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All Righty ... What's on the bench today?
- Thread starter panzerace007
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Jeeves
Well-known member
Decided I'd paint a UAE scheme first on my Bosnian tank to use as a base. Since they inherited these from the UAE, I imagine they wouldn't be factory fresh-- thus the missing grill off of one of the exhausts. Not sure now if I want to put some hairspray down and then the NATO scheme and proceed that way or do salt or other form of chipping and make it more minimal. Any suggestions? Bosnia info on these tanks is nigh on nonexistent except to the Bosnians I suppose 
Bagge
Well-known member
Thanks JamesMats that is an awesome job on the cow. I think you really captured it. What did you use paint wise and brush wise?
James
I basepainted with vallejo offwhite, applied in many thin layers and the brown is vallejo mahogony brown, will add some more dots on the legs but with a darker brown (thinking chocolat brown)
Brush is my trusted winsor & newton series7 sable brush, size 1
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Thanks Luis! I appreciate that.
Bagge, great work on those cows. Looking good!
Mike,l that is looking excellent! I'm looking forward to seeing more.
Bagge, great work on those cows. Looking good!
Mike,l that is looking excellent! I'm looking forward to seeing more.
Sherman 18
Master at Arms
Jeeves, I think you're on the right track (doing what I would do) use the chipping method you prefer.
Mats, awesome cows
Mats, awesome cows
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Okay, it's not as big an update as I'd hoped for this week but I did get a little bit more done so here is my latest progress. Let me start with my aircraft...
I dry-brushed a couple colors on top of the SE-5A biplane to give it some modulation. I like how this looks now:
Next I shot a primer coat of Tamiya Grey Primer over the C-118 to see how many flaws I still have:
There's at least ten or twelve I've seen already. Time to break out the polishing pads again...
After that, I made some more progress on the Hampden that I'm building for someone. I added the tail to the assembled fuselage after sanding the seams and removing the tape:
Next I built up the wings, which meant assembling the landing gear and inserting them between the wing halves:
After that, I assembled all the sub-assemblies. Now this thing is ready to be masked off and painted:
Moving on now to my armor...
First off, I spent five and a half hours doing two quad Maxims for my two Russian Armored Trains. I need five of these guns, yet this is as far as I got after five and a half hours:
Gun cradles:
Guns mounted on gun mounts:
There were eleven photo-etch parts that needed to be bent and assembled there on each gun. I still have five more more photo-etch parts to add to these and four more plastic parts before I can even start on the gun stands! As for making these all line up properly; that is evidently far beyond my skills to do. After this I had it so I moved on to something simpler....
Here's the something simpler. I added the wheels, drive sprockets and idlers to the lower hull of the T-90 MS:
Later I finished shooting the color on the lower hull and touching up the upper hull and turret. After I peeled off all the Silly Putty, I mocked up the tank to show this:
My apologies for the slightly blurry pics; I don't know what happened here as I was quite steady with the camera. Maybe the lens needs some cleaning.
Moving on, I also finished gluing the side fenders on to the main hull of the T-64 BV. This beastie is ready for clearcoat and washes now, along with the T-90 MS:
Again, apologies for the slightly blurry pics....
Lastly, I got more done on the two buses. The Ludwig Areo has a basecoat of dark grey on it now. I hope to modulate that color soon:
I decided to go with the grey so it matches my other grey Opel buses.
After I fixed the roof racks again, I added the white to the sides and top of the Vomag bus:
It's kind of hard to see in this pic, but I got it painted and now will be masking off to shoot the green color on this. I'm looking forward to seeing this in color now.
Now with all of these armor models getting closer to being done, I have to mention another reason why I'm going slower. Given the hit on my mojo recently, I decided to start packing up my armor and vehicle collection on flat tubs to prepare for the day when I take them down to the hall for pictures. Well, here are the first four tubs holding about a quarter of my collection so far:
I even bought six more tubs to hopefully have enough to hold everything. We'll see.
Okay, I'm done for this week. I don't know whether I'll be able to get anything more done until August so just hang out for a while. Meanwhile, thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
I dry-brushed a couple colors on top of the SE-5A biplane to give it some modulation. I like how this looks now:
Next I shot a primer coat of Tamiya Grey Primer over the C-118 to see how many flaws I still have:
There's at least ten or twelve I've seen already. Time to break out the polishing pads again...
After that, I made some more progress on the Hampden that I'm building for someone. I added the tail to the assembled fuselage after sanding the seams and removing the tape:
Next I built up the wings, which meant assembling the landing gear and inserting them between the wing halves:
After that, I assembled all the sub-assemblies. Now this thing is ready to be masked off and painted:
Moving on now to my armor...
First off, I spent five and a half hours doing two quad Maxims for my two Russian Armored Trains. I need five of these guns, yet this is as far as I got after five and a half hours:
Gun cradles:
Guns mounted on gun mounts:
There were eleven photo-etch parts that needed to be bent and assembled there on each gun. I still have five more more photo-etch parts to add to these and four more plastic parts before I can even start on the gun stands! As for making these all line up properly; that is evidently far beyond my skills to do. After this I had it so I moved on to something simpler....
Here's the something simpler. I added the wheels, drive sprockets and idlers to the lower hull of the T-90 MS:
Later I finished shooting the color on the lower hull and touching up the upper hull and turret. After I peeled off all the Silly Putty, I mocked up the tank to show this:
My apologies for the slightly blurry pics; I don't know what happened here as I was quite steady with the camera. Maybe the lens needs some cleaning.
Moving on, I also finished gluing the side fenders on to the main hull of the T-64 BV. This beastie is ready for clearcoat and washes now, along with the T-90 MS:
Again, apologies for the slightly blurry pics....
Lastly, I got more done on the two buses. The Ludwig Areo has a basecoat of dark grey on it now. I hope to modulate that color soon:
I decided to go with the grey so it matches my other grey Opel buses.
After I fixed the roof racks again, I added the white to the sides and top of the Vomag bus:
It's kind of hard to see in this pic, but I got it painted and now will be masking off to shoot the green color on this. I'm looking forward to seeing this in color now.
Now with all of these armor models getting closer to being done, I have to mention another reason why I'm going slower. Given the hit on my mojo recently, I decided to start packing up my armor and vehicle collection on flat tubs to prepare for the day when I take them down to the hall for pictures. Well, here are the first four tubs holding about a quarter of my collection so far:
I even bought six more tubs to hopefully have enough to hold everything. We'll see.
Okay, I'm done for this week. I don't know whether I'll be able to get anything more done until August so just hang out for a while. Meanwhile, thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
helios
Well-known member
That's a bunch of progress Duke. A hell of a lot more than I've accomplished.
The Jaguar, F-8, & RA-5 have pretty much sat untouched for a couple weeks now. It's pretty sad too, as the Jag has probably only got a weekend left to finish it. Final gloss/dull coats, landing gear, & armaments.
The Jaguar, F-8, & RA-5 have pretty much sat untouched for a couple weeks now. It's pretty sad too, as the Jag has probably only got a weekend left to finish it. Final gloss/dull coats, landing gear, & armaments.
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Thanks Chris! I feel like I'm bogged down, but I'm slowly getting there.
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Thanks James. I may have a lot going on, but I wish I could get a few of these finished. I do appreciate the compliment. Hopefully soon I'll be able to get a few things in the completed Forums.
Interesting...
Swordsman
Active member
Interesting...
This starts the Foundation ... Next I have to make four bents ...
The start of the 1st one ... I'll let that dry until I get back from The Texas Outlaws On30 yahoo group meeting ... At Spring Creek Barbeque, .... Yes Bob I will eat some for You ...
:drool
