[Finished F-15 BAZ 1/48th Hasagawa]

Doing a Block 60 -16? Think they call it a "Sufa" in Israel...

[1/48 Hasagawa F-15 BAZ Under construction]

Interesting that they call their F-15s Falcons while we use that for the F-16! Wonder what they call the 16 in Israel?

 

Gil

 

"Netz". Means "hawk" in Hebrew,

[Cleaning an airbrush]

A tool I have found quite useful is a set of spray gun cleaning brushes I got at Harbor Freight. There are six of them of varying thicknesses on a ring. The largest just fits inside my Paashe needle and the smallest is great for cleaning right down to the end of the tip. They were designed to do just this job, so they work great. $1.99, I think. Other places that sell paint sprayer gear probably have them as well. If/when they get gummed up, I soak them in lacquer thinner and "comb" them with a brass brush to clean out any residual "goop".

 

I use to use pipe cleaners, but even the good ones can leave bits of fuzz behind. These brushes avoid that problem. Also, you use less thinner sprayed in the air. Just run the excess paint out, put a little thinner in, insert the brushes a few times, spray out the residue, then run some clean thinner thru and you're done.

 

Pretty much what I do.

[Future Floor Wax?]

I've just moved to shooting acrylics with an airbrush and I've heard of this stuff being shot on as a sealer. What does it do and does it come off easily?

[Model Master enamels getting harder to find]

I'm south of Fort Worth, the local Hobby Lobby tries, but they generally don't stock the stuff I need. So, I usually order directly from Testors. I've also kind of gotten away from enamels and into acrylics. Funny story on that, my son likes to repaint his GI Joe vehicles and acrylics covered in an sealer wear pretty good, but enamels don't.

[Things that make you fume]

I build clean. Yeah, I know...

[Howdy, Y'all...]

Entering back into the hobby after a very long hiatus. I'm 40, haven't done a build since I was about 19. My dad and I used to build together and now I'm getting my nine-year-old son into it. Got back into the hobby about a month ago when my Dad handed over his entire collection to sell on eBay, he's getting too old and realized he wasn't into it anymore and was hanging on to all of his stuff with no intention of ever working on it, but he told me I could keep whatever I wanted and sell the rest.

 

So, now I have a metal cabinet full of kits and a shop to work on them and a son to teach. He's homeschooled, so this is kind of his art class. I pretty much build OOB and clean. I'm here to learn as much as I can so I can teach my son as well.

 

Thanks to all, and I hope y'all are patient, because I'm still kind of learning.