Update:
Very little progress to report as I had to fix the wash machine today, however I thought I might share a couple paper model build tips.
The first is I highly recommend spraying your kit with some sort of clear art spray before you build, there are a couple of reasons for this, it adds a small amount of stiffness but the biggest reasons are it helps prevent warps in humid weather but even if you live in a dry climate, the BEST reason for the spray is when you make a sharp crisp 90 degree fold the surface of the paper often has tiny hair line cracks, (right on the fold line) these will show up white in color and the darker your model is, the more noticeable the cracks will look. These surface only cracks do not go thru the paper it is just the surface skin is separated from being stretched (you can try different size needle score tools to minimize this)
The fix for this is to run a color marker lightly along the crack and color it to match the ink on the artwork. Easy enough fix, but unfortunately un-treated paper will soak up the marker ink aggressively and bleed into the art possible giving a bad appearance. The treated paper bleeds very little or not at all so it helps a great deal.
The second tip is as you cut out your nice artwork paper parts the edges will be white so the model builder also "paints" the thin white edges with the appropriate color marker, this is just a simple swipe with the marker on the thin paper raw edge and goes Really fast but will make your finished model look twice as professional.
Some guys get fancy and use watercolor colored pencils, these are special colored pencils with softer colored core and when you dip them in water you can kind of "paint" with them, the advantage is if you don't have the perfect color match you can blend with 2 or more pencils to get a really great match. (I just use markers)
A more simple approach is on models that are supposed to look old you can just repair the cracks with some shade of grey! If you go back to the early posts and study the model built by thumb dog you will see he has a grey shade on almost all the edges even if there was cracks to hide or not, this gives the effect of shadows and age but it really helps not having to match a color perfectly.
I have my base up on feet now but if you zoom the front of base the fold just over the word "vapor" along the front has a white crack I have not colored yet, this one is small but they can be quite large.
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