Hey guys and girls.
I wasn't going to bother with a build post but i managed to get my tablet to take pictures instead of shutting down so i thought i might as well.
Building FineMolds Type 5 Chi-Ri which came in at about £40 from amazon.
Its Been a troublesome build with regards to paint. First off those colors aren't the actual IJA colors what so ever, but its all i have. So sorry
Also the paints were so poor quality they needed two coats meaning the interior white is 6 coats thick, the base yellow is 2, green camo is another 2 coats and brown (which looks gray in the pics) is also 2 coats, so on the outside its 4 coats deep unless its yellow. I should have used the airbrush.
Tracks were time consuming with each link having a top and bottom and all being attached in two locations to 5 sprues, but omg magic tracks are lovely! However the instructions were wrong, the way they wanted me to do it was to link them all up and then glue the first and last together meaning two links would be static, i opted for each link to be its own part so when its time to fit the tracks ill just need to join the first and last with another link which will eliminate the static chunk.
As you can guess everything's brush painted (In a really hot room) and also this is my first ever camo attempt so its quite bad, made worse with the tablets useless camera. (I will use a better camera for the finished tank.
Um, Still got a fair amount of touching up to do. I didn't bother gluing the top and bottom hull parts together before doing the camo and thought doing it by eye on my first attempt with crap paints and an oven for a room was a good idea. Evidently not, but although its not perfect it does line up to the general area so its an easy job once glued.
Wheels are half way painted and the exhaust still needs done. I'm not 100% sure on how to do it. I want it looking rust but i don't want it to look out of place looking 500 years older than the tank.
Comes with some decals that ill apply after a matt varnish, then ill weather and finish it off in the usual hack and slash method im accustomed to xD Or i can just shout at it and call it loads of names until its fairly distressed and worn.
Comments welcome! but i do acknowledge that its quite crap so try not to point out the obvious LOL. Ill update it in the next few days once iv got more done.
Jason.
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I wasn't going to bother with a build post but i managed to get my tablet to take pictures instead of shutting down so i thought i might as well.
Building FineMolds Type 5 Chi-Ri which came in at about £40 from amazon.
Its Been a troublesome build with regards to paint. First off those colors aren't the actual IJA colors what so ever, but its all i have. So sorry
Also the paints were so poor quality they needed two coats meaning the interior white is 6 coats thick, the base yellow is 2, green camo is another 2 coats and brown (which looks gray in the pics) is also 2 coats, so on the outside its 4 coats deep unless its yellow. I should have used the airbrush.Tracks were time consuming with each link having a top and bottom and all being attached in two locations to 5 sprues, but omg magic tracks are lovely! However the instructions were wrong, the way they wanted me to do it was to link them all up and then glue the first and last together meaning two links would be static, i opted for each link to be its own part so when its time to fit the tracks ill just need to join the first and last with another link which will eliminate the static chunk.
As you can guess everything's brush painted (In a really hot room) and also this is my first ever camo attempt so its quite bad, made worse with the tablets useless camera. (I will use a better camera for the finished tank.
Um, Still got a fair amount of touching up to do. I didn't bother gluing the top and bottom hull parts together before doing the camo and thought doing it by eye on my first attempt with crap paints and an oven for a room was a good idea. Evidently not, but although its not perfect it does line up to the general area so its an easy job once glued.
Wheels are half way painted and the exhaust still needs done. I'm not 100% sure on how to do it. I want it looking rust but i don't want it to look out of place looking 500 years older than the tank.
Comes with some decals that ill apply after a matt varnish, then ill weather and finish it off in the usual hack and slash method im accustomed to xD Or i can just shout at it and call it loads of names until its fairly distressed and worn.
Comments welcome! but i do acknowledge that its quite crap so try not to point out the obvious LOL. Ill update it in the next few days once iv got more done.
Jason.
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