T 38 Amphibious Tank 1/35 scale by PARC models.

[Steve Jones]

Outstanding work mate!! You have progressed from fireman to brick maker to international scientist and expert foliage maker. Your talents are endless. The base is a real beautiee. I will have to make something for you one day and you can do a base for it . Bring on the water (and fish of course :smiling3

[minitnkr]

Excellent gardening Dzohn. Looks like a blooming thesis on water making. I will take notes. PaulE

[Mickc1440]

I love your experiments JR, I was really surprised that after the track fail the only recovered part would consist of a plastic puddle. Really looking the biz now with that great groundwork.

[JR]

Morning Professor Race,
Looks like your experiments are producing some interesting results!
Hope that whatever result you go with doesn’t spoil the excellent base:surprised:

Hi Si, you'd be impressed here at Race Towers, did chicken in batter ,with stirfry veg, and a chicken pie ready for tomorrow.In fact I ate half the pie to night as it looked so good with it's flaky pastry top,c/w perfect weathering ! .
After these tests the conclusion is this method would be fine for a sea scapes but of no use for the river . So out with the varnish and the gloss gel. Will have to bed in the model with some filler and then paint the water around it ,so it should be do able..

Great looking base so far John.

Thanks Ralph.

Outstanding work mate!! You have progressed from fireman to brick maker to international scientist and expert foliage maker. Your talents are endless. The base is a real beautiee. I will have to make something for you one day and you can do a base for it . Bring on the water (and fish of course :smiling3

Your too kind mate . A great idea with the joint build Steve, we will have to pm about this, I'd love to do it .

Excellent gardening Dzohn. Looks like a blooming thesis on water making. I will take notes. PaulE

Thanks you kind Sir.

I love your experiments JR, I was really surprised that after the track fail the only recovered part would consist of a plastic puddle. Really looking the biz now with that great groundwork.

Glad you like them Mick, it's great fun trying things out, even better if they really work ! .

John .

[Si Benson]

chicken pie with flaky pastry :hungry:

[Jim R]

Hi John
You're a man of many talents. Every update reveals new skills - chicken pie maker and eater.
Jim

[JR]

chicken pie with flaky pastry :hungry:

Yes having it for lunch today :thumb2:

[JR]

Hi John
You're a man of many talents. Every update reveals new skills - chicken pie maker and eater.
Jim

Just for you Jim and Si.


2 FOR 1 ! Management not too impressed, I said it just fell in, followed by the LOOK .
Was primed yesterday, top coated this morning.

Rest of pie for tea.
John.

[Jim R]

Was primed yesterday, top coated this morning.

We don't usually use primer - prefer a simple egg wash. Gives a nice golden brown top!!
Jim

[Fernando N]

Great comeback for a binned kit John. :thumb2:
Love the groundwork and the water experiments.

Neat work at the pie too, was that a dunkelgelb und weiss mix you used for the coat?

[Guest]

John,
Just read through your build and your experiments, interesting.
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It was all going so well untill the pie......
Cheers, Mike.

[Steve Jones]

I hope you applied a Matt Varnish before putting it in that pie :smiling5::smiling3:

[JR]

We don't usually use primer - prefer a simple egg wash. Gives a nice golden brown top!!
Jim

No I don't either, :smiling2: yes it was weathered with the egg wash available from all happy free range hens ! Not yet in the Vallejo range .
Pie was very nice .

Great comeback for a binned kit John. :thumb2:
Love the groundwork and the water experiments.

Neat work at the pie too, was that a dunkelgelb und weiss mix you used for the coat?

Thanks Fernando, :smiling2: 4BO and egg, ! :flushed::hungry::upside::tongue-out3:

John,
Just read through your build and your experiments, interesting.
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It was all going so well untill the pie......
Cheers, Mike.

Oh God I'm never going to live this down ,:smiling2::smiling2::smiling2::nerd: That hair reminds me of mine first thing in the morning !

I hope you applied a Matt Varnish before putting it in that pie :smiling5::smiling3:

Of course I did, don't want gravey stuck to the hull.

Thanks guys what with Track gate and now Pie gate :tongue-out::tongue-out3::upside:
John.

[JR]

A calm has come over the bench, the BA20 being on hold re the wheels so I cracked on with the T38.

Devoid of remains of pie I decided to put on the decals, I can quite see why I don't attempt planes with those big decals , these were bad enough just going around the turret .

I use a tile for soaking the decals, just a couple of drops of water from a pipet rather than a saucer or cup where I find they curl up when coming off the backing.


Still found this length had a mind of its own, it fell apart in several places , but I managed to get it all on.
The white blocks were as the red on two decals, one for the turret front and the other for the wrap around.





A wee bit uneven on the left side, at least this is on the back side of the dio. .
Hopefully tomorrow I can varnish and then start some weathering using oils, looking fwd to that.

John.

[Steve Jones]

Comrade Smirnov was a wee bit inebriated when he painted the red line. Its great to see your research has picked up on this with your build. Well done sir

Looking forward to seeing your oil work