John Baligrodzki

Have my Tachikawa KI 36 just about ready for paint. Will be painting it the same as the model kit box cover. So gray first then green, etc. Plan to really weather this plane down and make look very used. Wanted to try using water based paints primarily to give them a try and also being in Minnesota want to avoid stinking up the house.

So hoping you can provide me with some helpful hint and suggestions, hoed to do it what not to do. I know this subject has been covered before.

Bought a new compressor and will paint wit a touch gun and airbrush.

Thanks for your help!

John

tevans55

I use flat exterior latex house paint. I put 2 ozs. of Flotrol per quart into the paint. When i'm ready to spray I use a 60/40 mix paint/windshield washer fluid. You can mix to desired effect, but that's a good place to start. I use flat paint because it looks good when weathered on WWII aircraft. Hope this helps.

deatonbt

Here is a link to Vailly Aviation. In the lower left corner of the webpage, there are some how-to articles.

http://www.vaillyaviation.com/Intro.html

Brian

Ram-bro

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will be watching

John Baligrodzki

Thank you for the information. Yesterday while thinking about this remembered I had seen the info on Vailly's website. Reviewed it and now can proceed. Today need to determine colors. Not going for exact matches to colors that were used. Also want a fair amount of exposed aluminum as often on Japanese planes the paint did not seem to hold up well. if anyone has any good ideas on doing that let me know.

John

peter w h

John,

Spray the aircraft silver first then top coat, let dry then wet sand with 1200 through top coat into silver, gives a nice effect.
For chips lightly and sparingly sprinkle some course salt onto the sill tacky silver paint where you want the chips to appear and then apply top coat.
Brush salt off when top coat is dry.

Peter.

deatonbt

If you go to the designer interior colors at Home Depot or Lowes, there is an interior color that matches just about any camouflage color out there. Just get the color mixed in one of the less expensive brands I used interior/exterior satin with no sealer.

Brian

tevans55

John-
Here is my recently completed Corsair with flat latex. Flat looks good weathered and chipped up.

Ram-bro

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for weathering , especially the Japanese planes, chips will only do so much. Use the liquid mask for your larger sections. Brush it on, let it dry ad then paint over it normal fashion. I have done the spray over aluminum before, just make sure you wipe it down after the paint is cured and before you shoot your camo on it or else the camo could come off in sheets. Not a bad effect on the Japanese planes but not always desired on the Allied warbirds.

John Baligrodzki

Went to the hobby shop and picked up the green camo color and the gray that the entire plane will be painted in first. From the instructions with the model kit I was able to cross reference colors to Tamiya paints. Was a bit suprised the light gray is actually a gray-green color.

Before I paint the plane I will paint a couple test panels to test masking and of course how to get the paint chipping weathering affect. Thinking that painting the entire ship silver as it will add weight. But perhaps that won't be that much.

John

John Baligrodzki

Here is a picture showing the small test panel I painted that shows the gray-green and the darker camo color.

Ram-bro

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the Aluminum under coat wont add that much weight. remember it is not your top coats which take heavier coats. when you do your weathering by using the steel wool, it is a great effect as the aluminum just starts to shine thru

tevans55

Make sure that paint is fuel proof. That is going to look great when painted...good luck!

John Baligrodzki

Have a DLE 30 for power. The latex will be of course be clear coated. Now need to source out silver for the undercoat.

John

raptureboy

Rustoleum makes a good aluminium finish in their industrial spray paint. Also if you take your color samples to the local paint store they now sell small 4oz sample jars for around $5 and you can have them match the colors exactly.

warbirdcolors

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I've got the right colors in a water-based product here:

www.warbirdcolors.com