I’ve been modelling for 18 months, since I came back into the fold. This is the first model I’ve completed and kept. It’s a Tamiya 1/35 Churchill, with the ariels being thin length of modelling rod. It’s been painted with Humbrol Super Enamel 163, and then coated in many different layers of CMK and MIG powders, mixed with some Windor & Newton Burnt Sienna ink (to act as a binding agent). The rust bit I was really pleased with!
Anyway, here are a couple of pictures
[:D]your tank looks great,keep up the good work[:D]
The decals are barely readable [:(]
Oh wait thats perfect [:D]
Nice work, looks just like it’s seen some hard time in the field.
Looks too rusty for me, unless it is a abandoned hulk or range target. Tanks don’t get that much use in the field without cleaning or repainting. When things get that rusty, they don’t work properly. There was a long thread here a few weeks ago about realistic weathering vs. overweathering. The general concensus by those who have seen and/or been on actual armor was that most modelers overdue weathering. I agree and have been on armored vehicles for the past 11 years in the US Army.
I agree that the pictures make it look rusty, but actually, that’s more to do with the camera. The only rust I used was on the muffler, else, it was shades of dust only, with some mud colour around the edges, and silver chips here and there. The camera seems to be make the dust colour a bit darker than it actually is. I used to be a tank driver myself, and I can’t recall ever seeing rust on a tank, just plenty of grease and dust.
Gotta love how the camera changes colors!
looks great! nice weathering, really like it! thanks for the pics.
Indeed! Actually, I used dark colours (more mud) for the sides, and paler colours (more dust), almost white, for the top surfaces. I’ll try to take some more pictures in better light another time.
Looks good to me. [tup]
Nice job osher. That’s one of the tanks I look forwar to building.
Just remember is a hobby, and should be fun.
Even if it’s not that realistic. Even if someone would paint a PzKpfw V ausf A with pink camo that would be fine by me.
WAIT, that’d be a pink panther, ![:p]
Part of the color change with the camera is due to your lighting set up. Since you’ve got light coming from only one direction, it creates a lot of darker shadows and color distortions as the camera tries to compensate. That and the background is non-uniform, makes it harder to pick out the shades/colors as a true representation. You can solve both very easily with white or light blue posterboard and a couple of flexible student-type lamps.
Nice work on your Churchill and welcome back to the fold of the darkside!
I’ve got to try some new photo techniques myself. It’s very frustrating to work up a kit and then you post pics that make it look like the Yellow Submarine. [(-D]
Osher, it looks good to me – kind of muddy. Gino, please keep those opinions coming – it’s important to hear solid constructive criticism like that, because we all want to improve our builds.
Hey if mud is what you want then power to you. I prefer a subtler approach myself. How did you like the buildup on the Churchill?
damn, that looks great. i personally didn’t think it was all rusty, it looked like desert camo to me. did they have that version of the churchil that early in the war? realistic or not i still think it looks cool. [:D]
Hey, thanks everyone! I really appreciate the kind comments, made those 30 or 40 hours worth it! Wbill, I’ll try setting up a mini photo-booth.
As for the build: mostly straight forward, the only areas of concern were the front lights, which in my view are overly fiddly, and hard to place, and on the turret, the fixed ariel thing, which broke off so many times, and the wire ariels. I used real wire for the main ariels, but found them falling out all the time, despite liberal amounts of glue. In the end I drilled down to make a longer extension into the plastic (from inside the towers the wire is fed into), and that cured the problem. If was doing a new one, I’d drill down whilst the turret was still under construction, so the wire can be fed a few inches in.