Here is my Sunday afternoon project. Just wanted to get some opinions before I went any further with it. This is for Acadamy’s M3 Stuart Honey. It’s the first time I have done an interior for a tank so I was basically going blind with just a few not so good pics. Any comment are welcome as always on how to make it any better. I have’nt done any weathering on it yet so those ideas are really welcome.Thanks.
Ok I tried out the tip about using a scouring pad to get paint to look like it’s chipped and scrapped. I think I need a bit more practice at it but here is how it came out for me this time. Camera seemd to be having a bad day today and would not get a good close up, so this is the best shot I have for now.
Thanks Dwight just figured that out. Worked the first time I tried. Not having much luck witht the web page thing. Can’t get into the anglefire one and geocities won’t link. So i went ahead and left it with good ol Ron.
Allright can do. So far with this one I have not seen any problems with fit other than a slight gap between the back wall and the horizontal sides of the bottom hull ( don’t know the technical term) but it don’t seem to affect the fit of the top. Would be nice if there were an engine in the back though. There are a whole lot of tiny parts that can be a pain to get into place majority of those are on the outside. Some more detail on the interior would have been nice since the only thing that I have not put into this one yet is the ammo cans. I noticed a few things mising in some pics that I did find but those may be a different version. So far I am happy with this kit and should have the turret interior up some time this week.
looks better than my stuart so far.[V] keep up the good work! i am eager to see what you do with the turret interior. are you going to try to change it, or no?
I usually paint the interior a primer red-brown colour and then cloud spray off white to give the impression of depth. A light wash will help bring out the details too.
Make a little square out of a Scotchbrite scourer pad, and dip it onto a little metallic grey paint so that the paint only sticks to the parts of the scotchbrite that stick out (ie do not dip it completely) so it is not going to drip. Then gently push the scotchbrite onto areas where paint chips will occur - floor, stowage bins, supports, etc) You will be amazed at the result (will e-mail you a pic of what it looks like 'cause I can’t link pics here yet).
PS. The reason your kit interior looks different to the pictures is because of different versions. Acadamy just used the standard M3 interior instead of changing it for the Honey. The British Honey is very diferent to the kit, sorry to say. The round stowage is completely wrong, the Brits didn’t use the turret basket, etc. (Had similar probs with the Acadamy Achilles that I am building as it was based on the M10 interior. Still procrastinating about casting main gun rounds because Acadamy only give you 5 spares and a heap of canisters for the round racks, but the British didn’t use canisters, they just placed the rounds in modified racks!)
Edog - thanks for the link. I’ll be sticking to the instructions. Went ahead with making it a US version anyway.
Peter- Thanks for all the info. Now I have something new to try with the next int. I do. The scouring pad sounds like a great little trick. Dfinatly have to give it a try. All I can say for the picture is WOW. That is awesome looking. That is exactly what I was needing to get some god idea of how to go about weathering this on the inside. The rounds are pretty incredible to. Gald you like the site, it’s still a long ways from how I want it and anglefire won’t let me hardley get in to work on it.
Sorry Brian. got it fixed. For some reason I could’nt get into Ron’s site to fix it but I could now get into my web site and put it there., never get into both at the same time.
