discussion What's on the Bench 2023

[Tim Marlow]

Thanks Nick.

The hardest bit is not stuffing up what I've already done with a wayward brush stroke :smiling5:

He’s looking pretty fine to me. You are making a nice job of him. See what you mean about the surface of the casting, it’s quite rough isn’t it.
By the way, you are allowed to touch up overpainting Andy, and a damp brush usually takes any errant brush strokes off again as long as you are quick…..:tongue-out3:

 

[Andy T]

Thank you Tim. Yes, I suppose I could have buried the roughness in primer, along with all the detail...

I'm trying to embrace it as texture in the garments :smiling5:

 

[Guest]

Yes....the tracks. Just curious.

Evil things , part of the " black art " !

 

[PaulinKendal]

Trying my hand at a 28mm miniature. How some of you get such great results at this scale is beyond me :surprised:

Still loads to do but I'm enjoying the process and the steep learning curve, and pleased with what I've done so far given my inexperience.

Besides, if I'm not happy at the end I can just dump it in the meths tub then give it my son to paint properly :smiling5:

WAY better than my first attempts - I see a great career in miniature painting ahead of you!

 

[Andy T]

Thanks Paul. I painted a few space marines a couple of years back (my son's painted hundreds of warhammer 40k) but I fancied a go at something else, picking one with the smallest, most hidden face I could find :smiling5:

 

[Guest]

On my bench tonight was something I didn’t want there:

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I had finished airbrushing something I wanted to photograph on that bench, for this tread, but instead what ended up on it was a heavy glass lens from the lamp-with-magnifier you can see in the photo. This just fell out when I swung it over to light the workbench better, after having used it over my spray booth (just visible on the right). That in itself wouldn’t have been too bad, but on the work surface were two open dropper bottles of Vallejo paint without their caps on. One ended up about half a metre away on the left rear of the pile of scrap but didn’t leak, the other landed more or less in the middle of the photo and its nozzle came off, leading to the paint spill you can see. By the time I took the photo, I had already set it back upright and put nozzle and cap back on, but I still had to clean all the locking tweezers, a mechanical pencil and more that got covered in paint to varying degrees

All that done, I could take the photo I actually wanted to take:

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It’s a street section by DioDump that I bought at a model show in Belgium about a month and a half ago. I first primed it grey and now sprayed the pavement with various shades of grey-brown. The piece of paper with a hole in it is a template to mask the paving slabs for spraying the highlights on them. They ended up a bit too stark so after taking this photo I went back and lightly sprayed more of the tan that spilled over all of the pavement.

 

[stillp]

Could have been a lot worse Jakko.
Pete

 

[Mark1]

It is a lot worse,your tidy bench club membership has just been revoked :tears-of-joy:

 

[Guest]

Mark ,Jakko was never a member of that strange band of modellers. Applications to @Jim R , Jim's Tidy Bench Club are by invitation only.

Note the diminishing area of actual mat, this highly advanced modeller usually end up with moving into another room to finish .:smiling2::smiling2::smiling2:

 

[adt70hk]

On my bench tonight was something I didn’t want there:



I had finished airbrushing something I wanted to photograph on that bench, for this tread, but instead what ended up on it was a heavy glass lens from the lamp-with-magnifier you can see in the photo. This just fell out when I swung it over to light the workbench better, after having used it over my spray booth (just visible on the right). That in itself wouldn’t have been too bad, but on the work surface were two open dropper bottles of Vallejo paint without their caps on. One ended up about half a metre away on the left rear of the pile of scrap but didn’t leak, the other landed more or less in the middle of the photo and its nozzle came off, leading to the paint spill you can see. By the time I took the photo, I had already set it back upright and out nozzle and cap back on, but I still had to clean all the locking tweezers, a mechanical pencil and more that got covered in paint to varying degrees :sad:

All that done, I could take the photo I actually wanted to take:



It’s a street section by DioDump that I bought at a model show in Belgium about a month and a half ago. I first primed it grey and now sprayed the pavement with various shades of grey-brown. The piece of paper with a hole in it is a template to mask the paving slabs for spraying the highlights on them. They ended up a bit too stark so after taking this photo I went back and lightly sprayed more of the tan that spilled over all of the pavement.

Any idea why it fell out Jakko? Would imagine it's quite heavy.

 

[Guest]

It is a lot worse,your tidy bench club membership has just been revoked :tears-of-joy:

That’s okay, I don’t recall ever belonging to that club anyway

Note the diminishing area of actual mat

There is that, though that area has remained constant through the ages The pile of scrap is a valuable resource: I search through it for odds and ends of plastic card, cut-off parts etc. that fit or can be made into whatever I happen to need at the time. Never throw anything away

Any idea why it fell out Jakko? Would imagine it's quite heavy.

It is quite heavy, it’s a glass lens of about 12 cm across and 1.5 cm thick, with a ring around it from some soft plastic/silicone rubber/something like that to hold it in the lamp. The odd thing is that it goes in from underneath, so from the side that the light shines to, when you would expect it to go in from the other side because then there would be no way it could drop out when you’re using the magnifier. I’ve had this lamp for 30 years or so, and even then it was second-hand (it came from my father’s office at the time, where they were getting rid of it), and it feels like that ring has hardened and slackened a bit, far enough that the lens has dropped out twice now. First time, a few months ago, it didn’t hit anything and i put it back in, thinking nothing more of it. This time I’ve left it out until I can find a way of ensuring it stays in.

 

[adt70hk]

That’s okay, I don’t recall ever belonging to that club anyway :smiling3:


There is that, though that area has remained constant through the ages :smiling3: The pile of scrap is a valuable resource: I search through it for odds and ends of plastic card, cut-off parts etc. that fit or can be made into whatever I happen to need at the time. Never throw anything away :smiling3:


It is quite heavy, it’s a glass lens of about 12 cm across and 1.5 cm thick, with a ring around it from some soft plastic/silicone rubber/something like that to hold it in the lamp. The odd thing is that it goes in from underneath, so from the side that the light shines to, when you would expect it to go in from the other side because then there would be no way it could drop out when you’re using the magnifier. I’ve had this lamp for 30 years or so, and even then it was second-hand (it came from my father’s office at the time, where they were getting rid of it), and it feels like that ring has hardened and slackened a bit, far enough that the lens has dropped out twice now. First time, a few months ago, it didn’t hit anything and i put it back in, thinking nothing more of it. This time I’ve left it out until I can find a way of ensuring it stays in.

Good job a kit or more importantly your hand wasn't underneath it at the time.

 

[Guest]

Oh, the lens is fine — didn’t break or even scratch, so my hand would not have been hurt except maybe by the impact. I am glad there was no model underneath it though, yes

 

[Mini Me]

If you put it back in, seal it in place with a bead of clear silicone and let it set up for 24 hours , should prevent further mis haps.

 

[Guest]

I was thinking of using just that, yes. Now I just need to get round to doing that

 

[Andy T]

Me again!

I'm currently working on this tamiya kubelwagen with the balloon tyres. According to the bumph in the box early ones could come grey from the factory and get done yellow in the field.

Now I don't know (or care) if this is true but it sparked an idea, so here it is in a coat of grey and if I can pull it off I'll try and recreate a little scene with some poor guy slapping on the yellow.

 

[Mini Me]

You work fast Andy.....I'm still faffing around with my fuel truck and yer off........to the races with another build! :thumb2: :thumb2:

 

[Guest]

According to the bumph in the box early ones could come grey from the factory and get done yellow in the field.

Now I don't know (or care) if this is true

It is — they were series-produced from 1940, and the German Army’s switch to dark yellow began in early 1943.

 

[Andy T]

You work fast Andy.....I'm still faffing around with my fuel truck and yer off........to the races with another build! :thumb2: :thumb2:

There's a lot of difference between throwing a Tamiya kit together and performing micro-scratchery like you do :smiling3:

I think cleaning up the tyres took as long as the rest of the build lol.

 

[Mini Me]

There's a lot of difference between throwing a Tamiya kit together and performing micro-scratchery like you do :smiling3:

I think cleaning up the tyres took as long as the rest of the build lol.

You got me there Andy.