Secret Santa 2020/2021 GB

Oh yeah, new airbrush!! Unfortunately now I'm doing the mundane stuff. 5 innings of Pirates baseball and this is all i have to show for it! God this is boring. 3 different colors of red/orange plus some black on the artist's pallet to get some variation...

probably another couple evenings to finish up all the brick.

Chris there is definitely something extra fun about popping open a new airbrush and running some paint through it!

Nice Chris. I should have looked at the spraygunner table 

Got a new Grex airbrush while in Vegas! set everything up today and went looking for something to practice on...how about the bombed out building for my Panther? Yep, that'll do  

I just did the major colors As a base. Thinking to get some elmers filler for all the holes showing up. Doing that and then painting over it should add a layer of patina to the house I hope. Then i can start doing the finish painting. Will get out the brush and the Vallejo colors and go to 

Thank you Sir

Mongoose - the tank looks great!

Castelnuovo - That 262 is fantastic!  I really like that scheme.   

castelnuovo

 

 

BrandonK

Excellent work. That is a very nice build. Everything looks simply spot on, well done.

 

I read an article about shaking hands and modeling and the guy that wrote it used two weighted bags to assist. He rested his hand on one and covered that same hand/wrist with the other. It reduced his tremors so much he was able to produce incredible work. I will have troubles sometimes as well and I will rest my right wrist on my left wrist and then move the left wrist up and down and fine tune with the right hand. I find this to be quite a stable way to paint and assemble those tiny parts. Hope you can find some help with this as modeling with tremors is not fun.

BK

 

 

 

 

 

I do rest my hands on a table or on the other hands or sometimes I have my hands in my lap and that helps a lot. I tried to create some finger weights with a help from an occupational therapist from work. While it helped somewhat it was very akward.

 

BK

BrandonK

Excellent work. That is a very nice build. Everything looks simply spot on, well done.

 

I read an article about shaking hands and modeling and the guy that wrote it used two weighted bags to assist. He rested his hand on one and covered that same hand/wrist with the other. It reduced his tremors so much he was able to produce incredible work. I will have troubles sometimes as well and I will rest my right wrist on my left wrist and then move the left wrist up and down and fine tune with the right hand. I find this to be quite a stable way to paint and assemble those tiny parts. Hope you can find some help with this as modeling with tremors is not fun.

BK

 

I do rest my hands on a table or on the other hands or sometimes I have my hands in my lap and that helps a lot. I tried to create some finger weights with a help from an occupational therapist from work. While it helped somewhat it was very akward.

Thank you all

MC, the first pic will be fine.

castelnuovo

Dear Secret Santa,

Thanks a million for this gift. It was an absolute pleasure to build it. It went together perfectly. Believe or not, the most challenging part for me was putting on those machinegun lids. With two shaking hands and nothing to support them in instaling them it was harder then people would think. But they turned out well. Thanks again, see you in the next Secret Santa GB.

 

I read an article about shaking hands and modeling and the guy that wrote it used two weighted bags to assist. He rested his hand on one and covered that same hand/wrist with the other. It reduced his tremors so much he was able to produce incredible work. I will have troubles sometimes as well and I will rest my right wrist on my left wrist and then move the left wrist up and down and fine tune with the right hand. I find this to be quite a stable way to paint and assemble those tiny parts. Hope you can find some help with this as modeling with tremors is not fun.

BK

TheMongoose

Thanks Guys

Ive got the euro spray mud, metal dry brush on the tracks, and flat coat on. Let me know what you think about the mud and tracks...

Heres a few overall

Now to relax for a day Before heading to Vegas!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BK

Excelent job Castel. Which pic do you want for the wall?

Super looking 262! That camo really pops in your pics 

Dear Secret Santa,

Thanks a million for this gift. It was an absolute pleasure to build it. It went together perfectly. Believe or not, the most challenging part for me was putting on those machinegun lids. With two shaking hands and nothing to support them in instaling them it was harder then people would think. But they turned out well. Thanks again, see you in the next Secret Santa GB.

Big like from me too.

I sure do like it.

Thanks Guys

Ive got the euro spray mud, metal dry brush on the tracks, and flat coat on. Let me know what you think about the mud and tracks...

Heres a few overall

Now to relax for a day Before heading to Vegas!

That is really looking very good. 

BK

That looks great Chris

The tank itself and most of the weathering is all done. Drying now before i flat coat it. It still looks a little green on my iphone. It's a little more yellow and brown in person. 

I went back over the tracks with 2 shades of brown vallejo wash. Much better. All that's left is mud and some steel drybrushing on the individual tracks. Once that's done I'll post a few close ups and you guys can let me know what you think.

when i get back from Vegas will work on the figures and diorama base again.

castelnuovo

Some more progress here

 

BK

TheMongoose

I'm finally finished with my deck repair project. Which means I was able to spend some time n the paint booth! Today's goal was to paint the camo and start the tracks.

 I think the camo will look good under some weathering. I decided to try free handing the green. If it had sprayed like the yellow it would have been a no-go. For some reason the yellow wanted to spritz out of the airbrush instead of spray lol. The green thinned down nice though. I can still see some dots from stopping and starting tho. Those are the ones that will probably blend in when it's weathered. Fingers crossed. Any other ideas toss them my way.

 

next up was the tracks. Washed in soap and water a few days ago. Primered in black. Mottled on some earthen brown, panzer dark rust, and a light rust. Oversprayed with steel and then some more earth. 

id like to say they look better in person...but I'd be lying! I think when i sprayed the steel (from about 12" away) it still just covered too much. I'm going to have to go check out some of BK's tracks in other threads i think. Maybe just some pigments and some brush painting? Other ideas?

 

 

 

As far as your tracks go, they look great at this point for your base. Now, get a rust wash and cover them with it and let it dry. Then mottle it is places, randomly, with earth tones to break up the rust some, don't over do this part. Then dry brush on steel or silver on the outer edges of the tracks and the areas they would scrape the hard ground, again, don't over do this. Then with all that dry get some pigments and mug them up some inside and between the treads and use the same pigments on the road wheels as well. Then they will be done. You can use a hair dryer to speed things up and move faster if you wish. Good luck, its all a matter of layers.

BK

Chris, there's a ton of stuff on YouTube for tracks.

I'm finally finished with my deck repair project. Which means I was able to spend some time n the paint booth! Today's goal was to paint the camo and start the tracks.

 I think the camo will look good under some weathering. I decided to try free handing the green. If it had sprayed like the yellow it would have been a no-go. For some reason the yellow wanted to spritz out of the airbrush instead of spray lol. The green thinned down nice though. I can still see some dots from stopping and starting tho. Those are the ones that will probably blend in when it's weathered. Fingers crossed. Any other ideas toss them my way.

next up was the tracks. Washed in soap and water a few days ago. Primered in black. Mottled on some earthen brown, panzer dark rust, and a light rust. Oversprayed with steel and then some more earth. 

id like to say they look better in person...but I'd be lying! I think when i sprayed the steel (from about 12" away) it still just covered too much. I'm going to have to go check out some of BK's tracks in other threads i think. Maybe just some pigments and some brush painting? Other ideas?

Sorry guys, I haven't been getting notifications of updates.

Mongoose, I'd like to do an armot dio but not sure I have the skill. Looking cool.

Castel, Wing fitting issues or not, it's looking good.

Some more progress here

Here we are so far. The fuselage and everything in it went together perfectly. The wings however put up a major fight. Trim here, trim there, trim some more and the darn thing wouldn't fit. So trim and trim some more and in it went. Not perfectly but well enough.

Wow great paint!

lol don't worry about me BK I wouldn't ask if I didn't want to hear some opinions  Hell I would have rationalized why they were all looking in random directions if I'd gotten to paint. Now i can break those heds loose and get them looking at the officer. Before i had a different scene but goldhammer's thought about setting up the building so i had room for rubble from the window appealed to me more. Setting up abunch of people is all new so you guys throw out any ideas you have. I won't be finalizing anything for a few days. Need to let the paint dry on the tank and then do the camo pattern. I had the right colors in vallejo model color so extra drying time for these. Also picked up a circle template today so i could do the road wheels and that really kicked off the painting mode!

TheMongoose

Hey guys let me know your thoughts on these two layouts...

 

i think i like the 3rd one a little more.  Seems more balanced.  The 2nd one is next up. Let me know what you think.

 

 

 

BK