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Looks like a Kerbal piloting a Gonk droid, which raises a lot of questions I'm not entirely certain I'm ready to have answered.
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Vorenus posted:Looks like a Kerbal piloting a Gonk droid, which raises a lot of questions I'm not entirely certain I'm ready to have answered. Needs like 20 more boosters. But otherwise very good.
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From that grin I'd say it's probably Jeb.
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The adventures in 1:148 continue (well, the boat is 160 but it looks about right)
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Jul 23, 2022 11:24
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Neat! Nice, clean work in a tiny scale. What's the project?
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Jul 23, 2022 12:26
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Gewehr 43 posted:Neat! Nice, clean work in a tiny scale. What's the project? Thank you! Well after giving up my dream of British rolling stock in Z scale, I went with N and i do like the compromise of detail to tinyness. I did get some fantastic 3d printed shells for 2 locomotives in Z but the thought of having to source 3d prints for every coach, wagon, building, etc... wasn't appealing. Instead I'm doing a small GWR themed layout circa 42/43 in N. Small rural fishing village so i can have fun with water effects too. That mosquito in the background is gonna have a hard landing in a sheep field on a hill. e: the river barge is by Artitec in case anyone wanted to know, very nice resin casting. Zero cleanup required. Lizard Combatant fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Jul 23, 2022 |
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Jul 23, 2022 13:01
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Airbrush propelled a tiny landing gear strut into the aether. It’s going to turn up when I’m finishing the model uh?
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Jul 24, 2022 23:28
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Finished something not WW2 related for once. Some ICM figures and an Emhar 77 mm gun which I built ages ago. The kit is absolutely awful, but it works as pieces scattered across the battlefield    
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Jul 25, 2022 00:11
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Solid work on those figures.
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Jul 25, 2022 12:30
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Yeah, there's a lot of character in those faces. Good job on the eyes!
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Jul 25, 2022 12:58
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FrozenVent posted:Airbrush propelled a tiny landing gear strut into the aether. Or two months after you box it up and sadly put it on the unfinished pile. By then you'll have forgotten which kit it was from.
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MrUnderbridge posted:Or two months after you box it up and sadly put it on the unfinished pile. It’s a grebble part so no worries, but I’m annoyed - it’s a $20 HobbyCraft kit I bought for a joke diorama that turned out to be surprisingly high quality, the dashboard is photoetch and film and the fuselage is pretty detailed. Had to file the gently caress out of some spruce attachment points to get the parts to fit flush but overall, really impressed. Excuse my terrible attempts at dry brushing:   HobbyCraft HC1457 F9F-2P Panther.
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Jul 25, 2022 16:30
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Horrible premonitions of my armor collection in a few years. https://twitter.com/RanRanRan01110/status/1551497902916501504
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I've definitely gotten to the point where I'm ashamed to look at some of the older models I have up, but I'm also painting much slower than I used to so I wouldn't be able to replace them at the rate that my skill is improving. Also those photos remind me that I need more Shermans.
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Jul 25, 2022 19:56
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Ensign Expendable posted:I've definitely gotten to the point where I'm ashamed to look at some of the older models I have up, but I'm also painting much slower than I used to so I wouldn't be able to replace them at the rate that my skill is improving. It's a strange paradox that you assume you'll be able to finish kits quicker the longer you've been modelling, but actually the more your skills improve the longer it takes to finish anything as you keep finding more details to work on and extra stages/techniques to add, or your bar for perfectionism keeps rising. I think I've finished like 3 kits this year, versus 7 or so last year and 12 the year before, and I'm spending no less time at the bench.
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grassy gnoll posted:Horrible premonitions of my armor collection in a few years. For some reason, the dude with the white shorts standing on his sherman was a lad wearing just the white shorts. Had to zoom a bit (on phone atm) to notice it was a uniform. Mildly disappointed.
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Jul 25, 2022 20:48
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very poetic machine translation of that tweet:quote:I made it in the last 3 years (bolding mine)
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Ensign Expendable posted:I've definitely gotten to the point where I'm ashamed to look at some of the older models I have up, but I'm also painting much slower than I used to so I wouldn't be able to replace them at the rate that my skill is improving. I still have to unpack my backlog at some point, but I know I have at least four Shermans waiting for me and I preordered the AHHQ/Takom 1:16th kit, so uh, I could be down for a group build.
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I set a New Year's resolution for myself to complete 8 model kits this year. I'm up to 2, and within a couple hours' work of 3. The paradox tidal wave emulator mentioned is absolutely real. It doesn't help that over the last year or so, I've found myself getting bored of building vehicles without any context. So, every project ends up tripling in the time required because I want to do at least some kind of ground work. When I set the "8 or bust" goal, I was really hoping to reduce my stash count. I think I've got something like 60 kits in the stash at present - all 1/35 or 1/32, or 1/350; 3 kits on the shelf of doom; and 3 in the active pipeline (including the one that's almost done). I've also got 2 on the way.  So, the best intentions...
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After a couple years of 7 or 8 a year, I'm really struggling to finish even one this year so far, and I've figured out that it's because I've had a lot of diy projects in the new house, so the "must fiddle with poo poo" itch is getting scratched elsewhere.
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I've got -a number of builds in waiting-for-finishing-touches limbo -two tanks I didn't realize came with workable track and no alternative -a zvezda star destroyer 2/3 oh the way through installing lights.  -exactly two kits in my backlog because I managed to beat back my impulse purchase brain problems but not my can't finish a goddamn thing brain problems
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My rate ends up at about two months per tank. I started doing a lot more odd projects in the last few years that wildly affected my stats, but my stash keeps growing. At least now a lot of the stash is digital.
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Turns out I was less than an hour away from being done, so here's kit #3 done for the year. Sherman Firefly knocked out somewhere in Holland during Market Garden. This is the new Rye Field kit that I was having such troubles with the tracks with a while back. While not a perfect 1:1 of the source image, my vignette was obviously heavily inspired by it. This was a first for me as I've never done a knocked out tank before. It was a fun challenge and was mostly achieved with various pigments.                 While I'm at it, here's completed build #2 for the year. This was another first for me as I'd never done a seascape before. I think it turned out okay, but I definitely learned a lot and will improve on the next one. This is a 1/144 rendition of the USS Barb ca. 1944, or at least sometime before her May 1945 refit.                
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Gewehr 43 posted:Turns out I was less than an hour away from being done, so here's kit #3 done for the year.
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Incredible work, makes me want to build another burned out tank.
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I suddenly feel the urge to make a diorama that's just an empty patch of grass, and try to convince a model contest to let me enter it as armor. It's a septic tank.
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Gewehr 43 posted:Turns out I was less than an hour away from being done, so here's kit #3 done for the year. Whoah. Every bit of this is stunning. Also where'd you get those plants from?
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Great work on the Firefly. Can confirm that kit is a motherfucker and a half, so you did good to get through all those track links.
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Yeah, amazing work on everything posted in the last few days! All this great work has me itching to do another plastic kit, once I finish my side project, and the weather cools down a bit. Too much of a sweatbox to concentrate on details right now.
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Gewer, did you do the welds on the firefly or was it part of the kit? They look really good. Also that weathering is amazing.
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I only do car models and as Ive gotten better at it I've been doing fewer models per year. Oddly enough I seem to spend the most time detailing the parts you see the least meaning the interior and suspension.
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Jonny Nox posted:very poetic machine translation of that tweet: "These are all the American and British world war forces I've made over the past 3 years or so. On the building side I often change things for historical accuracy, matching the place and period they were manufactured in, but on the painting side I've been a little more rough with the color matching, on both the tanks and soldiers, to match the overall image of the era and the theatre. Personally I think things are most interesting in that gap between reality and fantasy. ; - ) "
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Charliegrs posted:I only do car models and as Ive gotten better at it I've been doing fewer models per year. Oddly enough I seem to spend the most time detailing the parts you see the least meaning the interior and suspension. same but mine is racecars and the painting and decaling of the body always goes quickly then I hit a wall when I have to put the rest of the car together. Looking at getting a spray booth for inside so that I don't have to hand paint a lot of the parts cause sometimes I don't mind it but other times it's onerous and saps mojo badly.
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Thank you all for the compliments. I'm really flattered. Lizard Combatant posted:Whoah. Every bit of this is stunning. Also where'd you get those plants from? Thank you! I made them on my stencil cutter. They're cut from sheets of tamiya tape then I glued thin, annealed copper wire to the backs to give them shape. I airbrushed a few shades of green on then hand painted the vein/stalk structure. The wiry looking plants are just that... braided speaker wire teased out into shape, glued at the base to hold the bundle together, then painted. Jonny Nox posted:Gewer, did you do the welds on the firefly or was it part of the kit? Short of the impact damage, the model is done 100% out of the box. Welds, tracks, hatches, are all kit parts. Honestly, I really thought it was/is a great kit and not an overly tough build at all. The tracks pissed me off just because they don't give you any extra pieces and several of my sprues were damaged in the box, so I had to buy more. For the most part, I've found RFM kits to fit really well. Sometimes the tolerances are so tight, parts won't fit until you apply a little liquid cement, so in that sense, kudos to RFM. In other news, I just cracked the box on the Tamiya F-14A which has led me to two conclusions: 1) I have no idea what I'm doing with jets. 2) The number of decals is terrifying.
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 Took me a month to finish the first model I've built in about six or seven years. Trumpeter 1/700 USS Baltimore. I think from now on I'll assemble the kits in ascending order of tonnage - starting with a Tamiya Fletcher-class. FPyat fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Jul 28, 2022 |
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Someone out there determined to rehabilitate the image of model train nerds and doing a drat fine job of it. https://twitter.com/nightoffices/status/1552974762019901440
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Arquinsiel posted:Someone out there determined to rehabilitate the image of model train nerds and doing a drat fine job of it. Also an excellent solution to the layout breaking and not being unable to fix it for a while. "Railroad workers went on strike. Union representatives are currently negotiating for a functioning control box."
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Progress on the Tamiya F-14. The out of box cockpit is great, but I've been dying to try the new cockpit detail offerings from Quinta Studios. They are offering color 3D printed detail sets that are printed on decal paper. Wet them as you would a decal, then glue them in place. Done. The detail here is incredible and I'm pretty sure they'll be a regular on my aircraft kits. Included in these photos is also the ejection seat set from Eduard. Again, the box seats are pretty good, but the detail on the resin parts is awesome.        This kit has a reputation for being great and it's well deserved. The fit so far has been wonderful. I've grown accustomed to Trumpeter and the likes, so this kit has been a very refreshing change of pace.
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Gewehr 43 posted:Progress on the Tamiya F-14. That is looking fantastic! Cockpits have always been my favorite part of the planes. I wish there was a line of 1/12 or 1/18 scale cockpits available as standalone models. The only ones I've ever seen like that are for the F-104 and (I think) the F-16. Kind of odd choices, but better than nothing.
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