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1/76th Airfox WWI Female Tank

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  • From: Philadelphia PA
1/76th Airfox WWI Female Tank
Posted by smeagol the vile on Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:28 PM

Did this for fun over a few days.

Spray painted it a medium green.

Mixed a green the exact same color as the base in oils, put it in about 8 or 9 different spots on a pallets and tainted each one with a dot of green, or red, or white, or yellow, or orange, or blue or whatever.

Put each of those colors onto the separate metal armor panels.

I used a flat brush to get most of it off just leaving a tint left.

Black oil wash.

Treads are hand painted silver, then a darkish rustish reddish brown color.

I gave that a black wash like the other

then wiped most of it off and some of the red, leaving some of the metal through.

I didn't wana dirty it up

 




 

 

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  • From: Perth, Western Australia
Posted by madmike on Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:34 PM

Nice work! I have ground to a halt on the Emhar Mk1 Male, so might drag the Airfix equivalent out of the stash and try with that after seeing your build.

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Posted by Scorpiomikey on Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:34 PM

1:76th, odd scale. gotta love box scales eh?.

She looks real good. Very clean.

Hope omaka has their 3rd scale subaru one again this year lol.

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Posted by madmike on Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:41 PM

Scorpiomikey

1:76th, odd scale. gotta love box scales eh?.

1:76 is not a box scale, rather a scale matching the railway scale of OO. This was deliberately done by armour kit manufacturers of the 1960's - 70's. Airfix led the way and Matchbox and Fujimi followed.

It is not so popular today as 1:72 but there still are a lot of 1:76 kits sold by both the original manufacturers (Matchbox = Revell) and aftermaket manufacturers such as Cromwell and Milicast.

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Posted by Scorpiomikey on Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:58 PM

Oh, i stand corrected. You learn something new every day.

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Posted by smeagol the vile on Sunday, February 20, 2011 8:07 PM

I tried doing a Emhar 1/35th Whippet, but the instructions were not the best for the armor plates on the turrets and I ended up getting frustrated with it and put it away

 

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Posted by TD4438 on Monday, February 21, 2011 12:37 PM

Nice job.I swear this kit is a well kept secret!

Could you get us a few close up shots?

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Posted by smeagol the vile on Monday, February 21, 2011 12:40 PM

There isn't THAT much closer I can get to the girl, shes a small kit.  But Ill try, its not my camera its my parents so I dont know how to work it well

 

Dre
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Posted by Dre on Monday, February 21, 2011 3:03 PM

Nice work on that, Smeagol.  If you decide to resurrect that Whippet, I'd suggest a set of AM tracks for it, that kit tracks are awful.

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Posted by smeagol the vile on Monday, February 21, 2011 3:13 PM

I got it at a show and when I opened it there were AM tracks in the box.  I only paid like 10$ for the kit.

I also broke one of the Mg barrels off, I HAVE the broken barrel but I dont feel like going through the pain of reattaching it.  Also the way the armor of the turret is set up once you glue it its not ungluing so I cant go inside and take the barrel out and make my own.

 

Dre
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Posted by Dre on Monday, February 21, 2011 3:51 PM

The Emhar MG's are bad.... definately replace or upgrade them.  Even a brass tube would be an improvment.

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Posted by Victorious Secret on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:22 PM

Brother SV,

Nice subtle weathering on the armor plate.  The more I look at it, the more I wish you build a vignette of it hehe~ Stick out tongue

VS

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