1/72 Trumpeter T62 {ST}

[Steve Jones]

Ah! The paint has arrived. Looking forward to seeing how you paint tracks on wheels. Far to complicated for me
Steve

[SimonT]

As Si alluded to me getting paint onto anything tends to be a bit of a miracle as I generally prefer the building phase, but not today.....

Ta da - we have paint

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Tamiya IJN Green which is almost black, followed by NATO green and then two coats lightened with white for a bit of tonal variation

The whole thing then got a coat of AK ultra Matt, the mattest matt I have ever used

Next stage is AK worn effects and a sand top coat......

[SimonT]

Next stage completed

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It got a good coat of AK Worn Effects followed by Tamiya Buff and a couple of coats of buff lightened with white

I was going to come back to it and start wearing away at the finish but I fell asleep again (which is why I am posting this at silly o'clock in the morning)

Hopefully I will get a chance to attack it after work

[papa 695]

Nice work with the painting Simon, being new to your way of building, I don't know what it is but I'm getting a small hint that you don't normally get to paint kits that often. :smiling:

[Guest]

Excitement ! The flags were raised here at Race Towers upon this momentous occasion.
Looking fine Simon, I like the use of a white coat certainly works.
How do you function on such a broken sleep pattern ?
John.

[Jim R]

Hi Simon
Paintwork looks good. Not come across AK Ultra Matt. Is it more matt than Testors Dull Cote? Hope the worn effects works.
Jim

[Guest]

Hi Simon
Paintwork looks good. Not come across AK Ultra Matt. Is it more matt than Testors Dull Cote? Hope the worn effects works.
Jim

Excuse me Simon ,
Morning Jim .
Tis a great varnish, and flat. I've never used a Testors but when I came across this I was impressed ,as flat a finish as you would want .
John

[SimonT]

Ian - :smiling5:

John - the primer colour doesn't really matter as I always use a dark colour over the top as a base coat. It could equally have been grey but I only have white at the moment. The broken sleep is getting rather annoying - I get to bed anywhere from about 00:30 to 05:00. As a result I have trouble getting up and I am late for work nearly every day and have to work lunch time to make up :sleeping:

Jim - Dull Cote is one I haven't tried but the AK is acrylic and matter than a matt thing. Sprays nicely from the bottle without thinning

Well, before I fell asleep again I managed to attack it with water, brush and cocktail sticks to give this.......

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the effect I was looking for was the kind of typical worn finish that results from a badly prepared quick overspray of the factory green - I think it worked reasonably well, what does anyone else think? Too much, not enough, just right??

I think I prefer AK worn effects as it gives more predictable results compared to hairspray, in my hands anyway

[papa 695]

Well Simon I think you've achieved the effect very well.

[Wouter]

Good Morning Simon,

This is a nice build coming together. The chipped paint looks good. I heard several times that people preferred AK worn effects in stead of regular hairspray so might try that out. Looking forward to see the weathering.

Cheers

[Guest]

Simon.
Looks about right for a rushed re spray. Think you captured the wear on the edges well.
John.
Thought of you the other day when I read a report of the Japanese Modelling Show, some one has released a large armoured railway gun , that brought back some memories !

[RM6239]

Simon
Result looks about right to me.
cheers
Ross

[Jim R]

Hi Simon
Yes I agree with the others. The effect looks pretty convincing to me.
Jim

[scottie3158]

Simon,
Great work as always.
Scottie

[SimonT]

Thanks one and all - unfortunately I think I may have ruined it

I did a dark brown wash with water based WN oils, decided it wasn't dark enough around the details so did another layer with a very dark wash and I seem to have been a bit heavy handed and obliterated the actual paint finish - DOH! :disappointed2:

Will have to leave it for a few days anyway to dry out fully so will see if I can resurrect it later