Painting Tools For Scale Modeling

Highlighting panel lines enhances the visual attractiveness of a model, making contours and volumes more apparent. If you don't want to mess with oils or enamel washes to do the...

One of the effects that most improves the looks of a model is a "pin wash," where washes are used to highlight details, panels, etc. We typically do this by...

Airbrushes are somewhat expensive, and we should take proper care of them if we want them to last. This is why UStar created this set, that includes different accessories: 1...

After we've finished our painting work, there's something we must always do: clean our brushes so that the bristles remain in good condition, and the lifespan of the brushes is...

If you plan on spending (or have spent) a decent amount of money in your airbrush, I find it quite logical to take care of it so that it doesn't...

Fine masking tapes are perfect to create complex patterns in small-sized parts or narrow model areas. They are also good to create thin lines in your models' painting schemes. With...

Here's a situation we've all been in: we've finished our model (or a big assembly which is part of it) and we now need to apply primer or paint it...

Adding color to panel lines or weathering effects can greatly enhance a model's visual appeal. This highlights the contours and volumes and represents small shadows or traces of dust, sand, etc. Cheap...

Use this oils based pen to give your models, drawing, and craftwork an attractive and eye-catching sheen which you cannot achieve with regular marker pens

Large uniform surfaces are boring to the eye, and not very realistic. A very frequent technique used to add tonal variation is marbling, by which we spray a lighter or...

Forest camouflages are incredibly eye-catching. And they are the way many European armies paint their AFVs. They are, however, very hard to paint by hand (no matter if you are...

We often have to cut masking tapes, styrene sheets, or papers in different curved or angled shapes. Transporting the pattern to the tape is not an easy feat, neither is...