Depending on the size of the kit and the can, the propellant MIGHT get you through one project, and it's the best way to do large smooth surfaces. I have a cheap Badger model 350, one step up from thier bottom line model, and i use canned propellant. I like it so much i aim to get a more expensive one, and a compressor....canned air is expensive over time. For the hair I use a traditional brush, i find the strokes give just a little more texture....i like the look.

Although the pictures aren't that great you can see two of my kits here: http://www.piczo.com/lionfish?g=2214171

Wow, those kits are really great. ^_^ And thanks for all the great advice. I can't wait to try my hand at a kit... now I just have to pick one. :sweat:

that seems like that's gonna be hard pickin one when thei all are soo good

Right now, I'm torn between "Misato w/gun" from Evangelion, "Celas w/Bazooka" from Hellsing, or "Alucard 2 guns" from Hellsing. As far as AMG, I'm content for now with the action figures, though I am pondering getting Bell with Tsukai or Bell with Holy Bell... I just want practice with kits before I splurge on a really good one. ^_^;

hmm veri smart choices there

http://www.e2046.com/trade/productview/598

Is that the miasto with gun you meant Melichan? i was gonna buy that one, untill i saw rei in kimono.....I have an extreme weakness for kimono.
I so want that misato kit though....after i finish the three i'm working on that's what i'm getting.

kewl lion it's nice

Cool!!!

Grr, my browser isn't letting me open the link, but if it's the one where she's crouching, holding the gun in a Charlie's Angels-type pose, that's the one I'm talking about. :sweat: I've wanted that one since I first saw it on eBay!
lol, I have a little bit of a Kimono weakness myself, as far as *wearing* them, but I satisfied that by buying an authentic furisode. ^_^;;;

So which kits are you working on now, Lion, if you don't mind my asking?

Crouching, holding the gun in a Charlie's Angels-type pose, red jacket and a really tight black leatherish skirt... yes that's the one i think.
As for the other kits, "working on now" is a bit of a stretch...they've been sitting for a couple months, waiting for boredom and ambition to coincide. Anyway, here's what's in the pipe:
1/8 Belldandy with angel wings, sitting on crane...she's primed and just waiting on paint, though I want to redo the crane, supplied one dosen't please me.
1/1 Hand Maid May, running, with usb cord .... also waiting on paint, i even trimmed up a real usb cord to replace the resin one.
1/8 Urd, standing in tigerstripe bathing suit....ready to be primed, but I keep threataning to use some sculpey to make a kimono over the swimsuit
And one I haven't started, Rei in summer yukata(kimono)

Yep, that's the Misato one I'm looking at! But I should probably wait on that, as I'm in the middle of customizing two model horses right now. ^_^; One's almost to the point of being ready to paint; it just needs some final touching up and another 15 minutes in the oven to harden the last layer of sculpey. The other is in a terrible state: I've just started sanding it and carving off the seams. It's a model from the 80s, and they didn't bother to smooth out the finger impressions in the mold, much less the seams. :P $7 on eBay for a beat-up plastic horse, but boy do I have my work cut out for me!

oh wow that's neat

fingerprints= hair texture ;p

sand and putty and elbow grease i suppose is your only resort for fingerprints cast in place. do you make model saddles too? And did you see the model of urd on a rearing horse? (of course you must have) is it me or is the horses head odd? but it does match Fujishima's illustration .

Yeah, it's a gorgeous kit, but the horse is definitely, well... grossly out of proportion. ^_^; I'd like to buy the kit someday and just put that Urd on a custom Sleipnir! Ah, someday...
I don't make model tack, though... not so far, anyway. I'm working my way up to it. :P It's not the leatherworking I'd have a problem with so much as the little teeny buckles. Also, for such tiny materials, the costs add up pretty fast.

lol yea i think i found some at our anime shop