Sometimes you need to mask of areas differently if you don’t manage by “just” applying strips of masking tape around the area you want to have masked. Here is a different approach, you apply the stripes all over the area and then use a scalpel (a sharp one so be careful!) to cut out the area you want to paint. Here the area are the 2 rear air scoops in the rear area of the Porsche.

Detail view of the masked area ...

... and the cut out area afterwards

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Last week I went to town wif Claudia, my wife. Actually I don’t like at all going to town, but as a “reward” I got myself some new propellant for the old airbrush. OK … I didn’t have the other 2 guns yet so I thought let’s go for it with the old one. I masked the right side of the Porsche 936-78 to give the air duct a bit of the old red colour that the LeMans Car of ‘78 (Jacky Ickx , Henri Pescarolo, Jochen Mass) had. Additionally the rear wing gets some of that red as well.

View of my "Paint Booth" ...

Detail - Masked of Area of

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Remember, a couple of posts ago I promised a dutch reader that I would make a master for the Tamiya King Cobra wind screen. Finally I did it. I mixed up some CeranoFix (by Eberhard Faber) and pured it into the windscreen part I had.

The empty lexan wind screen

The empty windscreen besides CeramoFix

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In quite a lot of model kits you have to deal with a metal finish of one sort or the other. Now, what options are there for the finishes?

1. Paining with enamel
2. Painting with acrylic
3. Foiling

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I started painting the upper side of the X-Wing and masking the lower side. This time us worked differently for the masks on the underside. More about that later in this post though. The paint is dry and the masking removed. Since I use a brush to apply the paint, there are differences in the amount of paint on the wing. Together with the sharp edges of the masking this does bring some raised edges to the painting.

painted wing

painted wing detail

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It’s been quite some time since I have done something with the X-Wing, so I decided to go on a bit with it. For the base colour I will keep the darkish gray of the primer. So this will be a masking frenzy, since there are loads of body panels which need to have slightly different colours.

Overall View

Frontend Top Panel

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If you are intending to spray paint or airbrush your models you should consider a paint booth. I mean a small one, not a large one like you’d find in a real body shop … Anyway, it is not hard to build one. Here is how to do a very simple one.
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Some of you have read already that I go to flea markets and do some of my sourcing there (see my Faller AMS post for instance). Sometimes you might get really vintage kits and if you are lucky they are even complete. Mostly the plastic or resin parts will be OK but the decals are a different issue. You’ll find that they are yellowing and worse even splitting.

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For my Porsche 936-78 Twin Turbo kit I bought a new chassis, which I hope will suit it quite well. Currently I am not sure though. I chose the 1:24 scale “Monza GT” in-line chassis by Schmidbauer-Modellauto.

The chassis ready built

The chassis ready built

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By now all the parts should be primed and ready to go. Of cause I took my time and let patience rule me, applying the primer in a couple of thin layers with drying time in-between.

Primed Parts - 1

Primed Parts - 2

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