Valentine Mk 1 1/35 scale AFV CLUB AF 35178.

[Neil Merryweather]

You don't disappoint, John!

[Jim R]

That is looking spot on John. Very well done :thumb2:

[JR]

:thumb2: nuff said. Dave

Thanks mate.

That looks great John.
I didn't know that the British also had river submarines! :tongue-out3: :tears-of-joy:

:smiling: Andreas, thanks.

John this is an incredible piece of modeling. Brilliant.

Many thanks Steve.

You don't disappoint, John!

thanks Neil.

That is looking spot on John. Very well done :thumb2:

Cheers Jim.

[JR]

Have just ordered some bull rushes and water lilies, , now going to do some more weathering on the tank.:smiling3::nerd:

[JayCee]

The tank is looking fantastic, John. It has been there for months. Bring on the water.
John.

[Graeme C.]

The Valentine is looking good John, suitably abandoned looking.

[adt70hk]

Just had a good catch-up John.

That's coming on beautifully. Really loving the paint finish.

ATB.

Andrew

[BattleshipBob]

Lovely work yet again John, so realistic.

[JR]

The tank is looking fantastic, John. It has been there for months. Bring on the water.
John.

Thanks .

The Valentine is looking good John, suitably abandoned looking.

Cheers G

Just had a good catch-up John.

That's coming on beautifully. Really loving the paint finish.

ATB.

Andrew

Thanks .

Lovely work yet again John, so realistic.

Thanks Bob, this modelling lark takes your mind off things.

[Scratchbuilder]

Wobble,
This is getting better than your last effort and that was excellent so this one has already beaten it by far.
Wibble

[JR]

Wobble,
This is getting better than your last effort and that was excellent so this one has already beaten it by far.
Wibble

Thanks Wibble, still playing with the base, think I've done enough to the Valentine for now with the exception of the track, applied some rust and for some unknown reason stopped. Left a section completely untreated !

[JR]

Been playing with water lilies and bulrushes. The later were in a pkt from AMIG ammo , but both made by Model Scene. Instructions nil, just a slim packet of wires , some paper laser cut leaves, and a rather strange looking section of cardboard that had cut outs in it. Turns out these were to make the bulrush head. There was no way the wire would go through the cardboard, even tried to drill it, push a pin through, nothing worked. You were then supposed to ca a flat wisp that you seen on top of a bulrush. I used a thin very stringy ca to produce a head.



Not impressed by the wisp on bit, being flat its really useless. So went with the ca.


You can see the difference in this photo, that wisp should have been round. Any way a touch of light brown to the head will give a better impression.

Now the lilies, another product from Model Scene , consists of a similar pkt to the bulrush. Contents were two sheets of laser cut leaves , a small sheet of stamped out flower petals in 4 sizes. So you glued the 2nd largest to the first and then added the 3 and 4 size.



The actual leafs were good, and in differing sizes, these have had a thin coat of green, followed buy a small amount of yellow to the outer edge of the leafe and some brown for rot. Once dried these were given a coat of gloss varnish on both sides. Surprisingly the manufactures didn't mention gloss varnish, as all lilies have a gloss surface.



That's it for now, the base has had yet another sealing coat of pva and drying quite happily .

John.

[Scratchbuilder]

I have some of those bullrushes as well, spent about two days trying to work out the building of them :sad:. Had decided that if they were going to get built I would dip the end in some pva and then roll that in some fine sand to get the 'head' of the plant.

[Si Benson]

Those lilies look pretty realistic Mr Race :thumb2:

[JR]

I have some of those bullrushes as well, spent about two days trying to work out the building of them :sad:. Had decided that if they were going to get built I would dip the end in some pva and then roll that in some fine sand to get the 'head' of the plant.

That's another idea, worth remembering Wibble. .Thanks .

Those lilies look pretty realistic Mr Race :thumb2:

Hi Si , thank you, hope your all well.