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Post by beano on Apr 10, 2021 19:42:12 GMT
Waiting with excitement 😁
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bwilt
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Post by bwilt on Apr 10, 2021 21:06:42 GMT
Thanks for moving this to the diorama section!
Figures to paint; vehicles to paint; dio to paint; trees, stones,sand, dust, leaves to be added, oldest daughter to become mother (first time) in first week of may; decided to go camping two weekends in april, two weekends in may, which takes up a lot of time so when will I be able to work on dio.. what have I gotten myself into?
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Post by Paul B on Apr 10, 2021 21:09:10 GMT
Sounds like there is a lot going on over road Bert  . Take it all one step at a time, and all will be good  |
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Post by Boots on Apr 10, 2021 21:19:15 GMT
There`s never any need to rush on here Bert.........just do what ya can when ya can and best wishes to your daughter  |
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Post by Ian H. on Apr 11, 2021 2:22:17 GMT
Bert, fantastic work on this. Nice stowage additions on the LAVs as well. It is a huge undertaking but just take it in small steps and the dio will come together in time.
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Post by tommygunn on Apr 11, 2021 8:06:25 GMT
Yeah, just do a bit here and there when you’ve got the time.
Just like me!!!!!!
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Post by Robbo on Apr 12, 2021 14:42:13 GMT
Them vehicles look well cool now they are green
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Post by Eric on Apr 12, 2021 22:04:00 GMT
WOW!...  ...What an awesome project Bert!! Great concept and a truly interesting way to display the finished builds.  |
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Post by Marco on Apr 15, 2021 17:03:05 GMT
Will be great, in all means!
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bwilt
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Post by bwilt on Apr 15, 2021 20:44:42 GMT
Thanks all.
I had painted the figures in Tamiya sand, added two tone brown camo (Earth and RedBrown), and then green (Khaki)... didn't like the total combination, so soaked them in airbrush cleaner and stripped the paint of of them. Start again.
I want to do a choolate chip camouflage uniform, found some nice pictures on the web for it.
Just not sure wich colors to use, I am using tamiya, now choosen XF57 Bufff, XF 64 Red Brown, XF 6 Nato Brown, XF 49 Khaki, and XF1 Black and XF2 White.
Any thoughts/suggestions on different/better combination?
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Post by Boots on Apr 15, 2021 21:03:34 GMT
I`m not a figure/uniform painter but there will defo be someone who`ll give you some thoughts etc Bert  |
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Post by Paul B on Apr 16, 2021 4:00:12 GMT
Same as Boots here too. I bet Pete or Guy can help though. |
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Post by Snipersmudge on Apr 16, 2021 8:35:54 GMT
I'd say the tamiya colours are a reasonable match but I would swap to say vallejo colours for ease of painting as tamiya colours can be a pain to hand paint especially on figures. Similar shades from vallejo would work well.
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Post by Paul H on Apr 16, 2021 9:24:55 GMT
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bwilt
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Post by bwilt on Apr 16, 2021 13:54:17 GMT
I'd say the tamiya colours are a reasonable match but I would swap to say vallejo colours for ease of painting as tamiya colours can be a pain to hand paint especially on figures. Similar shades from vallejo would work well. Thanks for the advice, I will use this combination, see how that looks on the figures. And for some reason i have more problems with Vallejo than Tamiya, which is why I use Tamiya. Same with AK, don't really like them either for handpainting. |
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Post by Paul B on Apr 16, 2021 14:14:50 GMT
I suppose it's what you do with the Tamiya paint. I always add a drop Tammy gloss and plenty of thinner, they work good with a brush then. As for AK .... well no comment on that |
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Post by bwilt on May 9, 2021 10:06:50 GMT
Well, deleted the colors again... replaced khaki by XF76, because I wanted the green to be more faint than the khaki. still have to do some work on faces, do the white spots with black outlines.. been testing that..    |
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Post by Paul B on May 9, 2021 10:15:51 GMT
Darned good indeed Bert  . Nice to know I'm not the only one who paints stuff twice  |
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beano
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Post by beano on May 9, 2021 11:55:33 GMT
Those fellas are looking superb 👍
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...What an awesome project Bert!! Great concept and a truly interesting way to display the finished builds. 
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