tutorial: filing, sanding, and eliminating mold lines
(it’s a bit of a grind…) Before you even start to think about painting a garage kit, you must first get rid of the seam lines, pour tabs, and other irregularities that inevitably crop up in the casting process. Thankfully these are pretty straightforward (if a bit tedious) to remove. Let’s get to it! The…
tutorial: skin shading with pastels
(pastel? why didn’t they just call it “m”?) My favorite technique for doing the “makeup” on a garage kit is pastel shading. This involves scraping soft pastels into a pigmented powder, then brushing said powder onto areas where you want to add a little color. It’s highly controlled and easily reversible, which is great when…
so what’s a garage kit, anyway?
(because it sure isn’t obvious from the name) A garage kit (ガレージキット in Japanese; I swear this will matter later) is a model kit made by an enthusiast in the comfort of their own home. Yes! It’s possible to make model kits without a factory and thousands of dollars worth of injection molds, and it’s…
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