Got it of from ebay for cheap being it is not usually found in normal household. Guess what it is.
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I have purchased this Gunze Mr Surfacer 1000 bottled primer thinking it is cheaper and last longer. But thats not true. I have used it sparingly until now I used it fully to prime my Kanu. It was an sh88ty experience.
Can’t use industrial thinner, because it dried up too fast and have to use Nakamoto acetone based thinner. (Now I can ID the type of thinner by smell, I am so dead). Thinning is an chore. When come actual spraying, it took me thrice the amount of time it took me to use a spray can to get proper coverage. Being thinner when mixed with thinner, it leaves sh*t load of pin holes uncovered, which later I going to cover it up myself. It gunk my procon so easily that cleaning have to be done every single cup full and dried so fast that it make a mess and it doesn’t grip as good as Tamiya. In term of pricing, I remember 100ml spray can Gunze is more expensive than 180ml Tamiya.
Hence conclusion, bottle primer is NOT GREAT for resins, maybe good for gundams. Tamiya spray can primer is King!
Today I will introduce some tools needed for garage kits. Some are necessities and some are nice to have. Still it make life easier doing jobs when using the appropriate tools.
From the usual sandpapers, airbrush and compressor which is a must. Performance and quality play a issue as well. Hi-end airbrush are mostly likely to be very smooth and hi-end compressor are usually very quiet mostly come with a air-tank for constant pressure. Of course down here the best value are Sparmax airbrush and sparmax compressor.
Procon PS270 and silair compressors.
Washing and a bit of pinning is done. I have tried a new detailing technique. No idea what’s it called so I named it "dig-in"
Was preping Kanu in the midst of a hot afternoon.
See the mess xD. The dremel make some jobs so much easier. Some advanced preping need a dremel as well.
Few day ago, I screw up. I overspill the compressor oil. Thats ok, just an oil spill. But whats not okay is the air fitler got soaked in oil. Operation status changed to red. Dangerous to run the compressor without a filter.
After a whole day trek almost over half of Singapore, managed to get one in Jalan Besar. Its almost half-price of what I got quoted from the Bukit Merah car workshop area. Its the original K&N oil-breather whereas the previous one a chiong one. Its uses oil medium as its filter.
During the previous few days trip roaming in Malaysia. I got access into one of the plastic injection moulding maunfacturing center. Instead of PVC toys, they manufactured bottles, bowls, caps and such. Some of it have already made it to your house. What items is it, is classified information.
Most of the injection machines are classified as well, but I managed to snap some of them, especially those oil bottle and water bottle blowing machine.
After much mental orgies, decided to drop the bomb. An SMS to the seller got my compressor delivered 2 hours later. All happen near to midnight. All was good except the hose adaptor was not the correct one and too much oil inside.
Therefore decide to do a strip down maintanance to pour out the excess oil.
Today everything start coming in. At first was the flexshaft and the keyless chunk. Went taken home to try on the China dremel. The whole thing start vibrating. There you have china made tools. Lucky it is cheap. Anyway the alignment is off and it broke one of my most expensive scrap bit. Then, I order a original dremel and the guy delivered to my block. Open my mailbox on the way back, padded envelope! My shipment from UK have arrived. 1 airbrush lube. Bought 2 paint from Comic mart and 1 2K blue.
On a unexpected visit to Nakamoto shop for his lengendary thinner, I asked him about gloss and matte coating. It seem for the normal gunpla modeler, trying to get a flat look and a gloss coat is a chore. Something that doent really bother a resin modeler; Flat just spray on a artist varnish, gloss just coat on a PU clear aka your car gloss with scratch resisitant and UV protection. ^^
However the steps with the gunpla way which normally people use is, 1 to 2 layer of gloss, sand and polish. Thats when I took notice of the "polish" which turns out to be Tamiya Polishing Compound. I got no idea what is that which later I found out was used for polishing. Works on every paint type.
One of the cliche that I encounter was to achieve a satin gloss. A pain in the ass surfacing. I dont want to spray another coat on the 2K black. Using gloss will have too much bling bling.
It works! Just the way I want, although a bit too way glossy. The polish was only rated FINE. I wonder what the tube rated FINISH will do. ^^ Can see my face on it I supposed.
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