Dragon 1/35 25 Pounder

[Si Benson]

Coming together nicely Andy :thumb2:

[Guest]

Thanks all. Surprising what you can cover up with a lick of paint and a few blobs from the oilbrushers :smiling5:

[Si Benson]

Your spot on Andy :smiling5: In all seriousness, learning to correct boo boo’s is part of the fun.....and a necessity in my case:tongue-out3:

[JR]

Sorry John, took me a while to figure out what you were saying. I didn't use the airbrush to blow paint off a brush if that's what you meant, haven't tried that one yet, only flicking various hard/soft/long/short brushes with a toothpick or coffee stirrer.

I was referring to blowing the paint on directly from the AB, but having the pressure so low that it came out in un-atomised blobs. Had to go really low to get the Infinity to do that! I couldn't even hear the air coming out, it just shot out a few blobs of paint when I pumped the trigger back and forth. Tricky with something as small as this as it was hard to control where the paint was going, but I could see it being useful on the bodywork of a tank for example, with highly diluted paint just a shade or two away from the base colour, to give a patchy faded effect.

Back to the lab shed for more experimenting methinks. :nerd:

With you now, Andy, thanks. Those blobs of paint do give the impression of age with the paint work. Agree with Paul if you hadn't mention it I wouldn't have seen any thing amiss.

[Guest]

the "turntable” thingumybob

That’s exactly what it is The stick at the end of the trails is for the gun crew to lift up the trail so the whole gun can be pivoted around on the big disc — the 25-pounder had very limited traverse in its mounting (something like 4° to both sides, off the top of my head).

Not sure what colour the spike things along the bottom should be (or even what they are) as I haven't found any pictures with them in place. Any help there would be appreciated.

I don’t know either, but given that the plate is meant to dig into the ground, I wouldn’t be surprised if the paint wore off the bottom edge, and especially the points.

The model is looking very good. I wouldn’t weather the gun itself overly heavily, as artillery is usually protected by canvas covers when not in use, but you can go to town on the ammo limber and the wheels and gun carriage I suppose

[Guest]

With you now, Andy, thanks. Those blobs of paint do give the impression of age with the paint work. Agree with Paul if you hadn't mention it I wouldn't have seen any thing amiss.

Thanks John. I was hoping they'd be a bit more subtle but the Vallejo blobs dried much more differently to the Mr Color base than I'd accounted for. Happy with how it worked though.

That’s exactly what it is :smiling3: The stick at the end of the trails is for the gun crew to lift up the trail so the whole gun can be pivoted around on the big disc — the 25-pounder had very limited traverse in its mounting (something like 4° to both sides, off the top of my head).

Cheers Jakko. I understand how it works, I just wasn't sure if it had a particular name. You know what the military is like, "Angular Articulation Device" wouldn't have surprised me so they could shorten it to AAD :smiling5:

These are the spike things I meant, I should have been more clear. All the pictures I've found so far just show the mounting brackets and not the items themselves. Any idea what they are and how they should look?

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[Graeme C.]

Looks like you've managed to rescue this one Andy, looks good to me.:thumb2:

[Guest]

I understand how it works, I just wasn't sure if it had a particular name. You know what the military is like, "Angular Articulation Device" wouldn't have surprised me so they could shorten it to AAD :smiling5:

Sorry, I misunderstood your question Those kinds of abbreviations are more a modern American thing, by the way. In the Second World War the British tended to call things by designations, reasonable, reverse order instead. (In case that little joke wasn’t clear, they’d use names like “Rod, Cleaning, Gun” or “Rod, Gun Cleaning” depending probably on the mood that struck the person in charge of thinking up the official name.)

These are the spike things I meant, I should have been more clear. All the pictures I've found so far just show the mounting brackets and not the items themselves. Any idea what they are and how they should look?

I’m not sure, but if I had to guess, I’d say they might be camouflage net spreaders — basically, tent poles to put underneath the camouflage net when that’s set up over the gun, to help conceal its shape and give the crew room to work.

[Guest]

That sounds feasible, cheers. Quite a few of the pictures I've found have camo nets strapped to the limber so I guess they had to support them somehow.

[stillp]

I'd forgotten about these, so too late now but here they are anyway.
No camo nets though, or those fittings you're wondering about. :sad-face:
Pete

[Guest]

Thanks for the pictures Pete. I've noticed a couple of things I hadn't seen in the ones I have.

[stillp]

Those are recent photos Andy, taken at the reenactors area Tanks, Trucks and Firepower 2019, so they might not be completely original.
Pete

[Guest]

No problem Pete. Just about all the pictures I have are museum or pristine restored examples so I'm taking every picture with a pinch of salt. As long as it looks believable. I'm not one for total accuracy :smiling3: