My First Contest Model

Modeling Subjects Armor
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Hi, I’m new to the whole posting regularly thing, but I thought I’d present my contest winning Dragon Panzer III Ausf. J. It took 1st at the 2008 Hoby Town USA National Model Contest.

All Comments are welcome.

Sorry if the pics are a bit blurry.

The figures are Tamiya, from their BMW motorcycle set. The side skirts are scratch built from sheet styrene, and the braces are loose bits of PE. Painted with model master enamels, and tamiya acrylics.

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congrats on a job well dne and welcome to the world of armor modeling.

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welcome,congratulations,and nice work on that whitewash and weathering job.

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That’s no white wash, it’s a battle station… oh sorry getting my genres mixed up. Anyway, that’s not a white wash, I just sprayed the whole thing with a white model masters spray can. The weathering is tamiya german grey and various highly thinned water colors.

Thanks for the compliments

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Going the extra litle bit with the side skirts good job[^]

I like the weathering to it looks great!

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Wow, your HTU gives away waaayyyy nicer trophies than mine did when I worked there. All we gave was ribbons :slight_smile:

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Good job!!! Looks real good. Like the finish!!! Your Hobby Town gave trophies!!! We got ribbons…[:-^] Any time you get recognition is a good time!!!

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I couldn’t agree more. Yes the trophy’s nice. Finally something to put into a bare trophy case! HA![(-D] They had trophies for first and second (not to brag or anything) and ribbons for 3,4,5. I had to drive for thirty minutes to get to the Hobby Town that was holding the contest, Longmont has horrible traffic, Ha.

By the way, what do you guys think of the figures? I have trouble with faces. If the pics are too blurry to tell i’ll take some more.

Thanks

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YAHOO and way to go

Congrats

Chris

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The photos are a bit blurry, but figures take practice. I’ve been doing them, on and off, for over 35 years, and I’m still not happy with what I can achieve:

There are a number of useful on-line guides to help get you started. Here’s one:

http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/figures/mbheads/mbheads.htm

Modelling magazines, including FSM, also do ‘figure painting for beginners’ articles fairly frequently. Look out for them. They’re useful even if you’ve been doing it some time.

Cheers,

Chris.

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Congrats on the win! [tup]

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Good job man, nice looking model too!

Don’t let it be your last!

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Nice work, TB. Congrats on the win!

The link that Chris passed along re:face painting is excellent. I followed the instructions to the letter, and I must say that it works very well.

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Definitely not! I’ve got Dragons Jagd Tiger, King Tiger, and StuG III C/D sitting on the bench.

And yes, that link is very helpful, I’ve already tried some of the techniques there, thanks guys.