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Scut posted:This rules. If I find I have the spending money some day I should commission one. Gerwalks will always steal the show. I had one of those transforming kits, but it's small and really fiddly and I hopelessly hosed it up. It lives in a box in the closet with my N64 and vacuum. I think I cannibalized the gun for something.
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From what I remember when I was interested in trying one out, the semi-recent Bandai transforming VF-1 kits were supposed to be kind of dodgy and floppy, but the VF-25 and 31s were ok (if sticker hell)? I'd still be worried about scraping the paint, had I ever painted a drat thing in my life. If I did get a Bandai kit though I'd want to try out http://dalong.net/reviews/etc/md03/md03_p.htm , not because I have any connection to the show or the character but because a transforming Saab Draken is pretty cool
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it turns out I don't hate painting, i just hate paint
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the paradigm shift posted:it turns out I don't hate painting, i just hate paint
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Mar 8, 2022 20:58
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You just haven't found the right paint yet. Probably because it doesn't exist.
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Mar 8, 2022 21:22
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There are some absolute mad lads on Facebook:
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the paradigm shift posted:it turns out I don't hate painting, i just hate paint I like painting 
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I'm off-and-on kitbashing together this hovercar, inspired by the game Brigador. Still quite a way to go, and what you see here is barely held together as I try to keep sub-assemblies apart for work, but I really like this thing. I needed a display stand for it, as the 'skid plate' on the bottom isn't a suitable surface at such a steep angle. The shop I work at recently rebuilt a Stihl MS880 chain saw, leaving the old piston aside as scrap. The MS880 is the most powerful chain saw they make (it puts out over 8hp!) so I thought it worked thematically with the rat-rod sci-fi aesthetic I'm aiming for. I drilled and tapped a hole in the top of the piston and used a stainless rod I salvaged from a dead office printer as a retort rod to hold up the model.   The main sub-assemblies here are tacked together with dabs of hot glue just to get some sense of the overall envelope, so the alignments are poor. I'll be tearing it down tonight to get access to the guts again.   
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FrozenVent posted:There are some absolute mad lads on Facebook: That scene is going to be on every contest table in every model show for years!
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FrozenVent posted:There are some absolute mad lads on Facebook: I've been looking for a good Russian armor or truck model and some good modern civilian figures to do something similar.
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Lavinia Spenlow posted:You just haven't found the right paint yet. This is how I felt until I discovered airbrushing Mr Color lacquers mixed with Hataka lacquer thinner - and controversially not 'unicorn tears' aka Mr Levelling Thinner. However, Tamiya mixed with MLT is a close second, tied with Colourcoats enamels thinned with MLT. Water-based acrylics are all a real pain though.
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MrUnderbridge posted:That scene is going to be on every contest table in every model show for years! There's a bunch of guys who have never done farm equipment quickly buying JD tractors.
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tidal wave emulator posted:This is how I felt until I discovered airbrushing Mr Color lacquers mixed with Hataka lacquer thinner - and controversially not 'unicorn tears' aka Mr Levelling Thinner. However, Tamiya mixed with MLT is a close second, tied with Colourcoats enamels thinned with MLT. Same except SMS acrylic lacquers. No thinner required 9 times out of 10.
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MrUnderbridge posted:That scene is going to be on every contest table in every model show for years! In a similar vein, Mig 29 kits and Ukrainian digital camo masking sets are now sold out across the web as every aircraft modeler out there is now building a Ghost of Kiev model. I spotted this mock-up of a Zvezda Ghost of Kiev kit that's been doing the rounds on fb. 
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Doubt if Zvezda would be doing one! ICM, if they weren't under attack.
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I'm sure if Zvezda actually tried to make that kit they'd all be put on a one way train to Siberia. That photoshop is fooling a lot of folk at the moment though.
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That also doesn't follow the typical layout of Zvezda boxes (full English and Russian title). I wonder if they make any agricultural tractors though...
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Sudden demand for 1/35 tractors e: this aggression shall not stand https://blogger.googleusercontent.c...MHblKyvgg=s2048 Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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tidal wave emulator posted:This is how I felt until I discovered airbrushing Mr Color lacquers mixed with Hataka lacquer thinner - and controversially not 'unicorn tears' aka Mr Levelling Thinner. However, Tamiya mixed with MLT is a close second, tied with Colourcoats enamels thinned with MLT. I've only used unicorn tears and grey poupon for thinning my paints. What is it about Hataka that you prefer over MCLT?
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SkunkDuster posted:I've only used unicorn tears and grey poupon for thinning my paints. What is it about Hataka that you prefer over MCLT? It seems to give a, for want of a better word, 'softer' finish and at least in my experience is far more forgiving in terms of dilution ratios. I guess the paint comes out a bit more matte using it than MLT which is supposed to give a glossier finish but if I don't get it right turns out a bit pebbly. I'm awful at spraying clear/gloss coats so that's probably a big factor. I've got a bottle of Mr Rapid Thinner which I've not tried yet but is supposed to be good stuff.
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https://twitter.com/kylemizokami/status/1501743157737783302?s=21
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Those models will be sold out and scalped on eBay within days.
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tidal wave emulator posted:I've got a bottle of Mr Rapid Thinner which I've not tried yet but is supposed to be good stuff. I wonder if that rapid thinner is just leveling thinner without the retarder, aka hardware store lacquer thinner. Which isn't actually a bad thing. I use straight lacquer thinner with Mr. Color paints when I want to build up a lot of thin coats fast. edit: is there a backstory to the tractor pulling the tank?
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I'm not 100% sure if you're joking or just isolating yourself from the news out of despair for humanity, but yes. It's a very current affairs subject to build.
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SkunkDuster posted:I wonder if that rapid thinner is just leveling thinner without the retarder, aka hardware store lacquer thinner. Which isn't actually a bad thing. I use straight lacquer thinner with Mr. Color paints when I want to build up a lot of thin coats fast. A lot of Russian armor is being abandoned in Ukraine and local farmers are hooking it up and pulling it away with farm equipment.
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Midjack posted:A lot of Russian armor is being abandoned in Ukraine and local farmers are hooking it up and pulling it away with farm equipment. They've done this with multiple anti air missile launchers worth like ten million. It's mind boggling.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:They've done this with multiple anti air missile launchers worth like ten million. It's mind boggling. Igor is now proud owner of a 20-Million-Dollar mobile SAM launcher 
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Blue Footed Booby posted:They've done this with multiple anti air missile launchers worth like ten million. It's mind boggling. Yeah, very heavy "for a horseshoe nail the kingdom was lost" vibes. I think those air defense Pantsir trucks cost ~ $20 million, and they are being lost partially because Russia went cheap out on tires and didn't do basic bitch maintenance. According to one guy on twitter, anyway, you can see the wheel bearings on one Pantsir leaking oil, and that's because the seal dried out because the truck sat for a year. The fighting Ukrainian tractor division is definitely a meme On the plus side, lots of pictures and video of modern armor in the field?
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Nebakenezzer posted:pictures and video of modern armor in the field? Sometimes. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1502287487552606209
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Sometimes you're in the field, and sometimes you're in the field.
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Maybe the Russians have been backfilling armour crews with submariners? I took a break from wooden ships to do some miniatures, specifically some Battletech stuff. I've got an Orion and an Atlas done so far:        It's a bit washed out because my photographic skills aren't great, but the white was achieved by a solid basecoat of white with a diluted blue-black wash over top and then a heavy dry brush of more white over top of that. It suggests white without being stark white and has quite a nice texture that adds a lot in terms of a sense of scale. On top of this, I did some rust and grime streaking with other washes, splotching with dabs of white, rust marks and battle damage. I have done quite a bit of miniatures in the past, being a reformed Warhammer player, but I don't think I have painted one since 2016-- a transcontinental move forced me to leave all of my hobby supplies in storage on the other side of North America. I've since gotten into wooden models and was recently reunited with my Windsor and Newton brushes and have always enjoyed the Mechwarrior games and Battletech as a whole so I went out and picked up some miniatures (which were shockingly inexpensive compared to Warhammer) to put brush to plastic once again. I have since learned that I need to use a magnifier as the close in work is hard on my eyes and I think my hands tend to shake more than they used to. Still, I'm happy with the results. Fearless fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Mar 11, 2022 |
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MyronMulch posted:from PYF: Scroll up
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Fearless posted:Maybe the Russians have been backfilling armour crews with submariners?
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Arquinsiel posted:Those look great. Very similar technique to how I painted my Comguard's base colour. Thank you for your kind words. I adapted it from the recipe that I used for my pre-heresy World Eaters, and which is a modified version of the Forge World approach to white armour (for World Eaters, anyways). White's a tricky colour but the more I have done it, the more I like it and the hazard stripes seem to fit well and make my mechs look less like a heavily armed telecommunications company. 
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A discord server I’m on is having Arts and Craft month so I went ahead and pulled out a Trumpeter 1:144 WW2 LCM landing craft. This is way too small a scale for this thing and many little bits have been eaten by the carpet monster.   I still have the decals and life rings to put on but that’s going to wait for a caffeine-free day.
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Fearless posted:Thank you for your kind words. I adapted it from the recipe that I used for my pre-heresy World Eaters, and which is a modified version of the Forge World approach to white armour (for World Eaters, anyways). White's a tricky colour but the more I have done it, the more I like it and the hazard stripes seem to fit well and make my mechs look less like a heavily armed telecommunications company.
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Arquinsiel posted:I went with a bright shiny parade scheme. The only real difference is I made the black wash excessive and then dusted with the white spray again before the drybrush. Sadly the entire pair of Level IIs took a tumble as I was packing everything up to move, so I'll have to work out how to carefully repaint just the chipped bits. Might end up masking it somehow. I've had to go back in and touch up white areas on mine and what has helped is using a stippling kind of brush stroke and thinned out white paint to gradually work up towards the desired colour rather than using a thicker paint more heavily. Whatever wash you used can be also stippled in there to help mask the touch up too. I did that on the rust marks on the Atlas especially-- I looked at some of them and felt that they were entirely too massive for an active war machine so I went back in with white and dabbed that on around the edges of the rust mark to give it a kind of chipped paint look, and the thinned out white really suggests depth.
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