The First Gulf War 30th Anniversary Build

tempestjohnny

 

 

Glamdring

Hey, that turned out well Johnny!  Thanks for joining and participating! Do you have a preferance on picture for the log?

 

 

 

 

 

Nope whichever you prefer. Thanks

 

 

You have been added, thanks again!

PJ - looks awesome!

I started my entry the other day, after switching projects once again.  All these jets have inspired me to grab a Hasegawa 1/72 AV-8B Harrier.  Thankfully it came with markings for a unit deployed to the Gulf, my income situation has eliminated all for fun spending for the last couple months.

plasticjunkie

Looks great TJ  

 

Decals and Flory wash applied to pop recessed details

Getting the weapons ready for paint and more belly staining/griming

Looks great TJ  

Glamdring

Hey, that turned out well Johnny!  Thanks for joining and participating! Do you have a preferance on picture for the log?

 

 

I like that TJ, nice work.

Hey, that turned out well Johnny!  Thanks for joining and participating! Do you have a preferance on picture for the log?

Looks great Johnny 

Calling this done. Not my best work but it's pretty good.

GD thanks for running this. 

Glamdring

 

 

tempestjohnny

More progress. Somewhat complex pattern

 

 

 

 

 

That is quite a pattern, well done!  Did you use a masking template or free hand it?

 

tempestjohnny

More progress. Somewhat complex pattern

 

That is quite a pattern, well done!  Did you use a masking template or free hand it?

Thanks PJ.

tempestjohnny

More progress. Somewhat complex pattern

 

Thats looking good, makes a change from seeing these in grey.

TJ the scooter is looking good. 

Lovely work there Bish. Nice base too. 

To both.

More progress. Somewhat complex pattern

Thanks, and your welcome.

Bish - Splendid work, it looks great!  Thanks as always for joining and contributing.

Thanks Glamdring.

I wrapped this up last night. Once everything was together i used some pigmenst for final dust effects. I don't have a pic of this vehicle so i based the stowage on the photo's i have found. The fabric flag is from AMP and its a bit bigger that i had expected for a 35th flag and while the other one looked out of place on my Scimitar i don't think its so bad on this.

Its been nice to build an AFV Club kit thats not a 251. Just what i would expect from them. Nice kit and i am pleased with the end result.

Thanks for hosting the GB. I did have this kit on my to buy list and the GB gave me the nudge to buy and build it. Please fel free to use which ever pic you like.

That is quite an update, bravo Bish!

Johnny, nice start on the Skyhawk!

Bit of a long update. I got the turrety finished a couple of weks ago. Plenty of PE here. But i again i didn't use everything. The PE set included hinges and the locking mechanisim for the ammo locker door, but i felt the kit parts were much better. After i took the pics, i realised i had put the 4 rear bins on wrong, so they were then removed and fitted the right way.

I took a Clansman antenna mount from the spares box, this is a resin Accurate Armour piece that came with my Warrior conversion set.

Then i was ready for primer and paint. Nice easy scheme, over all desert sand, i used the Xtracolor gulf War sand, although this colour has been is use for British desert vehicles for a long time.

Followed by the decals. The decal instructions don't have an image of the rear for this vehicle, so i added the rear chevron based on the others on the sheet.

I also got the Fruil tracks together. I found these a real pain, every link had to be drilled out both front and rear. They also have different links for where the track goes round the drive sprocket and rear idler so it not just a case of sticking them all together.

After a couple of coats of Aqua gloss, tine for some weathering. I gave it a light dry brush, a panel line wash, light dot filtering and finally some steaking useing AK's DAK streaking grime.

Next up, i will be painting and adding tools and various stowage before some final dust effects.

Finally got started on the Skyhawk. 

Those decals really pop!  Love them on it.

Looking good PJ.

Decals are starting to dress up the Queen. Lots more to add specially tiny stencils to both airframe and missiles.

Thanks Glam.

The  Queen got her weathered color coat and red fin tips.  The decals will be next. 

Thanks Glamdring. No, there is no interiour for this either other than a very nicely detailed gun breach which seems a bit wasted. There is an interiour set from Blackdog, but as i don't do diorama's for my British armour, i don't worry about that to much unless its included, so just have them closed up. Harold is doing the same kit with the BG set and it does seem a lot of work but does look nice.

It was the same on my AS90, which is even bigger than this, but that would have meant a lot of scratchbuilding.

PJ, the Tomcat is looking great!

Bish, marvelous work on the Paladin.  Not sure about this release, but I found it a great shame that AFV Club didn't include any basic interior details in the cavernous hull or turret in the one I am working on.  I am sure there is AM sets to remedy this though.  

I now have the hull finished to the paint stage. I have not used all of the PE for it as some is for inside hatches i have closed and other parts are IMHO best left off as the kit parts are more realistic. I am not a big fan of voyager sets and now i only buy them where i just want a somthing to add and no one else does anything for that kit and the spares box doesn't have it (mainly anything that isn't German). So this is the hull now.

And have now started on the turret. Same again here for the PE, picking carefully what parts i use and which i don't. The barrel is from the kit.

Work on the turret continues.