Talk:General Discussion/@comment-216.123.165.66-20150304151917/@comment-216.123.165.66-20150305154841

I air brush the ship in sections before I glue it all on the deck like I’ll build the super structure and PE it, same goes for masts, gun turrets, funnels and any major structure. You’ll want to avoid hand brushing the base coat of PE as much as possible since it’s hard to get it perfectly covered without losing details, you can even air brush it while it is still on the fret, just hit it with some matte so you don’t scratch too much off when you are ready to fold and glue it. When air brushing rails you should be aware that you need to hit it on all angles, not just the front and back cuz when you look at it from the top you’ll see the brass.

I air brush the base coat to just prime the plastic surface, then the real work starts. I hit it with a black wash then a rust wash it'll look really messy and will have ugly pools but then I go in a dry brush all the hard pool edges and the blends in with the base coat. It work alright, I'm looking for hints discolouration from oil and rust stains, you're not doing much "direct painting" it like 90% dry brushing.





A nice tip for handling all the small parts for air brushing is to use double sided tape on a popsicle stick and then just stick on all the small parts on the tape so you can easily paint several small parts at once, alligator clips on a stick don’t work too well at 1/700 :P