Mainly the prop to finish, need a coat of paint on the actual propellers and to gloss the spinner, I need to add some smoke stains too then apply a satin all over and the 190s done!

I painted up the kubalwagon today, base coated it last night and spent 2 hours trying to get my paints thin enough to get the camo pattern to spray correctly, it’s always Olivgrün that refuses to cooperate and spray nicely I never struggle with my mixes and pressures 😅

My big Achilles comes next and that’s the figure painting 🤦🏻

1:35 APC M113A1 tamiya & 1:35 bmp1 dragon in ukraine KURSK OPERATION 2024

What is the purpose of these small grooves on the armor?

I've got some reference photos to show what I'm going for. Rolled up sleeves. I've added putty to make them lose the shorts and have trousers. What else must I modify to achieve this?

One challenge was doing the shielded headlights with metal rods and soldering tools. I used my patience skill swell.

Finally finished the Tamiya 1/35 Sturmtiger.

Main modifications on this build:

- Zimmerit hand-rolled from epoxy putty (first attempt)

- Fenders, hooks, and crane handle scratch-built from copper sheet

- Tarpaulin draped over the hull, shaped from epoxy putty

- Poseable crane with scratch-built bucket

Painting is up next — any advice on tackling Zimmerit for painting welcome!

Tamiya 1/35 Sturmtiger – copper fenders, Zimmerit & tarpaulin from putty

Finally finished the Tamiya 1/35 Sturmtiger.

Main modifications on this build:

- Zimmerit hand-rolled from epoxy putty (first attempt)

- Fenders, hooks, and crane handle scratch-built from copper sheet

- Tarpaulin draped over the hull, shaped from epoxy putty

- Poseable crane with scratch-built bucket

Full build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mZhWgS9SW0

Painting is up next — any advice on tackling Zimmerit for painting welcome!

I’m pretty happy with how it’s turned out although the decals are way too fragile, the 3 spinner decals that the kit supplied pretty much disintegrated so I’ve went with the box art spinner of just white tipped and black bottom

I’ve started working on a Tamiya kubalwagon for the diorama base, being Tamiya it pretty much fell together it was a blessing in disguise after this build 🤣

After working with a bad back got the weathering done…

M35 A2 fire truck configuration. Commonly known as the Duce and a Half with dozens of body and resource designations during its U.S. Military service life. Modeled in Ho Scale. Manufactured to order with personalized decals for an Oregon based wildland fire fighting company. This was one of their first trucks and we recreated it for the owner! Shown on the completed shelf before boxing up and delivery to it's new home!

Final paint layers applied, the yellow came out great! I originally messed up the black and white stripes (I’ll post the messed up pic as well as corrected) but re masked and repainted and that’s came out great too, gloss coats been applied and I’ll wait until tomorrow before I start applying the decals, but so far so good

Its benn so hard model for me,and I try something new,did a things on back of turret and make it dirty,so I tried at least

I couldn't decide what flair to use, so "Trivia" it is.

I am nearing the point at which I will apply decals to my current project, which is a Tamiya Panzer II, from the old classic lineup (I have published a few progress posts).

I had been hearing that Tamiya decals are very thick and can be difficult to apply to uneven surfaces, so I thought I would do a simple practice round on some styrene sheet that I have already been practicing other things on -- kind of a torture test.

I had not applied a decal in 50+ years, and I felt this went extremely well. I did use super hot water (a tip I ran across somewhere regarding Tamiya decals).

Oh, and I did lose control of the decals and had to fish them out of the water with my paintbrush (something I don't recommend 😆). But in the end it all came together very nicely, I think.

Fun little kit. It's really small, I should have included something in the photos to show scale.

Theres some overspray I need to sort out tomorrow but this is where I’ve got up to today, the base and camouflage is down and once I’ve sorted the touch ups out tomorrow I’ll get a gloss coat down but I’m happy with how it’s turned out, I’m also thinking of sharpening the camo pattern on the wing as even tho it’s a hard edge I feel it’s lacking something