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My “Most Used Tools” that clutter my work area

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~ My beloved hobby knife by X-acto with #11 blade is THE tool of the trade. The hobby knife is for the modeller what the scalpel is for the surgeon! I put on a new blade every time I start a new build.
~ Sanding sticks, from coarse to extra fine, tapered. Squadron is my favourite brand.
~ A couple of sprue cutters.
~ Tamiya masking tape
~ Glue, of course. My favourite is the Contacta by Revell
~ Putty (as for the sanding sticks, by Squadron mostly). Putty is great. Not only you can use it to fill gaps and seams (you’ll use putty quite a lot), but also to simulate zimmerit paste and to craft tarpaulins, rolled blankets and similar objects made of some kind of fabric.
~ Pin vice. You’ll want to start drilling stuff eventually 😀
~ Tweezers of every shape and size
~ Soldering kit for photo-etch

I also have countless other tools but the ones I just mentioned cover 95% of my needs during the building stage.

How to thin Tamiya acrylic paints

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Well, the best thinner for Tamiya acrylics is… Tamiya’s own thinner!

But if you enjoy mixing stuff, here is a cheap recipe I found a while ago on the Internet. I tried it several times and it works beautifully.

Water (25%) + isopropyl alcohol (75%) + a few drops of food grade glycerine.

The first time I tried it, I was able to prime two 1:35 tanks – with constant pauses (I even had to take a phone call that lasted a few minutes) – and my Iwata never had any kind of clogging during the 40 minutes of spraying session. I have recently filled a couple of one-liter bottles with the stuff spending just a few euros.

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Another kind of thinner that works with Tamiya (I personally never tried it) is the thinner used for lacquer paints

Israeli afvs

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xf-20 + xf-57 + xf-49
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Olive Drab (Sinai War 1973)
xf-62

Sand Grey (Six Days War 1961 to 1973)
xf-60 + xf-57

Sand Grey (Yom Kippur 1973)
xf-57 + xf-59 + xf-20

Sand Grey 3 (Lebanon 1982)

colours for an ARV – Recovery Vehicle (IDF)
xf-20 (2) + xf-49 (1)

Painting – Wood

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• Use xf-52 as base colour. Once this has dried, a thin coat of Winsor & Newton 744 Yellow Ochre and 074 Burnt Sienna is applied with a broad brush. To get the wooden texture right, it is important to thin the paint with white spirit, but not so much that it becomes runny.