Well, my very first ever kit has arrived: Cretaceous Creations, Anatotitan & hatchlings! I'll wash everything down with warm water and dish soap, then sand down any visible seams this coming week. Any suggestions or words or wisdom would be greatly appreciated!
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First build- CC's Anatotitan & hatchlings
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Re: First build- CC's Anatotitan & hatchlings
My words of wisdom: DO A GOOD JOB! Looks like a really nice kit. Just have fun and not sweat the little stuff. Sorry I can't be much help but I've never built a dino. Looks like it has some good interlocking parts so you shouldn't have to pin it, that's good. Like you said, wash it good and then a good coat of primer and you're all set to use your imagination in color choice.
There are some mighty fine dino painters here at the CH that can really help you.
Have fun with your first,
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Have fun with your first,
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Re: First build- CC's Anatotitan & hatchlings
How exciting! Very cool. CC has some awesome kits that practically go together by themselves.
With these kits that have over the top detail on them I think I would go easy with the sandpaper on the seam joins. What I do is get into a Zen mode and with an exacto blade pick away the extra resin from between the scales. Takes a while but the results will much more convincing. Using sandpaper and will make ake repairing any scales rubbed away a long term project. Can be done, but really hard.
A bunch of years ago there was actually an IPMS seminar of painting dinos. The guy made a pretty good case for using armor (tanks etc...) camo as a color guide. So you could always try that.
Good luck and take pics along the way. Love to see 'em.
With these kits that have over the top detail on them I think I would go easy with the sandpaper on the seam joins. What I do is get into a Zen mode and with an exacto blade pick away the extra resin from between the scales. Takes a while but the results will much more convincing. Using sandpaper and will make ake repairing any scales rubbed away a long term project. Can be done, but really hard.
A bunch of years ago there was actually an IPMS seminar of painting dinos. The guy made a pretty good case for using armor (tanks etc...) camo as a color guide. So you could always try that.
Good luck and take pics along the way. Love to see 'em.