Painting a Scratch Built Model

[Glendwr]

I am working on the Brockley Combe and want to use steel plates with rivets in them. I want a similar effect to the Carl D. Bradley model that I saw in this forum here:

Carl D. Bradley

Should I paint the steel plates first and then glue them to the model, or should I glue them all on first and then paint over everything? Have any of you built a model like this?

Next question is do you prefer to brush your paint on, or spray paint it (I am not planning on buying an airbrush)? I think if you spray paint, then you need to paint your plates individually and then glue them in place.

Any thoughts on this?

Thank you


Jon Benignus

[Zakopious]

This Russian site shows painted 1/72 scale armor models:

Ìîäåëè èç áóìàãè â Ì 1\72

I cannot tell if he tells how they were painted.