Whic is easier? Armor or Aircraft?

So you use vinyl tracks exclusively? I've used them before but I'm not sure how to get the proper sag out of 'em, or how to ensure they sit snug against the road wheels.

Sometimes I have to adjust the idler (best for tracks with return rollers), same as on a real track-laying vehicle, other times I just glue the tracks to the roadwheels or return rollers, using dowels inserted in betweeen the them, making sure that they get glued down to the side of each wheel a little, or I use some thread to pull the center of the track down, tying it around the axle, on tracks like the M109, M113-series or T-55/T-62...  A little gunk in there, like grass or weeds hanging down, hides the thread...  Whatever the method, they're always on a diorama...  Hides a lot of "sins"...  Can't stand building Gate Guards...

B17Pilot

Borg R3-MC0:

As for most difficult: figures, painting them is so difficult!

 

Agree, I hate painting figures

Figure-painting isn't as tough as most folks think... The uniforms and equipment are really no different than painting any other small details that most modelers do every day in cockpits and on engines...   The faces don't have to be layed 15 times with "filters" and shaded with oils in 27 places either... And they don't need "eyes" in 90% of the cases...  Soldiers are in the sun a lot, and when you're in the sun, you squint... Black/Dark Brown slits will do... Paint the rest of the face with a good flesh-color (I like Testor's MM Radome Tan), then a dark wash, 5-o'clock shadow with charcoal, and drybrush with lightened Radome Tan... 

Wash and drybrush the uniforms, and you're done...  Keep in mind that I'm talking about 1/35th and smaller, and not photographing them so that they appear 12 inches tall... I paint them as they will be viewed, at normal distances..

If you REALLY want easy faces, do 'em wearing camo-paint on their faces (See my Avatar)...  Loam (in the shadow areas) and Light Green (in the shine areas) for woodland areas, Tan (in the shadow areas) and Loam (in the shine areas) for Deserts, burnt-cork (charcoal dust) for WW2 paratroopers... 

Actually, the Light Green is a Dark Green and the Loam is a Light Green... Don't ask me, I didn't name 'em...

HVH

Thks for the KH