“A hand painted camo - yes. But painted with a local mud and a bunch of rags.”
I amend my previous post to “there are the rags, there is the mud. Get to it.”
Anyway, I still really like it. Sounds like you are going to do some more in this scale?
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Don’t forget mops and brushes, wasn’t unknown to use those to apply camo as well.
Gamera, Bish - if I could help you in any way with this thread, I’m very glad!
Dwayne - yeah, right - get to it! I build a lot in 1:72, but not much from WWII. Now I want to build another Hanomag, this time the D version. I’ve got a kit from Dragon.
Bish - about thirty years ago I used a broom made of young birch twigs to apply whitewash. To trees, mind you, not to tanks!
Have a nice day
Paweł
WEll, if it works, its good. I can just imagine German troops useing brooms especially for applying white wash.
I look forward to seeing more of your 251’s. I currently have 30 35th kits, adding 2 more soon when the ICM kit is released, and always look forward to seeing them in any scale.
Pawel, i just checked my books and that page is indeed from the Squadron 251 in action, i had not checked that book for a while. And indeed that pic top right certainly has a scheme very similar to yours. So, now you indeed have proof.
Hello everybody!
In the meantime (and it’s been a lot of time) I started building Dragons 1:72 Ausf. D. That kit is hard to get now, OOP for some years, but the detail quality is excellent. Here’s what I have so far:
Thanks for lookin’ and have a nice day
Paweł
Off to a very nice start.
Bish - thanks a lot!
Looks great Pawel. It may seem trite to say but yeah I’d have thought it were 1/35th if you hadn’t stated otherwise.
Looking really nice so far Pawel. Nice to see you banging these out. I have quite a few of their 250 D and C s itterations sitting in the stash so it they are becoming a rarity I should be good.
Hello!
Gamera - thanks a lot for your kind words! This kit sure has a level of detail that 1/35 models once used to have. I’m glad you like it!
RX7850 - Those Dragon 1:72 half tracks are really nice, so it was a good decision to stash them. I really had to look hard to find my kit and it was hidden in a dark corner of a warehouse somewhere in the rural Germany! I mean literally!
Have a nice day
Paweł
Hello!
Took a lot of time, but I tried to paint camo on my D Ausf. Hanomag. Setting up my airbrush for such a thin line took a lot of tweaking, but here are the results:
I hope you like them - thanks for reading and have a nice day
Paweł
Looks great to me Pawel
Hello!
Thanks a lot for your kind words! I’m glad you like it. Meanwhile, on the Polish forum I got comments like “Tragedy!”, “You’d been better off leaving it Dunkelgelb” and “Should be repainted ASAP”. Just goes to show you different points of view…
While I see the faults of this paint job I rather like it, so I’m really glad I’m not alone!
Best greetings and have a nice day
Paweł
It’s a small scale that makes it harder to begin with plus most of the real ones was painted in the field by 20 year olds in a hurry with things like a rag on a stick or a mop if lucky maybe close to a panzer IV or a tiger with a air compressor and spray gun.
Yeah, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. Nice work!
Clint, Gamera - thanks a lot for your kind words! While I see the faults of my paint job and I’ll try to do even better next time, the aura of negativity on the Polish forum bothers me a bit. I for myself am quite satisfied with what I’ve got and I don’t think I could easily repaint it to be better this time. Like I wrote, that’s not to say it’s perfect now -there’s still room for improvement and I’ll try to improve - some day.
Thanks for reading and have a nice day
Paweł
Pawel, “lather, rinse, repeat” the only way to master something is to continue to do the work and learn from the boo boos. I don’t see anything that can’t be fixed, or left as is because YOU like it.
I applaud folks who use an airbrush on 1/72 stuff, I muff up 35th and bigger, I would LOVE to hear the trash talk about my 72nd attempt LOL.
Your happy, I think they look great. Keep it up sir.
I like your paint job. And so long as you like it who cares about those arragant comments from that forum. Those are the type of personalities that annoy me about this hobby. Looking forward to seeing it done .
Rx is right don’t worry about what others say about it if your happy that’s all that matters. I stopped posting on another site because of a mostly airplane modeler who use to also be on this site and run his own would not stop harassing me over a tiger I built from a SS division. I guess I should of been ashamed of myself for modeling a SS subject and I wasn’t the only one he was harassing too, mods never done anything so I just left that was like 5 years ago. This site has always been very friendly and I only post here now.