T-60 1/72 ace

[papa 695]

Cracking work

[Si Benson]

Well done getting it together Dave, no easy task….but its looking good :thumb2:

[David Lovell]

Nice progress Dave. Good hints there about return rollers and rubber band tracks as well…..

Cracking work

Well done getting it together Dave, no easy task….but its looking good :thumb2:

Thanks for the continued encouragement chaps ACE their not great little kits anybody whos built or tried to will have their own story to tell but as I've argued here before no such thing as a bad kit just not as good as some of the others ,personally (me and me alone not asking anybody else to)I dont mind the tinkering needed to get them up and running your talking what 8-12 squids maybe if you shop around so I dont expect to find 60 squid contents in the box. I have learnt that like with this one short run moulds soon show if like this hull tub and running gear are used for several diffrent types you can end up with a box of two halfs. Biggest bug bear being the instructions a line and arrow pointing to somewhere there will do causes bald patches from head scratching sometimes referring to box art or painting guide for more of a idea. Also keep half a eye on the next stage will what your doing now make that part awkward once you get your head around them I find it much more satisfying than shake and bake(before some kick off ive no problem with s/b). Dave

[yak face]

Great work dave , despite being primarily an aircraft builder im partial to small scale armour

[David Lovell]

Great work dave , despite being primarily an aircraft builder im partial to small scale armour

Thanks Tony ,I build a lot of aircraft in my thoughts ,dreams ,must pull one from the stash and give it a go. Dave

[David Lovell]

Oh I can drag it out ,have fitted the add on etch armour ,promise next time it'll have primer on it





Sorry seem to have a fetish for taking pics on phone ,blue tooth to tablet then posting here must be a old person amazed by modern technology thing. Dave

[scottie3158]

Dave,
Sorry mate this one slipped past my radar, looking very nice mate.

[Tim Marlow]

That is really tiny…..amazed they got a crew in really.

[papa 695]

Amazing work.

[Guest]

That is really tiny…..amazed they got a crew in really.

That’s not a problem, the crew are 1:72 scale too

Anyway, cool model — nicely built, and putting it on your hand like that really drives home how small it is

[stillp]

Wow, that is small.
Pete

[JR]

Impressed with the turret PE Dave, nicely done .

[David Lovell]

Right then work mate feeling fully man flued up also way to cold to work so got out the AB and squirted some primer about ,first up the little chaps that started all this


Now on to the subject matter, ,have started to use mr hobby aqueous black surfacer 1000 to prime up with I've fond it faultless it lays down so smooth fool proof almost only trouble being its so good it shows every single mark no matter how small ,its shown just how rough the molds are on this little kit but not that worried get some green on it and I'm sure the overall picture will change



Not to sure about the t-bag but were go with it ,this one was a choice of two pulled from the stash ,enjoyed building this one so much I built the other choice as well

Same scale size difference is frightening ,more on the Bumerang elsewhere in a while ,but you can seehow good the primer goes down over some decent plastic?
Sprayed with a sparmax AB using a .3 needle (great little airbrushes) somewhere between 18-20 psi it was quite heavily thinned using mr hobby aqueous thinner won't go into raitios one man poison and all that. Could be a green day tomorrow were see what the day brings. Dave

[David Lovell]

Unfortunately no green day had to work and tomorrow so that put the kibosh on that. Mustn't moan I got to draw my pension in November but the extra income is always welcome , plus gets you out rather than stagnate at home ,bigger plus being plastic kits dont grow on tree's ya know. Dave

[David Lovell]

So missus taken dog out whole dining table to myself ,tablet primed with my YouTube play list all good to go ,fired up the compressor and dived in. Gave it a sort of pre shade with mig 4b0 highlight this was at least fifty fifty or even sixty thinner forty paint im never very strict about it to a certain extent it would have been four or five drops from the bottle to the same but drops of thinner from a pippet straight into the AB cup mixed with a brush tested on a bit of printer paper and adjusted from there keeping tabs on numbers used if I need to mix a bit more


Any tiny bit left is used for practice on the printer paper ,the model is only left for the length of time it takes to flush the AB through using a few drops of thinner followed by some clean water then straight on with the next colour




Colour used was a mr hobby aqueous paint im sure the jar said ww2 russian green (if anybody wants it say and I'll come back with the jar number). Jars of paint so much more convenient stick your badger mixer in whizz it up job done you KNOW its mixed all that plastic bottle shaking till the little ball starts rattling wrist repetitive strain injury i also stick it in a varnish shaker but are you really sure its mixed as well as the jar paint ,decanting from the jar is not a problem I use a little paint spoon/stirer straight into the AB cup. I'll return when I've blocked in the tracks wheel rubbers tools n bits. All good fun so far left it under the gentle little bit of warmth of the lamp so as it should be OK if I fancy a go a bit later. Dave