It has been a while since the
previous post (part III) on this project. So, time for an update.
Painting
I tried several shades of green and decided that I painted the carriage with Tamiya XF-5 Flat Green.The Tamiya paint has a lot of pigment and gives a good coverage. It dries nice and clean but you should not 'play' too much with the paint, as you can do with enamel paint. Because the paint dries very fast you can damage the top layer if you go over it with the brush shortly (not directly) after applying. So just apply the paint and leave alone.
The roof and chassis were painted with a layer of normal ' household' acrylic paint from a discount store. In this case it was RAL 8022 which is a brownish black color. Though it looks good on the roof I was not totally sure of it with the chassis. I later repainted the chassis with Tamiya XF 69 NATO Black after placing the rivets (see below).
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| Trying different shades of green. |
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| Roof painted with DIY acrylic paint RAL 8022 brown/black |
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| The paint was applied with a flat brush for the surfaces and a little brush for spots the big brush could not reach |
Rivets
For the simulation of rivets I used little plastic "diamond" half round beads stickers from a discount store. It's the kind of stuff creative mom's and girls use to make all kinds of bling-bling creations. The beads are about 2 mm in diameter and have a self-adhesive layer on the flat side. Although they are called 'diamonds' the beads are just half round balls, so, no ' diamond' surface. The beads are perfect for rivets and much more cheaper (1080 pieces for only 1,50 euro) than the ones you can buy in the model train hobby stores.
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| Cheap rivets; 1080 pieces for 1,50 euro! |
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| Apply the self adhesive half round beads with a pincet |
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| Painted with Tamiya XF 69 NATO Black |
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