Building on a budget - The Italeri 1/72 EF-2000 Eurofighter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2018
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Today at Badgerworks we address a common issue - people want to take up making models as a hobby, but it's too expensive, so we're going to build this charity shop-bought model as cheaply as possible.
All the materials for this build (apart from the compressor) came in at under £30 and will provide enough to build dozens of models.
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The SteamGeezer Shuffle - Agricultural Light & Magic
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Just shared this with my mate who is literally just starting out in modelling. No frills and V informative. Gobsmacked with the result. Thanks for taking the time to put this out there.
Just caught up with this, one of the best modelling video's I've seen for many a year.
Thanks, I appreciate it :-)
Some things you can't go cheap on and paint is one of them. Fantastic video.
Thanks :-)
Great vid, I really like how you approached this and how the final result came out. Excellent work!
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Another very good video. It's good to see someone catering for perhaps the younger aspiring modeller- I've always thought that building kits is educational and teaches patience, perseverance and new skills as well as a feeling of satisfaction on completion. A little more of these attributes would always be a benefit to all youngsters.
I'm fortunate enough not to have to worry about watching the pennies too much, but I don't believe in more than I have to so I do take note of your budget tools- there's a Works and TWO Poundlands where I live!
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That was a great approach and challenge. Maybe the real budget challenge would be to hand paint rather than airbrush. But that point aside , its a good looking Eurofighter and very respectable build.
Thanks. That's true, one could use a brush. I've seen people get amazing results with brushes, but I wanted to show people that you don't need to spend hundreds on a high end airbrush to get decent results.
I must admit I've been using a Iwata clone airbrush and compressor from Expo tools for the past 7 or so years. Basic, but it very much does the job. You can still get the air brush and compressor for around £100.
@@chancerNW A hundred pounds is considered cheap? Wow. Not in my household and on my budget.
@@SteamGeezerUK You can cheap model air gun (but you use a lot of paint ) on the model and car air compressor (portable ones ,cheap one).
@@brentwilson2467 live on bread and water only,LOL
Also you can use normal white household vinegar for the decal set. Same stuff but much cheaper.
Really like the video and really like the philosophy, very helpful indeed. Thanks
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Making this kit at the mo. I will be happy if it works out 50% as good as that. Great vid, cheers.
Great price! 😊
Great i started with a small budget too and i onlx had a view colors and glue from revel starterset.
I always keep the paints from those starter sets - they can come in very handy and you soon build up quite a collection :-)
@@SteamGeezerUK yes the colors are usefull in the sets but i hate it to have like 5 glues. The glue is great but i dont know what to do with so much. I still have the first of my glues.
Cheap and well done great
brilliant videos...new subscriber added!
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Just found this vid after watching a previous one. Firstly want to say thank you for showing that you can build on a budget. Also would be fantastic if you can link or give further information on the airbrush, washers and fittings. I would imagin lots of us, me included want to dip our toes in airbrushes but not pay a fortune.
For an airbrush you need a compressor. They are not usually bargain price items.
That's specifically why I left the compressor out of the prices. Having said that, compressors can be had for relatively small sums of money, depending on what one is after. I have a small shop compressor that I bought years ago. It cost me £75 in a sale and came with various air tools as well.
Whoaa! I have rediscovered model-making at age 61 (did all the Airfix and Revel stuff as a teen, now retirement inspirational TH-cam model-makers such as your good self have inspired me back to a hobby i did not realise how much i had missed...now the good news we have a pound shop and works in my home town here in south wales plus i recently bought a compressor with exact copy of the Chinese airbrush you demonstrate here only question is where can i get the nitrile O rings from?...anyway many thanks for inspiring and even more importantly for your tuition and tips for us lowly mortals to aspire to!
Thanks, and I'm glad you've found your way back to the hobby. As for the O rings, you can get them from ebay, but I advise you measure the ones you have first, which can be a little tricky - I used a vernier caliper to measure the outside diameter and the thickness of the ring. I did look at sets of O rings, but the ones in airbrushes tend to be extremely thin, maybe 0.5mm, and most boxed sets I've seen don't go down that thin.
I like your attitude , when you think Airfix started at 2 shillings (10 p.) in a plastic bag , prices have become ridiculous . It has now become a cheque book hobby -like so many others ! Wales UK.
You can still get cheap models, it's just very easy to spend huge amounts on "professional" products when there are often cheaper alternatives. I think it's important to pass on some on the tricks I learned as a kid to other people.
@@SteamGeezerUK Totally agree . I went back to aircraft last autumn and have been very pleased with Plaza Japan (Hasegawa and Fujimi.) and Jadlam (Free postage -which can make a huge difference in cost !) and Creative Models in UK where for £15-20 I can get decent 1:72 kits . I also do armour and r/c model boats .
Thoroughly enjoying this and others of your videos. Fairly new returner to the hobby but picking up loads of really sound advice. Can I ask though, you use IPA as a thinner- which I bought as an airbrush cleaner. Is proprietary ‘acrylic thinners’ any different or better? Just off the the Pound shop with a list of things to look for!!
As far as I know, quite a few people use IPA as a general thinner for acrylic paints, but I've had some poor experiences with it, like Tamiya paint splitting and Vallejo paint turning into glue, but I do buy 99% IPA so that might be why. Because of that, however, I tend to stick to the manufacturers own thinners and I have no issues. I've not used "acrylic thinner", but if you can find some cheap you might as well give it a go :-)
Excelente vídeo saludos desde Chile a mi también me encanta los aviones y él aeromodelismo gran trabajo 👍👍
Muchas gracias :-)
I used that masking tape only British husky model and it left quite alot of its adhesive on the clear parts it came off no problem but just another tedious job
As some one else has said the biggest expense I can see in your whole list is the compressor. The cheapest I’ve been able to find is £75. I’ve never airbrushed before and I don’t model that often. Forking out that kind of money will hurt way too much. Any ideas or recommendations for compressors that don’t make you wince at the till.
I'm afraid I can't really help there - I use a shop compressor because I have other air tools I use, so I'm not really up on modelling compressors.
If the Acrylics.are anything like the works Crawford and blacks acrylics they'll be useless looking forward to seeing the outcome haha
The whell hubs should be Flat White.
I bet if you'd bought the foil trays at the Works, they'd have been £3
I actually find The Works to be quite good value most of the time, but you can't beat the Pound Shop :-)
Good video - shame that Italeri can't spell Eurofighter
Hey SteamGeezer, great vid! Do you have a link to the Chinese airbrush please? Also will it work on a can of compressed air whilst I save for a compressor? Thanks
I don't have a link to the exact one as I bought it a few years ago, but this looks just like the one I have - amzn.to/2Vr8Jkn
I honestly don't know if it would work from a can, but I think it might need an adaptor - I don't know what fitting the can has, but I think this brush is 1/8 BSP. You can buy adaptor kits that should make anything fit pretty much anything else. I bought one similar to this set and it's worked with everything I've thrown at it - amzn.to/2JuObQT
Keep in mind these are Amazon affiliate links. You may find the same things cheaper on ebay etc, but you might have to wait longer for them. If you order direct from China you'll probably have to wait a few weeks.
no used primer?
I don't usually use primer. I find it's often not necessary.
Mega-cheat SG, you didn't factor in the cost of the compressor!
There are so many compressors out there, and a lot of them are way cheaper than my shop compressor ;-)
I consider the single seat variant beautiful, but this twin seater, it just doesnt look right
Just a comment for the algorithm
Marvellous video for wives and girlfriends. lol.
What is IPA
Isopropyl Alcohol.
@@SteamGeezerUK thank you
@@SteamGeezerUK would you know what precent to use like 70 90 etc. Thank you
you go to charity shops a lot...? you are "ian chricton" and i claim my five pounds...!