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Bill - thanks! Pretty soon your Tiger should be done, then we can have a little rumble. My Firefly will be hiding somewhere in the shrubbery.
TD4438 - grateful for your comments. I wouldn't call it perfect, as I know where all the warts and blemishes are. One thing I didn't like was the burnt umber weathering powder on the lowers, suppose to be mud but looks more like rust.
regards,
Jack
jgeratic TD4438 - grateful for your comments...... suppose to be mud but looks more like rust. regards, Jack
TD4438 - grateful for your comments...... suppose to be mud but looks more like rust.
The photo looks (to me) more like dried red mud with dust.
That's gorgeous, Jack!
The only thing ti need, in my opinion, is a little bit of semi-gloss fuel stains around the filler caps. And maybe put a little bit of gloss on that fuel spill there. That will break up monotone flatness a bit.
The running gear looks great by the way. I like the dusty weathering,
Jack that is absolutely beautiful!! You did a FANTASTIC job on that little Tamiya kit, with the TW conversion and all the problems along the way! Painting and weathering are fabulous, a work of art!
Now here's something interesting. I was watching WWII In Color a couple of nights ago and the episode was about the Normandy landings. While showing scenes of the battles around Caen there was a scene of a German vehicle passing a knocked out Firefly that looked to have the same markings as "Chaser". I replayed the scene a few times on my DVR, pausing and advancing frame by frame and I could swear the vehicle did indeed have the name "Chaser" on it, but it was just barely visible at the correct spot on the side of the hull! Can you lend any insight on this?
Ernest
Last Armor Build - 1/35 Dragon M-26A1, 1/35 Emhar Mk.IV Female
Last Aircraft Builds - Hobby Boss 1/72 F4F Wildcat & FW-190A8
disastermaster - thanks for describing what you see.
the doog - thanks a bunch! I'll see what I can do about glossing up the fuel spills this weekend. I'll also add some colour to the headlights - I totally forgot those.
Ernest - happy to see you here and voicing your approval. I'm curious about the film segment in question, but was it also in colour? I've only seen it in b/w... but yes, if one of the scenes includes an SS officer riding around in a captured universal carrier with a star on it's side, then that is the same film.
Hi Jack,
congratulations on your build, I keep coming back to the blog and with a big smile on my face.
That M2 is just amazing but you have so many "final touches" :)
Thank you for sharing, love the trick with the tracks!
Very Best Regards
Johan
Johan, thanks very much!
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So, got the headlights painted:
Added some semi-gloss around filler caps and stains, as well as more dirt colour on rear deck since infantry were known to hitch a ride there.
Tried another round of light dust on the lower hull. Seems the camera is the culprit here ... under naked eye it looks like beach sand, but soon as it goes to digital it turns red on me. If i try to adjust the red, that will effect the olive colour of the tank. So yea, time to move on to the next project.
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