Late 1940's French Street Scene 1/35. Scratch built buildings, MB figures and Tamiya car .

[JayCee]

Amazing work John. Will look superb.
John.

[boatman]

JOHN this is fantastic work love that bike was it a kit or did you scratch build it
wow what a dio :thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:
chrisbmtb

[JR]

Amazing work John. Will look superb.
John.

Thanks John .kind of you to say .

JOHN this is fantastic work love that bike was it a kit or did you scratch build it
wow what a dio :thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:
chrisbmtb

Hi Chris , thank you, the bike was a kit.

[JR]

Morning all, and afternoon or good evening to some.

Although very warm yesterday I decided to take a risk and spray the Citroen, quite impressed myself. Used the neo with the paint every thing in sight needle a .5 .


Didn't like the idea of masking both sides of the widows as the instructions said, so did the base and doors like this. After the gloss varnish I 'll attempt the fit them having cleaned out the groves.

Thanks for looking in .

[JR]

After another hot day having watched too much tv, I ventured into the cave. Not bad with a slight breeze and now in the shade window wise.

Excuse the slight blur in the photos i thought they were better than they are.

Car now glossed in ak 3rd Gen , will it need another coat or what ? Don't want to spend hrs cutting it back , although the doors will need to be stripped as they are rubbish.





Now some of the figures, as I said not the sharpest photos sorry.



Bit of a clean up under the right eye and more paint to do on suit.



this one has just had a basic coat of paints.




Waist coat had been painted in light grey, but looks to much like a primmer so will find a darker grey.
The basket has has old wood as an undercoat, need to find nice basket colour.

Bit by bit, but with the variations in the clothes colours it takes time. More like 50 shades of brown !



Thanks for looking in, any hints on the gloss will be welcome.

[Mini Me]

Car looks good JR......too bad about the doors. The "folks" are coming along nicely and it should be a very interesting scene once it is completed. :thumb2:

[JR]

Car looks good JR......too bad about the doors. The "folks" are coming along nicely and it should be a very interesting scene once it is completed. :thumb2:

Thanks buddy.

[scottie3158]

John, All the elements are coming together.

[JR]

John, All the elements are coming together.

Cheers Paul, certainly taking time.

[Jim R]

Car looking good. Figures are really coming on well.

[stillp]

Car looks fine John, 30s/40s cellulose wasn't usually as shiny as a modern car.
Pete

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good John. If you want to get that lovely cellulose “glow” give the car about a week for the paint to truly degas and harden off, then give it a light polish with Tamiya fine finishing compound and a soft cloth. On the other hand, you can leave it as it is because it looks fine anyway.

[Graeme C.]

Coming along nicely John, figures are looking good, I haven't sprayed gloss paint before, some ideas would be useful.

[JR]

Car looking good. Figures are really coming on well.

Thanks Jim.

Car looks fine John, 30s/40s cellulose wasn't usually as shiny as a modern car.
Pete

That's good to know Pete, oh and Happy Birthday !

Looking good John. If you want to get that lovely cellulose “glow” give the car about a week for the paint to truly degas and harden off, then give it a light polish with Tamiya fine finishing compound and a soft cloth. On the other hand, you can leave it as it is because it looks fine anyway.

Ah right , didn't want to spend that amount of time, esp as now I know the finish is ok for the time. Thanks Tim.

Coming along nicely John, figures are looking good, I haven't sprayed gloss paint before, some ideas would be useful.

Graeme all I did was to use AK 3RD GEN Black followed by a couple of days rest and then some AK 3RD GEN GLOSS Varnish , mixed with their thinners (about 10 % and some drying extender ) Never sprayed a gloss coat like this, did it in full coats. Think dust is the biggest problem so covered it up for a couple of days. HTH.

[JR]

Evening all , thought I would up date the figures photos, coming on but slowly due to so many colours involved.

Sorry about the blurring in some of the photos, the right eye is playing up a bit , think a trip to Vision Express is needed. They looked sharp when I took them.:disappointed:









Doors are drying , think there are just the hub caps to paint

Madam Fifi . Rick wake up she's here.


The advertising column kindly sent and made by Neil .


I've mix black and a green , think it has come out well.Today applied some more colours on the decoration




Pleased so far, but so much still to do.

Comments and tips would be welcome.

Thanks for looking in.

John.