For some time now, I have been using an old Computer monitor delivery box for my spray booth. It was light and could be easily folded away. However it got rather grubby and started to fall apart. I needed something a little more robust but still compact. This is where my Dad stepped up. I have many tools for model making but very few for woodworking, however my Dad has plenty. Handy that. He asked what I needed so I described that it had to be able to be packed away and light enough to move around. I will use it in my model room for general painting but will need to move it into my kitchen where there is more air flow when using Lacquer paints. Unfortunately, I never gave my Dad an accurate height, I just described something the size of a dart board cover.
A few weeks later, he had produced a brilliant booth for me. He had finished it earlier but with Covid restricts, couldn't get it to me. It was perfect, Just a little too tall. I needed it to fit under my shelves on my model bench and under my kitchen cabinets in the kitchen, so I had to make a few modifications myself. I then tapped white paper on the inside to cover the gaps where the booth folds up and to reflect as much light back onto the model as possible. It looks great!
Sure it looks rough and ready but it will do the job perfectly and much better than some old grotty cardboard box. With just a few hinges and some bits of wood, I have a new, amazing spray booth. Things don't have to be expensive to do the job amazingly well. Thank you Dad for an amazing job, I can't wait to put it to good use.
My next project is a midnight purple Nissan Skyline GTR R34 and for this I needed some extra parts and materials. After a few deliveries, most of my parts and materials have arrived. Lets take a look at what we have.
First of all, lets look at the boxes at the back. The model comes with standard wheels but I wanted something a little more.. GTR. Luckily Heroboy is there for me for many after market mods and I bought a set of 18" Rays along with Toyo tyres to match. To the right of these boxes I have perfectly colour matched Lacquer paint in Rays copper to match the real life wheels.
I also purchased some realistic chrome paint as I wasn't happy with the other chrome I purchased before and really wanted to give this paint a try.
I have two cans of Tamyia Grey primer along with a couple of small pots of acrylic paint, German grey and aluminium. Pretty basic paints but needed as part of this model. Behind the small pots I have Zeropaints Gloss Black. This will act as a base coat (after the primer) for the wheels and Chrome as to produce a good metallic finish a good gloss black undercoat is needed.
Next to the gloss black I have two pots of textured paints, Charcoal and Blue. I will use these for the car's seats and internal door panels. Textured paint gives a material type texture and I am really looking forward to seeing the results of using these. Just a little added detail.
Expo superglue for gluing parts that need much more stability. In front of the wheel boxes I have clear fix glue. This is used on transparent plastic parts like lights and windows, rather than normal glue which sometimes causes the plastic to fog, something I do not need to happen.
The small clear plastic packet on the right is an aftermarket exhaust tip and muffler. I opted for something a little larger than the standard one that comes with the kit. The packet to the left has metal GTR decals. On the real car the body badges are metal and slightly raised. These decals will hopefully replicate that detailed look.
The two packets of what look like ribbons are, in fact, seatbelt material. They even have stitches along the full length, very highly detailed. I purchased both blue and black as I am undecided which one to use. Either way, they will be handy for other models.
The packet on the right, with black, orange and yellow sponges are polishing sponges. I wasn't quite happy with the final finish of the Ferrari F40. I was sure I could of gotten a higher shine. After watching a few youtube videos I found out I could use these sponges (that have differing grades of polish) along with polishing compound (which I already have) with my Dremall Tool to, hopefully, produce a very high quality 'machine' polish.
To seal and give the bodywork that little extra, I purchased some spray on sealing wax (the spray bottle in the centre) from splash. This is like the wax you use on your real life car and can really finish off a good machine polish.
Then, at the bottom, I purchased some new fine detail brushes. I always like to buy new fine detail brushes from time to time, as the older ones get ragged no matter how much you clean them. The pack also came with very fine detailed 'sponge' brushes. These are used to dab paint onto very fine detailed areas.
Those are my recent purchases. I still have a few things to come but currently they are out of stock. These include decals for my new wheels and for brake callipers. I also need metal etched seatbelt fixings but I can still work on the model without those for now.
I am looking forward to getting started, using my new spray booth and seeing if I can better my last model. I hope this little insight is enjoyable as it gives more of an inside look as to what it entails to produce awesome looking models. Until next time :)
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