Alright, another one for the dsplay case! I've finally finished this one, after a few additions and some time to let the imagination fly...
I wanted this model to look COLD!!! I wanted snow and ice and chills! So I made some snow (I'll have a mini-toot on that later) from Woodland Scenic's Snow powder, and applied it using a brush. Nothing complicated here; just white glue and water and add the powder to it. I added it around to make it look like it was a few days old, with melted areas as you would get on a cold, sunny, Siberian plain..
The figures by Helo Minatures were finally finished: I'll have my skin tone toot up soon too!
And here are the finished pics:
One more nice little "special touch" that I did was to make icicles out of clear sprue, stretched over a candle. They were cut and the tips filed with an emery board--this had the result of making them look like air was trapped in the ends of the icicles! Perfectly realistic! They were attached with superglue, and "ice" runs of superglue were added above them to look like ice runs.
Well, that's that! Thanks to everyone who has followed along with this build, and for all the kind comments and compliments!
Here is the link for the Skin Tone toot:
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Here is the Snow tutorial:
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On to the MBT-70--my next "museum clean" build! 