Whilst I agree with the comment that Chris Vine's book is the bees knees (having read it) it would be good to have some less ambitious set up described as stepping stones along the way to Christophers professional standard set up. I would welcome such articles with great interest.

regards Martin

In my experience (my) painting always looks lousy immediately after I finish but not nearly so bad after a month or two. proper levelling can take qite a while.

A denibbing file is useful for sorting the run you did not want just there!

Denibbing File

You should do that Neil, that would be interesting. I have done quite a bit of weathering over the years…. R/C aircraft, model railway layouts and rolling stock etc, etc.

To my mind weathering makes a world of difference to most models, they look 10 times better than straight out of the paint shop. I can understand though that if you have spent a lot of time getting a near perfect paint finish it can be a bit daunting to dirty it up, but even a couple of hours with just some dry brushes and powdered artist pastels can transform a model.

Ron

I thought that Neil's models weathered naturally due to the long time it takes him to finish one

In contrast Jason, your's should be covered in finger prints where the paint has not had time to dry………..

Just to resurrect this thread. When do you paint a model. For instance a loco. If you wait until the model is finished, you have to problem of stripping it down to the last nut and bolt to get to paint it. If you paint as you go, then you run the risk of spoiling / scratching paintwork or having to remove paint to fit a bracket etc.

What do you do ?