Nice tank & congratulations!

Terry - I like how that turned out, nice one!

regards,

Jack

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After seeing these shots I thought i'd add a couple more, this was a challenging build but it's finally in. One think I wanted to show is a vehicle that was recently out of the water and fresh rust on some metal cleats over older rust. With the camera it looks a lot brighter than what it is, I may have to mute it a bit but overall I'm very happy with the overall look. I checked as many pictures as I could and detailed it out to include wear on the rudders and chips and scrapes on the props from coral. I would've scraped the underneath of the front pontoon but it would show anyway. The connecting cable was a bit more work than I thought and I didn't glue on the front pontoon that plays into a diorama I have planned. 

Oh that looks sweet! Excellent work jibber!

Nice finish Terry!!! Look forward to seeing the diorama in the future.

Thanks for the nice comments, this one took a while.

Terry

Great work Terry!

Yeah Terry she's fantastic- I love the weathering!!! I'll get you posted to the front page tonight.

I hope you'll post your diorama here too when you get to it.

I'm tied down with GB's and other commitments right now that has me working into the fall, but I'm planning to complete 5 Dio's over the winter months. Thanks for the nice comment and I'd love to post it when I'm through. My original thought is a beach scene where the Japanese are dropping the pontoons while advancing through some jungle inward.  

Five dios!?! Wow! Well if you don't get to her by the end of the year if you don't mind at least post her over on the diorama forum. I love your idea and want to see how she works out.

Indeed, the diorama idea would be keen too see that.

I was just wondering about the weathering, would there be any salt staining from the seawater?

regards,

Jack

Jack I thought so, so I checked a lot of landing craft and the only salt stains that were really visible were ones modelers put on. I did see some that were pretty subtle but that was about it. I tried on a damaged sub but it just didn't look right so I passed on that idea and stuck with stuck sand, dust and grime. These things were really beat up, if I had followed some of these pics it would have looked like garbage. I'll find one as an example and post it.

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The top two are real Ka Mi's, check out how bad they really look, I found that consistent with their equipment. If I would have mimicked that it would have really looked like crap, so I took some liberties and cleaned it up a bit. The bottom pic is from another builder, it shows salt stains but he couldn't get the sides to look that good but a nice jon none the less.

Not much to look at if you checked out the nice Box Art. 

Terry: What you've done looks pretty darn close to the real thing in your photos to me.

Jibber, great pics ... and I know what you mean about choosing a finish that combines looking good as well as real.

Just had another thought, how about preparing a salt bath for your build?  Try it first  on something you don't mind experimenting on.  Dip in the saltwater for a bit, and then let it drip dry and see if any salt  accumulates around details or creates stains  to determine if it's worthwhile?

One more out of the ordinary detail,  a seagull dropping or two?

regards,

Jack

Some great weathering there!  Salt bath, that's a very interesting idea - perhaps a bath with some other 'whitish' substance will work also.

I tried some whitish pigment but I couldn't get the horizontal lines right, maybe thats a technique I need to work on. I may have to draw the line on the bird poop……..

If you want bird poop, let me park my car under a tree, wait an hour, and I can give you some great reference photos :)

Thats funny….

Terry- you sir are posted, again kudos, excellent job!

Now I'm tempted to put my tank in a small dio with a large parrot sitting in a tree near the tank and the CO with his pistol out staring the bird down- 'you poop on my shiny new tank and by golly I'll cap your @#E...'.

Now that funny….and thanks GREAT GB.

Excellent tank Jibber  realistic finish touch !

My updates about the sonia

first passes with 102 humbrol and the white stripe on the fuselage

the green reveals some needed sanding and putty work

green on

a mix for the metal base on inner flap parts and the propeller

and drybrush passes on the top

At the next :)

Another great job there Bsyamato- again I love the way you do your pre-shading.

Looking good mato!!

Thanx guys :)

LOL postshading (and highlights) Cliff :) all i can do with brushes is only post working 

asap will ad some other kit, or a rufe, a kurogane staff car ,also i started  ... the starter truck toyota

one or more i'll put in :)

Ah, wrong term- guess I meant post-shading there, still very impressive work - I've never seen anyone else do it that well with a brush.

The Rufe, Kurogane, and starter truck are pretty cool. Do you want me to go and put them down for you?  

Now that I finished my Stuka and can work on my Zero a little more.  Got the pre shade on the bottom. And painted the cowling,  I use the hair spray method on the cowling,  I need more practice with this,  the acrylic paint over the hair spray seemed to be a little sticky.    Any suggestions?  does enamel work better of hair spray than acrylic?

 I still need to chip some more paint off to get it where I want it.

John

John

Bysamato I'm always in awe at great plane builders, this will be a nice addition to your collection.  

John: Nice work there on the pre-shading!

I've tried the hairspray several times and the stickiness usually goes away as it dries, I set aside my kit for a little while to make sure it was completely dry.  I've tried it both by spraying out of the can and by decanting it and airbrushing. I'm not sure about enamel paint, I've used acrylic every time I tried it. The chipping looks fine, I mean you can always take a little more off, you can't put the paint back without redoing the whole thing so you're doing it right in taking it slowly.