Spare kit bodies

[chromehorn08]

Anyone willing to part with any spare kit bodies they may have. Can be anything...truck car plane train...whatever. Want to practice with my new airbrush. Thanks peeps!

[flashman]

I recently saw a tip on another forum (see link below) that empty soft drink bottles are great for practicing airbrush/rattle can painting. They aren't the same type of plastic as styrene models, but with the variety of curves, they are great for simulating the contours of model bodies, and once you have applied a coat of primer to the bottle, the paint you use won't know the difference . It'll even be practice applying primer, and also help test the compatibility of different primers and paint combinations.

If you or someone you know drinks soda, you have a free empties for your practice!

www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/134754-decanting-and-airbrushing-duplicolor-sandable-primer/?tab=comments#comment-1961640

As Ace-Garageguy (Bill Engwar) says in that thread:

"I started recommending people scuff, primer and practice spraying small soda bottles years ago, after seeing how many folks got good results painting spoons, but ended up with horrible orange peel, grainy dry-spray, or runs when they tried to transition to shooting model car bodies.

Painting a spoon is nothing like painting a model, but boy, did I catch a lot of flack for bucking the "expert" advice.

Not everyone has a stash of junk bodies to practice on, and a small soda bottle is large enough to develop the skills and coordination required to overlap paint passes correctly to keep a "wet edge" while turning the subject being painted, and to learn to hold that fine line between running and flowing out into a nice glossy surface."

Sounds like excellent advice, so I've started saving some of our empty soda bottles to try this myself.

Cameron