What is on your bench right now ? Share a picture :)

[KevinM]

What's on the bench is called progress..

[ScottsGT]

It’s 1:14 am my time.  And I’m wide awake and down at my bench working on the P-40.  
It seems somehow I accidentally grabbed a highly caffeinated water flavoring at the grocery store the other day and didn’t realize it.  Oops!  
I made the same mistake last month but this time I bought the generic store brand with “contains caffeine” in very small print.  
Oh well.  I’ll follow up with pics shortly. 
 

 

paints on!  

[BlrwestSiR]

Thankfully all the caffeine didn't give you the jitters while you sprayed the P-40. The yellow looks good by the way, nice and solid. 

[Bomber_County]

I can never get yellow to look solid, I add coat on coat but never seems enough. Scott, what’s the trick…….

[BlrwestSiR]

2 hours ago, Bomber_County said:

I can never get yellow to look solid, I add coat on coat but never seems enough. Scott, what’s the trick…….

Lots of caffeine it seems. 

I have the same trouble with yellow and sometimes red. 

[HubertB]

3 hours ago, Bomber_County said:

I can never get yellow to look solid, I add coat on coat but never seems enough. Scott, what’s the trick…….

 

1 hour ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Lots of caffeine it seems. 

I have the same trouble with yellow and sometimes red. 

Try Tamiya PINK primer as an undercoat …

Hubert

[ScottsGT]

White primer as a base.  Lots and lots of thin coats building up. Never give up!  Keep painting! 

[ScottsGT]

Happy progress today.  

 

Im going to freehand the black outline using a paint pen. 

[belugawhaleman]

I've always had problems painting gloss yellow......in fact one of

my reoccurring nightmares is painting a 1/24 scale school bus.....yellow

and black...I shudder just thinking about it!

[belugawhaleman]

2 minutes ago, ScottsGT said:

Happy progress today.  

Hey, that's cool!

[Spitfire]

I definately admire your perseverence, that looks great, much better than a decal.

Cheers

Dennis

[mark31]

Also progress on my viper

Mark 

[GusMac]

4 hours ago, mark31 said:

Also progress on my viper

Mark 

Now that is looking cool.

[BlrwestSiR]

Started on a Gundam kit. This time it's a MS-07B Gouf Custom. 

The Gatling shield sold it for me. 

The shoulders have the ubiquitous spikes that most Zaku types have. 

I picked up a detail set that replaces a couple of them with metal ones. First shoulder done. 

A worthwhile upgrade and easy enough. 

Edited January 12 by BlrwestSiR
Fix grammer

[ScottsGT]

Now we’re building models of Madonna’s bra? 

[mark31]

More viper time

[CANicoll]

On 1/9/2025 at 8:13 PM, ScottsGT said:

White primer as a base.  Lots and lots of thin coats building up. Never give up!  Keep painting! 

That's what I was going to suggest.  White as an underlayer.  Or, sometimes, Silver/Aluminum/Steel also works.

Great work on the mask!!  Something I'd never have even thought to attempt...  I thought you had a Cricut machine as clean and complicated as those cuts are.  Nice work!

[CANicoll]

20 hours ago, mark31 said:

Also progress on my viper

Mark 

That is really cool!!  What is the pad it is sitting on?

[CANicoll]

On 12/27/2024 at 2:53 PM, ScottsGT said:

I’ve made a little P-40 progress.  I did a preshading on this one. I’m quite happy with my results so far.  I have a few minor details to respray, but nothing big.  

Sorry to blow up this thread, but aside from the great P-40, I'm in awe of Scott's organizing in the background!  Labeled bins for everything!!!

[mark31]

59 minutes ago, CANicoll said:

That is really cool!!  What is the pad it is sitting on?

Its a micro fiber cloth.

 

Mark

[belugawhaleman]

14 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Started on a Gundam kit. This time it's a MS-07B Gouf Custom. 

The Gatling shield sold it for me. 

The shoulders have the ubiquitous spikes that most Zaku types have. 

I picked up a detail set that replaces a couple of them with metal ones. First shoulder done. 

A worthwhile upgrade and easy enough. 

Nice upgrade. I remember seeing those spikey things on a website and

having no idea what they were! Now I know.

[ScottsGT]

12 hours ago, CANicoll said:

Sorry to blow up this thread, but aside from the great P-40, I'm in awe of Scott's organizing in the background!  Labeled bins for everything!!!

Yea, it took a while for me to figure out how I wanted to organize my build table and storage.  I almost went with a set of drawers under the bench but quickly realized that would eat up leg room.  I had the old riser off my folding table and used it by adding some wood to hold the bins in place along with outlets.  
All those items was what I used to spend lots of time digging for in my old tool cabinet drawer.  Sometimes I would spend almost a half hour looking for a certain tool. Now it’s at my fingertips

Heres a better view right after I finished the bench.  No kidding, I spent about a year thinking about how I wanted to lay this area out before I started. 
 

[ScottsGT]

Well I’m not as steady with the paint pen as I thought I’d be. Got a few ugly lines.  Was also hitting the roughness of the yellow where it was taped.  In hindsight I should have just used the black decal outlines instead of free handing it.  Maybe some extreme weathering will hide the ugly.  

[CANicoll]

Don't see the ugly, looks terrific to me!  Nice work!

[Spitfire]

That's probably neater that the real in theatre applied paintwork, nice one.

Cheers

Dennis