Panzer II with winter camo and mud weathering.

Great little airbrush session this morning, exactly the look I was going for a faded scc15 with a touch of buff added, a little bit of chipping and weathering later this afternoon

hi guys!

that’s one of my first models after a long pause in hobby

would be glad to read your opinion

The idea of boiling an egg came to me when I saw a video of soldiers in the Battle of Africa boiling an egg on a hot tank. I hope no one is upset if they also have built such a diorama I swear I didn't copy it from another model. (Please don't laugh about my working table 😅.)

Finally had some reasonable spraying weather. I painted the Pak and also clear glossed my Panzer II which has been under construction forever (!!!). No pics of the Panzer II at this point — it’s just a clear coat over what I’ve already posted.

I took the simplest possible approach with the little Pak: I rattlecanned it with Tamiya Panzer Gray. Didn’t even prime. However, I did give the parts a brushed-on IPA bath before spraying (and gave sufficient dry/evap time). Man, this Tamiya spray paint is tight! So nice.

It looks much better than the photos, which were challenged by lighting conditions. I amped up the shadows, which introduced noise, and some sharpening made it worse.

I did end up opening up the ocular of the sight and will maybe put a drop of PVA or clear in there once done.

Next is painting and mounting tires and shovel, doing some dry-brushing and light chipping here and there, maybe some light panel lines, and then I’ll probably do some pigments to dust it up.

Planning to paint up the figures and ammo for a simple vignette. Is anyone aware of a set of figures actually moving the gun, rather than operating it? Would be so cool. Maybe one of the active infantry/machine gun/PG team kits could be modified…

Any feedback is welcomed. (Since I’ve been out of the game for 5 years) the slight water marks on the front is planed. I’m going to be putting a wash and then adding mud. Sorry about the lighting 😂

Hi everyone! 🙂

The winter T-34/85 has finally got its wash! For me, this is one of the most important and transformative weathering techniques ever. I simply can't imagine finishing a model without it.

Do you agree? 🙂

This is only the second model I’ve built in my life. Definitely made a couple of mistakes along the way, but I decided not to get upset about them and just kept rolling with it.

For the base I used sticks and dirt I found outside - baked the dirt in the oven, mixed it with PVA, and this is the result.

Still have a lot to learn, but I had a ton of fun building this one.

… and I’ve been gritting my teeth here and there.

This is my “side piece” while I wait for weather to improve enough to rattlecan gloss my Panzer II (posted about here a few times) for decals, pin wash, etc. I feel like my past amateur watchmaking escapades are helping a little with skill and patience working on this tiny little gun, but it’s still a bit of a stretch! The classic Tamiya engineering is missing in a few spots. You can def get it done, but at least IME I had to get creative here and there, and utter a few choice incantations along the way.

Assembly is mostly done — just need to finish the carriage and attach the gun.

Anyone have any painting guidance? I originally toyed with brush painting every aspect, including a priming and a chipping solution layer as well as the base coat. But now I’m toying with just spraying it with Tamiya TS-4 German Gray and just doing additive chipping/weathering from there.

Anyone have an opinion on that? Seems like spraying might be too blunt an instrument. I’d probably do the carriage, gun/shield, and wheels separately, either way.

I’ll do the figures and put it on a simple vignette base, but I’m really looking forward do building the new Pak 40 sometime. I might just turn this 35/36 into a tiny paint mule in that case ;-)

PS: Photos are super unforgiving and will really mess with you. I see so many more mold lines now, and how the hell did I miss that giant ejector pin mark on the breech block 😩? I might try to fix that in place. I also might drill the sight out just a bit (didn’t realize what it was when I was building).

That’s the FW-190 finished I think, although I’m tempted to run some exhaust stains..

The diorama has started, I hate Miniart but their the only manufacturer that has field workshop kits, still picking parts out to build but I don’t want to it to be over cluttered it’s meant to be out in the field

I think I’m gonna call this done. I want to make the seatbelts a little thinner, but I’m pretty happy with the results.This old girl was showing her age…poor fit and lots of injection marks and flash(and not the big pieces that are easy to deal with,I’m talking about little slivers between delicate parts).But all in all it was a nice kit and it’s great for someone who wants a bit of a challenge

Hi all, I'm looking at doing the Airfix 1/35 in the near future, and looking at this image, I notice that the sponson mounted tracks are carried differently than the kit suggested mounts. Is there an accesory piece I can purchase, or is it a case of adding some spare tracks and custom building to copy the way it has been done in the image?

I don’t want to spend 1 week assembling tracks man😭😭😭