like Terry i have been away too and probably won’t get back to RR gun until July. Just need to reorganize the bunker, finish a bunch of shelf queens, the DD from Hell and whatever else is going in regionals this weekend. and send my BADGER A/B back to the shop for a rebuild. to give you an idea i drove 9 hours to a regional last year and this one is in town and i am blah about it. THIS WILL CHANGE and i will be better for it.
on a happier note i picked up a 1/35 MK-IV ammo carrier for the KARL dirt cheap from a friend. SO i can park the K-5, gondola, and diesel in the back and the BR-86, KARL, and heavy flat car with ammo carrier in front.
TERRY look at woodland scenes colors for doing rocks. they are water based and transparent so you can go thick with a base coat and various thinned colors for washes on the rocks. I am doing a base for 1/35 TYPE XXVII which will have some rocks in it.
It is quite a project and I am showing it in progress on other Forum sites, not here. I’ve found that anything posted here (unless it is in a Group Build) tends to disappear from the font page too quickly for anyone to see. Besides, post an ongoing Thread with ALL my in progress projects at the same time; and since it includes space, aircraft, armor and ships all happening at once, there’s really no place to post something like that where it will be seen by anyone before it disappears off the page. So, no. The only thing I post on these FSM Forums is my Group Build projects. The Saturn V is being shown on the IPMS USA Forums, SPAModler Forums, Modelworx Forums, and Modeler’s Alliance Forums. In the first three Forums, she’s seen in my dedicated “Maddog Manufacturing” threads, in the last she’s in a “What’s on the Workbench” thread shared by everyone else on the boards.
Nice work on the tunnel entrance and the rock above it, that is looking exceptional. I’m looking forward to seeing more.
Wayne, enjoy the new Bunker man. I sure need a major overhaul in mine; maybe someday…
Duke I’ll check it out, that sounds so interesting. I find that white is the hardest color to paint, so if you don’t mind, what manufacture and type of white did you use. Seems like a automobile white that polishes up would work. Thanks.
The mountains in my Dio is showing only a base color, theres several other colors and shades going on it before I get to the right tones.
Terry, I use a flat white from Walmart. It is their store-brand paint that only costs 96 cents a spraycan. It goes on airbrush fine and , as long as you don’t re-spray too close and/or too much, it coats very well. I’ve been misting it on over time and it is coming along pretty well. Later I can add a glosscoat if I need to.
regionals in town this weekend. entered 16 including my first dinosaur and working on 2 more Velociraptors that could get done tonight and entered on Saturday. BUT I DIGRESS as usual.
guy has 2 sets of 1/72 track, BR-86 for $20 and 3 1/72 resin heavy flat cars that look like they were molded from the older DML but look pretty nice.
The 1/72 flat cars sound cool, I have 2 Verlinden flatbeds that I’m putting Tigers on. It would be nice to see a photo or find out who the manufacturer is.
painting dinos is a lot of fun. i use my SOLTAR with Comart paints at 10psi followed by oil washes. as for dino suggestions, i have a bunch of crazy diorama thoughts and folks are also “advising me” THERE WILL BE NO RAPTORS ON THE K-5. but they will be with other builds down the road.
region 10 regionals is over. my gondola didn’t place in miscellaneous which was disappointing. i know one of the judges so will ask him. took 3 firsts, 2 seconds, and a third BUT only 3 are noteworthy and surprising. took a second in towed artillery with my DAK sFH-18 150mm gun in travel mode and DUKE a first in OTS post Korea (Trumpeter Syrian T-55 mineroller) and a first Korea and earlier (Airfix MK-IV Female).My 1/35 velociraptor went up against a 1/24 spinosaurus by a good friend who will be teaching me how to beat him.
Bought all 3 verlinden OTS heavy flat cars and picked up my 1/35 ammo carrier for the KARL. and a 1/35 Triceratops. and some airbrush fittings from another friend who is an Iwata distributor.
UPDATE. talked to my friend who judged miscellaneous about my Gondola. First it was going up against an awesome HO scale scratch built steel mill blast furnace and an ICM 628 part European trolliey THIS IS NOT WHINING Learned i need to explain things better on the description. They didn’t like seeing space between the low sides and the bed. you can only see it using a flashlight. i didn’t explain that the sides were removalable in real life too and no doubt warped after years of abuse so they might not fit flush any more also i know this will be part of a larger diorama so some things were not complete because i don’t know how the final placement will be. GOOD LESSON LEARNED
Finally got my uplinks squared away and starting on a Trumpeter Karl Morser in 1/35. There are over 1200 parts in the kit and I spent some time going through the parts and booklet. I think I’ll start with the carriers and got a little work started. These are the side rails with springs and brakes, I’ll get more photos later but I’ve never seen a more beautiful box of plastic…
spring mounts are a PITA. i have one of those, can’t remember which one. i know i have an OTS one, separate carriers and one with both. DON’T have carriers in 1/35. though i did. do you have the PZ-IV ammo carrier?
Wayne I don’t have the ammo carrier or additional ammo yet but I do have the Trumpeter Karl crew if I decide to go in that direction. I usually have a thought in mind when I build these things, but on this one I’m just going to keep building and when I have to decide on the transport mode I better have made up my mind by then. I’m going to pickup some Fruils for the gun and build my own track, but I’m pretty sure I’ll go with German Grey as my color.My 1/72 scale is in three color camo.
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