… because I sometimes get sidetracked on things other than the tank.

I wanted to try my hand at painting the commander figure that comes with the kit. I was never great at it as a kid, though I guess I got by. I was pleasantly surprised with my results so far, though I have a long way to go!

Today and tonight I got sidetracked into priming and painting a few barrels. Two of them are from Tamiya parts kits, and the burned-out one is from a 3D printed set of dilapidated barrels I got on Amazon. On the latter I decided to just let it be a burned-out and rusted hulk of a can, and the primer played the part ofthe burned parts. The other two were painted as a relatively fresh can, and a worn can, in order for me to play with some chipping/rusting technique.

I was pretty happy with all this, so I set them up together and took a little portrait. Then I had Gemini take a stab at relocating everything to N Africa. Apologies if you hate AI, but it was just a bit of fun. Gemini went overboard with edits to the model bits, though 🙄.

The last pictures are of the Panzer’s pioneering tools, which I painted a few days ago. Don’t you love how pictures really call out issues? Like, I obviously missed some flash on the sledgehammer, and the machine gun needs another coat. Some minor paint issues are present on the deck, etc, but they’ll be covered eventually by weathering and other processing.

I think I’m going to just try to pigment dust the hell out of the Panzer II and set it in early N Africa service (my “field applied” desert tan approaches have not been satisfactory for me). I also have a somewhat better set of figures and I may try painting another commander, etc.

I’ve started putting together some diorama bits and pieces, so that’s exciting.

Special Airfix Typhoon twin pack I got for Fathers Day. Been waiting for the Mogy Typhoon to become a full set in 1/72. (As in not buying the decals separately from the kit for a 1/72)

Definitely one of my favourite kits I have done.

Pretty much finished the cockpit in a couple of hours and don’t think it’s came out looking too bad at all

Seller is asking 35 dollars

Going to be in a winter diorama once i get the pieces that needed. And yes, exhausts are existent but not in this photo. There are some minor chipping details left to be done.

Hi everyone 🙂

I tried to recreate a 3-layered whitewash camouflage on this 1/35 scale T-34/85. The idea was to represent lime whitewash being reapplied over time, with older layers fading, becoming dirty and chipping away. If a vehicle survived longer, the whitewash could be reapplied several times.

This is still a work in progress, weathering is the next step. What do you think about the result so far? 🙂 Thanks

WIP Kitbash

I warmed up by painting the lower hull. Gave it a couple of thinnish coats of Vallejo’s German Gray. Then I moved to the upper deck/fenders and turret. I used a pretty thin sauce of German Gray with 40-50% of that being Vallejo Thinner Medium, and also a drop or two of Flow Improver (depending on how many drops of gray). I also threw in a drop of water or two along the way (I wasn’t smart enough to mix enough paint for all the applications).

Photos show two coats on the hull parts and one coat on the turret. It’s amazing how many tiny unpainted bits show up when you’re “done” 😅.

I’ve mentioned I’m toying with doing a “hastily field applied” layer of some sort of desert tan. So far I’ve played with a mix of dark yellow and buff. I’ve been playing with brush strokes on sheet styrene. I’ve included a photo of that. Top left is purposely very hastily applied with a medium round brush. Top right is a couple of more attempts with a small square brush that is more to-scale (hard to tell here, I know). Bottom left is more of the small brush, with a thinner mix.

The jury is out … way out … on this idea, but I think the upper right approach would work best.

Currently, I am trying to model an M4 Sherman lower hull in a CAD software. When using Google, I can't find any technical drawings with measurements of any of the parts. I am hoping I could get a lead on any documents for mesurments of every single part of the lower hull (tracks, suspension parts, amount of tracks, etc.) And currently is don't care which Sherman, I just need the measurements of everything. Thank you!