Like I'm not broke already, I went out to the Hobbystore the other day and purchased some reference material. Lately I have been getting into armor modeling and enjoying it thoroughly. I picked up this reference book as shown above that I would like to discuss.
I would recommend this book as great starter book to the beginner who needs or wants to have the fundmental techniques at hand for model building. As model builders we learn visually, however the book does provide good explanations as to what is going on in the pictures. In fact, they spelled out what dry brushing was to me, and I didn't know exactly what it meant, and now I do. One thing that really helps is the 1000+ photos in the book of some really fantastic models. I learn by seeing, and the encyclopedia does well.
This encyclopedia probably is not for the more advanced modeler- it is a bare bones encyclopedia that gives candid and clear explanations to photo etching, weathering, painting, air brushing and care, scratchbuilding and working with small parts. If I already knew about photo-etch and airbrushes, why did I buy the book? I want to formally get into using photo-etching and an airbrush, I am just about ready to advance my model building to another level. Compressor please..... then I can get started.
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