This morning I gave the model and parts a good coat of primer which has gone down very well. This will now cure for a few days before I start the main painting.
Whilst I had the airbrush out I sprayed the tracks with my custom track colour followed by a misting of vallejo 865 oily steel. Having recently purchased some of the new AK real colors maker pens I was keen to try them out. These are acrylic in formula so I was interested to see how they worked. I bought the road wheels set which has flat black, rubber black and dark aluminium in the set.
Starting on the inner track pads I used the flat black marker and found that the paint went on well and with the very tip of the pen a good result can be achieved. On the outer pads the pen worked really well and I found a couple of passes with the pen letting each application dry gave a good solid coat. The paint dries very fast as well. Finishing off with the dark aluminium on any bolts this gave a very nice contrast to the basic track colour.
So initial impressions are very good, the paint goes on very well and the tip of each brush is reasonably fine although I would like to see a finer tip perhaps for more finer areas and chipping etc. I will be testing the rubber black on the wheels next to see how that performs. The pens are definitely a time saver as I finished the tracks in half the time it would normally take brush painting each pad.
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