Looking good Ian. Yes the formidable 4" wooden pole is better known for its splinter shot ( coat time i think )
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Hehe sorry for almost hijacking your thread Ian!
This is coming along very well, the radio is very detailed & I love the exhaust. This one will reward careful painting & weathering, but I'm sure you'll do your usual highclass job.
How are you thinking of doing the camo? Perhaps a sandy basecoat & masks for green? Can't wait for the rest!
At least that's a high velocity wooden pole!
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Been having nightmares about that part Patrick.
The real thing was painted the base colour, then some poor bugger got given a tin of paint and a brush and told to get on with it. As to thia being the way to go??
I have considered freehanding the stripy pattern then laying white tac over that, then spray the sandy colour over that. Light over dark though so might not work to well....
Spray it sand colour then cut loads of masks out of tape and place them on and paint the stripes..... Aghhhh!+!?
As the original where painted with a brush and hard edged, I guess thats the way to go but I'm open to suggestions.
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I have enjoyed reading this and what a great kit, and spot on job your doing.Comment
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Ian, sorry from me too for the thread hi-jack.
Here's a way to do your 'squiggles'. I used this method for the awkward cammo. on my 1/72 Balkans Bf109......
It's reasonably easy and quick.
Get a 2H pencil (or harder) lightly mark where you want the lines.
You will need a flat / Chisel headed brush the same width as the cammo. lines.
You will only get one chance at it 'cos it's impossible to go over the lines exactly a second time. So in one go, paint your lines, keeping the brush as close to the centre of the pencil line as you can.
To achieve the different thicknesses of the lines as in the picture, twist the flat head brush as you go and use the edge, then twist back for a wider spread.....Rather like doing Italic lettering.
Because a pencil is used, the paint will easily obliterate the guide lines. Have a practice first!
Also, if you use white tac, you might end up with a soft edge, whereas, as you point out, it should be hard......Looks like the brush fella!
Best of luck whatever method you decide on.
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Looking good Ian matey, keeping an eye on this build.
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Great looking start Ian,looking forward to more pics!Comment
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Spent most of the evening treeing up the tools and other lose parts that need paint before being stuck to the main construction. Plus putting on all the external handles. I have actually painted a whole tank once, and only found I had not glued the handles on until I went to weather the darn thing. Trying not to make that mistake again!!!
Had a hunt around for an appropriate colour and settled on Vallejo dark sand #123 for the base and camo olive green #096 for the squiggly bits.
So the big bits are now painted with the base colour.
While that is setting hard, I will take a look at those tracks. Now the kit does come with individual link tracks but they need glueing together. I also have a set of Bronco models tracks which by the look of things do not need glue to hold them together. They look a tiny bit better as well. having said that the kits tracks also look very good.
I will do a lenght of each and then chose which ones to use.
In the meantime you can look at the painted bits.
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Lurking amongst the fiddly bits is the 'wooden' box that also got painted this afternoon after work. Oil pains over light tan Vallejo. Then as the thinly applied oils where almost dry (its been on top of the desk lamp, nice and warm but not hot....) It got a couple of passes with an old tooth brush.
Right thats it for today. Telly time!
Ian M
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Lovely work Ian. That wooden box looks just right & the tools with separate heads look very good.
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Looking good so far Ian, lovely work.
Have fun
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Looking very good at this stage Ian, great work on this mate.Looking forward to the finished Item.Comment
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Well been cutting tracks and seeing how they look and fix. The Bronco win hands down. They just click together. OK some of them are a bit lose due to the tiny tap that suffers as you press them together, but the stay together well enough to be able to pose them over the wheels, then glue them up with liquid poly I guess. Time will tell on that one but I know that they will not stay together without some glueing...
I did manage to drop on of the return wheels while preparing to paint the tyres. I heard it hit the floor then that fatal tic tic roll bounce.
I just spent the last ten minutes crawling around the floor with a flash light. Dude I have some serious dust bunnies under my desk!!!! Hovering is banned from this room!!!
The good news is I not only found the wheel (under my wifes desk) but I also found the tail fin from my Avro 504 that I lost like three months before Christmas hiding under the filing cabinet!!!
Right I got some tyres to paint.
Byeeeeee
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Track day
Well not that kind of track day, these ones.
I got the last few links sorted today and went direct to paint.
I will say that these went together real easy and are totally flexible- not one drop of glue! They just clip together, brilliant.
Enough waffle here are the pictures:
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I found that with a good side cutter I could cut the links off the trees with almost no need to sand the cut off.
As I said, these particular links just clip together so the assembly was quite quick and glue free. As you can see they are nice a bendy.
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A base coat of burned Iron Alclad II with a light dusting of Light burnt iron over the top. The inside centre contact area were the road wheels are in contact, got a dusting of steel.
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They where finished off with a dry brushed Humbrol metal coat allu on the rest of the contact surfaces.
I have also started on a base... I want to pose the suspension so you can see the way the boogies work to follow the ground. More about that later.
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