So, here is miniature armor that I had produced in last 4 years. The scale is 1/150. All of it is mostly paper with a bit of additional materials. Painted with acrylics from an art/stationery store, colors were mixed with the help of eyeballing. Tamiya X-35, XF-89 and panel liner are the only dedicated scale model products involved.
I can post each one separately if anyone wants to know what each one is or just see them up close.
Wow!!! Would be nice to see one or two of them up close with photos of the sides, top, and back & front. Also some text on how you actually constructed them.
They look great. Please show more photos and how you make them. Thank you.
Incredible. I envy your patience!
Please post some more pictures of them- they look awesome!
VERY COOL! Would love to see close ups, and some pics of in progress work.
Great work! These are really well done. Thanks for posting pictures. I too would like to see how you build these.
So, starting from oldest of the bunch. Here is T-72 printed from a scaled down template plus two iterations of my own simple design. I’ve mentioned before that I’ve had some experience crafting from printed templates but these belong to a different topic.
These three were in the beginning of a new undertaking, I wanted to continue building but was not under ideal circumstances. These represent two directions of search, basically.
Next one was this Chieftain. In real life it’s one of my favorite tanks. Originally it was in plain green, later I’ve added stripes. I’ve been long out of practice when I got to this, every step of painting was taken with great anxiety (what if I ruin it). At some point I tried dry-brush technique — didn’t go well.
Keeping chronological order, next was T-62. This one doesn’t even have dry-brush applied, but there is some pathetic attempt at shadows.
Thanks!
Though, it’s funny because I initially began constructing out of paper due to having NO patience.
Next one was the French AMX-10RC. Not hard to see that eyeballing the color goes wrong from time to time, this green is way too bright.
But at this point I finally got over the anxiety and actually applied the usual armor painting techniques (dry brush + pinwash). I used SOME kind of varnish (not Tamiya) and it was kinda bad… Also cleaning up after pinwashing was very rough, the result looks more like some dirt.
T-90A. Now that I look at zoomed in photos I see how impatient I was with the base coat. Varnish and pinwash techniques still suffer from same mistakes as in previous one (maybe to a lesser extent). But at least eyeballing of the color was done just right.
This one is entirely fictional. I wanted to do an easy one after pretty insane undertaking that was T-90A. I was aiming to make something that looks like a REDFOR unit from a game (like Red Alert 2 or Generals).
T-80B. Another one of my favorites. At this point I was already confident enough to attempt to replicate a vehicle that has very complicated geometry and lots of external stuff that sticks out. I wanted to combine everything I’ve learned so far to produce more polished result.
Btw, to everyone asking to show WIP, here is something for you — T-80B was the first model that I specifically wanted to present in video format!
This is a 5 part series, far from perfect, but it was the very first attempt at filming and editing the working process.
This time wanted something simpler after another serious undertaking.
This one is another fictional one vaguely based on the Predator tank used by GDI in C&C3 Tiberium Wars.
Pinwash on this one is messed up in some places, but I like its overall visual clarity. I also like the color that I was able to achieve.
This is the MBT from unreleased (at the time of posting) game “Dust Front”. My work deviates from the in-game unit, but not much.
It is also the beginning of (hopefully) regular video making
