Just caught up on this one Jakko, some nice work for a throw together kit you thought it was going to be.
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Which kit is?
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Jakko .
Just read, Try using Vallejo model air olive drab 043,interior green 010 in a 50/50 mix, from a posting on Britmodeller. Does that make any sense.
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*sigh* I wanted to spray this model green tonight, but when I was taping off the bits that need to remain red I noticed I had missed one of those areas. So I had to do that first and wait for it to dry before I can actually give it its green coat, probably tomorrow.
As for the colour of that: I think I came across the Britmodeller thread you found too, John. It has all sorts of recommendations, but the basic advice seems to be: most shades of medium military green are probably okay I’ve decided to go with Tamiya Field Grey with a bit of green mixed in, since apparently British Army green of the 1970s and 80s faded to something very close to that Tamiya colour — and I have it handy already, unlike most other paints that are recommended there.
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Jakko
That will be interesting, I will check back tomorrow. I'll try to find a photo of my Scammell, it was around that time.
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I had primed the model a few weeks ago and sprayed the colours for a BATUS range safety vehicle on, but as mentioned above, I only noticed yesterday that I’d forgotten a bit. So here is the model after correcting that mistake:
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Red on the sides of the hull and the ammo box on the engine deck, yellow on the turret. This signifies a recce or guided weapon troop safety vehicle, according to the article Ferret Fever by Tim Neate in Military Modelling of May 1989. I picked it mostly because I thought the yellow and red would be more interesting that red hull and turret (tank troop safety vehicle) or red hull and white turret (squadron safety vehicle).
(For the record, I had forgotten the plate at the back of the hull. It did have some red paint on it, but the bottom half didn’t.)
And after masking the right hull side, the bits forward and aft of the spare wheel on the left, and the ammo box, and then spraying green:
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I used a mixture of Tamiya XF-65 Field Grey and XF-56 Olive Green, but have no real idea of the proportions because I just put some paint into my airbrush cup — most of it was XF-65, though.
I didn’t spray the turret because only the underside and interior of that needs to be the outside colour, and most of the interior would be very hard to reach with an airbrush, so I’ll brush paint that instead.Comment
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Now with more paint on!
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I followed up the base coat with an overall wash of Humbrol HU-1 Medium Green 42 (yes, HU-1) and once that was dry, drybrushed with Humbrol 86 Olive Green. After removing the masking tape I also put washes over the red and green bits, of Citadel (Games Workshop) Mechrite Red and Tamiya XF-60 Dark Yellow respectively. The tyres are Tamiya XF-69 NATO Black at the moment. Oh, and I painted the lights and mirrors, and a flat black bit above the driver’s hatch for the registration number.
My main problem now is marking. I’ve got dry transfers that will probably just fit for the registration number, but the vehicle needs the number 27, 27A, 28 or 28A in black on the red bits on the left, right and rear, but so far I’ve not been able to find suitable ones in my fairly extensive stash of left-over kit decals and purpose-bought ones. I might have to resort to making a stencil and spraying.Comment
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Looking very good JakkoComment
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Very nice, Jakko. The red and yellow are real standouts.
Cheers,
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Hi Jakko
Looking rather colourful. Military green is a real can of worms. Your paint job however looks really nice. Looks very different from the multi medium model before painting.
Mask making for the numbers will need a lot of work but the end result could actually look better than decals. Being black on red should spray nicely.
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It looks better than I had expected. Before putting on the green, I thought the yellow turret may end up making the whole model look a bit garish, but I must say I think it looks better than the red- and white-turretted Ferrets I’ve seen photos of.
That was my sole reason for picking a BATUS Ferret
On the positive side, there’s so much variation in the real thing that it’s hard to go wrong as long as you put on a medium, grey(ish) green, I think.
It shouldn’t be too much effort, making the stencil itself is just a matter of printing one out using a suitable font and cutting out the numbers with a sharp knife.
The spraying bit is the thing I’m not too keen on, really I certainly don’t feel like putting paint into an airbrush for just this, so if I do end up spraying the numbers, it’ll only be when I also have something else to spray. OTOH, my LVTP-5 still needs its suspension and underside painted green, so if I can find a good way to mask the rest of the model I’ll probably do that sometime soon and can tackle the Ferret right along with it.
A further setback on the markings front is that the dry transfer letters I thought I’d use for the registration number are just a bit too big for the space above the driver’s hatch. So now I’m thinking I may have to resort to hand-painting that number, or to stick on a completely spurious registration number from something like a Chieftain, Warrior, or CVR(T) that I do have decals for. I’d rather have one at least in the Ferret range, though, so hand-painting is likely my only choice.Comment
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If you can make a stencil, why don't you brush-paint the numbers through the stencil?
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Jakko, this is a great build as soon as I saw it, I was transported back to the prarie on a couple of Med MansComment
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