Post your MTD experience here!

I know Ausf's got his thread on finished products, but this threads totally devoted to telling everyone your day. I had my digital camera by my side all the time during MTD, so here's my summary of the day. If you have a day full of pics like me, then go ahead and make your post! All comments are welcomed!

START 9:25am

The madness begins!


The kit was revell Germany's 1/72 Tiger 1 Ausf E. It could be made into a mid or late version, but not early version. However, it did come with a set of early version wheels, so with no pictures on how to put them on, I pulled out a completed Tamiya 1/35 early tiger and found out how the wheels worked. I didn't want to do zimmerit, so I wanted to stick with the early version.


Well here's a view of the treads. There's several gaps in them (It's my first 1/72 armor model!) and they were the hardest part of the build. With no tweezers and only CA, I was severly out of luck. (I got so fed up I tried to throw it across the room only to find out I was stuck to the model, so I kept building...)


That last picture may have looked OK, but man this is what she looks like up front. I found a solution to this tread madness...


Plaster of Paris. I used it all over the tank to make mud. This also convienlenty hides the hidious gaps in the treads, so I'm happy! I didn't decided to make a dirty tiger untill after I put on the treads.


I just did a little magic with the plaster and now it's reall muddy!


The completed turret and hull are primed with one of my tamiya acrlyic (always acrylic) greys.


Meanwhile while the primer drys I quickly (they weren't kidding when they said it drys fast!!![:0]) goop some plater into a free AOL cd case that came in the mail. I textured it and made a small little "stream" to take up some space in that corner of the dio. Celluclay takes too long, so plaster of paris became my new best friend!


Then I sprayed the base (after 10 minutes) with tamiya red brown and sprayed heavy future coats on the exposed dirt places. I want to make the tank look like it went through mud, and future's the only way to make it look wet!


Then I mixed white glue and water and put on some static flock grass and poured some future in the "stream" I made in the plaster with my finger.


Meanwhile I applied tamiya dark yellow as the basecoat and followed up with JA green for the mono tone paint scheme. No weathering yet.


Then I handpainted the plaster areas and dry brushed a little here and there to pull off a kind-of convicing mud look. I hand painted the lettering "S33". I think it's the worst part of the tank, but oh well.


I glued the tiger to the dio base and I think I pulled off a pretty good mud look!

FINISH 8:09pm


It's over with, and done!


Revell Germany did an awsome job as usuall! I think it's pretty much like a tamiya 1/35 kit shrunken down![:0] It was that good!


Here's the swamp/stream. I originally planned for the water to be clear, but I put some white glue in the stream to give the water some "body and not just some airbrushed future in a hole. It never quite dried and left a pool of white spots in the stream hole, so I pulled out tamiya clear green and went to town to try to save it! I hope it worked![:0]


Here's a close up of that ugly swamp/stream. Oh well, at least it resembles a body of water...

Thanks for looking and reading this! I hope you had a great Mad Tiger Day! A special thanks to Ausf for organizing this and RonUSMC for hosting my pictures on his website! All comments are welcomed and if you have a "day story" of MTD, feel free to put a huge post like this, it'll be awsome to see your day step by step. Thanks for looking!!!