Tamiya RX7 problem

[Donny]

More advice please - brushing acrylic or any paint for that matter.

can one of you guys/gals, give me the secret to brushing. I am at the point where I have some smaller parts that I can't airbrush. Anything I try to brush turns out terrible, brush strokes and/or rough finish. Is warming the paint to improve the flow enough. Help thanks.

Don

[STU111]

10 minutes ago, Donny said:

More advice please - brushing acrylic or any paint for that matter.

can one of you guys/gals, give me the secret to brushing. I am at the point where I have some smaller parts that I can't airbrush. Anything I try to brush turns out terrible, brush strokes and/or rough finish. Is warming the paint to improve the flow enough. Help thanks.

Don

G’day Don. Good quality brush to start with and thin your paint ever so slightly with a compatible type of thinners usually works for me. 👍🏻

[Donny]

Thanks Stu, so Tamiya paint, Tamiya thinners? I'm using mainly Tamiya at the moment, Luke (Coolhand), suggested I stick with Tamiya until I get more experience with paint, so I've stuck with mainly Tamiya with a bit of Vallejo thrown in. 

Don 

[Donny]

I've just spent an hour and a half trying to do the panel lies in the roof. They are so faint and shallow, almost impossible. I've given up, even trying to do them with one of my wife's sewing needles, I can't get them to run right. I'm going to sand them out, it's not a show car. That wavy roof sure is putting me to the test. 

don 

[STU111]

G’day Don, yes mate, can’t go wrong if you use the same brand paint and thinners. Panel lines? For that l use panel wash which is essentially just really thinned out paint. I use an acrylic one, with a tiny brush l drop some into the panel line and it usually flows along the line. Any excess can be removed with a damp cloth.

[Donny]

14 minutes ago, STU111 said:

G’day Don, yes mate, can’t go wrong if you use the same brand paint and thinners. Panel lines? For that l use panel wash which is essentially just really thinned out paint. I use an acrylic one, with a tiny brush l drop some into the panel line and it usually flows along the line. Any excess can be removed with a damp cloth.

Never heard of panel wash, learn something new everyday. My problem with those panel lines is they actually aren't there, they are like lines on the roof, no depth nothing to follow and I have just realised maybe they aren't panel lines, they aren't like the ones for the doors maybe I was supposed to paint them, why would they have panel lines on the roof? DUH! 🙄😂

[Mattilacken]

1 hour ago, Donny said:

Never heard of panel wash, learn something new everyday. My problem with those panel lines is they actually aren't there, they are like lines on the roof, no depth nothing to follow and I have just realised maybe they aren't panel lines, they aren't like the ones for the doors maybe I was supposed to paint them, why would they have panel lines on the roof? DUH! 🙄😂

sounds like you are reffering to moldlines.. if not use a 11 blade to scribe your panelgaps with, use it backwards so to say. 

[johnyrotten]

Don, I've had good luck thinning vallejo, and any other acrylic paint, with createx 4011 or 4021. Both with brushing and airbrush. As for tamiya acrylics, their "x" series paints, I'm  new to them and picked up a tip here that Mr color leveling thinner is the go to. I picked some up and agree. As for making a "wash", I start around 2:1- 3:1 mix thinner to paint and adjust as needed. I'll mix some up and drag the toothpick or brush up the side of the cup to check how it flows. All by eye, no rocket science. Looks right,is right. For brushes, I've got a good selection of small spotters and rounds in the 1-20 range. 

[Donny]

37 minutes ago, Mattilacken said:

sounds like you are reffering to moldlines.. if not use a 11 blade to scribe your panelgaps with, use it backwards so to say. 

Thanks Anton. On some Japanese cars, I have seen two stripes on the roof like joins, which they might be. I've never enquired, should have done, had a mate who worked in a Mazda dealership. It's obviously a manufacturing thing, maybe Mazda made the roof in three pieces and they are joins. But they definitely aren't panel lines you use a scriber on, and they aren't the usual mold lines.

Don