The Top Ten Detailing Items You Need to Super-Detail your Scale Models

get your hands out of the video, very distracting, otherwise good vid.

Wonder if there will ever be a kit that requires zero additions other than paint and glue that is 'perfect' OOB? I doubt it. But there are kits that look fantastic OOB.

The cost of photo etch bending tools - some of them in the £100 range - is completely unjustified.

Cool little video, looking forward to the sea harrier video. Harriers have a special place with me. I was in the 2nd Marine Air Wing when they first started to deploy them. I didn't work on this bird, but remember watching them on the flight line, taxi way, take and land. It was very exiting to see them. And something totally new (at least for me) at the time. I subbed today.

Hi Alex.. you mentioned foil for seatbelts etc. Would supermarket own brand kitchen foil be OK for that? Pretty cheap and a single roll would probably last years :)

The rolling paper tip is very interesting. I don't know why I didn't think of it before, but when I changed my guitar strings yesterday, I looked at the clippings and had a eureka moment. Going to try using them for different details.

Great tips lots of stuff I either didn't know or had not thought of. Lots to think about and try. Thank you.

Stretching sprue.
For fine wires heat the sprue up until you can pull it into 2.
Immediately touch melted end back together and pull.
You will get much finer rods.

Found your channel and subscribed.

Thanks for information. I am using Vallejo paints. Really nice to work with .

It is all well and good doing all this detail, cockpits, engines etc, and I do love doing it, but half the time you (or anyone else) never gets to see it as it just gets covered up. I wish more kit makers would include the option of a transparent panel. I'm in two minds about cutting a panel out and on models to show it off.

those cigarette papers also come in a much larger size...

Can you tell me which Is better today acrylic or enamel for the airbrush ? I am going to be working on a Revell corsair I received as a gift. I have been out of modeling for a while and getting back. I'm lost on the new paints.

This is a good starting point video for all levels. Picked up a few things, a couple I've known and forgot.

Just a suggestion, Get a small pillar candle to go with that lighter. It'll free a hand up for stretching Sprue and give you better control when heating the plastic.

I have a box just for collecting spare parts. I have rockets, bombs, fuel tanks, even engine cowlings and canopies from various kits. I don't have an airbrush as I don't have an appropriate area to setup and use it as well as the entry cost is too high, so I have spray cans of glosscote and dullcote from Testors. I have tried the glosscote, but it always comes out wavy and never smooth. Any chance you could do a video on preparing a kit for spraying clear glosscote on? Or maybe give suggestions on what I might be doing wrong?

Great video! Much appreciated. Thanks! 👍

Good basic information. I've found that even that can be valuable for a veteran modeler because nearly everyone does certain tasks a little differently and I will often see something done in a new way (to me) that I will adopt to improve my techniques. Consider me a new subscriber.

The introduction seems to be recorded in mono audio, it only comes out of the left speaker. The rest of the video does not have this issue. Its an easy thing to miss.

Also thank you for making this video, It was very informative and I think will be helpful in my model building

Very helpful. I have trouble with scribing. I will try to find a similar tool to the one you displayed .

Excellent video.
I never considered using cigarette papers for cloth/tarps/etc. Great idea.

Great info. I know and use most of those techniques. I despise superglue, so I dread the use of PE, although it's often needed. The tip on cigarette paper was new and interesting. Thanks, Ralph

Research is very important. It is so easy to do today, remember they days of looking for books that had squadron markings?

Subscribed and awesome tips! 👍

Well done👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Lots of helpful tips and ideas. Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to the next video. Cheers

Good stuff, mate!

This video is perfect for the model building hobbyist.
I struggle to get close to the real thing on a daily basis.
It has great ideas and is very impressive. I found it helpful in many ways.
Looking forward to seeing more.

Awesome video!

Great video for newcomers to the hobby. You got a new subscriber will be looking forward to more.

Excellent stuff. Thanks for the vid. New sub.

like, subscribe, comment, Bell-All !

Very nice, digestible vid. With regards to the cigarette papers, what use could you have for those on a model?

excellent and informative video!

Hi I subscribed and hit the bell - Cheers.. Good video!

Hey Alex, great video and some wonderful tips

exellent idea for the beginers, thank for sharing , good video mate ! all the best jy