Nice work everyone, update on the 232 RAD 8 - Monday's a holiday hope to finish up the PE and antenna and get some paint on it. Armor86

Wayne: Fantastic work on that Bedford! I love the weathering!

Don: Your Pz.III is looking awesome! Very sharp work on the tools and sandbags!

Mike: Looking very good! I really like the look of that desert camo!

Nice work Mike.

Hi Guys,

Jibber, love the 251, must build that one!

Right, today's progress -- I decided the white was too thin so remasked and firmed it up, then mounted the air filter and satin coated the whole aircraft. It doesn't sound like much but that's the day's work. Re the filter, my lesson is learned, I thought I was being so clever assembling and spraying it separately, so all I had to do was slap it into place afterward, avoiding the difficulties of masking behind it. Except the fit is hideous and there's a clear gap I can't do anything about because the paint's on now (and being homebrewed, I can't expect to spot it invisibly if I mix more)... Hmph! In future, when doing tropical aircraft, I'll mount the main intake before painting, and add the extended filter section later...

Decals coming up, also I can assemble the prop, panel wash and final seal, then it's into final assembly and detail panting.

Cheers, M/TB379

PS: Last night I did oil streaking on the underside using burnt umber in white spirit, and used the same mix for streaking behind filler caps and drains too.

At least your in this GB. I once posted progress pics in a GB thread I wasn't even part of.

I did, my apologies.

Mike, great work on the 109.

jibber, I think you may have joined the club of posting in the wrong GB. Don't worry, I have done it myself.

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Finally this is how the searchlight will look like with the tinted lenses. That was exhausting, I had to log out for each  picture. Anyway I feel better locating the sprues now I'm moving on this build, I think this tint will make a realistic infrared light.   

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I chose not to set in the passenger seat to add stowage and these pics are a little out of sequence. I've located my missing clear sprue bag in my Meng AUSF box. I'll add a pic of those lenses when they're painted.   

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Started my AFV 1/35 German UHU. I'm having problems with Photobucket but here are a couple pics of how I started. My next series of pics will be on the searchlight and lenses. I had to scratch out some lenses and after experimenting with different "Clear Red and Purple" I think I've found the right color combination for the lenses.   

Is it too late to join this GB?  I am new to the hobby and thought participating in a GB would be a good place to start.  I have a 1/35 Tamiya Pz IVD sitting on the shelf.

As promised, I masked the 78 and homebrewed the 79 (Tamiya's recommendation of XF-59 to XF-64 at 2:1), skewed a tiny bit in favour of the redbrown, and thinned a smidgeon over the odds to help with misting. Here's the mask job:

And the overall paintjob with primary masking away:

Demasking scuffed the right wingtip, I might need to remask and splash some extra white. I'm a bit concerned that too much preshade showed through the white areas -- what do you think?

Next job is to oil wash the oil and dirt streaks from the engine on the underside, maybe some subtle streaking of fluids elsewhere, then the first clearcoat and it's onto the finishing leg.

M/TB379

jgeratic

Don - PzIII looking great, and nice workmanship on the scratchbuilt fuel rack.....

Jack:  Thanks for the comments and suggestions but I can't take credit for scratching the fuel rack.  I used the rack from the Dragon PzIIIN kit

This weekend, will try to blend the camo with some dilute over sprays and do some weathering with pigments.  Hopefully, new photos in a day or two.

Don

Don - I use ak DAK  filter with the DAK Tiger and it lighten - tone down the camo. Armor86

Mike: Looking good!

Jack: Nice work there on your Tiger, I've been trying to get good dust effects, think I'll try something similar to your technique there.  

RLM 78 done -- the wheel wells were masked with tape, tissue and rubber solution, the RLM 02 I put on yesterday is not holding the surface every well at all so I'll have to see what needs touching up when the masking comes off... I homebrewedthe 78 from XF-2, XF-23 and a single spot of XF-18, as the other mixes I've seen struck me as not quite blue enough or way too grey...

I'll mask and homebrew the 79 tomorrow, and this one is into the finishing stage...

M/TB379

Dan - neat PE work on that wagon

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Wayne - very detailed weathering on that frame, looks great!

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Mike - textbook application of the pre-shading, but really like how you've varied it with the airbrush.

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Don - PzIII looking great, and nice workmanship on the scratchbuilt fuel rack.  The brown camou you've applied is not the colour prescribed by the tropical scheme directives, but you never know, the crew (or field workshop) might have found some other paint to use instead.

If you are looking to apply a wash to lighten colour, you might have to look at a concrete colour or light sand/dust.  If you don't have any of the Florys wash products, you can mix your own using a light coloured weathering powder, a drop of dish soap and water.  The added benefit of doing this "dust" wash is it accumulates around recessed detail.  

I'd suggest practicing on some scrap first.  You can also wipe off before it dries to get a sort of streaked effect, like I did here with my Tiger build:

regards,

Jack

More progress to report. The white theatre markings were masked and today, instead of the RLM 78, I decided to spray the RLM 02 details -- it simply makes masking easier to tackle in this order. First masks in place:

And 02 grey sprayed:

So, drying time for this one (MM Acryl) and I'll aim for the 78 tomorrow. Maybe even tonight, we'll see!

Cheers, M/TB379

Gamera

Wayne: Looks good, love the dirty grimy look you've got on the chassis there.

Mike: Nice work on the pre-shading- she's coming along great.

  Great weathering work on the chassis Wayne.  So much effort for something that will be hard to view on the completed model.  But that's why we take in progress photos... regardless of whether it's visible or not, we all know that it is there...

Also looking forward to seeing the trop scheme on the 109.

And thanks to everyone for the advice on the PzIIIJ.  The overall color tone of the model is about as dark as I want it.  My concern is that doing additional washes will darken it more, which I don't want to occur.  My plan then is to try to blend and weather with highly diluted sprays of base coat and Buff and weather only with pigments.  We'll see how that works...

As an aside, has anybody ever done a wash that lightens the base coat?  In my experience, washes always darken the base coat, even if by only a small amount. 

Don

Wayne: Looks good, love the dirty grimy look you've got on the chassis there.

Mike: Nice work on the pre-shading- she's coming along great.

Hi guys,

I've been away a couple of days but got back last night and got back to work on the 109 today. I've restored a panel line or two, assembled the tropical filter, masked the oil rad and pitot locator. The only parts left to add are the aileron mass balances, which I'll do tomorrow. I got the plane into preshade before I left, and did the hinge line down the cowling in .005" plastic. Here's he evidence:

Next, canopy into interior colour:

Then onto preshade, done with NATO black and the #1 size tip and needle:

This evening I painted the white theatre markings and spinner and will let them dry overnight, so my job in the morning will be to mask all white areas, add the mass balances, then mix and apply the RLM 78 to the underside. I plan on allowing it overnight drying also, and am going to take a crack at soft-masking the long edge between colours. I'm hoping to be decaling by Saturday -- I won't say actually finished over the weekend, though that would be great!

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Liking the work on the cab there Wayne. Off to a great start.

Don, very nice. I really like the sandbags.

wayne, really nice work there as well. Great builds guys.

Don I love the camo and I agree with Armor that it's very difficult to make out camo shades from all these B&W photos, but I do think your camo theme is how I've tried to paint many of my builds. Although, some of these museum pieces are totally different from the photos and maybe its because they're clean up and painted over????

Wayne what a job on that frame, just outstanding. Another great build.

Don -- it looks GREAT! the sandbags look uber-realistic now they're painted, and the overall paintwork is quality!

M/TB379

PS: had a couple of days away, will resume the Bf 109 today, last round of work before she hits the paint shop. Still no delivery on my hex rod to get back to superdetailing the Panzer... :-(

my TIGER is sitting in the pile in my study staring at me. it's on top of a pair of 1/24 UNIMOG 4x4 emergency and a couple of 1/24 german fire trucks.  in the eveing when i am on the computer and the lights are low it whispers to me. but i digress. here is to date on BEDFORD 4x4. chassis is done except for some touch up weathering that got knocked off in handling.

and this is the last time i leave off a single piece exhaust system until the end. easier to paint than try to work around braces. this has more pieces than your TIGER suspension (not counting the track) i primed in gray and washed with heavy raw umber sludge and texturing with artist oils and pastel mix which doesn't stay on well. some pin washing with umber and black and MMA dirt

overall painted in MMA sand which was really thin so it took a few coats. will pin wash the cargo bed and cab exterior after it's built.

Don: Looks fantastic to me! If the colour is a little off it will change after weathering and filters and that good stuff so I wouldn't sweat it too much.

That's looking fine Don. Great work.

Nice work Don - I have seen color plates in reference books with the dark brown two tone camo however with the heavy dust it's hard to see in b/w photos. Armor86