Resicast 1:35 armoured bulldozer

[Guest]

I’ve never used a flow aid for any wash IMHO the trick with acrylic washes made with water is to not try and do the whole model at once, but tilt it so the surfaces you’re doing are more or less horizontal, and to wipe away wash that pools at the lower ends of panels

[Tim Marlow]

Seems like a long winded way of doing it to me Jakko, but horses for courses and all that so more power to your elbow….

[JR]

Nice. I like the lower suspension guards, much easier when all the adjusters are hidden :smiling3:

[Guest]

Seems like a long winded way of doing it to me

I did take your advice, but not to make a wash. I remembered I have a bottle of Vallejo Thinner Medium, which says it’s to improve flow, so I decided to mix some of that with Mr. Hobby RLM 70 dark green, which (somewhat unexpectedly) worked very nicely to produce a thin paint that I could use to line in all the little details and things. I normally don’t do this because I don’t like the laboriousness of this technique, but I decided to go for it anyway. The model is about two-thirds done, here’s its good side as it looks now:

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Once I’m done, it’ll be an all-over drybrush with a few shades of OD, which should both highlight the model and help the shadows blend in better.

Nice. I like the lower suspension guards, much easier when all the adjusters are hidden :smiling3:

The axles stick through it, though, so it’s still somewhat involved to paint all of that

[Guest]

The lining-in done, I let it dry and then drybrushed the whole model with Revell Light Olive:

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I guess the next step is detail painting, followed by markings …

[Jim R]

Hi Jakko
That is looking very good. Seems that all the different paints and washes have worked well together.
Jim

[Graeme C.]

The paint does look good Jakko, worth all the effort. :thumb2:

[GerryW]

Lovely work

[Guest]

Thanks, all The wash that went wrong did end up giving a very nice weathered paint look, yes. Though I’m not happy with the surrogate white spirit-like stuff I made it with, the outcome does make me think it’s worth a try on another model but with a different thinner.

[Guest]

After painting the few details that needed it, I started searching through my big box of leftover decals for suitable ones for the star on the engine cover, the chassis number on the nose and the arm of service marking.

I found a star of the right size on an old sheet from the Academy M10 tank destroyer — the ancient kit that was a Tamiya copy, not their more recent effort. I made a believable chassis number from a WD census number on the decal sheet of the Revell 1:72 Cromwell, of which I cut off the last two digits and the lut the 1 that was in that part, in front of the T to make 1T1878:

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I don’t know if this was the chassis number of the real bulldozer, because it can’t be read in the film, but D7A chassis numbers all began with 1T and another dozer at Westkapelle was 1T1128, so I think this is at least plausible — if completely pulled out of thin air.

As you can see, though, the star silvered really badly. I ended up scraping it off with a blunt sculpting tool and scrubbing the remains off with a brush:

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This went fairly well because the decal was very thin and fragile, but not a great job to be doing. That done, though, I applied my second (and only remaining) choice:

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This one is from the Italeri Dodge WC-62 1.5-ton truck, which I hadn’t used first time round because I feel the ring is a little thin.

For the arm of service marking, which will be 344 with a diagonal white line, I’ve found some numbers I can use in WD numbers on the Tamiya 1:35 Cromwell’s decal sheet, but I’ll need to paint the blue background and the line myself. I began by masking the area and painting it white, to make it easier for the blue to cover well later:

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[outrunner]

Looking very good.

Andy.

[Guest]

Thanks, hopefully you’ll think it will get better with the following

For the star on the nose, I made a template rather than trying to paint it freehand. I first cropped the picture of the real bulldozer to get just the nose, then tinkered with it to remove the perspective and size it to the correct with and (estimated) height. Next, I drew the star over the photo, aiming for a close fit, and printed that out. Then it was a matter of cutting it from the paper to make a template and tape that to the model:

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Rather than spray the star, I hand-painted its outline by using the template as a guide for my brush:

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All that remained was to fill in the outline and paint the markings above it freehand:

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The star looks like it doesn’t cover very well here, but it looks better in the flesh, because I had to take this picture as an HDR photo — with a non-HDR photo, the whole star was white as snow, which is just as misleading. It still needs some work to get rid of the brush strokes a bit better, though.

(As an aside: the “8LCT” refers to the landing craft that this bulldozer was carried in. The 8 is the Loading Table Index Number, or LTIN, which was a number used for Operation Infatuate II for purposes of loading the landing craft. LTIN 8 was LCT 980, a craft commanded by Sub-lieutenant A.P. Gurnsey from New Zealand. I don’t know what the “E1” refers to.)

On the left side, I added two small strips of tape to make the white line above and below the AoS number, then painted the whole field blue:

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[Guest]

I finished the Arm of Service marking with decals from the Bronco Comet sheet (not the Tamiya Cromwell as I thought earlier), and also installed the tracks:

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The one on the left side, that I put on first, went better than the one on the right. I’ll need to hide the worst gaps with clumps of sand or something. The links don’t fit all that well together, and the ribs on them are very fragile. I half-broke several and had to glue them back on.

[Mark1]

I finished the Arm of Service marking with decals from the Bronco Comet sheet (not the Tamiya Cromwell as I thought earlier), and also installed the tracks:

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The one on the left side, that I put on first, went better than the one on the right. I’ll need to hide the worst gaps with clumps of sand or something. The links don’t fit all that well together, and the ribs on them are very fragile. I half-broke several and had to glue them back on.

Coming along nicely.Looking at how rocky that beach is they would probably be a bit bashed up anyway.

[Guest]

I think you’re mistaking our lovely beaches for those of southern England

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This is the modern beach in the area where the photo was taken, after Ciara paid a visit last year. All beaches around here are fine sand, so I think I’ll add some sand-coloured washes over the tracks and lower parts of the bulldozer, with probably a few larger bits with tall grass sticking out to camouflage the gaps in the tracks.