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Post by Paul B on Sept 1, 2024 7:32:52 GMT
Tommy, Guy, cheers muchly muckers  . Tommy for the figures I always spray as much of the base colours as possible. It's far easier for me to do this rather than brush painting everything. I use acrylics, which in this weather is a huge advantage, as they dry really fast. I also a 0.3mm AB with the nozzle cover removed, this gives me a very fine spray with hardly any over-spray  |
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Post by SteveM on Sept 1, 2024 14:27:09 GMT
That's a nice and busy Tiger, it's all going in the right direction by the looks of it Paul.
Good tip.. excuse the pun.. for theAB too.
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Post by Paul B on Sept 1, 2024 15:36:59 GMT
That's a nice and busy Tiger, it's all going in the right direction by the looks of it Paul. Good tip.. excuse the pun.. for theAB too. Glad you mentioned that Steve, I have just corrected my post, it should read "nozzle cover removed" |
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Post by jabbly on Sept 1, 2024 16:28:59 GMT
Tommy, Guy, cheers muchly muckers  . Tommy for the figures I always spray as much of the base colours as possible. It's far easier for me to do this rather than brush painting everything. I use acrylics, which in this weather is a huge advantage, as they dry really fast. I also a 0.3mm AB with the nozzle cover removed, this gives me a very fine spray with hardly any over-spray  I kinda like getting the paint brushes out as to me it seems more like ‘real modelling’ if that makes sense. |
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Post by Robbo on Sept 1, 2024 17:20:51 GMT
Tiger is looking great, sorry not been in much
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Post by Paul B on Sept 1, 2024 17:39:59 GMT
Jabbs, I can certainly understand that, but for me it's easier with the AB. For the highlighting and skin tones I will use the good ole hairy stick Ian, cheers muchly ole chap . And no need to apologize, we all no know what you have been up to  . |
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Post by Ian H. on Sept 1, 2024 19:02:40 GMT
Superb detail on those figure heads!!!!
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Post by PorcoRosso on Sept 2, 2024 12:47:26 GMT
The figures look awesome.
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Post by JEFF on Sept 2, 2024 22:55:15 GMT
Tommy, Guy, cheers muchly muckers . Tommy for the figures I always spray as much of the base colours as possible. It's far easier for me to do this rather than brush painting everything. I use acrylics, which in this weather is a huge advantage, as they dry really fast. I also a 0.3mm AB with the nozzle cover removed, this gives me a very fine spray with hardly any over-spray Grand paint work,Paul. 
2 more pluses for the AB are thin paint films (hence, more detail) and removing your nozzle cover greatly decreases fluid tip clogging. |
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Post by Paul B on Sept 6, 2024 18:11:00 GMT
Okay chaps, I finally managed to get some bench time in. The tracks are more or less done now, which is something I don't usually get finished until well later in a build . After burnishing them I added to coats of Tamiya track paint colours, don't try and google them, they don't exist outside of my room  . The first was a greyish steel colour and the second a dirty sandy dust colour. Then I added a mix of pigments to outside, fixed with sand and gravel fixer. The inner, running gear area got a good buffing with a graphite powder, contaminated stiff brush. The last step was to sand the paint off the highest tread points .    |
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Post by Armorguy on Sept 6, 2024 18:57:36 GMT
Simply amazing, beautiful tracks with super sharp bits and bobs Paul-bro.
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Post by bwilt on Sept 6, 2024 20:17:48 GMT
Yes, great looking tracks 👍
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Post by Paul B on Sept 7, 2024 18:15:29 GMT
Guy, Bert, cheers muchly mushties . Today I started adding heavy dust build-up on the lower hull, this is still drying, that is why it looks dark here and there. I also started work on the sprockets. I sprayed the teeth with same colour as for the tracks, and then went back in graphite powder to get 'em nice and shiny .    More on this tomorrow when the pigs have dried |
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Post by JEFF on Sept 8, 2024 0:46:10 GMT
Oresome stuff,Paul. That pigment powder looks really good. |
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Post by SteveM on Sept 8, 2024 8:51:26 GMT
Graphite always adds so much depth to this sort of thing. I approve of your "Tamiya Track Colours" too, just goes to show you don't need 'lazer colour matched 4th generation ' paint for everything  |
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Post by Armorguy on Sept 8, 2024 11:29:55 GMT
A suitably dustified lower hull Paul-bro and the drive sprockets look ready for some heavy duty stuff.
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Post by Ian H. on Sept 8, 2024 14:23:04 GMT
Stellar work, Paul! The hull weathering is so realistic!
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Post by Boots on Sept 8, 2024 14:48:45 GMT
Lovely job on the trackeage mucker and those sprockets look good as well  Must admit i`m glad i got the bulk of the track work outta the way on the Panther...........i normally do them at the end which adds about another 6 months to the build coz i can`t be bothered |
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Post by Paul B on Sept 8, 2024 16:19:42 GMT
Cheers muchly my dear muckers . Will back soon with a wheely small update . Boots, I can certainly relate to that, I usually leave the tracks till about 3/4 through, but I really wanted this done with |
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Post by Paul B on Sept 8, 2024 17:12:57 GMT
Here you go chaps . The running gear is almost all in place, still 8 wheels to add . Theses last wheels need some chipping and heavy weathering, as they can be clearly seen. The tracks are just a test run to see how it all sits together .     |
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