Did I succeed? Yes and no.
I'd wanted to build two tigers from s.Pz.Abt. 510 in Kurland in January 1945, rolling across a snow-covered base, and had all the stuff ready. I worked on them until around 2:30am Sunday morning, then got up at around 9 knowing I'd have all day to do it.
So I get up and start building and just finish the wheels, which completed the model, when I get a call that there's a bankruptcy alert for one of our borrowers and I have to come nito the office. Ok, I think, how bad can this be? I'd gotten essentally all of the building done. The base was also well under way. So I go into Manhattan, ruffled but not defeated.
I get back at 9pm. [:0]
So I have to paint the tanks, finish putting the snow over the frozen ground on the diorama, and then put the whitewash on the tanks. I planned to use Tamiya Flat base as a whitewash.
I almost did it.
But in the end it was the Tamiya flat base that defeated me. The paint wasn't sufficiently dry for it to turn uniformly white throughout, basically defeating me -- there was nothing I could do. It looked terrible.
So I did get a Tiger done -- the one I didn't put the Tamiya flat base on. The other one's done too, but it has this ugly white stuff smeared over certain parts and the three-color scheme is coming through on others.
Then again, I put only a crude three-color scheme on the two Tigers, as I had intended them to be mostly covered by whitewash anyway. So it's a toss-up whether even the un-whitewashed Tiger is "done."
Serves me right. Had I been less ambitious, the call from the office would not have thrown me off. As it is, I did not achieve my goal, but came close.
Oh well, I'll read all the posts tomorrow. Thanks to ausf for hosting this! It was quite a challenge, I did get the Tigers done, and I will finish the diorama tomorrow and post pics of that too.