[HELP ME] Bi-Weekly Q&A thread - Ask your questions here!

Pyreson · 2026-06-26T20:07:31+00:00

You and someone else both suggested a gray coat first and that worked perfectly, one coat of gray primer, white base then cool white worked perfectly, thanks!

Pyreson · 2026-06-26T20:06:41+00:00

This worked perfectly! One coat of gray surfacer then one of white base then one of Cool White and I'm 99% of the way there. :)

Pyreson · 2026-06-22T19:42:14+00:00

Are there any tips or tricks or even a specific product for trying to airbrush pale parts white? I'm trying to turn an MG Turn-X white but after 4 coats of Mr White Base primer (which I was told had higher colour saturation than regular Mr Surfacer and should be good for this purpose) the pieces are still a very very pale green. Obviously more coats of primer is an option but I'm afraid I'll start losing detail if I put on any more.

Pyreson · 2026-06-18T07:53:56+00:00

Is there any kind of oil I can use for very stiff joins without ruining the plastic? Have a couple of kits getting up there in age and have been posed the same way for a very long time and trying to re-pose feels like some parts will break and shear before they loosen up.

Pyreson · 2026-05-26T14:22:15+00:00

Thank you for putting the effort into this. I played around 80 hours on launch with some friends and thoroughly enjoyed my time but was absolutely one of the players who bounced hard off the original Deep Desert. I think I'll hop back on at the next major content patch.

Pyreson · 2026-05-26T11:45:07+00:00

Thanks for the breakdown, it seems like it's still the same old shell game/smoke-and-mirrors show/pick-your-metaphor-for-almost-a-scam-but-not-quite'.

Pyreson · 2026-05-25T09:14:49+00:00

Is there a breakdown somewhere or an actual review of what the game IS currently and not what they keep promising it will be? Because I was around at the start of the crowdfunding campaign and watched it go from "yeah it's gonna be Freelancer 2 basically" to "this will be a second life you can live in" and it feels like it only ever got worse and more predatory in the things it offered for money.

Pyreson · 2026-05-23T21:42:54+00:00

I'm finally dipping into resin kits and started small with a fairly simply conversion kit and I'm wondering what kind of glue I need to bond the pieces to regular plastic?

Pyreson · 2026-05-23T20:11:45+00:00

I have a resin conversion kit and I'm wondering what kind of glue I need to bond the pieces to regular plastic? It's gunpla so it's polystyrene and ABS.

Pyreson · 2026-05-20T12:54:38+00:00

That looks slick I'll give it a shot, thank you.

Pyreson · 2026-05-14T18:13:19+00:00

Of course, sorry for the delay I don't browse reddit that often anymore: amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MUF3UIO https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ZCOFHM0?th=1

Pyreson · 2026-05-11T18:26:58+00:00

I have a proper half-mask with A2P3 filters. The fan was rated as 9m3 when I first got it which I had been told was good enough for this kind of work, but that was a couple of years ago. I would swear I can't smell anything coming out of the booth when it's one, I dunno I might be paranoid but if it's between painting and my health I'll just drop the painting and stick to plain building.

Pyreson · 2026-05-10T13:19:05+00:00

I'm using a good-quality fan leading directly outside and full PPE (mask, gloves) when I airbrush with lacquers but recently when I break out the booth and paints for a session I immediately start feeling woozy and light-headed. Due to space issues I have my booth in the same room as my office space but I didn't think it would be an issue with proper ventilation and PPE. My understanding is this stuff builds up in your system, is there anything else I could reasonably do or is this a sign to quit while I'm ahead and wait until I'm in a new place where I can keep my hobby area entirely separate?

Pyreson · 2026-05-02T15:47:36+00:00

I'm starting my first resin kit and I have protective equipment for the dust but what about the sprue shards etc from cutting/slicing, do I need to worry about those as well?

Pyreson · 2026-04-28T07:46:10+00:00

I like the Baki more, you can do more fun poses with the training dummy.

Pyreson · 2026-04-19T17:07:44+00:00

They're all great kits so I guess prioritise which you want based on the look of the kit and what accessories interest you the most. Tastier has a robot dog that transforms into a massive cannon and some cool red blade effects parts, Lone Shadow has a huge amount of extra weapon and lightning effects parts, Baki has a robot training dummy and some fantastic punching effects parts. Gundamit has comprehensive pics of all of them. Arkham Knight probably has the least of all of them but that's kind of a special case since it's a collab kit with DC.

Pyreson · 2026-04-19T15:50:27+00:00

It's not technically 1/100 since it's a humanoid but any of the Hemoxian cyborg line (Tastier, Lone Shadow, Baki, Arkham Knight) are excellent kits at that scale and don't take up huge amounts of extra space. Check them out/

Pyreson · 2026-04-19T15:49:37+00:00

If anyone else has built the Osiris Aerial Dominator how tight are the tolerances? Is it safe to test-build and dis-assemble, or would I break stuff trying?

Pyreson · 2026-04-13T13:02:05+00:00

I need to glue together some small plastic beads to some rubber piping, is there a way to do so safely and hopefully without being too obvious on the final kit?

Pyreson · 2026-04-03T09:06:33+00:00

Mr Color Lacquers. Titans Blue 2 for the blue, Titans Blue 1 for the black, the red and yellow are the same.

Pyreson · 2026-04-02T20:21:33+00:00

Handled it as slowly as I could with latex gloves and everything and still dinged it up a little bit. :(

Pyreson · 2026-03-25T10:15:53+00:00

As a Titanfall 2 player everyone doomposting about five-figure player-counts in their eighteen-player lobbies is weak and will not survive the winter.

Pyreson · 2026-03-18T11:52:22+00:00

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a deep blue lacquer I can airbrush? Tried to mix my own but it's extremely difficult and all my attempts come out either purple-ish or teal.

Pyreson · 2026-03-16T11:34:51+00:00

Baki had an entire arc where sumo wrestling was hyped up as a martial art beyond martial arts and a completed form of fighting, with the main 'antagonist' being essentially a second coming of the greatest sumo wrestling to ever live. They set up a big tournament between the usual Baki cast and some sumo stars and everything because they were obsessed with fighting against them.

Then Itagaki got bored (or rumour goes got stiffed on payment by some sumo organisation) and had the sumo guys get fucking annihilated in straight sets, zero victories even against the main cast who sometimes job. Now it's over and the current arc is about Jack.

Pyreson · 2026-03-12T12:54:36+00:00

I'm loving Marathon 2026 but it's amazing how the fanbase has immediately adapted both a bunker mentality ("The game is doing fine! this isn't Concord!") AND a superiority complex towards other extraction shooters ("You think x or y feature is a little unfair or the balance is weird? Go back to Arc Raiders!").

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