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Galaxy_Stranger

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  1. I got anxious and used some Graphite on this:

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    I started on the bottom and got WAY too much on. Looks like someone went over it with a soft pencil. Then I did the top very lightly, building up like you normally would while dry brushing. So the top turned out a lot better.

    I'm going to strip it and paint it from scratch. What I noticed was that the graphite doesn't fill in any of the crevices. What it really does is give you darkened highlights - which is what I suppose is what you'd want for an essentially white object. It also didn't adhere very well to the smooth surface of the toy. So, I'm going to strip it, prime it and give it an off-white color and build off of that.

  2. It never occurred to me to use Graphite and Charcoal for weathering. Today I saw a video someone did of a Tie Fighter and I came. He mentioned he used Graphite and it dawned on me I had never tried it.

    I've got an idea to combine it with the Salt technique that I think will look great.

  3. Gotta be careful with preshading, though. I've seen some guys on youtube really glom it on. Yeah, it looks neat, but sometimes they make it so that it only fits in if it's supposed to be a weT planE on an aircraft carrier or something.

  4. Well, more for me to huff, I guess!

    I haven't started using these yet. I've got a bottle of Micro Weld coming next week. I want to use them all on a cheap model I've got here and see how they're different. It's a snap-tite I'm gonna sand the nubs off of. Can't decide whether or not to scribe the panel lines or not as they're raised...

    But the viscosity of each as well as the application has to be different among them. Some directions say to squeeze the parts together until the plastic fills the gap. Others leave it up to you to fill later, which I plan to do with some new-to-me filler Mr. Surfacer.

    Interesting about the Legos. I used Testor's glue on my Legos as well, but it wouldn't adhere to anything. It would kind of fill in the gaps but wouldn't hold anything in place, so when it broke apart, the legos weren't ruined.

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