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Some lovely galleries on Imgur right now of the Canadian War Museum. Airplanes https://imgur.com/gallery/Xxc6Qsd Vehicles https://imgur.com/gallery/hBTgDq9
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Some lovely galleries on Imgur right now of the Canadian War Museum. That damaged StuG is really interesting. It gives you a really good idea of the properties and thickness of the different sections, like the fender that's just curled straight up (I'm assuming from heat?) without the brackets to keep it in place, while the side walls have snapped and cracked.
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A good friend of mine was the driver of that Leopard C2 MEXAS in Afghanistan. During one operation it got bogged down and stuck and endured several hours of Taliban assaults before an ARV was able to get in and pull them out.
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TIL Canada was buying and using M1917s in 1940, even if it was just for training.
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The M1917s were a great addition to Canada's might armoured force of a dozen Vickers Light Tanks Mk.VIB, a single Whippet, and a Carden-Loyd tankette.
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Canada is still using Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistols it bought in the '40s as a side-arm There has been some half-hearted attempts at replacing them, but Canada.
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Ensign Expendable posted:The M1917s were a great addition to Canada's might armoured force of a dozen Vickers Light Tanks Mk.VIB, a single Whippet, and a Carden-Loyd tankette. 
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Is there a convenient way to strip chrome coated pieces? I have some wheel rims that'd like to not have any chrome coating on them, but scraping it all off isn't viable. Wondering if there's a way to strip it off or if I should just paint over it as best I can.
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Purple degreaser stuff. Super Clean, Purple Power, etc. It's all the same stuff as far as I know and I use it to strip chrome all the time. Some is more stubborn than others, but it gets the job done and doesn't seem to affect the plastic at all.
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I’ve used liquid bleach before and it works pretty well and quickly to get rid of the chrome plating off things.
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Seconding purple degreaser for stripping chrome. In most cases it completely dissolves it in about 15 mins. Edit: oven cleaner works really well too but I think it might be more harsh on the plastic.
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I was able to get the chrome stripped no problem and it made painting a breeze. Now onto my next question (I'm trying a lot of new things this build, can you tell?). I'd like to add some texture to some wheel wells with grass/mud/rust. I've already painted the rust on where I need it and just want it complemented by a rough texture/additional dirt color. This seems to be the best fit: https://www.amazon.com/Vallejo-Gras...s-crafts&sr=1-2 Just curious if anyone has strong recommendations for something that might look better/be easier to work with. Again, I'm just looking to add some weathering/texture/additional color to the wheel wells of a car. Thanks for teaching this noob y'all!
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Immolat1on posted:I was able to get the chrome stripped no problem and it made painting a breeze. Now onto my next question (I'm trying a lot of new things this build, can you tell?). I'd like to add some texture to some wheel wells with grass/mud/rust. I've already painted the rust on where I need it and just want it complemented by a rough texture/additional dirt color. I guess it depends how much dirt you want? That looks like a fairly heavy paste. For easy and simple, the Tamiya 'mud' weathering stick is a lot of fun. https://www.amazon.com/Tamiya-30008...s%2C323&sr=8-16
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This model in particular is an offroad vehicle (lovely Ford Ranger Revell kit I got for cheap, and am using as a testing ground) so I do want a nice and thick layer of texture. But I definitely want to try adding some dirt to future racecars which would require a much finer touch that it looks like the Tamiya weathering stick would be better for. Guess I'll have to buy both, shame!
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Instead of the pen I'd recommend the Tamiya weathering master kits. They're like little makeup kits with three weathering powders. You can apply them with a brush to get a very subtle effect (like dust on your race car) or you can use a heavier sponge to get a heavier effect.
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Bondo Glazing and Spot Putty is good for adding texture, is fairly cheap, and a tube will last you a long time. I'd recommend using disposable brushes.
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SkunkDuster posted:Bondo Glazing and Spot Putty is good for adding texture, is fairly cheap, and a tube will last you a long time. I'd recommend using disposable brushes. Is this what people also typically use for filling in cracks between body panels? I should have some of that as well. I did opt for the kit over the weathering stick, I think you're right that for more subtle dust/dirt effects on racecars it will work much better.
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Immolat1on posted:Is this what people also typically use for filling in cracks between body panels? I should have some of that as well. I think most people use Tamiya white putty and/or Mr. Surfacer 500 (in the bottle). I have used Bondo and it works well enough. The dark red color makes it easy to see where the putty is and how well the edges are feathered after sanding. One downside is that it is solvent based, so you'll need lacquer thinner for cleanup.
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I built me a Viper.    Revell 1:32 Colonial Viper Mk II. Not a bad kit, tends to be a bit gappy at points. Also like 50 decals just for the cockpit and the wing stripe. The latter can be painted but requires mixing as Revell doesn't have the actual color and they don't list any alternatives.
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Smoke posted:I built me a Viper. Cool stuff. What did you do better this time than the previous model? What have you figured out to do better on the next model?
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If those are the same decals as the Mobius one, they're fuckin' TRASH rear end TRASH. Ninja edit: Here's mine; I didn't build up the white as much as I'd have liked, but I really dig it.   
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MyronMulch posted:Cool stuff. What did you do better this time than the previous model? What have you figured out to do better on the next model? This one involved a lot more dry fitting than I normally do, some bits are a bit awkward. It did mean I found out certain bits had to be painted before further assembly as the instructions weren't always clear on that. There's also a few part numbers embossed onto the actual parts in plain view which is nice for cleanup. I also switched from enamels to acrylics shortly before starting this build so that was kind of a new experience as well. I'm gonna get started on a slightly bigger aircraft though (Revell 1:144 Tu-144) so we'll see how that goes. EdsTeioh posted:If those are the same decals as the Mobius one, they're fuckin' TRASH rear end TRASH. The decal sheet's almost exactly the same (One decal for the main cockpit screen has been split into two for the Revell version) but there's a few Revell copyright markings and I believe they may have been printed elsewhere. The stripes are rather thick though and they're a bit too big in spots so I had to carefully trim them a bit.
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I started on the Shilka from Zvezda yesterday. Almost got through the first section before I put it back in favor of the T-72M1 from Tamiya. My first Zvezda kit and maybe I'm just spoiled by Tamiya kits but the quality and fit wasn't impressing me. Not really a complaint but amusing: The instructions call for gluing the wheel assemblies in such a way as to leave the road wheels free to spin, yet the tracks are link-by-link cemented together.
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Hello thread, newbie question but do Hobbyboss make good kits? I'm looking at some Soviet armoured train, but it's a little pricey so I thought I better check in with the experts first.
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Lizard Combatant posted:Hello thread, newbie question but do Hobbyboss make good kits? I'm looking at some Soviet armoured train, but it's a little pricey so I thought I better check in with the experts first. Hobbyboss are part of Trumpeter, so most of the caveats that come with Trumpeter also go for Hobbyboss: shape can sometimes not be the most accurate, paint guides are often a complete guess at their end (so do your research and don't rely on what paints they suggest) and some of their kits are simplified versions of Trumpeter ones. That said, they usually go together pretty well, surface detail is nice and crisp and the instructions are pretty easy to follow too. It's more or less a case-by-case thing but I've never been disappointed by a Hobbyboss kit I've built. Their 'easy build' 1/72 aircraft kits are actually fantastic starter kits for folk new to the hobby, hands down better on every front than e.g. airfix starter kits, and I often grab one as a mojo build between big projects.
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tidal wave emulator posted:Hobbyboss are part of Trumpeter, so most of the caveats that come with Trumpeter also go for Hobbyboss: shape can sometimes not be the most accurate, paint guides are often a complete guess at their end (so do your research and don't rely on what paints they suggest) and some of their kits are simplified versions of Trumpeter ones. Thanks! Appreciate it.
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Less thorough answer, but additional anecdotal data - I did a hobbyboss kit once. It was good. (M4 High Speed Tractor). Good level of detail, clear instructions. Pretty hard to gently caress up the paint instructions on that one, so can't speak to that aspect.
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I'm very close to finishing up on the excellent FineMolds Type 61 now. I was a little down on it for a while because the original single color olive drab paint job (tools and all) isn't particularly exciting to paint, but now that it's got some details and the decals on it, it's starting to look pretty darn smart. I just have to finish up the road wheels and tracks then I can top coat and start the final steps. I'm particularly glad I invested in some soft braided steel wire to replace the string included with the kit. It looks much better than the string I had on the Pz. IV I made.  I also need to poke out the excess paint on the exhaust grilles, but I'm gonna wait until my magnifying headset gets here. I'm also very proud of myself for only managing to screw up one decal, because there's absolutely no spares included with this kit of any kind. I also started working on the next tank in the JGSDF lineage, which is the Type 74. It's a Tamiya kit originally made in 1979 (rereleased in 1993 as the "winter" version with some minor upgrade parts) but the detail is actually extremely good for its time. There's quite a lot of room for improvement though so I decided to make a project of it.   First was grab handles. Like the Type 61 before it, the Type 74 has way too many grab handles on the engine deck. On the kit as sold these are all simplified, and while I've never tried making my own grab handles before it seemed fairly simple. I started off with 0.3mm wire and bent the handles with tweezers which took a long time and was pretty funstrating. I wasn't entirely pleased with them and I almost left them like that but I bought a pair of jewelry pliers and wire bending became so incredibly effortless that I ripped them all out and replaced them with 0.5mm wire which looks much better to me. Having had such a long service life though it's had numerous minor improvements so it was difficult to tell what was correct for a late production model, so I went down a rabbit hole of reference photos and also stumbled on the official Japanese MOD scale model club's homepage, which was a nice surprise and was really good for some insider details. For some reason quite a few of the color callouts on the Tamiya instructions are wrong. The instructions call for the tools to be painted in bare wood and metal but since their founding JGSDF tools and equipment have always been painted olive drab (though sometimes get painted over with camo on the tanks). The Tamiya kit is also missing the barrel shroud, which I put together out of some wire and styrene sheet, and the headlamp guard faces, again styrene sheet and wire, though don't tell the brainworms but the real ones are actually slats not bars. I also tried to fabricate the antenna guards and I managed to get something that looked fairly close until they fell apart. I think that's as good as I'm going to get with my skill level and resources but I'm pretty proud of it. Demi-garage kit maker Asuka Models sells a version of the Type 74 G (a special variant meant to upgrade it be close to Type 90 equipment, only 4 ever built) based on the Tamiya kit but with some much higher detail parts so I may have to pick that up some day because I've kinda fallen in love with the Type 74. (Go check out some videos on Youtube, it has an air cooled 2-stroke V10 turbodiesel engine so it sounds super gnarly).  Here they are on the shelf along with the fatty fat Type 90 I bought so I could start something new and stop brainworming over the 74 with the backdrop of the beautiful watercolor from the Type 61's box art. (Also the FineMolds Type 73 light truck )
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Lizard Combatant posted:Hello thread, newbie question but do Hobbyboss make good kits? I'm looking at some Soviet armoured train, but it's a little pricey so I thought I better check in with the experts first. Scalemates shows one review for their armoured train, but it seems quite favourable: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/hobbyboss-85516-mbv-2--1021844 I also didn't know there were 1:35 scale armoured trains, maybe I'll have to pick one up someday.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Scalemates shows one review for their armoured train, but it seems quite favourable: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/hobbyboss-85516-mbv-2--1021844 Trumpeter makes a whole series of German armoured train kits, must be about 8 or 9 ranging from locomotives and command cars to flak cars and tank turret cars, and that doesn't include any of the railway artillery or vehicle transporters they also make. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Sep 5, 2021 |
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Oh, I've seen a few companies make German armoured trains. If it's German and WWII it'll sell.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Scalemates shows one review for their armoured train, but it seems quite favourable: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/hobbyboss-85516-mbv-2--1021844 Hey, that's the exact one! Cool, yeah review seems favourable.
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Vorenus posted:I started on the Shilka from Zvezda yesterday. Almost got through the first section before I put it back in favor of the T-72M1 from Tamiya. My first Zvezda kit and maybe I'm just spoiled by Tamiya kits but the quality and fit wasn't impressing me. The Zvezda KV-2 I built was fine, except for the Dragon level fuckups in the instructions. It tried to get me to put multiple parts together upside down or in an impossible order.
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I can't remember any big issues with the instructions. The only problem I had with their KVs was self inflicted when I failed to align the upper hull properly and had to trim the idler for it to fit.
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Finished my first combination resin head/plastic body today. The difference in detail is phenomenal.
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Your figure painting is really coming along well, EE. Very nice work there.
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The stripes are so thick they're almost like vinyl stickers and less like actual waterslide decals. There was a guy in the thread years ago that ended up using his as stencils, which is a process that I can't totally get my head around, but I'd love to see it in practice.
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EdsTeioh posted:The stripes are so thick they're almost like vinyl stickers and less like actual waterslide decals. There was a guy in the thread years ago that ended up using his as stencils, which is a process that I can't totally get my head around, but I'd love to see it in practice. In that case the Revell decals are better because they're just about the thickness I'm used to from them,so not all that thick.
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EdsTeioh posted:The stripes are so thick they're almost like vinyl stickers and less like actual waterslide decals. There was a guy in the thread years ago that ended up using his as stencils, which is a process that I can't totally get my head around, but I'd love to see it in practice.
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