Maria Vargas

Man I HATE addictions!  I started working on one small easy plastic model car, and from there I was caught ?hook, line, and sinker!?

Now I hide my finished models in the closet, 11 and counting.  I have seems like TONS of paints in a box on the floor of my living room.  I started only buying enough paints to finish the first model car, and now I am so knowledgeable about Enamels, Acrylics, Lacquers and Varnishes not to mention learning the hard way the kinds of thinners and removers each of those kinds of colors needs to thin them out and REMOVE them that I could blog on noting but paints and paint thinners, man was that a chore!

My work area is right on the floor in front of my sofa, because, well, I was only going to work on one car, now there is no other place in the house big enough to put all my stuff.           One of the biggest problems that I had on my first car was trying to keep the windshield clean from glue.  I am an amateur, what do you expect?  My paint jobs were not coming out as smooth as I wanted, either, and I didn?t know what I was doing wrong.  What I eventually started doing was using primer on the car parts before I painted them, and sanding most of the big car parts between each coat of the primer.  I also bought some filler, so that if the model has any holes, or I made any holes in the model when I separated the pieces from the gate, I could fill them in, and sand them down. 

Now my models are looking real good.  If I only could go slower, so that I don?t break any of those teeny tiny pieces with my big clumsy fingers I would be just fine.