RichyX

the only reason the headlights turned yellow is the manufacturers used yellow headlamp bulbs instead of white ive never seen a headlamp go yellow when usinga white or blue bulb, but ford had this problem on the mondeos (contours) as they used yellow bulbs and over the years turned the light lenses yellow

it does not harm paint so no masking is required, that tf has a painted head and its made it cleaner without damaging the paint

heres the after pics once cleaned with water and assembled you can see in this pic the blistering on the light grey joints also a warning, do not get this stuff on your hands, i did and it gave my fingers pins and needles and also turned them white taking the moisture out my fingers, clean off with cold soapy water asap and moisturise your hands if you get any on you anyway for the sake of £10 its worth givingit ago ona junker and see how you get on, at least there isa way of fixing yellowing toys and i will be doing the same to some of my tfs which have badly yellowed over the years

thouht id post this up as i read a few years ago about a solution to fix yellowing toys well i had a go this week and these are my results the solution is hydrogen peroxide, you need the 35% food grade stuff and can be bought off ebay i used a transformer which i had so thought id give it ago heres some pics of before and after all stripped down once at this stage give each part a clean with some soapy water and tooth brush also you dont have to take the item completly to bits i left the arms intact next put in a glass jar and fill with solution this needs to be put into direct sunlight, and you will start to see air bubbles in the solution, if in direct sunlight for a couple of hours then the process will be quicker, unfortuantly for me i didnt have much sunlight so had to leave it in solution for 4 days now just be carefull, with coloured plastic as it can be turned white, so you need to keep an eye on it, and also some softer plastics, as the softer plastics on this, mainly joints have blistered so i need to replace these, but the rest are perfectly intact, no softeness in the plastics at all, if you do different colours, use different jars i just tested it all in one jar as it was a junker

d/l each one from in parts, install hjsplit, once download just open hjsplit and then its common sense, it puts them into a zip file, unzip extract etc, then you have your folder with the avi in it ive just spent couple hrs d/l and converting it to dvd and its now in my dvd player on tele to watch , ive had a quick scan through and im so looking for ward to watching this oh you will also need to convert the avi file if you want to burn it onto disc the big d/l is corrupted and the 8 parts take less than an hr to download

wel li bought a iwata eclipse from a local model store always has 10 yrs warranty which i couldnt complain about, havnt tried it out yet but in the next week or so i will

ok if i was going to go for a iwata, what model would be best i build have some gundams i want to build these ra ethe 1/60 scale, but i also have some macross battroids to build aswell though being a lot smaller

my compressor has the water trap, and tank etc and ha sbeen fine ive only uses tamiya acrylics, andthese have been thinned down, i couldnt use it thick the airbrush wouldnt take it but dont forget im not using a badger, i was using a cheap immatation one copied from a badger design but i just couldnt work with teh jars, i even bought more jars for it so i had ones for different things i need a gravity fed one as i think they will be better

every badger airbrush ive found has the glass jars they are a good idea,but i carnt get on with them as sometimes the pipe doesnt come off as it should and is a pain to clean i want something that is easy to clean, will be reliable and work as it should when it needs too

that very one lol its a cheap remake of the badger, plu si never got on well with the glass jars, and it kept clogging up, was a pain to clean and everything, the tubes in the jars were a nightmare to clean i was told by a local model shop to look for iwata as they seem to be the very best but id be interested in other brands, as long as there gravity fed and parts are easily available incae the worse does happen

just wondering what make of air brushes do you use as i need a new one im looking at the iwata range something like this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BRAND-NEW-IWATA-HP-C...1QQcmdZViewItem i have about $200 to spend on a decent airbrush as my last airbrush i managed to get 2 models done before it packed up lol and want to get back into it again now i have the time again

thanks for the comments i will be adding panel lines to the fast pack, i also want to paint the little side boosters in alclad steellike ive done with the feet and head lasers and armour boosters with a bit of jet exhaust on them, though ive never used these before i need some practice still with them lol

decals will be just some evil jetfire stickers from reprolabels

yeah im still looking into the airbrushes at the minute, but everything is packed up now as i need the workbench, so once ive got to the stage i carnt work on the car until parts arrive ill dig it all out again and get some models built

yeah, im gona gloss the armour, just my airbrush packed up, will never by a cheap one again thats for sure i need to flat the paint off some bits where i forgot to mask the armour but this is no biggy really will sort it out as soon as i get anothr airbrush im looking at th iwata range at the minute as ive been told they are very good

nah wont be my last thats for sure i really enjoyed it, was a bit of a challenge, but i did enjoy it a lot ive got a wave vf-0s that im going to build next, already done a dummy build so now just need to sort tehe gaps out, and paint it, but will do that when i get an airbrush, also have a vf-0s reactive armour to do, and 2 pg gundam kits so i have plenty to be doing

thanks so i need to get some low odour thinners then what sort of thiners are these for? any certain brand i need

thought id post pics up of my first custom, as some of my topics ive been asking for a lot of help and some info regarding doing an evil jetfire well, ive sort of finished it, but im having to stop as i need my work bench due to my car engine needs fixing and my airbrush has packed up so next week ill buy a new airbrush and start again when i get the car sorted but for now im happy with the outcome, though there are some major mistakes i used tamiya acrylic paints, and clear for the sealer i did want it grey but couldnt find a gre i wanted so he went black with purple, so kinda like skywarp colours, fast packs are dark grey, but i need finish them as i missed some masking when doing the black and they need clear coating aswell the purple is game workshops purple which dires flat instaed of gloss, overall for my first i dont think i did too bad lol, though i need to work on my sanding and filling and using the correct grade of paper as there is a few prep marks in there still so i hope you like here some pics how it started and how it finshed

i had a look using the search, only thing i could find was someone doing a gundam, but didn explain how to do pre shading from the link you have posted,theres a vid of hows its done, i need another airbrush as my air brush carnt do thin lines, its only 1 set pattern so i need to find a quality airbrush now with different nozzles everytime i come on here i always look through wm chengs model builds as i think they are fantastic thankyou for the links, ill will keep studying

as title im actually really enjoying getting started onto modelling now, i know it takes a lot of practice and time, but could some please give me some ideas on how to do washes, pre shading and dry brusing please and what would i need at the minute im using tamiya acrylics, and future to seal but id like to have a go at doing more stuff on them as i like the clean look, but i love the worked and used look better lol id be very gratefull, i have some oil paints aswell and i use white spirit to thin them down with, but i havnt mastered this yet, but still trying

thanks for the replys i went to the local model shop and bought some very light grey paint, was just a bit lighter than sky rey, but the stuff was crap to use and i eneded up blocking my paint brush and spending an hour trying to clean it out, as this stuff went like rubber within 5 mins so what i did, was sanded it all down again, and it all went flat black, and i sued a war hammer purple for the strips on his arms and wings, and main chest, on the chest i used tamiya dark grey and coated with future left all this 24hrs and started to rebuild him, only problem im having is as its my first custom and very first time at anything like this there is a couple of masking mistakes, and some of the paint has chipped slightly due to the way i had to put him together, but i think i could loose theseif i gave him a white wash, but i havnt got a clue onhow to do a wash yet !!! the fast packs etc, have gone dark grey and ill try and get these a bit better with some black here and there, i used alclad steel and jet exhaust on his feet and jet packs aswell i will get some pics up tomorrow what i have taken as my batt went flat n the camera so hopefully my evil jetfire will kinda work, but may have skywarp colours lol will have to see, but for my first one, ive spent over 2 weeks on it and have enjoyed it and i will do more i think, but start on models just done a dummy build of a vf-0s battroid from wave, so this may be next, o ri may finish off my pg wing zero that got knocked off display and broke, parts are repaired just needs painting fully now

im struggling to find these colours in the link http://www.smokescreen-38.com/htm/tf/eviljetfire.htm im trying to do an evil jetfire based on a bandai 1/55 but the grey ive used is tamiya sky grey and its no way near that, its more of a low viz colour id say can anyone shed any light in where i can get a closest match please, im really strugling and this custom may end up being a low viz which isnt what i wanted to do as my first custom id appriciate any help please with trying tof ind this whitey grey and the purple

that looks great but why not do a bit of damage to the canopy or on the nose cone under it so it shows where roy got shot from? but still fantastic the way you have done it

ok, ive started the evil jetfire, its all stripped down and primered and is now ready for paint, i will get some pics up later on but im having major trouble in finding a very liht grey, closest ive got is sky gre from tamiya, so i dont know what to do now as thats still a dark grey almost primer colour ive tried lightening it up with white and other colours but no joy can anyone help me find a very light grey like the one in the link above if nto ill have to stick with the darker shade of grey and possibly have todo the fast packs purple or gunmetal but i dont know how it will look like that