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Wow. Beautiful photography.
This forum is certainly where I am learning the "how to" of modeling. Experience, skill and talent; thanks for sharing. I see that about a dozen of the regular modelers replied to your post and over 250 others have viewed it. I'll bet there are alot of beginners like me that really appreciate this and just don't around to saying it. Thank you.
Now I wonder if I can do a weld seam?
K-dawg wrote: Thanks a lot y'all... I really want this one to look like its been through a beating... I got a bit more done last night but nothing worth posting pics of...
Thanks a lot y'all... I really want this one to look like its been through a beating...
I got a bit more done last night but nothing worth posting pics of...
I think it has. Nice work so far.
Eric
Kenneth Childres, Central Arkansas Scale Modelers
Jean-Michel "Arte et Marte"
Ok... finally got some stuff done and pictures took...
I really wanted to show some severe battle damage to the road wheels so out came the Dremel tool and various cutting bits... Most of the material was removed from behind and then dents were carved into the front to complete the look...
The outer row of road wheels was replaced with DML items as they have the correct double rim... Also one of the road wheels was replaced with a resin Tank Workshop item to replicate a wheel that has had the rubber portion ripped off.
I also moved along with the various PE parts. The Voyager fender parts were heated on the stove to make them more bendable but this also warped them badly... Fortunately the process of bending the lip onto the parts straitened them right out...Just for kicks I bent the fenders with the wider side clamped in the Fenderbender to see if it would grab the VERY small lip and bend it up...Sure enough it bent it perfectly along the length even though there was not but maybe a millimeter of material to grab...
The fenders were attached with superglue and 5 min epoxy...
Moving to the engine deck I really wanted to make the armored covers seen on some later model Panther and Jagdpanthers. Apparently they were made from pieces of skirt armor so I took 2 sections of the Voyager schurzen and bent it in the Fenderbender to a U shape. Styrene pieces were superglued into the sides... I will be adding weld beads to the sides of the boxes a little later...
Lastly, I got around to gluing on the stowage boxes...
Interesting technique for the texturing. I'm going to have to give that a try sometime.
PE work looks great so far. Keep us updated.
Hey Bill,
Man the break is sweet! Its actually 3 main parts and two PE rings... Two of the brass parts thread onto the barrel and the third, the muzzel pops onto the middle part with a friction fit. ITS PERFECT! I will glue it but there really ain't any need, its all that good...
Later dude...
Off to the races with this one, those Armorscale offerings are very nice...how was the fit on the two part muzzle brake? I'm assuming it requires glue/solder to assemble?
Nice work with the PE as well, will be watching this one closely.
BP Models
Well I pulled this old kit that I started way way way back in college out to give it another whirl. I have the Voyager sets, fruil tracks, Armorscale barrel... So we shall see what happens...
Anyway, I started as I usually do and that was to texture the hull with liquid glue and a brush. After that dried I sanded most of it off to make just the slightest rolled texture... BTW the red lines are for me to remember where all to put weld beads...
Weld seams were next. The Tamiya kits interlocking weld seams are MUCH too deep according to the pics of the Aberdeen rig. The weld beads actually sit flush to slightly proud of the surface. SO out came the Apoxie sculpt and here is how its going...For the roof beads I just re-textured the ones that were already there as they are more or less right... The dremel and a sharp steel cutter was used for this and it'll be softened up later with liquid glue...The armor scale barrel I picked up at the show last weekend is nothing short of stunning... Its multi part brass break actually threads onto the end of the aluminum barrel. That brass ring slides down (but not without a bit of sanding) onto the barrelThe resin shield replaces the Tamiya part and requires some cutting and a bit of drilling but nothing to difficult...
Onto the brass bits...The voyager set is a dream and I have finnaly taken to soldering for large parts like this.. Its the only way... The boxes were carefully bent up on the Fenderbender but care must be taken with the goofy shapes of the boxes to make sure you ain't messing up another angle...One of the boxs i've already started bashing up..
Comments and suggestions are always welcome...
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