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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 😎
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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 😎
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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 😄
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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 🤔
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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 😎
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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/
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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 😋
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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!
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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 🤔
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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Quick image searches didn't show anyone having done Hinterhalt-Tarnung on a Hummel but I liked painting it once on the Jagdpanzer IV, so to offend overserious hobbyists that's exactly what I started doing.
I obviously didn't get all done in one go but enough to amuse myself. Maybe I'll stencil on the Balkenkreuze before getting more oils out. I can also skip them.
So much more fun and motivating than organic forms 😅
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Yeah, the crew didn't get that much better with the dark grey wash-filter-tint. This looks and feels more like /dev/nulling the plastic zermans and any fantasies of making a diorama.
The brown oil wash, on the other hand, worked very nicely and I will attempt to go for a sepia pin wash tomorrow. Unless I go for a last moment green/brown/dunkelgelb dotting to make the camo more ambush-y, which was also fun the first time I tried it. Things move forward soon, anyway 😄