectors (like the real thing)
Andy
-- Edited by bigtank on Tuesday 21st of December 2010 12:22:59 AM
Aluminium is a bitch to paint. Aside from cleaning it with solvent you need an etch primer to give a good base for paint to stick to. The primers the plastic modellers use on turned aluminium gun barrels seem to be work reasonably well.
Aluminium foils can be made from a large number of different alloys - kitchen foil is a Manganese, Silicon, Magnesium alloy which has good bursting strength but is difficult to paint. The best foil for painting is probably soft tooling foil which is just about pure Aluminium.
Once, long ago, before I discovered the resin, the models did only made of cardboard with aluminum foil. In the picture my FT 17 on a scale of 1:15. The material is just cardboard and aluminum foil, some wire, glue and cardboard:). Squeezed rivets .... On the blog I added a few new things. Slideshow - How do I form .. Maybe someone of you interested in this topic ..
