Also included were four small brush bottled paints in black, red, silver and thinner.
These kits were probably over 20 years old. I'll use the small brush paints but really don't trust the small cans of spray paint.
I don't use tack cloths.
When tack cloths are new, they can leave an film on your model.
I simply use a cheap chip brush to clean off any dust.
One of the warp drive assemblies cracked right down the seam! A few more drops of CA and some finger pressure closed it up.
As mentioned, the kit came with a short can of Testor's Light Sea Gray paint. The can was too old to trust.
I used the Ace Hardware Light Gray.
It is just about the same shade.
There are plenty of nooks that are hard to reach with the spray paint.
Shoot all the tight inside areas first, then shoot the entire model.
On the right are two areas that didn't get good coverage. I went back afterwards and touched up the gray using a brush. The gray paint sprayed into a small mixing cup.
Given that you mention the inclusion of the paint with the kit, I presume that this was the 1990s special boxed edition (for the 25th anniversary of Star Trek). The original release from the 1970s was in plastic bag with facecard. I do recall those little ampules of contact cement that were in the original release (to be used to glue the vacuform plastic parts to the paper and balsa). Only used one ampule -- simply because that was all that was usable -- the glue in the other ampules couldn't be squeezed out as it had already started to harden.
ReplyDeleteHI Naoto,
DeleteI remember getting small bulbs of contact cement in a few Centuri kits. If the kit was over a few years old, the contact cement was probably dried up. This being more recent, they simply say to use CA glue.