Monthly Archives: August 2011

No sir. Still working on it, albeit quite slowly as Zelda on my 3DS is demanding my attention.

Well, today I redid the black window sections and a bit of the red too. It’s cleaned up some of the problems, but the red paint is hellish delicate, so I have gloss coated it and am going to let … Continue reading →

So, I deepened the red on the light cycle. Not sure if I’ve made it too thick, but I was trying to get a shiny coating, not just a smear of paint. So, time to remove the masking tape and … Continue reading →

First thing today was to paint the section I want to be a lighter red with white. I did start the clear red painting, but I found the chrome had taken too many knocks and scrapes, so decided to re-chrome … Continue reading →

So I masked the window sections for painting with my Alclad Smoke Black stuff. So I let the paint dry, then gloss coated it again for protection, then let it dry for several hours. To my horror, when I peeled … Continue reading →

So I have now chromed the Light Cycle and gloss coated again, ready to start the smoke black windows tomorrow.

So I masked off all the non-silver parts of the cycle and sprayed with Mr Color Silver with some Flat Base added to dull it down. So it looks like the first lot of masking has worked okay. So, due … Continue reading →

Well, it seems my Alclad base paints simply couldn’t adhere to the resin of the kit. In my desperation I switched to my Mr Color black and it seemed to work. All the arsing around does seem to have had … Continue reading →

Right, so I decided to build the Light Cycle before painting as there were some large gaps that I wanted to fill. This will make painting harder, but I should be able to mask things off efficiently enough. So, kit … Continue reading →