Bish

Nice work Eagle. So, your hooked on Armour, we can soon cure that, a nice Dragon kit should do the trick. No, I wouldn't worry about the wheels.

Thank you Bish!  Means a lot!  A Dragon kit......I'm tempted to get one to see what you speak of!    But I am now afraid! 

So dark wheel wheels and dirty them up well!  I can't wait to see the finished build!

Eagle90

Nice work Eagle. So, your hooked on Armour, we can soon cure that, a nice Dragon kit should do the trick. No, I wouldn't worry about the wheels.

Thanks Pyrman64!  I'm pretty excited about my first camo job and getting her finished!

Eagle90

Eagle: that Puma's a good looking kitty!

On a related "Today in history" note: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.

BarrettDuke

Hey, Eagle90. Really nice work. I'm about to start the camo on mine. I like the way the fading turned out. Congrats.

Hey Duke, thank you so much!  It was a little scary at first, but once I got it going.....it was COOL!  Be sure to post pics of yours!  And if you have any advice for future camo jobs...let me know!  Thanks again!

Eagle90

CodyJ

Eagle90- Looks good man!  It kinda fun camouflaging when you get going huh!  Good looking Puma!

Thank you Cody!  It IS fun!  I was really nervous at first and thought I was going to use all the paint "practicing"!  But it turned out pretty good for my first time.  I think I'm hooked on armor now!  Thanks again!

Eagle90

Hey, Eagle90. Really nice work. I'm about to start the camo on mine. I like the way the fading turned out. Congrats.

Eagle90- Looks good man!  It kinda fun camouflaging when you get going huh!  Good looking Puma!

Man, there are some great looking builds here!  Very impressive everyone!

Right, so remember, this is my first armor build like this.  I did some research on the camo and had a lot of help from Prof. Bish (thank you my friend), and this is my first ever attempt at airbrushing camo!  So be gentle!  

I still need to do the extras that get thrown on the Puma and do the wheels (I don't think the wheels got any camo did they?).

Sorry for the lighting on the first few pics.  It was the Dark Green.

Eagle90

We are now into the last months of the GB. And from the looks of it, we are going to have quite a few cross the finish line before ENDEX.

Keep em coming.

Lucky you caught that when you did Greg.

Barrett, looking good. Don't worry, the camo will be a breeze.

Thanks, Jack. I appreciate it. I think I like the fine detailing work more than the actual building part.

Thanks, Gamera. Yep, Got it darkened with caked on dirt film, now for some dirt deposits, grease, grime, rust, and dust.

Ack Greg, one thing I hate doing is REdoing stuff, well at least you caught it before getting any further.

BD: Looks good! The mud came out great!

Greg - good call on the recognition stars, my Canadian Firefly should of had them too, including one for air recognition, but my photo references did not show any.  I think in many instanceces they did not have time to apply them, or were covered up after a few days in the battle zone.

There was also  coloured air recognition panels, but not much info out there on these.   Here's an example on a French tank:

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Duke - cool work on the Geschutzwagen.

Stik -  going to town with the scratchbuild interior, really incredible.

regards,

Jack

OK, I'm getting there with my 10.5cm sparty. Here are a few pics as it starts coming together.

I'm just starting to do the weathering on the lower section. I did some stressing and have 4 filters on it so far. I found some great Pollyscale paints for filters/weathering. One is called "Dirt." It's the best looking dirt color I've found. Vallejo makes one but when you thin it, it looks mostly green. This Pollyscale retains its color even when it's thinned.

And here are a few more:

I'm having a lot of fun with this. There is still lots of detail work to do everywhere, and then to the dreaded camo!

After I made my previous post, I went and took a look at reference pics I have for 2AD - I found that 2AD did not have any national markings on the hulls! DOH!!  So I had to remove the offending stars, here's a few pics....

 it was easy enough to remove the markings with Tamiya masking tape

  but after removing the stars, I noticed this was left on the model.

I replaced the star with this marking on the turret roof

{note to self: check references before putting on markings!}

O well 68, sometimes we just have to say it will do. Something we can chalk down to experience.

Blacksheep, nice heads up, thanks. It seems the model companies are getting in on it as well, I have seen several decals sets for the Normandy campaign and Airfix have released there really out fort sets.

Cody, Greg, and SP those look great guys!!!

68GT: Dang, those stripes look perfect other than the width- going back and repainting them sucks.

I know I posted this in a different thread but this is worthy for The Longest Day Group Build. Last night, I went to Barnes and Nobles with intention to buy Fly Past magazine. Unfortunately the newest issue wasn't in yet but I did find a worthy June issue of Air Classic. This issue is a 70th Anniversary Commemorative Edition to D-Day. Buy it before they're gone! LOL!

No, just kind of over this one and want to be done.  measure with a scale and marked with pencil but when I taped thing they just didn't turn out exactly they way things were meant to be.

I'm going to have to make some of the white thinner and black wider.

Nice work, but those black stripes in the fuselage do look thinner than the white. Is it meant to be that way.

Stripes look good though, but am wondering if you purposely have uneven widths to those applied on the fuselage?

regards,

Jack

Dam it!  I started off that way also.

Yes, the tail recognition stripes should be white on the OD & NG surfaces and black over bare metal.

Cody, love the 190, great work on the paint scheme.

Greg, that's looking really nice.

Stik, some really nice detailing there.

Pyr, your M-4 looks great!!! It's so clean!!!

Cody, your 190 is looking great as well. Getting close to the finish line...

Today I added the external framwork to the waist guns ammo bin mount and came up with a way to suspend it from the tail- using a spacer between the cans that runs up into the tail made from 1mm strips

external framing

the cans with the spacer/suspender mount

the whole assembly glued together

and test fitted in place

Pyrman, looks great so far, I can't wait to see it finished. Cody, she's a beauty - I always thought 190s were gorgeous planes.

Cody: nice looking 190.

Stik: nice job on the ammo bins.

Last week I was busy working a double shift and taking my CCW class...not much modeling toime, but I did get the hull painted, but no pics taken.

Last night I got a couple hours in at the LHS and was able to get the national markings and the registration numbers on the Sherman.  Here's a few pics....

As soon as I decide which tank I'm doing, I can get the unit and tank name on.  All markings are Archer Fine Transfers.