AFV 1/35 SCALE STURMTIGER.

[Lee Drennen]

You’re welcome John.

[Steve Jones]

Personally I dont varnish the small stuff as in the main its all acrylic work. When I use oils on the handles I have never had a reaction issue. I will dry brush or graphite anything made of steel which I think you do anyhow. If you leave the dark wash on the handles to dry for about 20mins. Then gently drag a hard dry brush down the handle to get the woodgrain effect

[Guest]

Personally I dont varnish the small stuff as in the main its all acrylic work. When I use oils on the handles I have never had a reaction issue. I will dry brush or graphite anything made of steel which I think you do anyhow. If you leave the dark wash on the handles to dry for about 20mins. Then gently drag a hard dry brush down the handle to get the woodgrain effect

Thanks Steve..... Yes I do dry brush the handles as you said. Think I will just apply a pinwash to the compressor, the fins were done a little to quickly and should have been a thinner wash .
JR

[Guest]

Greetings all.
Bit of an odd day, hung up some sea grass prior to the embalming.Did some posts on here. Sat about, fell asleep ! Woke up and decided to do some painting.

Below is a selection of the figures. Taking note of Peter and Tim and highlighting tips I attempted to do the black uniforms. In fact they look far better in real life than the photos. The faces have had several coats of basic skin tone, and are coming along.I don't know about anyone else but I seem to take one step forward when painting the skin , then several back as I get spots and brush strokes of skin co;our on collars, cuffs etc.

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Any comments re the painting please.
John .

[Fernando N]

Hi John, just had a good read trough after my absence...
Love the camo on the Sturm:tongue-out:, think you nailed it with the colours and the pattern.:thumb2:
Same goes for all the figs and workshop stuff you've been building, will turn this dio into a most interesting one.:smiling:

Can't really help you with the figures, as I'm a fig novice too.
One tip though, I paint the skin tones first just have to be really careful when painting the uniforms.:smiling4:
Keep up great work sir!

[Guest]

Hi John, just had a good read trough after my absence...
Love the camo on the Sturm:tongue-out:, think you nailed it with the colours and the pattern.:thumb2:
Same goes for all the figs and workshop stuff you've been building, will turn this dio into a most interesting one.:smiling:

Can't really help you with the figures, as I'm a fig novice too.
One tip though, I paint the skin tones first just have to be really careful when painting the uniforms.:smiling4:
Keep up great work sir!

Hi Fernando....... Thank you for the kind comment.
John.

[Allen Dewire]

Dude 2,

You're just going crazy here John!!! The work bench is fantastic and the gen too. In fact, the whole 9 yards is A-one Sir!!! As a non figure painting person, I will have to agree to what Fernando said about doing the flesh first. The figs still look good to me though and I like how the uniform colors came out...Napping are we???

Prost
Allen

[Si Benson]

Hi John,

It must be one of them days, apart from grass cutting I’ve not done much and took a lovely nap...also hung out my seagrass:thumb2:
Good start getting some paint on the figures...I always get paint where it’s not meant to be:smiling5:

I found since using a wet pallet, touching up the mistakes is quicker and easier.
Si

[Tim Marlow]

Hi John
Figures are coming on well. I always paint ‘inside to out” as well, usually flesh, then shirts, then jackets, it’s easier to control overpainting that way....
Only minor touching in required though, so that’s a pretty good effort to me.
Did you ever try Vallejo flesh wash over the basic flesh colour? If you haven’t I would say these are ripe for it. They will come to life before your eyes....
Cheers
Tim

[Guest]

Evening all .
Today after tiling a small section of floor for my mate I felt full of the joys of spring. Back to the bench and did some more on the faces.
Now I have come to the end of the fine detail attempts, as many of you know me having one eye good the perceived depth is some what problematic.
This afternoon having painted several of the faces with the biggest eye brows you could imagine, i've had to call the eyebrows off and anymore face detail. although some do have some lips :flushed:, some have ended up with what might pass as something like eyebrows. :smiling2:
Not to out whitted by an annoying problem I would like to try to add a wash that will give some detail. Now the question is with what , don't say oil please, as It always seems to have bits left on the surface. Can I make up a wash with acrylic, how much water , or even indian ink !
With out anymore ado ..............
Again those of a nervous nature move along .

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Sorry about being blurry.
Any ideas on the washes would be gratefully received, no doubt I have asked this before . !
Tim ... you mentioned a Vallejo flesh wash, is that made up or one you buy ?

Thanks for looking in .
John.

[Tim Marlow]

Hi John
VJ flesh wash is proprietary and comes ready to use.....I’ll look up the number later and let you know....not in the cave st the moment....the others in the range come in handy as well, especially the black and burnt umber...
If it’s any comfort, most of the time eyebrows come out like Grocho Marx when I do them as well...,
Cheers
Tim

[Guest]

Hi John
VJ flesh wash is proprietary and comes ready to use.....I’ll look up the number later and let you know....not in the cave st the moment....the others in the range come in handy as well, especially the black and burnt umber...
If it’s any comfort, most of the time eyebrows come out like Grocho Marx when I do them as well...,
Cheers
Tim

Tim .
That's kind of you , I shall log in later to catch up
Thanks John .

[Tim Marlow]

Hi John, forgot the net for a minute there..,,,
You need Vallejo Game Colour wash, llavado carne, or flesh wash, number 73204.
Cheers
Tim

[Tim Marlow]

Scale model shop (wot runs the site) stocks it.....

[Allen Dewire]

Dude 2,

I don't know what you're going on about Buddy. The figures are looking super to me. Well, maybe the one in the third picture from the bottom could be a star in "The Walking Dead" series!!! Seriously, slap a dark wash on them, a couple of tiny touch-ups and call it a day. They are working in a repair shop and are grubby anyway. They're not marching in a parade…..Keep it coming!!!

Prost
Dude 1