Danny Meer Almost done with the decals on right side was weird to do 4 small decals first and then the big decal over it...messed up right-side door tribal decal but luckily you don't see it very well

Chris, that car must have been a decal nightmare lol..still came out very nice
Chaz, that's so true mate, loads of hours well spend Only the paint on this 1 was a bit much for such a small kit Think total of around € 35,-/40,- euro with primer, paint and clear

Tom ... That is so awesome, Danny! Top notch job! Clear coat that puppy before anyything happens!

Danny Meer Thank you so much Tom, really appreciated

Chaz Gordon Danny, I hear ya on the cost of paint in a can. Airbrushing may be a big outlay up front, but the costs per kit after are massively reduced. My Mossie and R2 used a whole can of Tamiya Fine primer between them, and 4 Tie fighters that I built used 3 500ml cans of automotive primer. It's the same with varnish, R2 consumed 2 cans of Tamiya Semi-Gloss, and the Mossie a can and a bit of Tamiya Matt. I get the automotive primer cheap in bulk, but The tamiya cans are £7 each. The trouble with spray cans is that most of the volume evaporates or goes on the paper around the thing you're painting

The Thunderbirds Pilots, Is the first kit I've done without any spray cans. The Primer is Vallejo Poly, think I used between 5 - 10ml (200ml = £11.99). The main colour is Vallejo Game Air, about 5ml used (17ml = £2.40) The five vehicles were about 1-2 ml each of various Vallejo colours. (all pre thinned too) Varnish was 10ml of Vallejo Satin (500ml = £11.99) and 10ml of Vallejo Gloss (500ml = £11.99) Only the varnishes needed thinning, which was done with De-ionised water £2 for a Litre bottle, probably consumed about 8ml so far.

The most expensive part of the airbrushing was cleaning the thing, I probably used around 50ml of airbrush cleaner (200ml = £7.99) and 30ml of Airbrush thinner (200ml = £9.99)

So while I spent more to get all of that than you did on the bus, I'm left with almost full bottles of everything, that I will use on the next kit and the next kit and so on.

Colour shift paints are available for airbrush at only a small increase on the cost of regular ones. the Green stuff Chameleons work out around £3 for 17ml, and Vallejo also do a small range at £4 for 17ml. from what i've seen, coverage per kit would be about the same as the regular paints, although I've also had to buy Vallejo Gloss Black primer as a base.

The trouble is, you have to repeat all the ancillary fluids if you use a different type of paint - Tamiya Acrylics need a different thinner, which is about the same price as Vallejo thinner, and 99.9% IPA for cleanup (which is double the price at the moment thanks to CV19), but they can be varnished with Vallejo, and can also go over Vallejo primer. The Alclad I've bought needs a whole other set of Primers, thinners, cleaners and varnish.

Whatever you do, initial outlay is going to be high, but once you're set up, airbrushes consume very little. Unless you are trying to paint something with Tamiya White, that stuff just doesn't cover, I keep a stock of at least 3 10ml bottles at all times in case I decide I want to paint something white.

Chaz Gordon The Van looks fantastic By The Way.

Bozzer Chaz, you're probably aware, but just in case... You can get a large can of Halfords plastic primer, in various colours, for around a tenner. I have used it in the past, and it's just as good as Tamiya, but you get nearly 3x the amount. Recently I have been working with Plasticote primer. A large can, was £8 from B&M bargains, no less! I find it a little grainy, but a quick sand with some 2000 wet and dry, sorts that out. They also have a gloss white, in the smaller can, that's the best rattle can white gloss, I've ever seen. Worth a punt buddy.

Chaz Gordon Thanks Bozzer, But I'm converted to Vallejo primers, so cheap. If I use cans, I've got a 12 pack of U-pol from ebay for £30. It doesn't like cold weather though, really have to shake the can for ages, and I tend to grab a couple of cans and keep them in the house for a couple of days if I'm going to use it. The colour is a perfect match for imperial Grey when I'm doing Tie Fighters and other imperial kits.

Danny Meer It has been a while since last time working on this 1. today did the last few decals on the van. the wheelhub decals are so damn small and really have to look close at it to see the black vw decals...
Now I can do the last 1 or 2 clear coats on it, but the humidity in my hobbyroom....pffff.... last week it was 30+ celcius and now the humidity is going thru the roof lol...
The gold parts look great on the body color if I may say so myself

Danny Meer Hmmm can buy this 1 for € 27,50....good price but have already so much in stash lol...

Patrick Hagelstein So glad Danny can get a second chance! That's what (Scale)Mates are for!

Peter Hardy Let's hear it for Marty! Hip hip ...................

Patrick Hagelstein Hooray!!!

Danny Meer Hip Hip Hooray!!!

For he's a jolly good fellow
For he's a jolly good fellow
For he's a jolly good fellow
Which nobody can deny

Bozzer Nobody can deny!

Martin Oostrom Cut it out. You are making me blush. I did nothing special.

Nathan Dempsey Good show Martin

Tom ... Fantastic job, Danny. Real shame about the varnish!!!

Danny Meer Not sure yet what color is best for the pallets, palletjack red or yellow...

Dominik Weitzer very cool! made your color decision? I would make it classic yellow.

Danny Meer Like you said, gonna make it yellow

Dominik Weitzer very nice one. well made.

Danny Meer Yesss!!! happy happy..ordered 1 today

Bozzer Did you ever get this kit Danny?

Danny Meer @Bozzer, sorry for late answer but yess, have it in my stash
And thx John, it's an awesome kit and need to find some courage to build this 1 lol

Really don't wanna mess this 1 up and white is a color I hate to do

Bozzer There's one on eBay now Danny. £350, I think it is? I'd hold on to that mate. It's gonna keep you in glue and paint for a lonnnng time!

Danny Meer I've payed € 300,- for this 1

Treehugger Ophff. :| But, it looks like a nice kit.

Btw, a seller (trade) on this website has this kit for unreal price, so maybe wrong price or fraudulent/scam sale?

Danny Meer I think it's a very nice kit with all the resin and CNC parts. And I love Scania trucks alot.
I'm very happy that I had the chance to buy 1 and my wallet did allow it

Bozzer Definitely a collection piece Danny mate

Bozzer Ebay.co.uk Item - ITALERI 3900MT Scania R730 Limited edition Heavy Haulage 1 24 Truck Model Kit

Danny Meer First time tried to give something a "used" look, waterpump came out ok'ish

Tom ... Not bad at all for a first try!

Chris Greathouse Looking sweet!

Danny Meer Was going thru a box of old stuff from the big stash i've bought and found this graphite powder in it. still new used it for my wheels so now they won't make squeaking noise and roll smoother

Tom ... hmmm, so modern day it's the squeaky wheel gets the graphite... I see.

Martin Oostrom Nice one so far Danny.

Chris Greathouse Just putting this UNIMOG mini-docu here The fire truck is shown off around 12:08 https://facebook.com/363517520766067/videos/529435281093662

Chris Greathouse Youtube Video

Chris Greathouse You can always slap some glue under the stickers for piece of mind.

Danny Meer not sure what that will do to a stickersheet, wouldn't that just melt it?

Chris Greathouse I wouldn't think so if it's a regular sticker, but don't quote me... Back in primary school, we played with old shotty stickers all the time and fixed them down with glue. They looked normal. just a thought.

Bozzer Danny, use school glue, not kit glue! School glue is P.V.A. It dries clear and you won't need much mate. It can be diluted with water and if any overspills, you can wipe it off with a damp cloth.

Danny Meer @Chris, it's a picture of an Heavy duty trailer from internet, but like you said it would be a nice combo with that cargo (not sure if that's a kit or die-cast) and the Heavy haulage Scania

@Chaz Already have that 1 in my stash Bought mine for € 35,- Have a few nice trailers that I could use and that's my problem Don't know what I should put behind the Scania

Chris Greathouse This is the one from your stash, The only question would be... would a 1:24 truck and 1:25 trailer look like crap?

Heavy Duty Trailer (Revell 07533, 1:25)

Chaz Gordon The difference between scales is 1/8 of an inch in scale per 8 Feet full size, ie the width of the 1/25 trailer would be under by about 1/8 inch, and the length of a 40' trailer would be short by 5/8 inch, or about 16mm. On the height, no-one would ever notice.
The variance between manufacturers is more like to be noticable than that between the two scales. I have a 1/24 58 Chevy pickup truck in Die cast, and a 1/25 57 Chevy truck in plastic. The cabs for those two years of truck are identical, the changes were front end treatments. But the two scale cabs are noticably different at about 1/4 inch in the width, more than twice the scale variance, and the height is quite a bit off too. A shame as I was planning to cast a 58 Front end for the 57 truck kit.

Danny Meer I was also wondering how much of a difference it would be, but now you gave some explenation about it, think it will be ok to use a 1:25 trailer behind a 1:24 truck thx for that Chaz

Christian W Uh! This Radio controlled 959 is Beautiful

Danny Meer Thx Christian It's a vintage Kyosho Hobao Porsche 959 1:7th scale /w pirate chassis
all original from '91

Christian W Awesome! Thank you for this information. It's a wonna have thing

Danny Meer I don't dare to use it anymore cuz it's a vintage car and parts for it is hard to get, it sits as a shelfqueen only
Here is a link to a website with the story behind the car:
classic.rc-junkies.net/?p=385

Danny Meer Price for this 1979 kit € 35,- is that ok or to much?

Martin Oostrom Don't the Aussies drive on the wrong, not right!, side of the road? Steering wheel in your kit is on the left side. Either the kit is wrong, OR the Kenworths were delivered like this back in the day. Where is our resident Aussie-truck-ologist when you need him? Peter, wake up!

In other news, I think you did well on this kit. K100's look awesome and so does yours

Tim Heimer LOL Martin! Good point!

Danny Meer I was wondering the same, if it's a mistake or what...IMO think it was a fault of Revell, cuz KW had a plant in Australia in 1962 already. think Revell was cutting corners by using most of the parts in this kit for various models, including this "Australian" version. also some parts in the box for a Aerodyne version (upper glass and second bed) and a normal chrome front bumper for other K100's

Neuling Good looking truck.

Danny Meer Thx Neuling

Chris Greathouse This is totally VIT level!! Great interior!! My current truck is a VIT too... I hope I do it justice. Very Important Truck... basically it makes an exterior statement (VIT badge on truck) about how classy/elegant your interior is.

Bart Teunis hmmm well did some search but the only K100 Images I found where alll with the steer on the left side .... was it made in th eUS and then exported ?

https://google.com/search?q=..h=1110#imgrc=thFW4a5cVb0aEM:

Christian W This truck looks great! I like this model kit a lot and never bought it. I had a black one with the flat roof (not an aerodyne) which was destroyed in my man's cave when a wall collapsed. It still sits in a box. Maybe sometime it could get a restoration. I think all the parts are there.

Thomas Kirschbaum looks good

Chris Greathouse Geee that truck looks awfully famillular ... Looks great!

Danny Meer lol Chris and thx for nice comments guys

Bill Newcomer Wow, the artwork has it flying OFF THE GROUND!

Chris Greathouse That looks sick!! Those rear tires are hella cool!

Danny Meer The moment you find your kit under the heater.....my housekeeper placed this kit under the heater
The kit was mostly build already by previous owner, what I don't understand is that he build it first without painting...this makes it very hard to paint, cuz can't get to all parts....

Martin Oostrom Can't you make a diorama with a fallen tree that hit the cab? Doesn't need to be now, but perhaps in a few weeks/months/years, when you feel you are up to it?
When working with an airbrush, you can get paint in amazing places, or none in other places. Masking painted parts before spraying another colour is pretty commonplace.

Olivier What happened to the housekeeper ?

Danny Meer LOL Olivier have never been seen since

Slavo Hazucha Agree with Martin - if you wanted to achieve such damage on purpose, it would never have worked this well...

You have to approach models and projects as people... empathically find out where their inner strengths and beauties are and gently carve out the best out of the relationship...

Danny Meer well said Slavo words of wisdom still need to try weathering, haven't done that before but really want to learn it some day.

Patrick Hagelstein

Chaz Gordon Microsol is amazing, just dab it on with a brush and let it soften the decal. after a while, I gently push the decal down with a damp Q-tip

Danny Meer Should I use these flashlights or not? maybe a little to big for the 1:16 truck, got them on my Tamiya 1:14 and these where spares

Patrick Hagelstein To me the difference in scale/size isn't that noticeable. Unless it's a very specific type of flashing lights, those lights come in all sorts and sizes, right?

Danny Meer Thought so too, and in the old days some trucks had large flashing lights. and old police cars aswell

Patrick Hagelstein See!

Danny Meer and I tried vallejo decal softener but didn't help much, think the decals are to thick or old or the combination of both

Chris Greathouse Following.

Danny Meer

Chaz Gordon @Danny, if you are using Matt Colors, skip the Tamiya, and go straight for Vallejo. I use the Model Air and Game Air range for brush painting, they are thinner, but have finer pigments than the Model color range, which need to be thinned. I get better results all round with the Air range than thinned model color. Plus you can shake and pour into an airbrush without needing to work out how much you need, because you can pour any excess back into the bottle.

Chaz Gordon The Tamiya Glosses are pretty good, and Vallejo doesn't really do Gloss, most vallejo users use a matt & clear approach for gloss paint, the Game air range is great for that. Sadly, there is not much in the way of metallic colors for vehicles, mainly metal colors like brass, bronze, steel etc

Danny Meer Thx for that info Chaz

And Chris, the paint from that african site would be an old stash and not sure if that paint is still ok to use. return to sender wouldn't be an option cuz of the costs

Danny Meer @Augie it is really stunning how good some of the old can's still are.
But some can's the paint went bad and in some other cases the dry time is around a week lol
And they used other stuff as pigments then nowadays, now it's all synthetic stuff

Chris Greathouse I was looking for reference/info on the can. Not a place to buy. And pulled the info of the Gloss Iron Grey name.

Danny Meer

Łukasz Gliński I have a collection of old enamels too Mostly Humbrols and Revells (including the red and yellow Airbrush editions).
Still hesitating to throw them away, I even spray them sometimes - the only comparable (in terms of spraying comfort) are the lacquer paints. The only issue is drying time, I used to wait 24-48hrs, just to be sure.
Beware of the Revells, they seem to add some sort of accelerator. The surface dries rather quickly, but they're still soft underneath.

Martin Oostrom The grey compressor part. Not the black tank. Also don't forget to drain the moisture trap, you'll be surprised how much water get's in there

Danny Meer I do have a big compressor in my garage wich I use for my bigscale gasoline cars to clean and that 1 isn't getting to hot cuz it gets enough fresh air. And I know that you have to drain the water out but it's not that much at all on the big 1. Don't know if the smal compressor generate more water. the small compressor is in my hobbyroom.

Bart Teunis and make sure that you thin your paint down enough and I suggest that you start using acrylics better for your health

Danny Meer When I bought the big stash, there was alot of enamel paints with it (over hundred) and most of them are still un-opened so I want to use them. That's alot of money to just throw away When I don't have a color and need 1, I buy the acrylic version.

And I do thin the paint, cuz some of them are really thick. This weekend made a mistake and found out that if you use thinner for enamels in a acrylic paint that you get butter lol...

And for the health part...my health is already bad, I'm in a wheelchair cuz of bad bones and muscles.
I have reuma, artritis and severe osteoporosis..
Made a paint booth myself from cardboard, light and a vacuum cleaner and works great also using a mask when airbrushing.

Tim Heimer Just keep on learning and asking questions and improving your knowledge! We are here to help each other succeed! yes each type of paint requires different thinners. to thin enamels use mineral spirits, not thinner. acrylics need acrylic thinner, and now thinking, I've never thinned lacquers.

Martin Oostrom Lacquer thinners!

Danny Meer Atm I'm using revell color mix for enamels and revell aqua color mix for the acrylics

Danny Meer Couldn't find this HBM glasses under magnifying glasses. will make things alot eassier

Martin Oostrom Sorry to hear that. When my wife comes home, I'll have to tell her the tv decoder died... no tv, how will she survive???

Danny Meer Lol the horror!! watch tv from app? I have my pc connected to the tv so I can always watch tv...if Internet works lol I do have another airbrush set but is for 1:1 size cars, think this wont work on small plastic bits