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[Allen Dewire]

I'm still with this here, Jakko. Top work and a fine paint job too. I do hope you add that figure when she's finished as it looks perfect in the hatch. It's always tea time, you know!!!...

Prost
Allen

[Guest]

Some nice tonal variation on the panels.

Achieving that is just a happy accident

[Guest]

The suspension is now mostly done too:

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What the photo doesn’t show well is that I painted the wheel rims as bare metal:

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This because the paint rubbed off them in the real world pretty easily because of all those track teeth, but most black-and-white photos don’t show that well, or at all.

[Guest]

And markings on:

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Unfortunately, Takom took a shortcut here as well They appear to have looked at this well-known (series of) photograph(s) of Giraffe:

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… and took all marking options from its mould too. The kit does provide those for Giraffe, but also five others that only differ in name, census number and squadron symbol — when in fact Giraffe has a number of anomalies in these, like having the census number and squadron symbols on front and rear. Takom oddly also give you two bridge classification discs, one for the front and another for the rear, which is completely odd. It’s almost as if they didn’t realise what that yellow disc signifies.

I applied the markings for Badger, except for the ones I don’t think should be there. It also seems the squadron symbol (the blue square) is spurious, but I only found that out after applying it, and I’m not making a model of a specific vehicle anyway, so I’ll leave it.

[The Smythe Meister]

Very nice Jakko,lovin the paint job

[Guest]

Thanks, I’ve now added more paint and also tracks:

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I’ve dirtied up the model with a wash of Revell dark earth, fairly thin along the lower parts, thinner still over the rest of the vehicle, because I want it to appear a bit dirty but not filthy from having been in the field for a longer period of time. It needs some more work, and also some more scrubbing back the dirt (by painting OD and similar over the top of it) to show traces of the vehicle having actually been used after the dirt got on it.

If the colour seems different, then that’s because I’ve used my new black background for the portable photo studio (just a piece of cloth with velcro sewn to two sides so I could put it in), and that affects the colour of the model.

[Tim Marlow]

Thanks, I’ve now added more paint and also tracks:

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I’ve dirtied up the model with a wash of Revell dark earth, fairly thin along the lower parts, thinner still over the rest of the vehicle, because I want it to appear a bit dirty but not filthy from having been in the field for a longer period of time. It needs some more work, and also some more scrubbing back the dirt (by painting OD and similar over the top of it) to show traces of the vehicle having actually been used after the dirt got on it.

If the colour seems different, then that’s because I’ve used my new black background for the portable photo studio (just a piece of cloth with velcro sewn to two sides so I could put it in), and that affects the colour of the model.

Looking good Jakko. It’s come out really well. Your black background isn’t affecting the colour, by the way….what is happening is that the camera sensor is trying to make the black into a mid grey so it is overexposing the image and washing out the colour intensity.

[Jim R]

That's looking very good Jakko.

[Guest]

what is happening is that the camera sensor is trying to make the black into a mid grey so it is overexposing the image and washing out the colour intensity.

I know, but the net effect is that the colour of the model in this photo looks different than in the last one, which is what I was trying to get across

[The Smythe Meister]

Thanks, I’ve now added more paint and also tracks:

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I’ve dirtied up the model with a wash of Revell dark earth, fairly thin along the lower parts, thinner still over the rest of the vehicle, because I want it to appear a bit dirty but not filthy from having been in the field for a longer period of time. It needs some more work, and also some more scrubbing back the dirt (by painting OD and similar over the top of it) to show traces of the vehicle having actually been used after the dirt got on it.

If the colour seems different, then that’s because I’ve used my new black background for the portable photo studio (just a piece of cloth with velcro sewn to two sides so I could put it in), and that affects the colour of the model.

Just caught up with this one Jakko
... Looking superb mate..
... Loving the paint job and tracks especially.

[Guest]

Thanks. The tracks were painted in my now usual way: earth/rust colour for the metal parts, followed by drybrushing with a gun metal colour for where they would have been rubbed bare. Then dark grey for the rubber with a wash made from thinned-down Indian ink over that, and when that was dry, drybrushing with a medium–dark grey. I then added the same dirt wash as on the rest of the tank, taking care to keep the running surfaces (on both sides) clean, but it didn’t show up as well as I wanted it to in the openings between the track blocks. Then I had to drybrush the metal again because it had gone rather dull.

[Guest]

Jakko,
For some reason I kept missing your build on this model, have now caught up and what a splendid job you have done.
Mike.

[Guest]

Thanks, Mike It still needs a little more work, but the finish line is in sight …

[Si Benson]

Looking very nice Jakko :thumb2:

[adt70hk]

Coming on nicely Jakko!