SimonT - 1/35 Miniart Dingo - Rons Recon GB

[minitnkr]

Hope the crapintheback is dry fit or it'll be a b----r to paint. Looks great though. PaulE

[SimonT]

Cheers Si

Thanks Neil - the trick is thatrope is last to be painted

Paul - thanks. Stowage is all fixed in place. Only loose bits are steering wheel, Bren, passenger seat and the wheels


Still no paint :rolling:


added a tin hat


and a couple of Duro haversacks


now it is ready for paint

[scottie3158]

Simon,
Lovely work mate bring on the paint

[Jim R]

Hi Simon
Very nice, detailed build. As Paul says it will be awkward to paint but I tend to prefer that rather than trying to fix ready painted parts in place with glue marks and the resulting touch ups. Paint before next year :tongue-out3: ?
Jim

[SimonT]

Scottie / Jim - primed this morning with AK black so should be ready for a base coat

Same here Jim - with it all fitted I know there will not be issues later and although it makes painting tricky it should be ok in the end

[Si Benson]

Lovely work on the Duro haversacks ....I’ve attempted these myself and they ended up looking like something the kids did :smiling5:

[SimonT]

Si - thanks. Think I have nearly got the hang of Duro

Fanfare please, we have paint


Don't have many specific British paints so used my AK Africa Corps modulation set - it's sand coloured

During painting my non too stable airbrush holder decided to topple over and land on the main body of the vehicle, breaking off the right side window

Luckily it was a clean break at the hinges so no real damage done

A bit of superglue and it is now fixed back on

[Steve Jones]

Da dada da da daaaaaaaa

Nice start on the wet stuff Mr T. Sorry to hear about the mishap. Any excuse to keep building during the painting stages LOL

[Si Benson]

Blimey, that’s a turn up for the books!
We are truly honoured to see paint Mr T
:smiling4:

Fancy attacking it with the airbrush holder....a buttock clenching moment no doubt!!
Now please try not to drop it, throw it, kick it or generally knacker it with heavy stuff

[Guest]

The sight of paint being mentioned was just too much.

[minitnkr]

Got some great coverage regardless. PaulE

[SimonT]

The gloss varnish didn't work too well - having had good results with AK ultra matt I went with their ultra gloss

It didn't spray at all well and ended up with a lumpy finish that remained tacky even after a week

stripping it was not really an option as it would destroy all the details so I decided to push on and see what happens


so I added the decals

since I am not trying to replicate a specific vehicle I changed the number - cut off the last digit and replaced it with one from one of the other schemes

for anyone building one of these the right rear arch decal is too large - should really fit below the rear light so needs a little of the red trimming off

unfortunately I couldn't get it off again so had to slice the corner off in place to get it to fit around the light

I took a chance and used some of the Mig decal solution - last time I tried it it destroyed the decals, this time it seemed to be ok so it must depend on how good the decals are

left them to dry for the day and then gave them a coat of Tamiya x22 gloss - should have stuck with that in the first place as it sprayed nicely as usual

I will leave it for a few days and see if it is worth continuing.......

[SimonT]

The Tamiya dried nicely and covered up the sticky finish so it has now had some Africa Korps wash and Oilbrusher Starship filth, Dust and white


managed to drop it again when it fell off the length of sprue I had CA'd underneath as a handle :rolling:

[scottie3158]

Simon
Looks good your getting the hang of this painting lark:tongue-out3:

[SimonT]

Cheers Scottie - I'm trying