When painting a model up.

Just a little note to say any windscreen wiper holes, aerial holes, bumper, lights or door mirror holes make them a bit bigger before paint as its a bugger to re-fit after painting

I generally use a 1mm drill bit to clean out the holes after painting, however ive only done that on 1/18s so it may not work on anything smaller

How do you stop the orange peel effect?

Flat the shell down after primer then if it happens on the first coat flat it again

daivideo wrote:How do you stop the orange peel effect?

And don't apply the paint too thickly either.

I would totally agree with Mark's comment about gently rubbing down between coats of paint. For my models (all of whoch are 1/43 scale) I use an ultra-fine paper (2500 grit) to flatten the paint and help key it for the next coat and haven't had orange peel problems to date.

Hope that helps, Steve