Blood for the Baron!

Yep, in essence:

01) Dismantle completely. Carefully remove stickers (I put them onto an A4 label backing sheet and press them under heavy books)
02) Cover EVERYTHING in newspaper / plastic sheeting, make sure the area is well ventilated.
03) Lay out all the pieces.
04) Spray them all white.
05) Leave for several hours. Do not be tempted to "see if they are dry yet" - they are not, and you just ruined a piece.
06) Turn them all over, go slow if they have stuck to the newspaper.
07) Spray the other side, repeat step 5
08) Arrange them by colour plan; spray all of the blue bits in one area, all of the black together elsewhere etc etc. Repeat steps 5, 6 & 7
09) Spray everything with lacquer. Repeat steps 5, 6 & 7
10) Reassemble. Bear in mind it will never be as durable as a toy, any hard knocks will remove paint.

I find the whole process extremely rewarding. Have fun!

Ironblood wrote:

gung-hoeddie wrote:thanks guys for the advice, time is something i have in abundence i've still got another fortnight off work so that's good. Ironblood was it the WP quad bike you wanted?

The Military Buggy eddie I can get more quads quite readily thanks!

i should be going over to the toy shop either tomorrow or monday to get some paints and what not so i'll see what they have available.

The Baron wrote:Yep, in essence:

01) Dismantle completely. Carefully remove stickers (I put them onto an A4 label backing sheet and press them under heavy books)
02) Cover EVERYTHING in newspaper / plastic sheeting, make sure the area is well ventilated.
03) Lay out all the pieces.
04) Spray them all white.
05) Leave for several hours. Do not be tempted to "see if they are dry yet" - they are not, and you just ruined a piece.
06) Turn them all over, go slow if they have stuck to the newspaper.
07) Spray the other side, repeat step 5
08) Arrange them by colour plan; spray all of the blue bits in one area, all of the black together elsewhere etc etc. Repeat steps 5, 6 & 7
09) Spray everything with lacquer. Repeat steps 5, 6 & 7
10) Reassemble. Bear in mind it will never be as durable as a toy, any hard knocks will remove paint.

I find the whole process extremely rewarding. Have fun!

thats about answered any question i could possibly have, i will spray and leave overnight before doing anything else, thanks everyone.

gung-hoeddie wrote:

Ironblood wrote:

gung-hoeddie wrote:thanks guys for the advice, time is something i have in abundence i've still got another fortnight off work so that's good. Ironblood was it the WP quad bike you wanted?

The Military Buggy eddie I can get more quads quite readily thanks!

i should be going over to the toy shop either tomorrow or monday to get some paints and what not so i'll see what they have available.

Thanks eddie this has cheered me up I came back home from a local event to find I had messed up an e-bay buy it now order I may have to pay for 2 issues the same but with different covers and now for 5 issues it's $84.57 in total.

Ouch! Maybe you can resell them and recoup the loss.

The Baron wrote:Ouch! Maybe you can resell them and recoup the loss.

I asked can we sort this out I haven't yet paid for them I hope they will let me do it. I am buying IDW's Cobra mini series I know I was against it but I am intrigued by what they come up with.