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[Brad Cancian]

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you guys(like I said I only check the list once in a while!)No special techniques for any of my models in all honesty!  I prefer simple, reliable techniques.Scratch building structures is a constant game of test fitting, test fitting, and more test fitting!  J  I don’t use much in the way of measuring devices (i.e verniers or anything like that) for measurements, unless it is necessary to keep symmetry – the most I use is a steel ruler.  Often the important thing with cockpits is trying to get everything square relative with the fusealage halves, and not necessarily with each other – optical illusions regarding geometry and depth can often be used.  It does take time to scratchbuild and line up structures, but I don’t think there is any other way around it…Regarding assembly and painting sequence – again I follow no set formula – I often try to assemble almost to completion prior to painting, and just use careful masking, with detail painting done with a fine brush.  Occasionally, for photographic purposes, I will lightly tack subassemblies together for photographs, and then pull them apart for painting if it going to be too tricky to mask.  I prefer to detail paint than to ruin the paint job trying to glue it all together.  Paint and washes can hide many indiscretions in construction JWherever possible, I use superglue to glue the rigging and interior components.  I will use plastic cement where strength is more important, such as fuselage to wing joints, fuselage halves etc.  For most painting, I prefer to use an airbrush wherever possible, except for wood grain, which I paint by hand.  I use Windsor and Newton oil paints (usually a rough mix of yellow ochre, burnt sienna, raw sienna, black and white) streaked over acrylic buff, and sealed in (once dry) with an overspray of Tamiya clear yellow or clear orange.Hope this helps?Cheers,BC > I'm quite intrigued to know how you make new instrument panels and> structures out of styrene bits. Any special techniques to fit these inside> the fuselage shells?> Do you paint the individual bits before gluing or right after assembling> the lot? >What kind of glue do you use to join the detail parts and inner >rigging?>Do you use an airbrush or a regular sable brush?>Which is your approach to paint wood grain on surfaces?>>This question has also interested me. One sees photographs where >modelers>appear to have assembled the whole largely (or entirely) scratchbuilt >lot,>then painted it, beautifully, thereafter. It seems it would be easier >to>paint these things in seperate sections. What's the skinny on this>technique? Are we talking careful detail-painting technique, post->assembly?>>Thanks in advance for your answer, Brad.
  		 	   		  
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