Tag: primer

• Grey, Gray, Grau, Gris, Seryy

  

  Not the weather – it’s actually nice out. I mean the undercoat. I use the Mr. Surfacer pots blown through a single action airbrush. Others use Tamiya rattle cans or similar material from different makers. Few of us realise the miracle that occurs when we do. Initially I thought that spraying an undercoat was just…

  Dick Stein

  August 27, 2022

  Acrylic, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Mr Surfacer, primer, Tamiya, undercoat

• Douglas Skyhawk – Part Two – Grey Ghost

  

  The grey primer stage of the Skyhawk build is very accusatory – it accuses me of great failure in losing that canopy. The rest of the plane is superb. Ah, well, it is ever thus. I have a long history of losing parts – and not all on the concrete floor of the workshop, either.…

  Dick Stein

  March 25, 2021

  1:72 scale, Israeli aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  missing parts, primer, work pad

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Four – Mr Ghost

  

  Are we ever ready for the undercoat in our lives? Probably not…but when we make model kits there comes a time when we are definitely going to have to reach for the spray. I say that as an airbrush user, but I think the rattle can people are in much the same boat. I have…

  Dick Stein

  March 30, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Mr. Color, primer, Tamiya paint, Wellington bomber