My first post to my new blog! Some content too!

Greetings and welcome to my blog! For my first blog I'd like to talk about modeling tips. Ever noticed how unrealistic tires look when brand new in a kit? Want to make them look better? Sandpaper the tires to make them look worn. Many people know this trick already, but there is a way to speed it up. Instead of hand sanding the tires to give them that slightly worn appearance, use a rotary tool (Dremel or whatever) with one of those little barrel style sanding attachments and just lightly touch the spinning tool to the tire (depending on how coarse the barrels are which is usually quite coarse) until you totally scuffed the entire flat surface of the tire. After that finish up the rough scuffing with some hand sanding with a finer grit to smooth out the scuffing. What you are left with is a nicely scuffed tire that is smooth to the touch. It's the same thing as hand sanding the whole tire with fine grit, but doing it with coarse grit on a spinning tool really speeds up the initial scuffing which is the most time consuming part (getting rid of mold ridges and flash). once you finish up with fine grit, it's as if you sanded the entire thing by hand.