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Finishing Tips topics

• Bluesteel does Iwata (1 2 3)
• Primer question
• Dogfight Doubles - display stand
• Airbush + Vodka & Gin?
• Advice on "orange peel" paint please
• Royal Navy Colour questions?
• grit in Humbrol gloss paint
• Painting (noob question)
• Removing Klear
• Paint preference.
• Oil paints
• Too Blue
• To klear or not to klear
• Squiggly lines
• Barry's Homemade Masks for Canopies Tip
• Feathering
• The use of Pasta
• Realistic woodgrain
• 1939 French Camouflage Colours - In Humbrol
• EEEEVIL DUST
• Klear and decaling
• Klear..I could do with some info.!!
• Authentic chrome plated finish
• Maskol probs
• Xtracrylix paint
• U/C Colours
• RAF Air Transport Command Brown & Tan
• Home Made Decals
• instead of klear? (1 2)
• klear/tamiya problem
• South East Asia Camo
• Painting with the Hairy Stick
• Uncurling curly decals
• revell masterclass compressor
• Spanish Republican Brown?
• straight lines
• Klear coat added, so what can I put on top?
• Humbrol Matt Cote, glossy???
• Focke Wulf Paint Job
• Johnsons' Klear making a return?
• WEM Paint
• My Tiger Looks Flat
• Painting nightmare (1 2)
• Lint Free Cloth
• Acrylic vs Enamel
• old decals
• SH-3D Sea King "66" Grey?
• Painting and masking canopies
• Wrong Decals
• decals
• Save those decal scraps.
• do i have dodgy decals?
• Have you washed your hands?
• A couple of Gloss Cote questions
• camo
• Basic painting...
• UK-supplier of "Mr.Metal Color"?
• Airfix decals - the future?
• Revell Matt varnish
• Paint match
• symphony in silver - H11 advice requested
• Polishing a painted surface
• Tamiya Thinner??????
• airbrushing humbrol acrylics
• RAF dark green
• Rusian tank decals
• Royal Saudi Airforce camo colours?
• Vallejo Color 520 Clear Matt Varnish, advice please.
• Humbrol Satin Cote remains tacky
• Humbrol acrylic clear gloss..... any good ???
• decal help plz
• "Mystery" RAF Blue
• Thinning Humbrol Matt Cote
• Paint Conversion Charts
• Camo painting techniques
• Nail varnish as a paint?
• Enamel - how many coats?
• Gloster Meteor colour scheme
• Klear problems
• Enamel-painted surface rejecting Acrylics
• Airliner White paint
• aztek a270 airbrush
• Swordfish colours
• Advice On Painting Models
• Timber
• Wing edges and wheel centres
• BOAC Blue
• The Definitive WWII RAF Green/Brown Camo colours are..?
• Paint Mix help needed
• painting tank tracks
• Using Micro Sol and Micro Set
• How do you paint your aircraft?
• Masking spiral spinners
• Transfers / Decals
• How NOT to paint white stripes...
• RLM 02
• Pre shading
• Applying decals
• IJN Green Confusion
• On-Line source for small stands?
• aircraft typefaces
• using ink as a wash
• Is Humbrol Metal Cote any good?
• Squadron Green Stuff et al
• Washes
• Humbrol Acrylic...
• Tamiya Flat Clear TS-80
• Klear and Mattcote
• Luftwaffe Splinter Camo?
• Can anyone here print decals? (1 2)
• Blue tack
• probably an obvious question, but...
• airfix/heller bf109 g6, confusing instructions
• To prime or not to prime...?
• Black Paint?
• Matt varnish and modelling disaster...
• Humbrol Grumble (1 2)
• Alclad II Lacquer tips please...
• Help needed spraying camouflage schemes
• Advice appreciated on making decals (1 2)
• 'Scalloped'/wavy edges...how?
• How to achieve a natural wood finish on WWI propellers?
• And the Best No-mixing Filler is..?
• Aztek A4305 connector help ?
• revell aqua colours and hemp/sand
• Clear masking film
• Realistic looking upholstery - help please
• Roller Wheels
• JASDF Schemes in Humbrol-speak?
• xtracrlic thinners
• Bottle Colours
• Humbrol equivalent for RLM76?
• humbrol acrylics and humbrol enamel, suitable
• Painting with Enamels and Acrylics
• matt varnish
• Klear
• TSR 2 White
• Gunze Metallics...Curing times?
• Painting Missiles - the Pain
• The Migrant's P-47 Sheet
• Acrylic or Enamel
• Acrylic paint problems
• Airfix Decals
• airbrush HELP!
• Alclad
• Compressor advice
• Panel Lines -- HOW ?
• Enamel or Acrylic paints?
• Carrier Deck Markings
• RAF Dayglo colours
• RAF Phantom greys?
• Cleaning built models
• Gulf War 1991 BAE Jaguar Colour
• Any ideas on painting camouflage..? (1 2)
• USN Greys?
• Tamiya
• klear / future / cristal !!!!! WHAT
• Aer Lingus Green
• SEA Camo...matt or satin?
• Removing overspray from canopy
• acrylic primer
• Thinning acrylic paints?
• Thinning paint
• Painting wheel centres
• Silver finish (1 2)
• Real life uber-weathering
• Swing wings
• Tips for installing, powering, and switching a cabin light?
• Shiny gold paint - advice needed
• Generic civil lettering decals? Or reccomended font for MYO
• Removing decals from a built kit
• I'm sorry, but NO! (Excessive panel lines etc). (1 2 3 4)
• Humbrol paint no. 112
• clear glass ruined [ advice ].
• Tamiya TS
• Airbus cream
• Airbrush Questions. And more. (1 2)
• Tamiya paints warning
• Humbrol Acrylics: first thoughts
• FS36622 silver grey
• Model Photography - gotta relearn it!
• cheap machine gun barrels
• Simple weathering techniques.
• Me 109E decals 1:24th scale on website
• RLM Equivalents
• New? Tamiya waterborne stuff
• No Weathering Required..?
• British Racing Green
• Before Binning that filler, thats gone hard!
• Acrylic Silver paints
• trimming decals
• Paint question
• What is MICROMESH?
• New Decal sheets on Parkes682decals website
• HUMBROL H141
• Undercoat for Acrylic paint.
• Airbrush cleaning
• Painted on windows - colour suggestions?
• Modern Soviet/ WWII Japanese Interiors.
• Undercoat
• OK I give up, Johnsons Klear does not actually exist (1 2)
• run out of OD paint, no worries :D
• All You Need To Know About Johnson's Klear
• Collector Ring Colours
• I make my own decals on inkjet paper,made to order
• 'Collectable' Humbrol 'Gems'?
• What decals do you need making
• Desirable Decals (1 2)
• How to save old paints? (...and Tippex as a filler?) (1 2)
• 1970's RCAF Canadian Mobile Command colours please
• 1970's RNZAF Colours please
• Tamiya Flat base X21
• Realistic looking rubber Tyres
• Painting Yellow Wing Leading Edge Bands
• Thinning nail varnish for airbrushing...
• Albatros W.4 Decals - Artwork for Discussion
• Revell Gannet Decal Placement
• DIY Decals
• Colour Laser Printer
• Using Primer to discover unfinished seams
• Help with decal enlargement ratios please
• Help A Newbie (Revell Anthracite Grey or Airfix H33?)
• decal threads,
• Name this Colour.
• Aging Humbrol metallics...
• Model Master 2737
• producing a feathered edge?
• The Definitive SEA Camo Guide?
• DIY DECAL FONTS
• NIVO (1 2)
• New Airbrush! (1 2)
• Lozenge pattern
• Tamiya X-21 Flat Base
• Airbrush paint
• Colour Help please!
• Mr Surfacer
• The Difference between a Wash and a Filter
• Compressor advice please?
• Drybrushing
• Halfords Spray Paints
• Humbrol Mattcote vs Matt Varnish
• Canopy Recovery tips
• Klear for all
• Finishing tips, Care of Matt Swann
• Airbrushing tips
• FS Numbers I can't find - help!
• Xtracrylix and airbrushing
• Colour question?
• Help (AeroMaster Acrylics and RAF Cockpit Green)
• Airbrush/Compressor Help
• Emery Boards
• decals on planes
• Preshading
• Xtracrylics
• Need help with colour matches (spitfire Mk IX) Duxford ZD-B
• Question, Whats the best primer for acrylics
• Primer question
• Paint removal tips -Age really does weary them
• Ideas Wanted/needed ('Special Night' black paint scheme)
• How do you clean up after Klear (Future)
• High Quality Brushes
• Artists' acrylic paints on metal figures
• Caring for brushes
• They aint dryin'!
• Newbie Painting Questions
• new humbrol acylics
• How do you apply metalcote?
• Painting resin kits
• Chromacryl
• Mixing colours
• Painting curves
• Removing chrome plating
• Painting Canopy Frames II
• Thinning Humbrol Mattcote/Satincote/Glosscote (1 2)
• Tamiya paints question
• Tamiya flat black and Future(Klear)
• Japanese Interior Metalic Blue
• How Not To Weather
• Decals over Decals
• Undercoats for Black
• Airbrush Info Required
• Painting Canopy Frames I
• Decalling II...Applying Tiny Decals With A Brush
• Airbrush Comparison
• Over-painting Metallic Paint
• Urban Fredriksson's Colour Reference Charts
• Repairing Off-Register Roundels
• Decalling...Basics