Japanese Wooden Kit Builds - by Brushstroke

Giddy with excitement and high on the smell of charred wood (I love that smell a wooden laser cut kit has!!) I ran headlong into building the kit… completely disregarding any thought to how best to prepare the parts or indeed, how I was ever going to paint the thing.

In hindsight, I wish I had taken a moment and thought it through first.

The kit itself is from TREgame.com and went together beautifully and I was surprised at the quality of the wood it was made from. I was expecting a cheap mdf type thing. Instead the kit is made from solid wood sheets (not sure what wood, ash maybe ?? )

Having never made a wooden kit before I just figured it would be like other models I’d made before and I just built it in 3 sub assemblies, which I thought would be easy to paint.

How wrong I was!!

So, in the hope that I might at least help one person from making the mistakes I made up to the point of priming. Here’s a list 😛

Mistakes Made

• I should have smoothed all the wooden parts with a fine sandpaper.
  I did ZERO sanding or prepping of the parts. The result being, all of my surfaces ended up very rough and bobbley, which I hated! 🙁
• I should have primed and base painted all the part first before assembling anything.
  As I dont have an airbrush, it would have been soooooooo much easier if I had painted all the parts in their base colours first and then stuck them together. It would have saved me all the time of trying to carefully paint window frames etc