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With the previous model so (relatively) quickly done I jumped to the next one, the last kit I got from a now-closed hobby store. Now there's only one I know of nearby.
Anyway, I built a 1:48 #Do-335 Pfeil, and of the two options the single-seater. My topside painting got fucked up by me, and in my annoyance decided to take it to a silly "what if?" direction: captured and used by the French, no less 😅 That'd compensate for the captured and modifed tank.
Tiny tweaks done anymore: a bit of chipping, then oil paint mud splatter and rust in two tones.
In a moment of silliness I decided to use a pointy bamboo stick (for cake testing) to make nail ends on the wooden planks of the Packkiste. Just on the top and outer sides that could be seen normally. That was fun and like I said, a silly detail.
How did I get that gun barrel looking that nasty? 👀
After the Sepia wash I covered the setup with super matt varnish, and over that I drybrushed the edgea and corners with ivory. That improved the readability nicely.
Then I felt like using superdiluted ivory for some sandy accumulation on the hull but it ended up looking dirty in a wrong way (see pics), so I attempted to tone it down with Vallejo's acrylic thinner right after. Will check the results today after work if I dare 🫣
Before I used the three decals and some Sepia wash on panels etc, I glossed the whole setup. All the wooden bits, the four Packkiste and the engineering tool handles got a thin brown wash (Abteilung Brown Wash / Burnt Umber). That always improves my shitty wood attempts 😄
Now I was taking photos of other, completed projects, and for the fun of it took a comparison shot between the light one and a later monster, over 30 tons of mass difference in real world 😅
I had an hour and got cracking. Now there's a silly camo and the rocket launchers are pretty much done, the thinned down brown wash for extra woodiness was still flashing when I took the photos. Those rubber band tracks are not fun, though, not at all.
It's been quite an enjoyable model 😎
Hotchkiss 39 is sealed, primed and based with sand yellow. I've been also handpainting the wooden Packkiste and still suck at painting woodlike things. So far I got them basecoated and lightened once, some drybrushing and brown-washing is still coming up.
When I've got the green and brown camo stripes painted on and installed the floppy tracks, I'll attach the aiming frames with the crates in place. Maybe, just maybe, I get to start with some of that today already 😎
Having finished the previous project(s) except for the photos, I started a new build: a German-captured and modified French Hotchkiss 39 light tank, by Trumpeter. Ze zermans had been crafty and installed some 320mm rockets launchers on it because why not?
Mostly assembled over a couple of evenings, now I started (mis)painting the sealed insides no one'll ever see after I glue the hull shut 😄
Straight back from the vacation, I went on oil dot filtering the parade side of the Messerschmitt. I think I've got something like two milliliters of thinner left anymore, luckily I had ordered more just two hours earlier.
As always, while working on it I felt like a horrendous mess. Drying up toned it down quite a lot already and I expect it to look nicer tomorrow. Or hope.
I am not entirely sure if I will do anything on the black grey underside, though 🤔
I was pleased with the sepia lines on the top side, and today I gave snow white oil wash a go. As it happens I may have been too eager and tried to do all in one go, but I'll messify this more later anyway. We'll see.
Oil paint time! Part 1/n, today I just used some too much thinned Abteilung's Sepia on the non-black parts of the plane. Pulling most of it away and blending around just on the gut feeling left the plane looking somewhat dirty.
That was a huge improvement over the clean plane. Next I'll try a white or off-white pin wash on the the dark side, hoping it looks decent. I expect that it will behave.
I ended up doing a bunch more of the small ones and most of the fuckers silvered like nightmares. Never owning a drop of any decal setters I swore like a pirate. Some sources suggested saving methods, 99% of them said "just use microsol lol" which I wasn't going to get until Tuesday earliest.
So I went for something I had and some suggested: Tamiya extra thin. A couple of decals got bad, most improved. Could've been worse.
I still prefer stencils and painting over decals. #Me262 #scaleModeling
While I'm outside my modeling comfort zone already, I decided to give the decals a(nother) chance. At least in 1:72 they are loathsome and I much prefer painting the markings. But what the hell, I could try these bigger ones.
Thirty plus minutes later I got the Balkenkreuze, red twelves, serial nr in the tail plus a couple of triangles. A few small ones tomorrow and I'll call it done. I will not use all the tiny ones anyway, especially on the black belly side
Oh my. It's been over two months already 👀
Today I got the cleaned up airbrush out again, and started masking the upper wings. I blasted a bit of RAL8017 Rotbraun for the splinters I planned earlier. The I diluted some RLM78 Hellblau and stippled some pseudorandom splotches on the sides.
I probably aren't set for stencils so I may end up using those decals. I'll probably ruin them as usual. After that I can do oils and that I enjoy 😎
AMT: 1/48th scale TIE Bomber kit
#AMT #TIEBomber #StarWars #FanthaTracks #AMTModels #TIEBomber #ScaleModeling
Take a closer look at the new AMT TIE Bomber kit.
Read the whole story at the below link:
https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/collecting/amt-1-48th-scale-tie-bomber-kit/
This is as far as I got for now. Tomorrow I'll take my airbrush for sonic cleaning etc. I wish I could say the cloudy pattern was purposeful but oh boy how it wasn't 😅 All I intend to add, paintjob-wise is some mottling on the airframe, maybe some splinter shapes on the wings, and the Balkenkreuze.
Ugly patching done, all the little things installed. The long antenna in the bottom poses some challenges until I get the landing gear glued in. For painting convenience I just want that crap painted separately to avoid even more swearing 😅 Those radar antlers were way easier than I expected, which was nice.
I thought I could start priming today but masking the canopy took way too long. Tomorrow, then, for the last day of a four-day weekend.
Swearing continued with the JuMo 004 assembly and fitting. Then I noticed I am missing half a rudder or tail fin. The latter I try to mitigate with a piece of 1mm styrene but it won't look good. That'll still be better than only the left half 😝
Building is finally far enough for me to think of the painting operation itself. I'll do the wheels separately to maybe save my nerves. To get to that I think I need to mask and seal the cockpit canopy in place. Decisions...
Lots of swearing with the fitting of the wings into the airframe. That and the wing-halves joining has always been a loathsome process: they depend so heavily on the previous steps and if one has misunderstood the instructions or slightly misaligned some bits, this is where one finds out. Way too late to fix it nicely anymore. Grumble grumble.
Unsurprisingly something had been off and I am grumbling. Maybe I can salvage it. Annoying, as I was having slow fun 😋
Small changes in a way, but they made a noticeable difference: the airframe halves are now joined with the cannon part installed. I glued and puttied two screws into the closed lower segments (where the autocannon ejector ports are) for weighting, but nose needs more extra mass.
Soon I can seal the earlier made cockpit and start on airbrushable stuff, yay!
Slow indeed: in a week I've done the two-person cockpit and now the quad autocannon section. Painted simply, but painted anyway.
So far the only metallic paint I've used has been Duraluminium on the outside of the crew's armoured tub. The things that are to be sealed out of sight are all unpainted, like the nose here that expects to receive 15g of additional weights. No idea yet what or where to obtain tiny weights locally, though 🤔
Slow and cautious is how I proceed, three hobby sessions done and I'm almost ready to move on to the radar operator's station behind the pilot. Looks fun, I need to apply gloss varnish on the dials before I seal the thing.
This is a jump to mostly unknown in this hobby: I got myself a 1:32 Me-262 B1-/U-1 which apparently translates into a two-seater night fighter with a radar.
Building a plane stresses me out a bit, they have to be more perfect and sleek than tanks. Less forgiving. Still, something made it exciting to start with, maybe it's the tinkering.
I started with the cockpit but soon I have to do some painting. Maybe I should've already?
As hoped, I managed to use some mud and light sand pigments here and there, rub a graphite pen over the bare metals, and also touch up the aiming sticks. The convoy light on the bottom left rear edge got painted off-white and then I used some of my Citadel Green Wash bought in 1996/1997. Actual photos coming somewhat later.
Hummel pin washed, cleaned up, then chipped and after that again dirtified wit different brown oils like fresh and old rust and just "mud", and all gently blended around. So much fun.
When all that had dried up, I matt varnished the whole model. Tomorrow I'll use some mud pigments and a graphite pen for final highligts and call the Bumblebee done.
One track was easier and more fixable, and that happened to be the one that looked worse 😅 When the glue had cured enough for the tracks to stay in place I went to town with the sepia pin wash. I just love that part.
Despite the crew/diorama part being scrapped I glued the loading plank-shelf on the boxes. Maybe I'll glue a couple of shells and oddly empty cartridges on it or something. Or I'll leave it as is.
In a few days I should have hobby time for highlighting
Wheelsets and tracks on. I had made a mistake and the tracks snapped at the stupidest moment. What a disappointment.
Maybe I can fix them semiacceptably, maybe not. While lamenting my choices I glued the shovels in place and let the thing wait for a new day and fixes.
Today the calendar did indeed behave, and allowed me to play with the sepia oil wash. Having given the mess some half an hour to dry, I went back to clean excesses away. Normal surfaces were nicely simple, the no-slip floors noticeably less so. But I knew that already.
Now I guess I have to let it dry for a day or two before oiling more. The next step might be installing wheels and tracks, which also need some oils before I get to more weathery things.
Today's wrap-up brought me up to 1,5h of painting tiny dots on a scale model and that'd driven my partner insane 😄 I am happy with my second attempt at Hinterhalt-Tarnung. To go with it I decided to do a low-vis version of the Balkenkreuz, instead of white corners with a black interior and edges I just did the corners in black-grey.
Tomorrow, if calendar agrees, I'll get to do the sepia wash over the panel lines and whoknowswhatsits. "Awesome, awesome to the max."
I think this is the last hobby update of the year, I just applied some heavily diluted dirt paint over the Hummel's tracks and the lower parts of its hull. The gun's aiming bits and a few other bits got the black grey + cold grey drybrushing.
Little things, but they're important. When we get back, I'll be full of energy to resume painting 🤘🏻
I still think it would be stupidly fun to hide a sandy yellow or brown Autobot marking somewhere for those who enjoy silliness 😋
Airbrushing a freehand-camouflage out of my own head left me with a couple of things to fix on the Hummel. This is why I like masking, less space for those 😋
When the greens and browns were done, I diluted some gunmetal and went to town with the roadwheel-polished parts of the tracks. The running ones will be muddy-dirtier while the short track armour will be mostly fresh rusty.
Basecoating the Hummel in sandy yellow, blasting more from above and high angles to keep some shadows. Also, I was again not aiming for a flat coat but to keep a bit of the shadows given by the black primer. If it looks off tomorrow, I may touch it up, otherwise I'll start on brown/green for the camouflage.
Tracks, being bare steel, got painted dark grey. I'll do the ground-clean steel later, and after that the diluted dirts. Or that's the plan, anyway 😋
First part of priming the Hummel is done, bad lighting + eyes combo made me miss a couple of shadowed spots, and I simply didn't have the time for the various wheels, sprockets and and such today. More priming tomorrow, maybe a bit of black grey over the tracks. If I get truly carried away there'll be Dunkelgelb as well.
I _did_ have some time to prime the bits in the Gray Death Legion Heavy Battle Lance box, but that's just having priorities, dear friends 😋
Getting the tracks, and that length of track arnour for the Hummel took three sittings. As always, I am so very pleased with them.
If I get the crew stitched together, and if homelife agrees, I may yet get to prime and if I really push my luck, basecoat too. But I won't hold my breath, the pre-solstice week tends to be busy for some reason 😄 And then I'll be at the in-laws for almost three weeks, far from hobbies, enjoying very different routines and schedules.
Himmel, ein Hummel in 1:35!
I started building the Tamiya Hummel a couple of weeks ago, instead of taking dslr photos of already completed projects. At least I remembered uncle NightShift's armour texture trick this time 😄 Now all I have left are are the 3d printed tracks and the crew with accessories. Then I can start painting, yay!
This'll be slow as time's limited during this season. Priming's a January thing earliest, I think. That'll be fun 🤘🏻
And a bit more excited painting to get the smaller details in: the aforementioned beaks, talons, and sword. The katana blade has the only actual metallics, gunmetal and steel, in the whole show.
Yep, I got quite excited with this, how could you tell? 😋