Si B’s- Academy Hetzer early....

[Si Benson]

A late night sneaky drop in, nothing exciting but progress...



Gave the whole model a base coat of dunkegelb from the Mig AMMO late war set, which I got from John recently...

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I used the same brand thinner and I have to say I’m please with the result.
The tracks got a base of Vallejo Track primer 70.304, thinned with Vallejo flow improver.


All ready for the camo once my paint is delivered.

My foray into acrylics through the airbrush has proved pleasing so far, more so as my first attempt yrs ago was a

night mare!

Cheers for looking

[Steve Jones]

Very nice Si! Glad the acrylics worked well for you this time. Getting the airflow/paintflow is half the battle. Should stand you in good stead for the camo. Great stuff :thumb2:

[Si Benson]

Very nice Si! Glad the acrylics worked well for you this time. Getting the airflow/paintflow is half the battle. Should stand you in good stead for the camo. Great stuff :thumb2:

Cheers comrade:thumb2:.

Incoming!!......
Well the base dunkelgelb went down nicely as mentioned.
Ive started the ambush scheme with the main colours of A.Mig-015 schokobraun (lightened with a drop or two of A.Mig-017 cremweiss)
The green is A.Mig-002 olivegrun opt2.

Happy with the result so far:smiling4:
The paint was a little troublesome this time and I had a lot more tip drying but I remembered Mikes tip and it wasn’t too bad. I found the paint came out in chunks sometimes...seems tip drying is still occurring, so I’ll play with my dilutions and air pressures etc till it behaves.
I can start to add the contrasting speckles tomorrow....hopefully.


The tracks got a mixture of pigments along the top run, fixed with white spirit. Once it dries I’ll turn them over and do the same.
Of course they are still wet in the picture so doesn’t look like much:tongue-out2:

And finally.....I’ve had a go at the commander (?) supplied with the kit.

Passes my two foot rule....:thinking:

Hope to have this finished by end of week!
We’ll see ehh:tongue-out:
Cheers for looking

[Strenko J]

GREAT painting scheme Si..looks like the acrylics are working out in your favor..

[Mini Me]

Nicely balanced Si, I really like the way you terminated your green and brown at the roof top leaving the base yellow to snake its way through them. Once you get the dapple on I'm sure it will really "pop"! Cheers Rick H.

[scottie3158]

Si,
The paint work is top draw, looking forward to watching this progress.

[Guest]

Si,
The paint looks to have gone down as it should, I am useless at all this pressure and paint flow and mix it like milk stuff these experts on here use. I mix so that it looks like a drop of water going down the window, then start at 20psi and work from there either up or down a pound or two then work up the mojo on an old 48 scale phantom fuselage as a tester part. Not so sure about the stance of the commander, I have been photo'ed at dances in that position - and the nightmares are still frequent....
Keep up the great work.
Cheers, Mike.

[papa 695]

Looking very good Si

[RM6239]

Nice paintwork Si,

cheers
Ross

[minitnkr]

The finish looks excellent. PaulE

[Si Benson]

GREAT painting scheme Si..looks like the acrylics are working out in your favor..

Cheers Joe,
I’m having some success. It’s all a learning curve as I’ve pretty much always used Tamiya paint.

Nicely balanced Si, I really like the way you terminated your green and brown at the roof top leaving the base yellow to snake its way through them. Once you get the dapple on I'm sure it will really "pop"! Cheers Rick H.

Glad you like it Rick. I tend to just go with the flow on my camo...works for me:smiling4:

Si,
The paint work is top draw, looking forward to watching this progress.

Cheer mate:thumb2:

Si,
The paint looks to have gone down as it should, I am useless at all this pressure and paint flow and mix it like milk stuff these experts on here use. I mix so that it looks like a drop of water going down the window, then start at 20psi and work from there either up or down a pound or two then work up the mojo on an old 48 scale phantom fuselage as a tester part. Not so sure about the stance of the commander, I have been photo'ed at dances in that position - and the nightmares are still frequent....
Keep up the great work.
Cheers, Mike.

Evening Mike,
I’m very much in the same boat on my airbrush. I think we develop a knack of knowing what won’t work after a while.
Commander is a groovy bugger ehh:smiling5:

Looking very good Si

Thanks very much mate:thumb2:

Nice paintwork Si,
cheers
Ross

Cheers Ross :thumb2:

The finish looks excellent. PaulE

Thanks Paul....you ever make these in your scale?


Well a ma-hoosive thanks you for all your feedback gent, always appreciated:thumb2:


Update inbound!!!


Tracks......pigment now dry and dry brushed with some shiny bits.





Then back to the camo. Well I’m happy to admit it went a bit pear shaped but I think I’ve sorted it.
I used a PE mask to do the dappled ambush pattern but it wasn’t the right one and I made a real bad job of it.

So after a bit of pondering, I sprayed over what i had done, then came up with a better plan:thinking:

I took a rubber band and chopped a few peices off, glued them to the end of a BBQ skewers and made a rubber stamp. I used some foam stuff I got from Hobbycraft as the blotter....and off I went!




I’m very pleased with the result. When viewed from a distance it’s actually quite an effective camo, I can see why it was used. Obviously It needs weathering so it doesn’t look so in yer’ face!

I’ve got the wheels painted too so nearly ready for it all to go back together.
I hope you like, thanks for looking
Si

[Mini Me]

Well Si, the proof is in the pudding. That came out just right in my book.
Cheers, Rick H.

[Steven000]

Nice camo Si
I like the original camo-rubber-band-pattern-stamp-thing ;D

Cheers Steven

[papa 695]

Ingeniously good woork Si

[Jim R]

Hi Si
Well that has worked out really well. Who needs Winsor & Newton no 7s when you have a rubber band.
Jim