Havent posted up anything for while, heres the latest additions Hasagawa 72nd revel oil paint, some pastels, a pewter water colour pencil, which I just love with panzer grey, give a very metalic sheen abnd makes thep aint look very thin. The silencer is humbrol mixed with brown pastel. The tracks weld to the turret are T34. Quite pleased with this one. Kev
Keep at it Kev. Least you're making models and showing them here. I really ought to get back into it. What are your figures like?
Please do something about the wooden bolck on the front left, it needs moe depth. Also the next time you could be a little bolder with shadows But it's a pleasure seeing sombody woring in the Right scale. Well, almost right, the Right scale as God so ordered is 1:76, not 1:72, which as we know is almost a scale for herectics.
Please do something about the wooden bolck on the front left, it needs more depth. Also the next time you could be a little bolder with shadows, add deeper washes But it's a pleasure seeing somebody working in the Right scale. Well, almost right, the Right scale as God so ordered is 1:76, not 1:72, which as we know is almost a scale for herectics.
Please do something about the wooden bolck on the front left, it needs more depth. Also the next time you could be a little bolder with shadows, add deeper washes But it's a pleasure seeing somebody working in the Right scale. Well, almost right, the Right scale as God so ordered is 1:76, not 1:72, which as we know is almost a scale for herectics. I find wood is really difficult to do. ITs a natural material its texture and colour changes. Open to suggestions on this one.
Heres a bit of messing about I was doing. Its an airfix cheapy (very). Fit was dreadfull. Its inspried by the Cologne cathedral Panther. Really please with the terrible Airfix tracks here. Took a lot of patience to get them to do this. Kev
You've got the 'born again modeller' bug too haven't you Kev? I warn you, it can get worryingly obsessive. (and sometimes... expensive.) I Can't do wood very well either, closest I get is with a sandy coloured base and light washes of oily brown, I rarely get a drybrush finish to look right and the parts are often too small for me to blend colours properly so I often don't bother anymore. Seems to depend a lot on how good the original 'woody' texture is on the part itself. There's always the handy cop-out of making all the tools, jacking blocks etc. victims of a completely oversprayed vehicle colour, not uncommon in pictures .
I concur with VP. What really stood out was that the wooden block, the metal plate mountiing box and the strap holding it were all painted 'wood'... The devil is in the detail, see? The Panther looks ok, but next time it need a bit more relief, a couple of dark washes work wonders. Also, never ever paint rubber parts black, use some dark gray, perhaps with a tinge of brown. A tyre is only black the same minute it leaves the factory. Kfz, I'm not by any means trying to tear you down, I'm just providing some friendly advice to nudge you in the right direction with some easy to do tips. Oh, and find a way to decrease the size of your photos, a small scale (or right scale!) vehicle blown up will show errros that no human eye will normal detects, therefore detracting from the authors work, and this is not only you, it happens to everyone. Six Steps for Painting Small Scale Armor by Brett Green Pay special attention to steps 5 and 6! I don't really go for black underpainting, it tends to kill colour off, but that's just me. Painting Small Scale Armor Part Two - Hard Edge Camouflage by Brett Green Testor's Model Workshop nice series of videos here
No offence taken mate. it fine. Bit thibker skinned tham that. I wouldnt put them up if I wasnt. The wooden block nearly didnt go on. Not really a big fan of loads of dirty washes, give it an over-weatherd look which I dont really like. Kev
You've got the 'born again modeller' bug too haven't you Kev? I warn you, it can get worryingly obsessive. (and sometimes... expensive.) Out of control mate, long since spread round the house, You cant sit in the 2nd bog without staring at a kfz251. Kev
I'm Finally starting to suss washes, for a long while they've come out like some seabird after the exxon valdez but recently I've been putting 'em on really thinly in several layers with enamels over acrylic and I'm quite pleased with it so far. Crowded kits? get yourself/dust off an airgun mate, stops them taking over the house.
Not happy with the wash on this one. Supposed to be faded whitewash. Where my T34 came out allright, i was never happy this one. jUst looks liek the paint is faded, its too even. Revel Puma, humbrols with acrylic wash. Kev
This was a swine. Unlike most kits this one was actually made liek the real thing. Someone had taken the real thing apart and then mearured every part and then made it in plastic. There where hardly any location pegs. Happy with the finished article though. Kev
I like that one Kev, who makes it? We must have seen everybit of your garden now haven't we? PS Can you make your images smaller?
Sorry I didnt have the details to hand. The company is called ICM, looks like somewhere in the Ukraine. The plastic was quite strong but contained quite a lot of flash and surface defects, so every part had to be worked. Though the moulding was accurate and detailed. Really was crazy, I felt like it was the real thing. Even the brackets that hold the leaf springs on the chassis where moulded seperately. It was obvious whoever designed the kit, had a real one and took it apart, then moulded each part, just insane. For example the suspension and axles (not inc transmisison) has 41 parts. BTW its not WW2, it looks it but its just after, I really wanted a Studebaker. Nah loads, left, im landed gentry practically. Yea sure. I assume everyone has broadband. Kev
Ah, Kev, that's better being smaller. I have Broadband but images look better when a bit smaller. As for Barbarossa book, er um that was 3 books ago so um yes, I think I agreed.
