Ready take, Action!: Kampfer Pt 1.

Finished Assembling it, now to seperate it into its major colours. In that way it would be easier to paint parts of the same colour at one time. Normally MG kits have alot of parts mainly because they are seperated to the slightest detail such as a armor plate from its leg or a vernier from the slot. This makes it easier to paint these parts separately and achieve maximum level of detail and finesse. First, take your beloved toy apart and separate them into paper boxes , according to colour like this :

Then, take a chopstick, sate stick any cheap stick u have and place some sticky tack or play-doh or anything of the same kind at the very tip of the stick. Make sure the sticky tack is secure then place the part you want to paint like this:

However , the picture is showing a grey part instead of a blue part because i have previously wet sand the part and sprayed Mr.Surfacer 1000(bloody expensive, mind you.) Mr Surfacer is a primer manufactured for hobby kits like Gunpla. Primer is very important for painting as it helps the paint stick to the surface better. SO, firstly wet sand the part with sand paper 1000.(means its superfine.) Easily found in a hardware shop. Wet sand means wet the paper first. Then when the surface is silky smooth, stick the part on the stick and then prime it with the Surfacer. What happens will look like what you see in the picture above. And the below :

Once the primer dries, youll get a matte grey kind of looking part. Hence, to the paint. The very most IMPORTANT rule of painting is the mixture ratio. For me, since im painting with a brush, i mixed about a layer of paint in a shot glass with ten drops of thinner. You have to find your own suitable mixture because it differs with what you use and in what container its in. The mixture is different if you use an airbrush. The mixing practically decides how many layers you gonna have to paint and how good your finish will be. Hence: