Beowulf's SU-152, Dragon, 1/35

[PaulTRose]

so im going to have a crack at this
never done a DML kit in this scale so that will be fun, and so will the individual tracks
you get a choice of 5 schemes......1 chinese from the korean war and 1 polish/3 russian from WW2
i might have a go at a winter whitewash paint job, seen it done with latex instead of hair spray ad fancy a go...........but then i might not, we shall see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SU-152

lots of plastic



2 of these

and 2 of these

[col68]

Good looking kit mate I'll be watching,

[Guest]

Nice choice Paul, it looks like a right old beast, looking forward to following this build mate

[PaulTRose]

Nice choice Paul, it looks like a right old beast, looking forward to following this build mate

Just a big armoured up thug.....rock up in the middle of the street let every one take potshots at you cos you are impervious to it then let loose with your bfg

[PaulTRose]

bit of progress

[Guest]

Nice progress Paul, coming along a treat mate

[PaulTRose]

well that went together rather quickly!!

before i knew it it was together, painted and decaled!.....next job is all the individual track links....gulp

[papa 695]

Very nice work so far Paul

[Mr Bowcat]

Looks good Paul, I can't wait to get started on my SU build.

[PaulTRose]

Houston, we have a problem........

oil filter had dried so i wanted to give it a coat of matt varnish over the top, for a couple of reasons i ended up using a rattle can of humbrol matt acrylic and it had a funny reaction (and i did the king tiger at the same time and didnt get it on that) and when it dried its given a sort of white 'bloom'



only thing i can think of is to give it another wash, maybe a really thin green one, rather than a black one to try tone it down

any one else got any ideas?

[col68]

It just looks like a good faded effect in the pics mate.
I had a lot of problems with humbrols varnishes in the past to the extent I stopped using all there acrylic range.

[PaulTRose]

a different make of matt varnish has done wonders, just a patch on the front still remains, will try and hide that with something

so tracks on (and they were a pain in the nether regions!) , a few greeblies added, next step is add some more and then some weathering

[PaulTRose]

and finished.....more pics in the finished thread