Stick, looking good! Lots of work done.

  Bufflehead, Thank you, your too kind. I started on the decals. So far OK. I`ll post when I get them all on.........Harv

 

   Also, I`d be up for an extension, if we`re voting

  YEA, I have an UPDATE!!. I started this kit almost 2yrs ago. This is the closest I`ve come to acually finishing a build! Also, its the first time in over a year since the pit has seen day light!. Enjoy, let me know what you think.........Harv

 

 

 

 

 

bufflehead wrote:

stik - your LAV is looking very nice!  Can't wait to see her all finished up!  I've tried Polly Scale paint and love it for basecoats, but I have a real problem using it for detail painting like camo patterns.  The tip dry is terrible!  Do you have any tips? dirtball - wow! that's a big F-105!!  The paint job is beautiful!  Its going to look awesome when done! dupes - you've got unfinished builds??  What about your entries for the 1000 Roadwheels GB??  (like I should ask!!!)

Ernest, I often have problems with drying in the tip of my airbrush when using polly scale, although that did not happen this time. I suppose the main reason for that was because I over thinned the paint. When I do get clogging I keep a micro brush or pipe cleanere handy to dip in Testors universal acrylic thinner to clean it out real quick.

Dupes, nice build. Good luck with the decals, my friend

Not really an update. Nothing done lately on the 105...but the F-86, well...I didn`t like it. Tore the whole thing apart to save the pit. Gonna start all over again and use another fuse WITH DETAIL, and not sand all of it off. I`ll post more soon...........Harv

 Another update, but if you want pics you`ll have to go over to Aircraft. For some dumb reason, I`m haveing a hell of a time trying to post pics. So for now if you would like to see it, go over there. Thanks.............Harv

Thank you! I`m working on the canon right now. One step at a time! Glad you looked in...........Harv

Here she is, guys, Zvezda's (ex-Dragon) 1:35 BRT-70 sprayed into the closest equivalent to the grey base colour the Russians used in Afghanistan, British Dark Sea Grey (Tamiya XF-54), overall.

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Next up with be the green disruptive pattern, again in acrylics. With the heat down in Aus at the moment I have to extend the thinner ratio by 20% to try to offset drying speed, but even so it's a teensy bit rough. That's okay for armor. Another trick is spray early in the morning or late in the evening to avoid the heat, or run the airconditioning and get the workshop cooled right down before painting.

Note that the grenade pitcher mounted on the turret has been omitted. The parts were tiny and fragile (displaying their Dragon pedigree), had no location devices and broke when touched, so I'll leave them out. This vehicle hasn't been fitted with it yet!

I've been holding off finishing this one for ages because I couldn't figure out what to do about the front vision flaps. I wanted to do them up but that would mean masking the windows, and as they were simply transparent plastic stuck to the back of the window component I couldn't think of a way to mask them that would not dislodge the clear sheet and have it fall into the interior. The answer is simple, spray the window area before assembly and rough-mask it -- so I'll do that on another BTR kit at some point and do this one with the armored flaps lowered. Of course, like any kit with openable parts, posing them closed reveals the fact they don't fit very well!

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Hi Dupes -- as far as I know it's identical, though some extra details may have been added. On their issue of the T-72B Zvezda molded an alternate set of roadwheels, and I'm not sure if the ERA edition was a Dragon option or a Zvezda update. And I'm STILL searching for a set of vinyl tracks for that thing, as the L&Ls are blown in a kind of plastic that is brittle and so unfriendly to glue that I gave up on the first attempt...

Cheers, Mike/TB379

dirtball wrote:

Nice target!!

HEHE!!  Good one dirtball!!

BTW, nice set of wheels ya got there!

T-Bolt - your "target" is looking good!  Hope it stays out of the site of any F-105s!!