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Unless you're doing your model in a glossy finish, you can had brush future where th decals go. I usually apply future, let it cure, decal, let the decals dry and future over the decals, leat that cure then dull coat.

You should be able to get sheets of blue or pink foam at any home improvement store.

What Bar said... mix for at least two minutes, but more would not hurt.

Also use plain ol rubbing alcohol to smooth and shape the stuff...you can use water, but i find alcohol makes it less sticky.

Any off the shelf design software can work...publisher, paint...but a more capable program like Illustrator or corel or Indesign would be better for the creative stuff.

sand, check profile, sand, check profile, sand check profile....

Tedious and boring but it works.

Flexi files or sanding sticks are the way to go...I find sanding sticks have enough bend in them to do things like nacelles and such, but flexi files are good too.

Ganoosh, I have used aves to fill seems, repair small chips in resin kits, and blend disimilar shapes. It take some getting used to, but once you got it you won;t want to use anything else. A 50/50 mix is important. Knead, mush and do waht you gotta do for a good two mintues. I use Isoprpryl alcohol...

Depending on what yuo want a combo of pre/post and a sludge wash can get you there.

depending on the parts, I have wedged a metal ruler between the seams and flexed it to pry the parts loose. Go slow and work a small section at a time

Dan

It happens. I had a chip in the nacelle strut of my starcrafts refit. Not big, but enough to be noticed. Aves solved the problem and if I wouldn't have mentioned it, you would have never known.

M3 did a KBOP with Apple Barrel and it didn't look too bad.

I'm even wondering if the thing should be a light grey for scale effect.

Agreed. Ilustrator or Corel is the way to go.

Karim

I was looking at my little viper and wondering the same thing...although I am going to weather mine.

I wonder if doing somthing similar to doing cockpits would work...stuff the area with a damp tissue, paint then remove.

Rich

I was joking, buddy. Even if you are really good you can't do what you gotta do with the celluclay. You need plexi.

Oh, now he tells me.

Of cousre if you're gonna have parts you need to see under water go with the plexi. But if you're good, if you're really good, see, you should be able to do it with the celluclay, but you have to be REALY GOOD.

Rich Wieght shouldn't be an issue if you used the celluclay, even on the dimensions you mentioned. You don;t need to fill the base with material, you apply it to the surface of wht ever your base is. My Sky One was doen by simpy applying the material on top of a wood base. You don't have to lay it o...

Kosher

Michaels or Hobby Lobby should have it... it's basically a paper mache prodcut.

Okay... I really need to get my how to done on this, huh?

Rich Look in the gallery and see my Sky One mini dio, or see this link: http://www.starshipmodeler.org/gallery9/jm_skyone.htm Crash course on modleing water. Use celluclay. Mix celluclau and water in in some sort of tub (i use those pplastic shoe boxes) until it looks like oatmeal, Start scculpting ...

The stuff is in fact non toxic.. what you're seeing is the Aves Effect...most of us are so amazed at this stuff that it makes us a bit loopy. Yes, the stuff is very hard when cured. I was concerned because I had some unwanted blobs of stuff that had cured. Well, I just sanded those blobs back down t...

Kylwell,

What brands are you using?

I've had good results with Krylon Primer and their colors.

I use alot of Pewter Grey for Starfleet Ships and I've been using a mix of greens for Klingon and Alien ships with no problems.

I do the shake thing and the water thing.

How about this, with apologizes to KISS. "Beth I hear ya callin But I can't come home right now Me and the boys are modeling And we just can't get it down Just few more hours And I'll get this model to you Green putty just aint workin Oh Aves, what can we do? Beth I know you're lonely And I hop...

Okay, smarty.

I'm working on an Irish drinking song about Aves, but as you can imagine it isn't going well.

There once was a putty from Nantucket???

Nahhh... I'm no stalker but if were to stalk someone it would probably be Kim Catrall. Not that I would. I just thought the penguins from Madagascar were funny and since he didn't know what a Zebra was he called him his monochromatic friend. Just thought it was funny. Not that I'm calling you a zebr...

That's the beauty of Aves, my monochromatic friend. You can fill seams with it. You can sculpt with it. You can even repair broken and chipped parts with it like I did on a nacelle strut on my StarCrafts refit. "Thou shalt take two equal proportions of the Holy putty and mush them together... b...

Aves is very "user friendly". I've had great results using isopropyl alchohol and my fingers to shape the stuff. Let it cure and sand a way! "T'was Aves that taught my seams to heal, And Heal my seams did Aves T'was precious did that Aves appeared the hour I first believed" So do...

Rally said the "V" word!!!


Sorry Rally, I am a SAAB guy.

Aves really is good stuff.

And once you convert to the Church of Aves, you will never leave...

(insert malevolent evil laugh here)

If you're using any kind of spray paint, primer, base coat final coat I always run the can under warm water for a couple minutes and have not had any trouble.