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This is quite nice. The weathering really sells it, as do the extra details. This is also quite good; did you just do the contershading dots with a brush? Oh Rattebrain, will you ever learn? Finally done my redo of splinter camo. Now it is time to get funky with the effects... also maybe scratchbuild some exhausts    
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First attempt at snow camo. Admittedly looks kinda lovely because of the toothpaste not working exactly like I wanted it to.
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TARDISman posted:toothpaste not working exactly like I wanted it to.
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Mister Dog posted:Go on... I used toothpaste as a mask for the spray paint. I went a little heavy on it so now it looks a little less faded in parts and more just patchy. It also smells minty fresh.
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Toothpaste masking is original, to say the least. Why not use hairspray?
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Nebakenezzer posted:This is also quite good; did you just do the contershading dots with a brush? Yeah, they were brush painted.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Toothpaste masking is original, to say the least. Why not use hairspray? I googled snow camo and the guy suggested toothpaste, I think I just used the wrong toothpaste, or put it on too thick. One of the two.
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Haven't posted a tank in a little while, so have an Italeri Crusader Mk.III     Rest of album I figured that since the new Tamiya kit is just the old one with extras, I might as well grab the old mold, especially since I finally found a seller that was willing to part with it for less than the ridiculous $50 it went for in my local model shop. Picked up a nice RB barrel to go with it, too. The kit definitely hasn't aged well. The turret deformed in storage, and getting the pieces to match involved a lot of filling and sanding, as a result of which I lost half of the rivets on the turret. My attempts at re-riveting have been only partially successful, so I draped a flag to hide the more terrible looking ones. I also draped a rag over the projector to hide how awful it looked (no transparent pieces in this kit), but doing the same thing with the headlights proved impossible, so there they are. I replaced the antennas and handles with wire as well. The vinyl tracks behaved as well as could be expected, but the decals are very thick and have noticeable edges. The edges faded after a few layers of varnish, but not on all of them. The kit came with three figures, but they are so terrible by modern standards that I didn't bother. The tow cables are also unacceptable, so I left them out. Overall, it's definitely a product of its time, but not a terrible build. Ensign Expendable fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Aug 6, 2017 |
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Ensign Expendable posted:... The tow cables are also unacceptable, so I left them out. I laughed when I got to this part. Was it those god-awful straight ones you're supposed to melt over a candle? I've never gotten those to not look like poo poo.
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Yup, exactly that kind, with a big seam running along the side, which would destroy all detail if cleaned up.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Yup, exactly that kind, with a big seam running along the side, which would destroy all detail if cleaned up. Goondolences. Meanwhile, I'm working on a Tamiya BT-7. Nice kit, aside from the main gun barrel being one of those awful clamshells that don't like up right. I found a Polish guy selling machined metal barrels on eBay for like eight bux.  And then I hosed up the straight and link tracks. Ended up with half a link's space on the left side, with only the wrong kind of link left.  I did some surgery and got a reasonably non-awful looking mini link.  It just needs a tiny bit of putty.
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Clamshell barrels are the devil. I found an RB barrel seller at a show selling them for dirt cheap and got one for every kit in my stash. Speaking of BT-7s, I got two EE ones and a Zvezda one, as well as a small pile of PE and a guide to getting them into a more or less historically accurate state. This should be fun. I also got a handful of PzI command tank kits from different manufacturers, with plenty of spares to spruce up the cheaper kits. Hopefully I'll have enough spares for the old Maquette multimedia 15 cm sIG 33 (mot S) auf Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf.B.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Goondolences. The surgery was a success, doc. If you hadn't said anything, I would never have noticed. I've got that kit in the stash and will remember to pick up a barrel for it.
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I'm looking at making a diorama of Americans assaulting a German objective, I'm just torn between if I want to do a Flak 88 36 or just go with a straight flakpanzer. It's going to be an urban environment if that really makes any difference.
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You can make a flakpanzer with a severed track with a crew trying to fix it under fire.
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Ensign Expendable posted:You can make a flakpanzer with a severed track with a crew trying to fix it under fire. If the situation was that, would a tank destroyer standing guard make much sense or should I go with a halftrack deploying reinforcements?
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I think in the scale that you have to work with, a halftrack dropping off reinforcements would work better, unless you're planning an absolutely huge diorama.
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Onto the next one. Ambush camo on the Tiger 2. 
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First attempt at a salt chip Super zoomed in you can see the texture the laser made on the decorative concrete panels too. I think the laser was set to 0.1mm or something. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Aug 7, 2017 |
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Looks very Brutalist. I say leave the concrete texture. And if it's supposed to be a window blind, I say use a brown or rust color as base next time. This looks too shiny, as if the damage wasn't caused by wear or weather, but by pelting it with stones just a moment ago.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:A Gundam being tied down on the ground by WWII troops, a la Gullivers Travels. The Muffinlord posted:Get a roughly 1/100 scale tank and have the Gundam drop an atomic elbow on it. Bloody Hedgehog posted:Get a roughly 1/100 scale tank and have the Gundam keister it. The Muffinlord posted:Get a roughly 1/100 scale tank and smash it under a Gundam's foot. Goddamnit now I wanna spend money on models that I have no where to put
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As a vague project to motivate me I'm going to try and do a review/build log for my next project! A 1/72 F-15E from Great Wall Hobby. Is there anything you guys like to see from reviews/builds? Going to avoid video because I know I'm not a huge fan of those. I'm generously only an average modeller. I am coming mainly from building Bandai Star Wars kits.
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Paragon8 posted:As a vague project to motivate me I'm going to try and do a review/build log for my next project! Scratch build all the things.
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Gewehr 43 posted:Scratch build all the things. Maybe for the 2nd attempt. I am super frustrated that so few kits seem to come with little pilots.
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Plane kits seem really big on the idea that they will all be built as runway maintainance dioramas with lots of bits for teeny mans to take off and pretend to be working on. No idea why that is.
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Paragon8 posted:Maybe for the 2nd attempt. I kid of course. I just get a charge out of all those build logs where the guy ends up scratch (re)building ~80% of the kit. Whereas I get all  when I cut a piece of styrene rod to fit to replace a damaged gun cleaning rod on a tank. In all seriousness, just do whatever build you want and post pics as you go along. Good fun for all.
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also http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Academy-12423-Plastic-Model-Kit-1-72-F-22A-Raptor-Air-Dominance-Fighter-NEW-/122629813311 this has to be a scam right?
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Only 2 sales history. I'd steer clear.
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Tentacle Party posted:Only 2 sales history. I'd steer clear. Yeah, it's not even sales but purchases. Very dubious they've ended up with 50+ kits and are selling it at that below market. I do need to stop my hobby of buying kits and transition it more into making them 
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 Little commander dude for the Tiger 2.
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For that price I'd roll the dice and almost be happy if crapkit arrived TBH.
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After the usual bout of logistical problems at the start of a Hachette partwork, I'm back at building the Scharnhorst. Issue 4 lets me add 2 frames and side beams to the front structure of the ship.
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In this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbD09RqPmy4 He makes cloth and canvas features using paper soaked in a "paper shaper" liquid he's selling: https://www.vms-supplies.com/vms-paper-shaper I think it looks pretty good, and I'd like to try it myself, but I have trouble believing that the author of the video developed a new technique. I haven't been able to find anything else that demonstrates how to model cloth using paper. I'm thinking I could get pretty far with just watered down PVA, but is there a scale modeling go-to for this kind of thing?
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It looks like some form of plasticiser. It's weird, but I don't think you should actually end up with something less good in practice just using PVA and tissue.
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I'll try PVA and report back. I'm really interested in being able to detach the cloth pieces, so I might also try picking up some slow-drying CA some sort of solvent to reproduce what he's doing in the video. It wouldn't work for plastic or resin models but I'm working over plaster in this case, so maybe even acetone would work?
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Paragon8 posted:Maybe for the 2nd attempt. Hey Paragon, if you're in the states, I think I may have some 72 scale airplane drivin' mans laying around.
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EdsTeioh posted:Hey Paragon, if you're in the states, I think I may have some 72 scale airplane drivin' mans laying around. thanks for the offer but I'm on the other side of the atlantic!
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This came up on the large scale planes forum and it's an interesting topic, so I wanted to ask here: What keeps you going? When you have a project that just feels bogged down and the thought of sitting at the bench fills you with ambivalence, what do you do to keep going? What are your favorite and least favorite parts of the project process? I've identified the fact that I always lose a little bit of drive right after the base airbrush coat is finished and that's because inevitably it's when the model looks its worst. No detail painting, no weathering, just... blah. That seems to sap a lot of my drive, so I've invoked the "15 minute rule." In which I try to devote at least 15 minutes a night to the bench so that I can make progress and get to making the piece look good. I'm a rules-driven kinda guy, so the idea of the "rule of two" that someone mentioned in the LSP thread appeals to me as well. Basically, the guy says he only allows himself a max of two kits in progress at any time. Want to start that new kit? Gotta finish one of the other ones first. Finishing a project makes me excited to start the next one, and inevitably if I start a bunch, I never finish them and just get disappointed. I've been at this since Christmas of '13 and I think I've got maybe 15 completed kits sitting on the shelf... mostly 1/35 armor.
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I let the ambivalence wash over me like a cool shower, and put projects off for years. I put more stuff off than I ever finish.
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