Tag: thinning

• Čmelák – Part Three – Jaundice

  

  Or – dicing with yellow… Doing a good yellow is harder than you’d think. and it gets harder as you try to preserve more detail on a model surface. When you look down into the pot containing a yellow paint it all looks so easy – the colour is whatever the maker has specified, with…

  Dick Stein

  February 14, 2025

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, Enamel, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting

  hue, paint, thinning

• When to reach… – Part Two – The Cheap Option

  

  I love being cheap. It looks so trendy and cool. And you can set up a camouflage of frugality for 29 days of the month that allows you to go out and spend like a maniac on the 30th… The cheapest way to paint a model – apart from dipping it in a bucket of…

  Dick Stein

  September 23, 2019

  Acrylic, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Enamel, Lacquer, Masking, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Weathering, workflow

  brushes, enmels, Painting, thinning

• Not A Creature Was Stirring

  

  Not even a modeller. Well…not this modeller, anyway. We all have brain breaks occasionally – we start out thinking fine and then one of the mental drive belts hops off a wheel and the next thing you know we’re Jim Carrey on a bender. It happens in the modelling workshop, too. Today, for instance. Time…

  Dick Stein

  June 17, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  cursing, mixing, spray painting, thinning