I’m just going to paint it Russian Green like my other one. I have yet to see anything that indicates any kind of camo pattern on these trains.
I’ve seen one but it was a finished model and the builder took some liberties by painting what looked like thin flames from the bottom up. Nice paintwork but it sure didn’t look like a train.
Certainly sounds like he was taking liberties for sure. I doubt any Russian armored train had flames unless they were real and not painted on. LOL!
hey DUKE
i have seen pics of german armored trains in camo so why not a soviet one though, given they didn’t camo their tanks, they may not have. a c\hance to do color modulation and filters.
TERRY coming along nicely.
latest from me. K-5 may be on hold until mid-june as i have a local regionals coming up and have other things to finish. here is the heavy flatcar. i will build a loading dock at rear and along back side but am thinking abandoned, rusty, abandoned with some junk on the bed. maybe a critter or 2 will appear as well or parts to a TYPE XXVII or luft 46 thingie. lots of fun with oil washes and dry brushing with more to come.
speaking of critters here is a six pack of 1/35 primed velociraptors. these are going to be fun to paint and my mind is awhirl with dioramas. have to investigate how to preserve real plants for the dioramas.
and the K-5 barrel is coming along. popped a seam but easily fixed. this plastic melts easier with testors glue but that is working to my advantage. still have some wiring to finish up. KV-2 in background will go in a thrown track abandoned dio for regionals. picked up some new stuff to make bases. yes that is 2 feet long,
That is looking good Wayne! Two-foot-long barrel? Yeah, been there done that! I’m looking forward to seeing more. And yes, I know the Germans camouflaged their armored trains; I built one! LOL!
it is possible that the Russians camouflaged their armor trains too, but I have yet to see any pics of one, except a whitewashed one. I’m not doing whitewash, but if any other pics of a camouflaged train pop up, I’ll be happy to apply it to one of my trains here.
A little cleanup but the kit is going together nicely. I think I’m going to prime it as I go along.
Terry
Some nice detail on this kit, theres even some casting marks on the side of the gun mount and rifling in the barrel. I started some priming and working on quite a few wheels.
Terry
got 12 powder bags painted gray white and 12 canisters german gray. when they dry will paint black rounds and brass end casings. (ran out of clips). also painted ammo cart german gray instead of yellow for some contrast. here is the elevation mechanism set together. going to be a lot of individual priming and painting. ig it looks a little rough remember 1. i will clean it up some more, 2. all of this inside the carriage won’t be seen, especially down in travel mode and 3. i’m assuming they would leave the inside gray to conserve paint. pity as this is a pin wash dream.
ON A SIDE NOTE. vallejo paints nicely but i find, even after cleaning, if i let the airbrush sit for a couple of days it gets stiff. had to field strip mine today. easy enough to run anything like water though it each day to prevent that.
Looking good Wayne. That’s a good idea having the raptors patrolling the perimeter to keep saboteurs away. Keep plugging along man!
ammo and i have a 4th box.the rounds are split between smooth (for normal barrels) and ribbed (for deep rifled barrels). i have a set out so i can use it for a mold to cast more if needed. i can use the smooth and put the ribbed on a pallet under a tarp.the rounds are painted Vallejo metallic black which i will tone down a bit with some pastels. there were large and small powder charge bags (all are the same here). i will wash them to highlight the detail. the brass is the end piece and the minimum charge. the gray canisters i think can hold the powder bags which would make sense. a max range on the ammo cart would be the projectile, 2 large and 1 small powder bag and the brass end piece.
like the couplers, now you know more about K-5 ammo than you will ever need.
The Morser is primed and painted and I’m working on final assembly. The mountains are up and starting to carve out the boulders and crags and should start painting by weeks end. I used my 1/72 Locomotive (that I dropped on the floor) as a reference for scale so “about” 15" tall will give a dramatic effect with the entire board at 48X20. With those in place I feel the scale is correct, but no doubt i’ll be doing some things on the fly.
Carving such a big section(s) turned out to be more difficult that I thought. It’s like a canvas where you have a photo in mind and carve down to it, but the trick is making it look real and majestic. I’ve done some smaller rocks and boulders before but nothing like this. I use a long flexible kitchen knife and a disposable xacto knife to make the cuts and right now i’m installing the portal.
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Terry
Jibber, the layout progress of the base and mountains is looking good.
Duke Maddog, The Soviet armored train is bad**s too
hey TERRY hope you feel better. are you carving the rocks into the material? have you considered getting some molds, casting your own rock in resin or hydrcal.and gluing them on for the rocks. i have some experience painting rocks with good results. also i wonder if an HO scale portal would work or maybe an O scale. it would save you some time.
Thanks Wayne, I am feeling better and need to step things up. I have used Hydrocal with the molds before but only for smaller rocks, nothing on this scale. The foam fragments like real rock that allows you to be pretty creative but like anything else you don’t want to it over do it and look fake. As for the portal, HO is perfect. I looked at both scales and O is way to big and wouldn’t look right.
Carving the foam is a little bit of an art and i’ve wasted a few pieces trying to get the right look. The photo shows some of those I scrapped before finishing them and now I think i’m getting it right.
Thanks. I’m hoping to get back to them soon. Yeah, I’m building two of them.
Guys I’ve been away for a bit but I promise to post some pics today. I’ve made some progress but I keep getting setback. Slow and sure I guess. I have one mountain carved and ready for paint and the other built and ready for carving, the Morser about 80%. Terry
Take your time Terry. I just got a lot of the train cars in that I’d ordered to supplement my Russian armored trains. Now I have to pay for them! I had slowed down work on the trains while waiting for these and also so I could finish my Saturn VB rocket in time for the Nationals.
Duke are showing any pics of that Saturn, now thats a project.
The second mountain will hang over a road that’ll be supported by a row of stone and boulders. The portal will need to be touched up to come a little closer to my base color and set in place.
The Morser is almost completed just needs a final assembly and finishing.
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Terry
Karl-Morser
I’m going to paint it 3 tone camo and keep it in the transport mode.
Terry