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Right! That's the reason i never bought a set from them. There's a sucka out there some where that'll drop about $25-$30 that's with shipping.

Looks like a blue robin easter egg candy lol

Hobbylinc & ebay order

I wish i could of took a pic and i can't even find one, but a corvette i think one of the new ones and it looked like it has a glass bowl on top LOL.

Some of those gundam colors are good for zoid kits too ?

No you actually have it backwards lol. Micro set is used to set the decal in place while also softening the decal to than be set in place, and Micro sol is used if you need to get the decal around details etc and for that painted on look. I recommend using water and little bit of dawn to get the decal in place where you want it and than use micro set, and after that if the decal is good and no air bubbles etc than you Micro sol for that painted look or to get into panel lines better or over rivets better etc. Unless our bottles have different instructions? Than that how it goes.

Yeah the 3 shops i go too are a good hour away for myself as well. I stopped going to hobby lobby cause like you said its the same ole same ole nothing different. Eventually I'm gonna stop going to those shops, because half the time i travel over a hour to have no luck finding certain things. 90% of the time I'll find what I'm looking for online easily, and at a much better price.

I know i have issues sometimes painting deep rims. If you aren't careful you'll get that pebbly look from the paint bouncing all around. I think using shish kabob sticks or the like and spin the wheel around as your painting could help.

I have lego and car audio and building PC's as other hobbies so prices of model kits do not bother me. What bothers me is when a person goes and marks up twice for no reason or explanation. This old mans shop i can barely support because of what he does, because I'm not that stupid to pay almost twice the price for a kit when i know i can get it else where cheaper and i have. I couldn't talk to the owner that day cause he wasn't there, but the kit was still in the same spot with a new price of $94 lol. Like if i know i couldn't get it else where for cheaper and they were similar prices online with shipping? Than sure I would drop $94, but even tamiya has the kit on there site for $78 not $94.

Kits came in 2 days ago but i forgot to take pics, and legos came in today lol.

2nd paint job? This is actually the 2nd paint job using splash paints grabber orange. Had to strip MCW grabber orange cause the decals, and the decal sheet i got from ebay they tore on me trying to apply so i said bump it. Gonna add fender flares instead. I wish i would of went with a lighter brown for the floor though, but it didn't turn out too bad.

Did some test fitting on the bronco. If anyone can spot the mistake i had to fix you get a free like ?. Also should of did more sanding, but i did buff some more after the fact and toned the 2K down little more. Got some stuff coming in from joseph from fireball for the bronco too. Besides the dust on the seats i should of did more work with the rear back seat too, but these 3 seats where my worst enemy lol. Build is NO WHERE near done though.

+1 to clear coat

Wow that was fantastic. I have some of that stuff and there wood versions too. This does have it's place regardless if it replaces BMF or not it's still nice.

Im a airbrush guy so i cant really help any further with too much. But yeah the LP line up from tamiya is nice its basically there can version of lacquer paint just airbrush version. MCW is good stuff even though I'm not to fond of there gloss lacquer, but there semi gloss interior paints are top notch. Scalefinish is another great source for automotive paint. Mr hobby has a great line up of paint as well as there fantastic primer. Use quality mr hobby leveling thinner for tamiya LP and there own line up even other brands, and there rapid thinner for metallics, flats, and primer. Tamiya primer is amazing as well, and ammo by migs titan hobby primer is amazing too. Those are the only two brands i will shoot out of a can just because of how amazing the finish is. I didn't say mr surfacer because i use it in the bottle version, but i heard there can version is equally as good. I'd only use cheap thinners from big box store for cleaning my brushes and stuff not for thinning my paint, but to each there own. When i started in the hobby i started with airbrushing and learning how to thin paints and how to use a double action brush. I guess you could say i started the hard way, but it's easier to learn now than later. It's like gaming on a console(Spray cans), and than switching to PC gaming(airbrush). Can take awhile to adjust and learn depending on the person. Eventually you're able to do all of it. But lot of us will decant paint to minimize a lot of waste, and it's not messy to decant paint. If it's messy than you're doing it wrong lol. I just never understood why folks would use $4 can of paint that's made for furniture on a $30+ kit, but whatever works works i suppose. I guess at the end of the day if you get great results and you're happy than that's all that matters. Sorry for my long paragraphs and small rant lol

Here's a sticker shock. I went to one of my usual hobby shops and he's usually pretty high on most things, but this was a shocker to me. Last time i went he had the tamiya Mclaren senna for $70 which was already too high, but this time when i go back he had it for $95. I'm telling myself like bruh this kit been in the same spot for months and now it's gonna sit there even longer until some silly goose bites. I got that kit for $55 and you can still get it for around that. This is why i can't support local shops like i would love too, but i do get some paint here and there.

Dry and dusty like pebbly look means it's drying before it hits the surface or it's bouncing off another surface. I own that brush and have both .34 and .5 needle set up, and 20 is way more than enough for color coats. I do 18 with .5 in my eclipse. What did you thin it with? How close are you shooting? Are you using the right primer for a hot lacquer? Some paints like to go on wet. Use white test spoons to figure out the issue, before using a kit.

Well my replacement hood came in today, and after taking it out of the packaging it still had the gate attachment so i know it wasn't test fitted. So good news first or bad news first? Well good news is it fits pretty much the same as the original one - the bad news is instead of being warped on the right side it's now warped on the left side LOL. The gap from the warp is actually smaller on the left side than the original was on the right side. So i guess I'll tape it down and throw some heat on that B and hope it levels out. I don't think there test fitting anything, but just sending out replacement parts and i guess hope you get lucky.

This stuff works amazing too. Will strip any lacquer and will def take off tamiya primer. $15-$16 depending on where you get it.

This stuff here works amazing. Not sure how it works on resin or enamels but anything else it'll take off no problem and wont hurt the plastic. Can soak up to 12 hours, but it can strip lacquer primer and paint that's 2 weeks old in less than 30 mins. It's pretty strong smelling too so wear a mask or do it outside.

Got an updated email. Shipped hood with tracking #

Nice! I almost got the astro 95 high life version last night, but i had to get the AMT american superliner instead as i got it for $60 instead of the floating price now going around $80 and up. I already got the ford LTL 9000 and it was expensive. LOVE big rig kits.

Least from what i seen in the video it looks the same product wise and being used. The guy in the video compared it to this graphite here Graphite Powder and it's $16 for a quart. That graphite powder you have may be in a tube isn't it? sense it's for locks? That wont give the same result as C1 as they used that too in the video.

wow didn't think this thread would blow up. Thanks for all the good info guys.

I use a D50 5000K T5 95CRI for color matching in my paintbooth from waveform lighting. Also have something similar on my work bench bout like the noon sun.