World at War 1939-1940 Group Build

Nice Big Boy, MC!  There's a kind of metallic luster to it.  What is the scale?

Bish

A ground launched missile GB sounds good, but I hope you will wait a while, there is a limit on how many GB i can be in.

hey BISH i intend to wait until march to even announce. assuming i did ok on hosting the BRAILLE SCALE GB i may get shanghaied into hosting a 2015 one..but i can start a list of weapons systems. 

hey TERRY

if you want detail get the 1/35 one. seriously you can't see inside the cab so i wouldn't worry about that. as BISH said i have done a few and i don't weather a lot. ;weathering locomotives is like weathering modern trucks. the running gear/truck chassis can take on that dark grayish brown color from road grime. some water streaks where the tender, or in the BR86,the boiler saddle tanks, water fill hatches are. some soot along the top from stack exhaust. i wouldn't do any rust or chipping. even in the war REICHSBAHN locomotives had more resources than TIGERs on the eastern front and there was a lot of crew pride. i think i would look at the article i sent and at least halve what they did.

for the base get a 2 long narrow pieces of bass wood, one for the base and one for the "elevated" rail bed, some fine dark gray ballast, dark brown cheap stain, 2 sections of HO rails,  the strips of basswood i mentioned earlier, some cheap modeling clay, and even cheaper gray acrylic artist paint. that's all the materials.

when you get that i will talk you through laying your own track. i'll post pics when photobucket is back up

Checkmate,

It's a 1/87 scale from Revell Germany. I used Floquil Engine Black and Old Silver.

It turned out really nice, mc.  Too bad Testors got out of the Floquil paint line.  I used a number of their colors quite a bit--including the various slivers for NMF, and I liked the variation of blacks they had.

Progress on the forward island:

And the main 16 inch gun turrets:

Test-fitting the pieces together, nothing glued down yet:

And back to more masking:

Gee, I posted these in the wrong thread!!!!

They should be over at the 1944 GB.  

Apologies!  What a dope!!

Looks nice though.

Thanks, mc--but totally inappropriate to this time-space continuum!  

Don't worry Check, at least you are in this GB. You wait until you post progress pics in a GB your not even part of.

Still looks really nice though.

Bish

You wait until you post progress pics in a GB your not even part of.

Still looks really nice though.

You mean that happens!?!??  

checkmateking02

Bish

You wait until you post progress pics in a GB your not even part of.

Still looks really nice though.

You mean that happens!?!??  

I must be out to sea.

And thanks, Bish.

Well, at least once that I know of.

some homemade track

twice that i can remember. will have HOBBYBOSS 1/35 T-35 and BA-10 waiting at COLPAR WEST LHS on wed. good prices too even before IPMS 15% discount.

Outstanding locomotive, Wayne.  Very nicely weathered and realistic.

Track looks good, too, of course!

Wayne I like the way you weathered that 52 and it really toned down the red. The tracks are perfect as is the ballast, nice coloring. Very cool build.

I sprayed a mix base coat of Tamiya German Grey and Flat Black on my BR86, but after seeing it in a photo it seems a little light. In person its hard to determine btw the black primer to this mixture, but I think I'll go back and try again with a bit more flat black. A little tweaking but I think I'm close. After the base coat, I plan on some modulation and pin washes then some final weathering.    

Looks great, jibber.  Nice work!

Great to see some paint on terry, its looking nice.

jibber

Wayne I like the way you weathered that 52 and it really toned down the red. The tracks are perfect as is the ballast, nice coloring. Very cool build.

aw, you're just saying that to get me to co-host the IRON RAILS GB in 2015. i think the color looks fine. you can always darken it up a bit with a black wash but, and i am not a big scale color proponent, in this case it works. i have not had the guts to try mixing colors yet,

i have the HOBBYBOSS T-35 and BA-10 in my grubby little hands. LHS, w/ 15% IPMS discount was a great deal. i can't even believe i am going to say this but both beg for AM interiors. probably won't start until 2015 due to other GB deadlines. 

BISH you know something about that eh?

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A black oil wash on the Loco took the color down a bit and added some needed streaks, I also applied the decals. My next move will be some oil pin washes and dusting and see where I'm at. I also finished the track.  Still at this little guy, Terry 

I think your train is about to stumble into a rather large blockage. The train is looking great.

Thanks Bish, I'm really enjoying this one and I'm planning on a 35th scale BR86 and the AM box set. Next time I'll make my own track, this was basically a walk through to see how it is making a RR kit. Love it.  

Here is my Hurricane with decals on. i will post pix of completed model over the weekend, I juhst need to paint the canopy.

Must say the decals in this kit are some of the best I have used to date, well done airfix.

Theuns thats a nice camo job and the decals are sitting nicely.

Outstanding results, jibber!  Nice work!

That's an excellent Hurricane, Theuns.  Looks like it builds up very well.  It is a really nice job on the camouflage.

And those are the kit decals?  They do look good.

Did you solve the canopy-painting issue?

Nice work on the Hurricane Theuns.

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Since my last posts I applied some pin washes, set in the windows although they're not in these photos, painted the wheels and found out I made a big mistake on the tender. The ladders are upside down…..At least thats not a bad fix I guess. The washes gave it a little shiny look, I'll take that down and finish my assembly. I wish the interior had more to work with but with this little guy you don't always get the detail you're looking for.