PixelMagic
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So while I patiently await Gary's release of the TOS Enterprise color guide, I have put it on the back burner and started on the 2009 Enterprise. I HATED this ship the first time I saw it, but I've come to appreciate certain things about it, even if I'm still not 100% in love with it. From some angles it's quite beautiful.
With all builds, I like to try out a new technique, and this I am exploring "black basing" which has become popular in the aircraft modeling world the past year or so. See more on the technique here...
https://doogsmodels.com/2014/07/03/technique-black-basing/
At the same time, I've been searching for an airbrush primer that goes down as smooth as Tamiya Fine primer, which I've been using for years. The only down sides to the Tamiya Fine Primer are that it's expensive, and you don't really have fine control over its spray pattern or volume. This means the can runs out quickly and those things are $11 a pop. I also needed a primer that was black. I tried Vallejo's Surface Primer, but it's not very sandable unless you wait a LONG time for it to cure. It is sandable after curing fully over a week or so. In my tests it also went down kind of grainy, though others have gotten smooth results.
Then I found this primer. The holy grail I'd been looking for. Stynylrez Primer by Badger. I know I'm going to sound like an advertisement here, but this stuff is INCREDIBLE. It's water based, doesn't have an odor, and it goes down satin smooth. A perfect finish. It's self leveling properties are insane. I accidentally flooded the surface with primer on one piece and it STILL leveled out and did not obscure any detail at all. When you first spray it on, it looks kind of orange peely, which worried me, but give it 10-15 minutes and it levels itself off perfectly. It also is very good at filling little sanding scratches while not softening actual molded detail. After 20 minutes, you can sand it, and it feathers off just as well as Tamiya. After 1-2 hours of curing, it will withstand any masking tape, and not pull up. This is my primer from now on. Don't let the crap graphic label fool you. This stuff is the best primer I've ever seen.
I hope to have more updates soon, using the the black basing technique to build up hull panels. I think it will be an interesting experiment, but I also wanted to let you guys know about Stynylrez.
With all builds, I like to try out a new technique, and this I am exploring "black basing" which has become popular in the aircraft modeling world the past year or so. See more on the technique here...
https://doogsmodels.com/2014/07/03/technique-black-basing/
At the same time, I've been searching for an airbrush primer that goes down as smooth as Tamiya Fine primer, which I've been using for years. The only down sides to the Tamiya Fine Primer are that it's expensive, and you don't really have fine control over its spray pattern or volume. This means the can runs out quickly and those things are $11 a pop. I also needed a primer that was black. I tried Vallejo's Surface Primer, but it's not very sandable unless you wait a LONG time for it to cure. It is sandable after curing fully over a week or so. In my tests it also went down kind of grainy, though others have gotten smooth results.
Then I found this primer. The holy grail I'd been looking for. Stynylrez Primer by Badger. I know I'm going to sound like an advertisement here, but this stuff is INCREDIBLE. It's water based, doesn't have an odor, and it goes down satin smooth. A perfect finish. It's self leveling properties are insane. I accidentally flooded the surface with primer on one piece and it STILL leveled out and did not obscure any detail at all. When you first spray it on, it looks kind of orange peely, which worried me, but give it 10-15 minutes and it levels itself off perfectly. It also is very good at filling little sanding scratches while not softening actual molded detail. After 20 minutes, you can sand it, and it feathers off just as well as Tamiya. After 1-2 hours of curing, it will withstand any masking tape, and not pull up. This is my primer from now on. Don't let the crap graphic label fool you. This stuff is the best primer I've ever seen.
I hope to have more updates soon, using the the black basing technique to build up hull panels. I think it will be an interesting experiment, but I also wanted to let you guys know about Stynylrez.
