tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60097017591953516672024-03-14T12:08:23.306+02:00Project mumblingsRandom, weird and apparently verbose text about plastic models, 'mechs and gaming.ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.comBlogger724125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-28261303739456528132024-03-13T12:17:00.000+02:002024-03-13T12:17:14.086+02:00Painting a trash can<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Priming</span></h2><p>Like I've done a bunch of times in a row now, I primed the miniature with red primer VSP 70624 Pure Red). This time I didn't feel like setting up the airbrush, so I did this by hand.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszb3X9XQnLE3vdKj_WSAkoWuux6-La8SMCintMccNsI3kYmzycyYySh4gTtlk8tpKrjaklUH5bh5FWB0Yb7azR_IMHPGNf2jndiIpokqBLYJ4UR3G0ki-wTG2tRkyGzLy2xF4QXyp5qXMkglD-KbTancRmb9zW7PPcst87oqkBkXPfBMW6Z0wFYIFVq0/s800/Urb-05-primed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="800" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszb3X9XQnLE3vdKj_WSAkoWuux6-La8SMCintMccNsI3kYmzycyYySh4gTtlk8tpKrjaklUH5bh5FWB0Yb7azR_IMHPGNf2jndiIpokqBLYJ4UR3G0ki-wTG2tRkyGzLy2xF4QXyp5qXMkglD-KbTancRmb9zW7PPcst87oqkBkXPfBMW6Z0wFYIFVq0/w640-h462/Urb-05-primed.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>For this projectful of posts I decided to tone down the "<i>a pic from the front, another from the rear</i>" photosets in each of the steps by gimping together a set of photos from the same step. This should make the posts a bit better contained and reduce the "<i>I've seen this same pic with tiny changes six times already</i>" effect I've had on occasion,</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Choosing a theme<br /></span></h2><p>Originally I was a bit lost with what I would actually want to do with this Urbie, it wasn't going to join my Jade Falcon Cluster, and it also didn't have a clear suggestion in the box like last year's Archer. I also hadn't thought of what kind of a theme my yet-to-be-founded Merc unit, so undone work didn't really help here. Somehow the UrbanMech didn't lure me to paint it as a Kell Hound nor some other well-known Merc outfit.</p><p>Then I saw once again a pic that some more active social media users had been sharing pretty happily earlier, and that one struck a chord immediately:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3UoedCh1cHNVnv4JZ5c_MJc7UFZ2mpz4snsgO4HeE6hJ5w9_sAsg-hbIi72fIxPSz_OwidmM23Sz6d8y2XrLLH9Y5ITiBEutM8VOCnHrWz4dfd9vJCvRHnoxuAK5t870e8HomT9ZMjtCmAxcRrmEBnCcBIykXcHNSmHSoyzGEt7S1JDDydN4lR7WY4WM/s792/urbie-art-by-eldonius-rex.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3UoedCh1cHNVnv4JZ5c_MJc7UFZ2mpz4snsgO4HeE6hJ5w9_sAsg-hbIi72fIxPSz_OwidmM23Sz6d8y2XrLLH9Y5ITiBEutM8VOCnHrWz4dfd9vJCvRHnoxuAK5t870e8HomT9ZMjtCmAxcRrmEBnCcBIykXcHNSmHSoyzGEt7S1JDDydN4lR7WY4WM/w247-h320/urbie-art-by-eldonius-rex.jpeg" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(c) <a href="https://helmmemorycore.com/eldoniousrex">Eldoniusrex</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Being a bit simple, I didn't want to make a green-grey unit like in the pic above, instead I wanted to celebrate the original Doomguy by keeping his bare arms in the show somehow.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOwowWp1-YOpkqbGi8_5AwSd1FBq5hIIQmJlbC9vIQ7b3mHKsaAO9p6f3smI5Cu3tfd-lfWn9gX9p1WakZGz4XZ3jloeVWqP6QaHUc6d1sxEAYPyBDDqnR6x-qgVrBRB2x2tBgbMVCFl6cCc5LoqxUWfhsA0_ytZBgoyCOvHxVF0Jom992QmrLUYw1ApQ/s600/Doomguy-sprite.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="424" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOwowWp1-YOpkqbGi8_5AwSd1FBq5hIIQmJlbC9vIQ7b3mHKsaAO9p6f3smI5Cu3tfd-lfWn9gX9p1WakZGz4XZ3jloeVWqP6QaHUc6d1sxEAYPyBDDqnR6x-qgVrBRB2x2tBgbMVCFl6cCc5LoqxUWfhsA0_ytZBgoyCOvHxVF0Jom992QmrLUYw1ApQ/s320/Doomguy-sprite.png" width="226" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Combat overalls<br /></span></h3><p>Thanks to the cats sleeping over my primary paint store, I chose from my dynamic level 1 cache a few bottles of paint. Of course I had no perfect green paint for this, so I had to mix up a new one to get where I wanted to go. To begin with I squirted some Soviet green (VMA 71281 3B Russian Green), and added two droplets of yellow ochre (VMA 71033). This I brushed on the overalls, and in my excitement a bit over the helmet as well.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwfbLwwjGuYH6u91ul02WDLPYeOzNf4nCppwAo6zzUV62wrnn_HtuYtF0Xzebzx2vsA5AxVKvfhhw7bd3eokDbZqTWyBr_L1qNLNFWibPQGDFP_4GYnrwTZchgDEj-6-z4qDzxHcYdqZ1Bxl1jQ_ZtOrXK9KyS0T5aFXimcELW3TSJ7DNKr6uTE41UC60/s2476/Urb-06-green-layer-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1588" data-original-width="2476" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwfbLwwjGuYH6u91ul02WDLPYeOzNf4nCppwAo6zzUV62wrnn_HtuYtF0Xzebzx2vsA5AxVKvfhhw7bd3eokDbZqTWyBr_L1qNLNFWibPQGDFP_4GYnrwTZchgDEj-6-z4qDzxHcYdqZ1Bxl1jQ_ZtOrXK9KyS0T5aFXimcELW3TSJ7DNKr6uTE41UC60/w640-h410/Urb-06-green-layer-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>As you could tell, it was a pretty dark shade of green. For some reason I tried to do some sort of a wet blending here, so I mixed in another drop of yellow and painted smaller surfaces set off upwards inside the first green layer. My idea was to leave the darkest layer as shadows. Finally I realized I had repeated this to get five consecutively brighter layers, leaving me quite a bit of a different shade than where I started from. Here's a couple of pics for those super interested in the progress of the layer-painting approach:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5vG3a07gCOA0DFhJnL8IXT4efVlSv3b1i2gYjbm_Q9cUzPbAESMYqp_anivKIlHIoaUq2M_-iEzvsZr65Pu2Ab4-vLkKknd5oZNZ0IMPiPLPNEABzaYfz2J0efEGzm3KZXYz9AtzKKtmItmQ1azxAfUkiDXRYgvtS7iNAi3cOaZwWeyGio0r_jTAPoac/s800/Urb-08-green-layer-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="800" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5vG3a07gCOA0DFhJnL8IXT4efVlSv3b1i2gYjbm_Q9cUzPbAESMYqp_anivKIlHIoaUq2M_-iEzvsZr65Pu2Ab4-vLkKknd5oZNZ0IMPiPLPNEABzaYfz2J0efEGzm3KZXYz9AtzKKtmItmQ1azxAfUkiDXRYgvtS7iNAi3cOaZwWeyGio0r_jTAPoac/w640-h444/Urb-08-green-layer-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzjrXN7Fn91h-OwYlFwpwN6r-pS9ifjilwGc_13pGv53Xc0YiTrkrRceBA0KK1q4ngIhtnbfscvbqbPLsMhlo7cLz59DDbtikResTNjfHLMeaq5gaCDNCEIehvEh1-KpyBu6rxGDAEAqRCo4ErE1C6jbiHNhxzV2-A1eyE5Nr86wO_svXDA0vlSkNLENs/s800/Urb-09-green-layer-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzjrXN7Fn91h-OwYlFwpwN6r-pS9ifjilwGc_13pGv53Xc0YiTrkrRceBA0KK1q4ngIhtnbfscvbqbPLsMhlo7cLz59DDbtikResTNjfHLMeaq5gaCDNCEIehvEh1-KpyBu6rxGDAEAqRCo4ErE1C6jbiHNhxzV2-A1eyE5Nr86wO_svXDA0vlSkNLENs/w640-h426/Urb-09-green-layer-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfbhXauHfzNBhwiWnxLpwuaGSL3FaO_rmlPwbxbrasdK8a0AyB8FVb-_f_7lbDvtLr3P48lk2d2SQEW9DHynCUA9u7glx06WxmSbv0sOGWB6kKVxCCrxXbaLejJX5iQACD9QH3LL2KVflnFOHodWBlm74-P9unXQoLsKoL_aDRY4uVMC6KPZKD0SqkYE/s800/Urb-10-green-layer-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfbhXauHfzNBhwiWnxLpwuaGSL3FaO_rmlPwbxbrasdK8a0AyB8FVb-_f_7lbDvtLr3P48lk2d2SQEW9DHynCUA9u7glx06WxmSbv0sOGWB6kKVxCCrxXbaLejJX5iQACD9QH3LL2KVflnFOHodWBlm74-P9unXQoLsKoL_aDRY4uVMC6KPZKD0SqkYE/w640-h400/Urb-10-green-layer-5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Yes, indeed, the mini was darker than the VGA-coloured corporate space marine. I planned using a bit more of a bright green as highlight when the basic painting was all done.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Bare arms and the sixpack window<br /></span></h3><p>Our Doomsday hero had bare upper arms and a pretty strange window in his shirt to show off his wounded abdominal muscles, so that's what I tried to imitate. Luckily the UrbanMech had four armour panels in a very convenient place in the middle of the Center Torso, so this worked nicely despite the Urbie doing a bit of a torso twist.</p><p>This trashcan had no actual arms, obviously, so I decided that I was just going to paint some bits in the gun pods attached the Upper Arm Actuators to get some kind of a skin theme going on. To start this I used a very generically named <i>wood</i> (VMA 71077 Wood) to block out the bare skin patches for later paintings. These I intended to highlight somehow, as soon as I had the areas defined first.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwGTJBb7QXqRw_vLlmwCTPejnAMLzTofmZG_vh3Buj_C-UJ6eNGg2qHdzObAQSEhjP1_b1OX7wkhfTDef8bf7B7DAgQEg740G3MB15MfaQuE8CvjDWEA-u2MdjXyDA7xFnCtaKUzNttsFUyc3QlzJX1hmsfNm_iTkN6QfULYMwzmtQaz3I9C9s68k3z5o/s800/Urb-11-wood-layer-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="800" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwGTJBb7QXqRw_vLlmwCTPejnAMLzTofmZG_vh3Buj_C-UJ6eNGg2qHdzObAQSEhjP1_b1OX7wkhfTDef8bf7B7DAgQEg740G3MB15MfaQuE8CvjDWEA-u2MdjXyDA7xFnCtaKUzNttsFUyc3QlzJX1hmsfNm_iTkN6QfULYMwzmtQaz3I9C9s68k3z5o/w640-h252/Urb-11-wood-layer-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Now the downside of the red primer at this stage was that it made my mini look pretty damn weird. A red-yellow-green piece looked like a handful of fruit-flavoured candy, just much more foul-tasting.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Combat boots and the helmet</span></h3><p>I thought that my cold grey (VGA 72750 Cold Grey) was just perfectly dark for this stuff, but nope, it most definitely was not. I had painted the legs from the knees down, and the head cupola to decide whether my colour-blocking worked or not.</p><p>The business part of the armament, those being the Autocannon (AC/10) and the flashlight's (SLas) tubes and related bits, the antennae, and the knee joints I painted with German Grey (VMA 71052 German Grey). Yeah, I was pleased with this method of marking metallic pieces without using metallic paints.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Xkf-G-tYX5vLO7L0bgy0ojuJHg2k1a-RyYGBYe5wPzGzXQipuCUu9P88scH-7lP10-sDcOCtIFnwYRQkFqFhWTIVmMqculXz5MeYgzKcMqD-B2nYTOxpibq5amJ-gGpotvb-LrAyxoiltz1fjsiRucq5jB1Jem99r4eNllheoZAxCe7Js3d1MHxWRGs/s800/Urb-12-colours-blocked.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Xkf-G-tYX5vLO7L0bgy0ojuJHg2k1a-RyYGBYe5wPzGzXQipuCUu9P88scH-7lP10-sDcOCtIFnwYRQkFqFhWTIVmMqculXz5MeYgzKcMqD-B2nYTOxpibq5amJ-gGpotvb-LrAyxoiltz1fjsiRucq5jB1Jem99r4eNllheoZAxCe7Js3d1MHxWRGs/w640-h266/Urb-12-colours-blocked.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br />At this point the warm yellows and greens worked together just nicely, but the aptly named cold grey didn't match with them at all. I had to start reading about colour theory, or something, to find a recipe for a warmer grey to this miniature. Most likely a drop of (dark) red would take me far, but that had to be tested.</p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Towards the next step</span> <br /></h3><p>In any case the basic paintjob was going to be as it was. Mostly I wanted to see if my idea made any sense or was it just an ugly mishmash. If we ignored the colour temperatures, I was happy with this scheme. Of course I had many opportunities for ruining it, but I didn't want to worry about that yet.</p><p>Setting up the scheme and blocking the colour surfaces took me about two hours in total, next I was going to fine-tune things. Would I get that done in two hours as well? I'd tell you the next time.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-8302750029730957072024-03-06T12:00:00.000+02:002024-03-06T12:00:00.365+02:00Project I/24<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">A trash can<br /></span></h2><p>I had those three untouched Salvage boxes from the Clan kickstarter, I now was flitting between the UrbanMech and the Mongrel/Grendel A. This time the UrbanMech won, because it could be done straight out of the box.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj20KhGzmeFacDBscSvrQ1Q-dQPK595vcw0jW0S5Zur0uFTa1Rzs2eSgPdGZZGw7-gS4zcpgUOTl_gGRKGDHsxuwLObgh7Kpf3VyWI54UlCB3c7cIJbhjQuS1OdPPuHBOZXsiRW-Lmqjha0M6Aux9jRJelmzPJ_TX_orizzm49NX75OCjVL4E86ET1TgZs/s600/Urb-00-salvage-box.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="583" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj20KhGzmeFacDBscSvrQ1Q-dQPK595vcw0jW0S5Zur0uFTa1Rzs2eSgPdGZZGw7-gS4zcpgUOTl_gGRKGDHsxuwLObgh7Kpf3VyWI54UlCB3c7cIJbhjQuS1OdPPuHBOZXsiRW-Lmqjha0M6Aux9jRJelmzPJ_TX_orizzm49NX75OCjVL4E86ET1TgZs/w622-h640/Urb-00-salvage-box.jpg" width="622" /></a></div><p>That's all that was to it. When I had the time, I'd clean up whatever bothered me and then the thing would get primed as always. It might get gently customized by adding whip-antennas.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0HkQ8hpAuLNyNGNu2oPyImDbJ9sFFpaMw39v6c3zUra_cGftYARY1ypLi1b0kRIZfNvQU7XutdipVNSOJ7-B_DVxobxpH0Oap_8ECWNWY_FwaXgeLsXw4EHO8Af89UUzGlRQHtZBqkSbCEfnf60WCNSFt6nrePxPKczMjYAkOgObX6g0sPY9loROcmY/s600/Urb-01-front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="416" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0HkQ8hpAuLNyNGNu2oPyImDbJ9sFFpaMw39v6c3zUra_cGftYARY1ypLi1b0kRIZfNvQU7XutdipVNSOJ7-B_DVxobxpH0Oap_8ECWNWY_FwaXgeLsXw4EHO8Af89UUzGlRQHtZBqkSbCEfnf60WCNSFt6nrePxPKczMjYAkOgObX6g0sPY9loROcmY/w444-h640/Urb-01-front.jpg" width="444" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0voecFA783uOK33JghHDC5qviILvbRHv7z705XjAPjAh_chYH7x1yGwOL1vw0BOkBTFYcHHJyjSfX2L7aKkeAma7L90wqhqJbybJ9W8hrXurNHKvXxO_SXUM0JgDU_a3HiHnb7jv74TNYI83h_PV67_BjR7XZmDF4xsh8mBQWwN7v3bgyPv9kkDrBkM/s600/Urb-02-back.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="432" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0voecFA783uOK33JghHDC5qviILvbRHv7z705XjAPjAh_chYH7x1yGwOL1vw0BOkBTFYcHHJyjSfX2L7aKkeAma7L90wqhqJbybJ9W8hrXurNHKvXxO_SXUM0JgDU_a3HiHnb7jv74TNYI83h_PV67_BjR7XZmDF4xsh8mBQWwN7v3bgyPv9kkDrBkM/w460-h640/Urb-02-back.jpg" width="460" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWGf8_6q3LE2rFjamTxMCzf2o53y8ISr1nx53iK5u0w8f_ocGGDm4JRHj9MOzrB84Z7FTY-Eaxgeyz5iGuDlbJbp2Py90Dr6vRX7ONaL5tKAI0t-DzYrh3YLUMbdnQ-PqR5MWv1G0vY38NVlh1W1Un69fOHDjiWpPBG0_koaMLHSgcT_NwKXjTNeLIDxI/s775/Urb-03-top.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="775" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWGf8_6q3LE2rFjamTxMCzf2o53y8ISr1nx53iK5u0w8f_ocGGDm4JRHj9MOzrB84Z7FTY-Eaxgeyz5iGuDlbJbp2Py90Dr6vRX7ONaL5tKAI0t-DzYrh3YLUMbdnQ-PqR5MWv1G0vY38NVlh1W1Un69fOHDjiWpPBG0_koaMLHSgcT_NwKXjTNeLIDxI/w640-h496/Urb-03-top.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQYpC77sfV96olf9F0Dg7Wrex4jvu9i9Wy_VD4d09E0B_BbDhfH7M0M3rv3HVU1xY3WuDGJ5sUbbI2ghRVYXkfwdPe3s7nOcjiGiVWM1a7XA1RYaYLLtHwzBYw9TdlqT3by8Wyl9H5i511S1sYhdM_v6AJQdqbiNJyxHYVRtA7v7BRR1f4kN8BbfQTUiU/s600/Urb-04-low-front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="573" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQYpC77sfV96olf9F0Dg7Wrex4jvu9i9Wy_VD4d09E0B_BbDhfH7M0M3rv3HVU1xY3WuDGJ5sUbbI2ghRVYXkfwdPe3s7nOcjiGiVWM1a7XA1RYaYLLtHwzBYw9TdlqT3by8Wyl9H5i511S1sYhdM_v6AJQdqbiNJyxHYVRtA7v7BRR1f4kN8BbfQTUiU/w612-h640/Urb-04-low-front.jpg" width="612" /></a></div>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-88251882600008600472024-02-28T12:00:00.000+02:002024-02-28T12:00:00.144+02:00Finished: IV/23<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">T-34/76 PT-34 mine clearing tank OOB</span><br /></h2><p>The model I started in the very late '23 was now complete, a few calendar months later. This time I used a yet another approach to documenting my process so each of the ten posts covered a very varying amount of real time.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8To_yyk4nfiMC4PGDnnCMdxkiU6O5rcvHUBdx-AZ2D7cmzVskabPOCYWxwzWpWRtxRWFiGaPQY4JyZFnnwp4PDXEmiYVzNPEXPQSqoojszdKjDZoC9D99O4_J3p6YHJD-YVe-E7NuwxQ8MB3bO_SqUqrOz1ql0wsR6tFPZsViGvPbZ4Q7PRI9DD3dmE8/s1024/14-T3476PT34-low-front-left.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1024" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8To_yyk4nfiMC4PGDnnCMdxkiU6O5rcvHUBdx-AZ2D7cmzVskabPOCYWxwzWpWRtxRWFiGaPQY4JyZFnnwp4PDXEmiYVzNPEXPQSqoojszdKjDZoC9D99O4_J3p6YHJD-YVe-E7NuwxQ8MB3bO_SqUqrOz1ql0wsR6tFPZsViGvPbZ4Q7PRI9DD3dmE8/w640-h364/14-T3476PT34-low-front-left.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Based on the filenames of my photos I had taken 198 work in progress photos to be edited, divided under 8 themes (and posts). I had no way to calculate the amount of actual time used, all I knew was that the hour count had to be enormous, as one post alone usually covered the happenings of a handful of sessions. Finally, I took 15 photos in the light tent with the final model, and editing those took a moment as well.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh589eJ5NedXR7siZ0B_DD3s-aSIzgJabnZ8gKdvMla1oFaeMcIK7zPoFlLSNKqWnPRNUaDMBisrFxwKnBDrfoQci6DV9J2MO0fhQnQdLiK7jDKbU-vucHsZnU5LNbWEk2GRSXPuozSCizpI0E8M2hy-wl6CgAFYHBXOnPXq3WYVJNAKAG9t3r0ATLqu8g/s1024/01-T3476PT34-front.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="1024" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh589eJ5NedXR7siZ0B_DD3s-aSIzgJabnZ8gKdvMla1oFaeMcIK7zPoFlLSNKqWnPRNUaDMBisrFxwKnBDrfoQci6DV9J2MO0fhQnQdLiK7jDKbU-vucHsZnU5LNbWEk2GRSXPuozSCizpI0E8M2hy-wl6CgAFYHBXOnPXq3WYVJNAKAG9t3r0ATLqu8g/w640-h460/01-T3476PT34-front.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">It could've gone better<br /></span></h3><p>This world would be a weird place, if everything went perfectly and nothing needed (or allowed) grumbling after the fact. Of course this project left something to desire, and that was a good thing because it gave myself some feedback for improvements.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">PT-34</span></h4><p>The mine roller device with its instructions. I was somewhat confused by the instruction sheet at some points while building, and as I wasn't familiar with the way these things worked (or how they'd looked like in real life) I had no real way to trust my own instict. Now the roller discs didn't end up standing straight like I had visualized based on my own expectations, the relatives in the Parola Armored Museum, and the box art.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyrEXlJjUhNGCPFjnyuSuI5WlA6oxJ4Ecmxx5ww468YMkAxs2h72BJW_AlQHwFRse3trooOrk9CZtXIAUTtcn5QHdonJUFMedFbLtRxbJeBCbqfQI_YWY9KYJtpQ8yPhYp4rpUOg1o7j5a00eCL5v0oaPH7M8OnDWYwWL0az71gQqVFL_Zo5X-7ovjxno/s749/T34MR_02-047-roller-assembly-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="749" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyrEXlJjUhNGCPFjnyuSuI5WlA6oxJ4Ecmxx5ww468YMkAxs2h72BJW_AlQHwFRse3trooOrk9CZtXIAUTtcn5QHdonJUFMedFbLtRxbJeBCbqfQI_YWY9KYJtpQ8yPhYp4rpUOg1o7j5a00eCL5v0oaPH7M8OnDWYwWL0az71gQqVFL_Zo5X-7ovjxno/s320/T34MR_02-047-roller-assembly-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>If I was a diorama person, and I might be one if I had the space for storing such constructs, I could've cheated by smashing the rollers into the position I wanted with the base. Floating freely it looked a bit silly, as supposedly heavy steel wheels were flopping like conscripts in the waiting area.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Unique identifiers<br /></span></h4><p>My tank was left without a unit number, red stars, and a catchphrase. I had even considered using the roundels from the decal set, but the number and texts I'd freehanded myself. Most likely this was caused by the repeated issues with the green basecoat, and as I was clearly hyped about the chipping attempt right after painting the bare steel bits, I simply forgot the order of business here. The white details should have been painted (or decals cursed on) before any fancy stuff.</p><p>A couple of years ago I might have just shrugged, added the missing details over everything else and then applied some touch-up weaathering to cover it up a bit. Now I accepted my mistake.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Tanker's smile<br /></span></h4><p>The 1,5mm++ -sized gap was truly baffling, because it didn't show any warning signs in advance. Of course I tried to fix it but I clearly hadn't got enough practice on this sort of work, and I most likely also used wrong tools as well. Or I was fixing it too late because I didn't realize my problem in time. So there, skill deficiency, pure and simple, and the only way to improve on it was to practice. <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4dHwA21v3L04YUBukhQiluFknjkSP36vVIteDdaiftA1sQ5jX4UJKIQfGlM6rAEyKhrhPGyMeu8fmq2WzANrd9D3yPvaQZE3Ggx0zzR47J6iHLvfcfCSII2Jz0dcPteZTv82rt-r0nLO9xAOdOgX1lRsobITboR90YBzsK1mZZUk4VpufjQ1rSiry5KQ/s800/T34MR_01-008-rear-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="800" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4dHwA21v3L04YUBukhQiluFknjkSP36vVIteDdaiftA1sQ5jX4UJKIQfGlM6rAEyKhrhPGyMeu8fmq2WzANrd9D3yPvaQZE3Ggx0zzR47J6iHLvfcfCSII2Jz0dcPteZTv82rt-r0nLO9xAOdOgX1lRsobITboR90YBzsK1mZZUk4VpufjQ1rSiry5KQ/w320-h210/T34MR_01-008-rear-hull.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>Another really confusing thing about the ravine was that the rest of the model was pretty much hassle-free. Perhaps I had installed the mysterious bits on the rear hull's inside badly, which then compounded into a large issue a few steps later. As an explanation this made more sense than one lonely piece of the model being over a millimeter or two off in one end.<br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Not going to ignore the successes<br /></span></h3><p>After my initial worries chipping was insanely fun to paint, and even in my own opinion it looked neat. I also tried to keep my head cool with the damages, because it was fun and that always increased the risk of overdoing quite a lot. We've all been there.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi4rtjEsgtV2INcMkJSJwzl9xK9FidEp5oBBRRsCJ_W1XmSK2W88tjRSrQy8QRmsnGf-j7kQCkW6dN0G0JlVBoguB_XWasWs8hzr-BNMudD3RuuEtr3maMWxWGccJRZRY44mqpwLI3VKfv-Mq_WGGf0v4Sh8ruZJGah4EyDGjBd9U4kGpvDICdw5rbwvA/s800/T34MR_05-077-light-chips-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi4rtjEsgtV2INcMkJSJwzl9xK9FidEp5oBBRRsCJ_W1XmSK2W88tjRSrQy8QRmsnGf-j7kQCkW6dN0G0JlVBoguB_XWasWs8hzr-BNMudD3RuuEtr3maMWxWGccJRZRY44mqpwLI3VKfv-Mq_WGGf0v4Sh8ruZJGah4EyDGjBd9U4kGpvDICdw5rbwvA/s320/T34MR_05-077-light-chips-turret.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Working with the oil paints was still glorious and the end result enjoyed a huge improvement. I really couldn't emphasize that enough, because now the "oh crap now there's a crapload too much of that stuff there" was quick and easy to revert with nature's own undo function. Santa and his colleagues the Witch Kings also brought a few more Abteilung oils for me, so the modeler's happiness was going to be unlimited.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKmhAXXU6_60SwAU_70pKXAsXECAxIRlNVCaE9V49hIZabZBFjLHEborWVdPPYYpA-Ge6fHVOTfHN5B8gNz1_H7EZfngekEMjw5ROTrsCu61RfHFXLF6pxe8ceIV8bg4Y830dAUd-YljkC6pClBAsoCoTAvHTOXtsf3xWF1I0quUFcRUDy0gyKBpIOGz0/s800/T34MR_07-121-sepia-washed-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="800" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKmhAXXU6_60SwAU_70pKXAsXECAxIRlNVCaE9V49hIZabZBFjLHEborWVdPPYYpA-Ge6fHVOTfHN5B8gNz1_H7EZfngekEMjw5ROTrsCu61RfHFXLF6pxe8ceIV8bg4Y830dAUd-YljkC6pClBAsoCoTAvHTOXtsf3xWF1I0quUFcRUDy0gyKBpIOGz0/s320/T34MR_07-121-sepia-washed-turret.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Those often-cursed vinyl tracks went on, stayed in piece, didn't (yet) pull the roadwheels askew, nor did they melt away while being painted. The result was also prettier than the unpainted metallic-shiny bits. Of course these were paper-thin in scale, but you couldn't always get everything. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrXRTVELtHyn5syB9-bXVISaP4Xl5tqUv9JAGhoxSAUEYHSqLLYvRo2eWw34HeFg-3d0KeKVFmDNgU7JNoiweUEc38DLWSe5R2U04rzQDqEoBf9jpjwrputZHKch0rt0M4TzYO2xg2NC3rLz0GMVZG2kcQ72uM8ZDOT09OOgrCwa3b0RZuPRdN6BZ705I/s800/T34MR_01-014-tracks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="800" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrXRTVELtHyn5syB9-bXVISaP4Xl5tqUv9JAGhoxSAUEYHSqLLYvRo2eWw34HeFg-3d0KeKVFmDNgU7JNoiweUEc38DLWSe5R2U04rzQDqEoBf9jpjwrputZHKch0rt0M4TzYO2xg2NC3rLz0GMVZG2kcQ72uM8ZDOT09OOgrCwa3b0RZuPRdN6BZ705I/s320/T34MR_01-014-tracks.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Final thougs<br /></span></h3><p>All in all this was a fun build and a fun model to paint. It actually was my fourth Soviet tank (and my second T-34), and my seventh Soviet model in general (<span style="font-family: courier;">[T-34/85;
IS-2; BM-21 Grad; T-35; MiG-29; Su-27; T-34/76 & PT-34]</span>) so I wasn't completely stuck into kraut stuff even if I sometimes sounded like it! In this model count I didn't include anything earlier than 2001, such as the unlucky Polikarpov I-16 and whatnot.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Photos</span></h2><p>I really needed to get myself a tripod for the photos. These photos that have been taken more or less on the same level were shot with the camera resting on a book (the complete Bone, again).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiPd6Dg3kniAFQvKlELJarxLn3Af_uuuxCmK1orhFNMpiBimYA9_fyDMBROG5veAD_BEcRqk3c6jbHH-EOd0hVMANMeYgov39MdPr62FRYYwujIdMnJGRfTzLTHBEOpqnxJDaurLhsr45MWjbL9YRrdcZe8B9wCr7wmcSoSNz3Z8D8vy-eeWJMiAoB81c/s1024/02-T3476PT34-front-left.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="1024" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiPd6Dg3kniAFQvKlELJarxLn3Af_uuuxCmK1orhFNMpiBimYA9_fyDMBROG5veAD_BEcRqk3c6jbHH-EOd0hVMANMeYgov39MdPr62FRYYwujIdMnJGRfTzLTHBEOpqnxJDaurLhsr45MWjbL9YRrdcZe8B9wCr7wmcSoSNz3Z8D8vy-eeWJMiAoB81c/w640-h356/02-T3476PT34-front-left.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiocH6U96v1hpozEjqU10kohNnh8IP7aByyU6pYrniWSuSPMAlxWgScTCs1IUggAgcgz0oHE_M2JnPNm5gZ7fZ-7KHA1L7cwMBtGjp7KJCNJVuF7Iai8Svtp0k9e4CMAlYmoNPs8D3OMBNr8j58zmkU3y78V6f5i2Ag-lcC2qlaEdDIxmbV94HXqcz4OLc/s1024/03-T3476PT34-left.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="990" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC_xDY5lKikhwlb-2S-5PCOck1p9S76VOjh16xQScWC6Kr9hez44IXD4Ium7dk1UlzHl9Nz-fQCMKfeXrfqZ3UnSsGFvQGoRU8kLD-KnZaIFiar5PHRFkj3Lj3Dy8s472Y2JE7edxSMTNICUN97MH_wV53vgBZcFiSsMwBSD1O6cN62Xz6-i41bEwWz6c/w640-h290/09-T3476PT34-top.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Now these last photos that were pretending to be something like 3/4 photos I took with the light tent's own monopod but the actual camera was a bit too heavy to be trusted on that one. Maybe I should've used the timer in addition, but didn't think of it in time. Maybe I'd think more the next time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKwKkJbX2P6-rJnkCnvhK7HfMCiH9f3atOs3RxXNT-WeHw3D9ZofwLXk994KCyTcRfH98z011S8UqaiM_Y6GUxeO6pZW4N401hTQtJ1OHuoQrgKFRvUl1PPS7G7s1hBSW0dDP7gRfvT5qFhdqM3LpxRJHByn_gy21U_YorWvOlRaf2pkvYjzxwKI61KIY/s1024/11-T3476PT34-high-front-right.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1024" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKwKkJbX2P6-rJnkCnvhK7HfMCiH9f3atOs3RxXNT-WeHw3D9ZofwLXk994KCyTcRfH98z011S8UqaiM_Y6GUxeO6pZW4N401hTQtJ1OHuoQrgKFRvUl1PPS7G7s1hBSW0dDP7gRfvT5qFhdqM3LpxRJHByn_gy21U_YorWvOlRaf2pkvYjzxwKI61KIY/w640-h460/11-T3476PT34-high-front-right.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD9uZUG1AD4r_Tah7HgbgG0dkbl1mjUKAgvo6z12ffw0XZL83ySXeMYdPckY0X59E7sjlIincJDA6YUEnjG5qiueUYafTwZFEifb80N8MiwA1wsIBQjYWpY9FQ4VRe4fV5NPpX8OM-8VQW6zZHqstckbpfYU0YjpBJIttbbE2DkyDqrCZPo-QESPAQpJ4/s1024/12-T3476PT34-high-front-left.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1024" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD9uZUG1AD4r_Tah7HgbgG0dkbl1mjUKAgvo6z12ffw0XZL83ySXeMYdPckY0X59E7sjlIincJDA6YUEnjG5qiueUYafTwZFEifb80N8MiwA1wsIBQjYWpY9FQ4VRe4fV5NPpX8OM-8VQW6zZHqstckbpfYU0YjpBJIttbbE2DkyDqrCZPo-QESPAQpJ4/w640-h466/12-T3476PT34-high-front-left.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-pVCG4VFyF-rIiLwVWYDVwHJIsRdedhexUw5MuZJnDf-YyEXkOox4T9pmaTwG0tdY3-MSdRwCCTmbEZVlrwsb62_D-N4RKFNY3Q3I511b4_F1ZtNpWHplAxp_NihFIxC_1gOAFlPbICchaoHnQrFHgN1Ebj3QEHGTfSg_pSnUMg6JRx_osGclJqwagA/s1024/13-T3476PT34-high-rear-left.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="1024" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-pVCG4VFyF-rIiLwVWYDVwHJIsRdedhexUw5MuZJnDf-YyEXkOox4T9pmaTwG0tdY3-MSdRwCCTmbEZVlrwsb62_D-N4RKFNY3Q3I511b4_F1ZtNpWHplAxp_NihFIxC_1gOAFlPbICchaoHnQrFHgN1Ebj3QEHGTfSg_pSnUMg6JRx_osGclJqwagA/w640-h522/13-T3476PT34-high-rear-left.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br />Exhibit A for the monopod-tripod-manual shooting: the last photo had moved a bit but gave enough of a view of the tank for me to just go with it instead of doing reshoots.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Next in 'Mumblings<br /></span></h2><p>A trash can.<br /></p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-5838370025056183672024-02-21T14:51:00.000+02:002024-02-21T14:51:58.003+02:00Final twists of the screws<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The end is nigh - again<br /></span></h2><p>After all, I decided to write a separate post of these last changes, so that I wouldn't again end up with an "<i>by the way, I did this too but forgot to mention</i>" sidenote somewhere. Those have been done, probably there were going to be more but not on purpose. All in all the model was almost finished.<br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Shovel supports<br /></span></h4><p>It took me a lifetime but I stole a moment to fix the green metal bits that held the shovels. Fixing them was a bit quicker without the antenna being on the way.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6U5FMeXuR5TrMF4BwuZejHFjH_NK9PmNsd_7Q6UbZfcicna85yYUUmHhmjA1vfIawxzy7eMSqhW6qLjXowz6Q9Wa3UvNNHKL28h-ukCAqbS3xO3TbgWzKhsDTXg4dxkS39EH1f-S123mctpbhBlpHuPfVptlYuQZRJ0DEH1JkvkoWv2yMKXgRBeQ-mEo/s800/T34MR_08-186-shovel-holder-fixed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="800" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6U5FMeXuR5TrMF4BwuZejHFjH_NK9PmNsd_7Q6UbZfcicna85yYUUmHhmjA1vfIawxzy7eMSqhW6qLjXowz6Q9Wa3UvNNHKL28h-ukCAqbS3xO3TbgWzKhsDTXg4dxkS39EH1f-S123mctpbhBlpHuPfVptlYuQZRJ0DEH1JkvkoWv2yMKXgRBeQ-mEo/w640-h352/T34MR_08-186-shovel-holder-fixed.jpg" width="640" /></a> <br /></p><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">External light</span><br /></h4><p>In my earlier models I've consistently painted these driving lights metallic (chrome or steel), if they didn't come with a transparent bit. So for a change I decided to do something else and went with a grey gradient plan. I didn't want to do a strong jeweling effect but something less noticeable than a clear metallic paint or a dark grey bit.</p><p>For the base colour I chose my usual grey (VGA 72750 Cold Grey).</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOXiLjFtYxHjXPknkl3OtnoWMeqJ53Qd1_DwGg3rMkz8jAnoXpxW1pirIhIbCXdXN13NOeInibQJ2QZo09T5FP5XbRuiWT1t6X3FvCXN5jsNv2qvEek1R-nDal7ZJUbyJw73SVr9nTEw9-1ykqvcU_DGtoAI7LOeYfz22L1_fkoJKDiCwKs7dy40lfE84/s800/T34MR_08-187-lamp-first-grey.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="800" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOXiLjFtYxHjXPknkl3OtnoWMeqJ53Qd1_DwGg3rMkz8jAnoXpxW1pirIhIbCXdXN13NOeInibQJ2QZo09T5FP5XbRuiWT1t6X3FvCXN5jsNv2qvEek1R-nDal7ZJUbyJw73SVr9nTEw9-1ykqvcU_DGtoAI7LOeYfz22L1_fkoJKDiCwKs7dy40lfE84/w640-h316/T34MR_08-187-lamp-first-grey.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>With the base drying I mixed some lighter grey (VGA 72749 Stonewall Grey) to the cold grey and painted a small circle to the lower right sector.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw9fzgQmE2ILsmHG6xfJWEI2colb1wCBa716Lcl-gbXw8Nwjk3hZlbmVcXZ-DbcHAbow22HWOgiLp489_828568fHbOCS-0hgcevTmA9ntENs-rS8SnvqXgGFeaIM8GTSYncd-twdBoWbmMNqGZ6EzEA_TFsqgZt139NMS-Rp_eRM1IkBPQ3thSfEzU30/s800/T34MR_08-188-lamp-shading.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="800" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw9fzgQmE2ILsmHG6xfJWEI2colb1wCBa716Lcl-gbXw8Nwjk3hZlbmVcXZ-DbcHAbow22HWOgiLp489_828568fHbOCS-0hgcevTmA9ntENs-rS8SnvqXgGFeaIM8GTSYncd-twdBoWbmMNqGZ6EzEA_TFsqgZt139NMS-Rp_eRM1IkBPQ3thSfEzU30/w640-h362/T34MR_08-188-lamp-shading.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I added some more stonewall grey to mix a still lighter shade, and painted a smaller circle into the lower right area of the previous one. To the top left arc I added a tiny line with the same paint.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYPYvTHT6UXOPNtTm7JFJFmvOWb40sn7Otava5y2O4iNGi-ZE0GJ0-5tRP21aX8ABwmJNrcG9rzNM74WqRkG3iht6vaOZsDBmy_CIdau4HtA0TVlnBYe2jbi_6SsqxsBrV1d5qtdxplBvtrGU5AdpaB7LhE_CCZYPcMXMk2wiYje0fVa-wzNYp8wVwCi8/s800/T34MR_08-189-lamp-shading.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="800" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYPYvTHT6UXOPNtTm7JFJFmvOWb40sn7Otava5y2O4iNGi-ZE0GJ0-5tRP21aX8ABwmJNrcG9rzNM74WqRkG3iht6vaOZsDBmy_CIdau4HtA0TVlnBYe2jbi_6SsqxsBrV1d5qtdxplBvtrGU5AdpaB7LhE_CCZYPcMXMk2wiYje0fVa-wzNYp8wVwCi8/w640-h382/T34MR_08-189-lamp-shading.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Finally I poked a pair of an even lighter grey to top the highlights, and plopped the turret in. I was thinking if I still ought to drybrush the top arc with off-white but decided against it, in fear of making a mess.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQAWYJ6D5gEeiIMpO74o85Bb50MnR549lKJD2WULX6aJ1rUeMyUxocxnZfOPO_R8y9jfCBEPIyZ4LIADsHpSXOcVWx3RSifG4AedLuK1HCgW03ryhMtD3618cQGXdZQ6p1AIvLu87JudjjdKMo3_ZC2f2uI_o4i5QcMnIRUxQfImczZAXifSDtfXY1zKQ/s800/T34MR_08-190-lamp-effect.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="800" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQAWYJ6D5gEeiIMpO74o85Bb50MnR549lKJD2WULX6aJ1rUeMyUxocxnZfOPO_R8y9jfCBEPIyZ4LIADsHpSXOcVWx3RSifG4AedLuK1HCgW03ryhMtD3618cQGXdZQ6p1AIvLu87JudjjdKMo3_ZC2f2uI_o4i5QcMnIRUxQfImczZAXifSDtfXY1zKQ/w640-h372/T34MR_08-190-lamp-effect.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From this angle it looked lamplike enough to me. Had I been less lazy I'd carved the lamp open and made a lens from transparent thin plastic. I just didn't see that adding much value to the build, so this was good.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu710SgJpyD58Q3OU5ZDmEAioJYb7TlvFtkg8hmaRA0k2oABahCXwrsrnGCu6I_JUWUNkkVYM9zCKft0-gnV0nyFnEPWr0lqEXOCHoLWn5MqB1L1SYSa6qepZDj52Pij6vUw6NzSRtHzB6uMb2Z94jcHzqNqhu1rfT3gzpaHu67ec7CVzzR33vCYlyW0Y/s800/T34MR_08-192-overview.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="800" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu710SgJpyD58Q3OU5ZDmEAioJYb7TlvFtkg8hmaRA0k2oABahCXwrsrnGCu6I_JUWUNkkVYM9zCKft0-gnV0nyFnEPWr0lqEXOCHoLWn5MqB1L1SYSa6qepZDj52Pij6vUw6NzSRtHzB6uMb2Z94jcHzqNqhu1rfT3gzpaHu67ec7CVzzR33vCYlyW0Y/w640-h288/T34MR_08-192-overview.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Antenna</span></h4><p>All that was missing anymore was the antenna that got accidentally knocked off sometime earlier. I spent a bit of time looking for a clue for the actual colour of these things, but it didn't seem to be a popular subject for some reason. Dark grey was good for me, I didn't repaint it and just glued it on again.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_AahMIeyOaX2Aao4UBmD65bEbqdzy6bWezrz0FERT07niEZXqfk_BM2Zcd1_aF4So0ZAwt9CypuAQUYJwQVlAOhHokKvzVaizFZis-2Ui54eaXu0w2ajTNfbpglC_xnBnwzVB1WhxKIdcjNyOpNVlPdaFQR-mYPwC3AH3JMScgFI4LRKxPCuHTd5hCw0/s800/T34MR_08-197.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="800" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_AahMIeyOaX2Aao4UBmD65bEbqdzy6bWezrz0FERT07niEZXqfk_BM2Zcd1_aF4So0ZAwt9CypuAQUYJwQVlAOhHokKvzVaizFZis-2Ui54eaXu0w2ajTNfbpglC_xnBnwzVB1WhxKIdcjNyOpNVlPdaFQR-mYPwC3AH3JMScgFI4LRKxPCuHTd5hCw0/w640-h412/T34MR_08-197.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRFO-UIjshGnOa1r4gYIiiL0B4f-_VjwUN0fo3yifR0yYal6ipp5_3Ox9j2EDZ6it6QcntEQUn9IAvQ2NRHnvcdOFfw5sce0lXAHdhfs6-RmamhyphenhyphenSTmzVnGhSX0nepVTnCMQ-YfjcHOH3EWk_HEjKPrrCnj8m3-dc87Ocg5RoLPQ7VwWQDOzIxr_z5eS8/s800/T34MR_08-193-front-right.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="800" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRFO-UIjshGnOa1r4gYIiiL0B4f-_VjwUN0fo3yifR0yYal6ipp5_3Ox9j2EDZ6it6QcntEQUn9IAvQ2NRHnvcdOFfw5sce0lXAHdhfs6-RmamhyphenhyphenSTmzVnGhSX0nepVTnCMQ-YfjcHOH3EWk_HEjKPrrCnj8m3-dc87Ocg5RoLPQ7VwWQDOzIxr_z5eS8/w640-h442/T34MR_08-193-front-right.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTElTjNeI9_M2eoXOoK06ecOwX47_vVBDYOf6yJb1QDIWGimB_H_Bg5Pcr5K9Jxk1zoVItNr3B7T6hewjD1R7kGpQfuANqRW0UZ5WxKGTkZUUsszELLpsLBLWv6pgr9veRkgiqul1PD5XNnMMZKq8KlPZHGLko9mfADJTZCJHjasXLbzU8pZc0jbrJuZk/s800/T34MR_08-194-front-left.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="800" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTElTjNeI9_M2eoXOoK06ecOwX47_vVBDYOf6yJb1QDIWGimB_H_Bg5Pcr5K9Jxk1zoVItNr3B7T6hewjD1R7kGpQfuANqRW0UZ5WxKGTkZUUsszELLpsLBLWv6pgr9veRkgiqul1PD5XNnMMZKq8KlPZHGLko9mfADJTZCJHjasXLbzU8pZc0jbrJuZk/w640-h466/T34MR_08-194-front-left.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh73RQD7V8ZP8EXj92Hf5iMI-tVuPHumcuwF_KZkBVOjUfAIAp6KSDwC0rhZECBUh07OMxOXsoN3T_-DpzyONp3V3su22R-ExToIdbh9kZAGDzQSCpp4dcLUM_0BASqZ0n9M1E-pZIgvY9TqwcjuXX_MQtQ0GzgN4LUp750pcj2fJ1ack3Ic8VbtSiw9Ks/s723/T34MR_08-195-rear-left.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="723" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh73RQD7V8ZP8EXj92Hf5iMI-tVuPHumcuwF_KZkBVOjUfAIAp6KSDwC0rhZECBUh07OMxOXsoN3T_-DpzyONp3V3su22R-ExToIdbh9kZAGDzQSCpp4dcLUM_0BASqZ0n9M1E-pZIgvY9TqwcjuXX_MQtQ0GzgN4LUp750pcj2fJ1ack3Ic8VbtSiw9Ks/w640-h532/T34MR_08-195-rear-left.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-UQ7JyEXvb20ctapOh6e-hdkmIA7mPGao-txfvQcaEH9x04ZFUzIlFKkGbfLzCjO4RJFxM-HryftRsVaRLyKph53Pk468U3Tyne6tpjkNuNGMny4wnS2fLBFgxvmsRuJMftIv3rl0yX0No5dicX8Zh_BZ_ZEsmZrY5aJfbSNrr8RSoKTJ5YaT21ephXM/s800/T34MR_08-196-rear-right.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="800" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-UQ7JyEXvb20ctapOh6e-hdkmIA7mPGao-txfvQcaEH9x04ZFUzIlFKkGbfLzCjO4RJFxM-HryftRsVaRLyKph53Pk468U3Tyne6tpjkNuNGMny4wnS2fLBFgxvmsRuJMftIv3rl0yX0No5dicX8Zh_BZ_ZEsmZrY5aJfbSNrr8RSoKTJ5YaT21ephXM/w640-h418/T34MR_08-196-rear-right.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>For the statistics: the last one was the 198th photo for this project, but I hadn't shared quite all of them.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-23080443984197804602024-02-14T12:00:00.214+02:002024-02-14T12:00:00.142+02:00Tracks, mud and earthy oils<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Running gear<br /></span></h2><p>First of all I ensured that I had found the 8B graphite pen I had bought in early '23. Yes, I had, it was stored in a place where I could now actually find it.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKHJe39rA3KAJ4hmdVyRxTdn-Wu7spYeHYfdzkmw1eoXvhiOw4QKd1HaMH_pwVUjNScqpgBSqIdYmA7SnTtj6iYOWyLlMGpB7rutfQDQc9LMHtHcphyphenhyphenznAE4X3J3dGXg1aU_CL6wzn9NBUUi172VEOgR8QFJP7RkN1X5a4y-LAd54FiYhConAH38a49-4/s800/T34MR_07-155A-graphite-pen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="800" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKHJe39rA3KAJ4hmdVyRxTdn-Wu7spYeHYfdzkmw1eoXvhiOw4QKd1HaMH_pwVUjNScqpgBSqIdYmA7SnTtj6iYOWyLlMGpB7rutfQDQc9LMHtHcphyphenhyphenznAE4X3J3dGXg1aU_CL6wzn9NBUUi172VEOgR8QFJP7RkN1X5a4y-LAd54FiYhConAH38a49-4/w640-h246/T34MR_07-155A-graphite-pen.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I used the pen quickly on all the contact surfaces of the drive sprockets, idler- and road wheels, and then simply blended the graphite with my fingers. The idler wheels I had glued in earlier, but luckily there was enough space around them for my fingers.</p><p>From what I saw the graphite surface behaved pretty much like I expected, especially when comparing to the observations (and a healthy directoryful of reference photos) I made last summer in the Armour Museum in Parola.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge7tSZpSDs86aKV78_rLZ77xYr9sB1hOkQGDCKhFTALRRS-5R1wnxEcP7FscK6o-8fnnIwQYrj6qYgpRZlFPpFVscraFa9pFCLCTsiLzRAc9JRpCZ-PxOQArDLRL3v61kXggmdMScS1aIRXq_NlruAy2pOX4oPiMNMyvtGOfyB1cBt9i7mpkRePKHf7s4/s800/T34MR_07-156-graphite-effect-roadwheels.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="800" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge7tSZpSDs86aKV78_rLZ77xYr9sB1hOkQGDCKhFTALRRS-5R1wnxEcP7FscK6o-8fnnIwQYrj6qYgpRZlFPpFVscraFa9pFCLCTsiLzRAc9JRpCZ-PxOQArDLRL3v61kXggmdMScS1aIRXq_NlruAy2pOX4oPiMNMyvtGOfyB1cBt9i7mpkRePKHf7s4/w640-h356/T34MR_07-156-graphite-effect-roadwheels.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgITETfhdyZz0NE2twHLQuX0yd2L3sOD_0R06rh34DfqA9OLipdOCn_U7kEjxituSby2FWgvxYUUv8rIBFMYYAwyKRar6eKTd2aNd6WX-0TuZ5GTSbgS11AKx6RntKXI3kf1f4jBKyXqFEB0T5G0cCHW5zx2sqDHyOwlQzRijtMHO7ZidEy8h7N10oESM0/s800/T34MR_07-157-graphite-effect-drive-sprocket.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="800" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgITETfhdyZz0NE2twHLQuX0yd2L3sOD_0R06rh34DfqA9OLipdOCn_U7kEjxituSby2FWgvxYUUv8rIBFMYYAwyKRar6eKTd2aNd6WX-0TuZ5GTSbgS11AKx6RntKXI3kf1f4jBKyXqFEB0T5G0cCHW5zx2sqDHyOwlQzRijtMHO7ZidEy8h7N10oESM0/w640-h408/T34MR_07-157-graphite-effect-drive-sprocket.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYNk9RQjx2jSWkgiC78b7iza2iY-no8b5J0s2aw9d4mVszBoBXd-OJprtZp7ZhmmDt-fqBLDFVqsP3gyeNW9DzhZTfeInHn5DveiU6vnPxU_asynq8yTpjcvJ__C_I9WVldWf2rvF_S2YYj4pZ7l7XkIrgSxYFUqB8QczHm-WS_6bsIiKwW1DD_QWr0io/s800/T34MR_07-160-graphite-effect-return-rollers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="800" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYNk9RQjx2jSWkgiC78b7iza2iY-no8b5J0s2aw9d4mVszBoBXd-OJprtZp7ZhmmDt-fqBLDFVqsP3gyeNW9DzhZTfeInHn5DveiU6vnPxU_asynq8yTpjcvJ__C_I9WVldWf2rvF_S2YYj4pZ7l7XkIrgSxYFUqB8QczHm-WS_6bsIiKwW1DD_QWr0io/w640-h248/T34MR_07-160-graphite-effect-return-rollers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br />These photos were actually useful, they revealed a couple of forgotten oil wash stains.</p><p>At this stage I only treated the inner loop of the tracks. I used the pen on the guiding teeth/horns and a line along the lenght just on both sides of the guides, to pretend they were worn clean by the road wheels.</p><p>Looking at my own thoroughly dirtified fingertips I thought that before washing them up, I could use them to do some soft graphite effects on the rollers. I spun those with my fingers, poked around and what got stuck, got stuck.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3bAXd1mFTt4-uj04meuES9Wz_rnjZL8xf6Vy9Hi5lEKHhyaHTkf8N23ltzB1AZEh9-KPw5y8A9qU8Mcv1J5-h_EjQ2BqWSBTzO5JhaNZb7UGQwq5lV2dzK7U79-gzLYU4n06t3tqzF35ArBmHabFmPdWXwpf4tC_u95-DOYyR8OOX0A5eieO1N7muxk/s800/T34MR_07-159-graphite-effect-rollers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="800" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3bAXd1mFTt4-uj04meuES9Wz_rnjZL8xf6Vy9Hi5lEKHhyaHTkf8N23ltzB1AZEh9-KPw5y8A9qU8Mcv1J5-h_EjQ2BqWSBTzO5JhaNZb7UGQwq5lV2dzK7U79-gzLYU4n06t3tqzF35ArBmHabFmPdWXwpf4tC_u95-DOYyR8OOX0A5eieO1N7muxk/w640-h418/T34MR_07-159-graphite-effect-rollers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Installing the vinyl tracks<br /></span></h3><p>I started installing the tracks on the right side. Somehow I had in my mind that the vinyl track was going to be annoying to install so I had left all the roadwheels unglued. My idea was to hold them inside the track loop and then just glue all of them in one go, then finish it up with the drive sprocket.</p><p>Here I had so much space, unlike with the last tracked model, the Jagdpanzer IV, that I could actually glue them all in and just pull the track into place with the drive sprocket. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt2AkDuc3zue711JULY7NSK8feV1OfZRpHe-U1eDYtXuh1SS4NnipJNNwDuVnp_3slgueg9ftueSMbLwii3W4entZ2CK0CV6O2ojm863HKj_weMikFhjj-NlGnlOuaiIcZFFzyWn0eFE3U62VLoxCKwqgff30JSXonDXaZ5MEummoTp380Um3ZcJ39W4g/s800/T34MR_07-161-right-track-installed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="800" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt2AkDuc3zue711JULY7NSK8feV1OfZRpHe-U1eDYtXuh1SS4NnipJNNwDuVnp_3slgueg9ftueSMbLwii3W4entZ2CK0CV6O2ojm863HKj_weMikFhjj-NlGnlOuaiIcZFFzyWn0eFE3U62VLoxCKwqgff30JSXonDXaZ5MEummoTp380Um3ZcJ39W4g/w640-h352/T34MR_07-161-right-track-installed.jpg" width="640" /></a> <br /></div><p></p><p>Once again using the right side's example I was quicker with the other side. As an entity the tank looked much better again. Had I glued the idler wheels last, I could've made the tracks tighter and look better, because that's how the tension was adjusted but those things were too flimsy for my comfort.</p><p>And at this point my homemade antenna finally came off with all the rotatings and whatnot. This wasn't serious damage, I'd just reglue it at a calmer moment. I had to admit that being wary of the antenna had been getting a bit old, I just didn't want to break it off on purpose.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSdPzIBidR92U3zOCPfTHwqpjarfjltOlEkJNQeMCto6aKiemaAqjqH-5btgMyV_r0um9KmZgnrgUnQrq1w-ZgUTUmGgzQ7IOj22gJ2Kvjkz_WEIKhTd6gxdtTh6nZWBXq2clOe4tg_4FZft0NVYg_t1qafo7l1PzIPej7tYHXnJm1Laa-SxyMYs_HC4/s800/T34MR_07-162-right-track-installed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="800" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSdPzIBidR92U3zOCPfTHwqpjarfjltOlEkJNQeMCto6aKiemaAqjqH-5btgMyV_r0um9KmZgnrgUnQrq1w-ZgUTUmGgzQ7IOj22gJ2Kvjkz_WEIKhTd6gxdtTh6nZWBXq2clOe4tg_4FZft0NVYg_t1qafo7l1PzIPej7tYHXnJm1Laa-SxyMYs_HC4/w640-h260/T34MR_07-162-right-track-installed.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh12WXJKg39G5vHyh3OvWvwjos-nsbYMBQlon5Cqbh3VJeUuw6v9alVpT6-Ypogf78kOKW_Cbx1VvmIGQ2lKvLUhwrVEstuzNOexDDUDQHBLdYEzKS_7p56eDOzmTrg_sFzESeBAqhIIEp7zROCWoQSqC3u4mQDqr6ddNEj6LzTfsj0uaQcXHPHKde4I5A/s800/T34MR_07-163-left-track-installed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="800" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh12WXJKg39G5vHyh3OvWvwjos-nsbYMBQlon5Cqbh3VJeUuw6v9alVpT6-Ypogf78kOKW_Cbx1VvmIGQ2lKvLUhwrVEstuzNOexDDUDQHBLdYEzKS_7p56eDOzmTrg_sFzESeBAqhIIEp7zROCWoQSqC3u4mQDqr6ddNEj6LzTfsj0uaQcXHPHKde4I5A/w640-h238/T34MR_07-163-left-track-installed.jpg" width="640" /></a> <br /></div><p></p><p>Like I've been lamenting for a while the rear end was going to need an amount of mud to look less horrible. I was so very disappointed in this rear edge, I had difficulties comprehending it. None of this got any better with my crappy filling skills.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglE152deEhhZzhYXsXACtVlXHBEiZsK3Xe1xEcQQg3M8t0S1AkJtivCjVb6fzdG9dmUxo33GAkd8Hx6AjqFbAqBHeev09EMHW0WIFW6PZWWMQlkpZ0a1RXPOo5npZaWrrRY1XjQeeBJA0hG2faImM_UdjCoQzb9eEcCijMCP2Wc3LB2cKluVSwOpyBNJk/s800/T34MR_07-165-tracks-rear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="800" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglE152deEhhZzhYXsXACtVlXHBEiZsK3Xe1xEcQQg3M8t0S1AkJtivCjVb6fzdG9dmUxo33GAkd8Hx6AjqFbAqBHeev09EMHW0WIFW6PZWWMQlkpZ0a1RXPOo5npZaWrrRY1XjQeeBJA0hG2faImM_UdjCoQzb9eEcCijMCP2Wc3LB2cKluVSwOpyBNJk/w640-h364/T34MR_07-165-tracks-rear.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Vallejo weathering mud<br /></span></h2><p>To mess up the tracks and especially the rear end I used to different Vallejo Weathering Effects. First Mud and Grass (Environment 73826), then European Mud (Thick Mud 73807). Both had gotten a bit thick but got spreadable with a few drops of tap water.</p><p>Giving a few days of rest was a good thing for my oil washes, the shininess had gone down quite a bit. Again I took my photos in a different place, at a different time, and with natural light instead of LEDs.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbL63WH8q6ZG6J6lNFp9-1ZGwTkx7fMciNikUSIe8Rf9kiGlmHkGCukm9KY0CqyjhVxvmUK-pJ1cvWMLMugZcAo4quidn756iauH61_QZ7fNgii2MpqaG29iJZWbScg4GoWDuAr7oq7iq4sJbNEqjYfddkMJj8uLp6uhHh5XEPcEwnX0KPLWsjoUXbWv8/s793/T34MR_07-166-acrylic-mud.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="793" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbL63WH8q6ZG6J6lNFp9-1ZGwTkx7fMciNikUSIe8Rf9kiGlmHkGCukm9KY0CqyjhVxvmUK-pJ1cvWMLMugZcAo4quidn756iauH61_QZ7fNgii2MpqaG29iJZWbScg4GoWDuAr7oq7iq4sJbNEqjYfddkMJj8uLp6uhHh5XEPcEwnX0KPLWsjoUXbWv8/w640-h484/T34MR_07-166-acrylic-mud.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw34VbinbQ7XH_adzc94reI4k1gVUxRe04sF5ATfObZoUoC4414HJXoEc2lO-b4MQU570ewF6ZoA87Izlt4osuEzpE2jmAU45bah3eJ92exU1ZQ388GVQt_adFpYtMJhtzuuPK5qgbcygij787_ByjTWOxsRWodWjhJdvizjaqx9YvSQHBF5SjBC0f0cA/s767/T34MR_07-167-acrylic-mud.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="767" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw34VbinbQ7XH_adzc94reI4k1gVUxRe04sF5ATfObZoUoC4414HJXoEc2lO-b4MQU570ewF6ZoA87Izlt4osuEzpE2jmAU45bah3eJ92exU1ZQ388GVQt_adFpYtMJhtzuuPK5qgbcygij787_ByjTWOxsRWodWjhJdvizjaqx9YvSQHBF5SjBC0f0cA/w640-h500/T34MR_07-167-acrylic-mud.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_W_faloewwjtEZI8MW1-ExtXqhIqqc_SluPmaZDn7KOHQDkhqiMsGx7gRsjiyaJJwa2A7KHgToxpnvxptzvZK5GkzxYDVmFKzRgqKY6maeBrFNtHjOhYQpfzY25KKhJCheUknd9TY__NrQnH_u5pR69mGxNmtjkgYTB1zk_QNb23KxJaz2QUh3zxu-rk/s800/T34MR_07-168-acrylic-mud.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="800" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_W_faloewwjtEZI8MW1-ExtXqhIqqc_SluPmaZDn7KOHQDkhqiMsGx7gRsjiyaJJwa2A7KHgToxpnvxptzvZK5GkzxYDVmFKzRgqKY6maeBrFNtHjOhYQpfzY25KKhJCheUknd9TY__NrQnH_u5pR69mGxNmtjkgYTB1zk_QNb23KxJaz2QUh3zxu-rk/w640-h434/T34MR_07-168-acrylic-mud.jpg" width="640" /></a> <br /></div><p></p><p>The mud was pretty nasty-looking, as it was supposed to be.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZDUOx72HPF44s0gIOleP68SG_sXjMVJlQz8e53A1VDGWsLFZft2GwBTNrd0qZXF3mlgPgbzV3ueyfoMvagkblqjmxSPvluLZR_BdK2raiYjSlwPJShlgWIV3HdwLZSbI0k2mb72oTeBsraTkAArqTYnrJlvSMAzmoxOQTUYrvqs_Fk5xQwNpsvEFBl4/s721/T34MR_07-169-acrylic-mud-closeup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="721" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZDUOx72HPF44s0gIOleP68SG_sXjMVJlQz8e53A1VDGWsLFZft2GwBTNrd0qZXF3mlgPgbzV3ueyfoMvagkblqjmxSPvluLZR_BdK2raiYjSlwPJShlgWIV3HdwLZSbI0k2mb72oTeBsraTkAArqTYnrJlvSMAzmoxOQTUYrvqs_Fk5xQwNpsvEFBl4/w640-h412/T34MR_07-169-acrylic-mud-closeup.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I kept the front of the tank much clearer. Just in case I left the mine rollers pretty much as they were, I was way too much of an amateur with these and getting something that complicated was not something I wanted to even think of undoing of mud.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE2pYHtoyW2285blyruKmJwks0sIiVBuY8aiXw4boQDC98zfbnp7XKvhjjWU1-IbeO-7CAAFeacRMXkAoqCVYE2Ermvj2PWld5fTzKFlUARaeh1wVRQE8w3Iqu6rejS2NsPxxk6NefO1jhei55F6i1FJLq1JHrIkB70hcWVh1c6cqEMOdGU5VvEszzjqg/s800/T34MR_07-170-acrylic-mud-closeup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="800" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE2pYHtoyW2285blyruKmJwks0sIiVBuY8aiXw4boQDC98zfbnp7XKvhjjWU1-IbeO-7CAAFeacRMXkAoqCVYE2Ermvj2PWld5fTzKFlUARaeh1wVRQE8w3Iqu6rejS2NsPxxk6NefO1jhei55F6i1FJLq1JHrIkB70hcWVh1c6cqEMOdGU5VvEszzjqg/w640-h430/T34MR_07-170-acrylic-mud-closeup.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Road wheels also got off lightly, I poked some mud in to give some extra texture. There was an amount of muck in the sides of the tank's armoured tub but that wasn't going to be really visible behind the running gear.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXUr4skQxtuf8eLQIBAdZW-cmFwnvNsr4crSve9cmX20KtmiO3uJPjTnqulaidppdhyphenhyphen8nrXIavjx3vN99ctJSe2Wa9zpKYR9gOSku9RzY48eVL2eCIPO5o3Mepj0ZPlZ52QHOZ66fFloxQjqOBNa_w6IA6PFxcKO7HnGrfS8DxhFV0Y2C3ujtpeqSZ0UE/s800/T34MR_07-171-acrylic-mud-closeup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="800" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXUr4skQxtuf8eLQIBAdZW-cmFwnvNsr4crSve9cmX20KtmiO3uJPjTnqulaidppdhyphenhyphen8nrXIavjx3vN99ctJSe2Wa9zpKYR9gOSku9RzY48eVL2eCIPO5o3Mepj0ZPlZ52QHOZ66fFloxQjqOBNa_w6IA6PFxcKO7HnGrfS8DxhFV0Y2C3ujtpeqSZ0UE/w640-h286/T34MR_07-171-acrylic-mud-closeup.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I did try to collect some crap to the sides and the different mud traps of the roller setup. Here, too, I used the mud materials mostly for surface texture.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9t7GP_mBX7Os63jKaH6k3n7NdQ1WF109IdDdlgKcDbmRgcMlBq4frTxdVZjHQ9yUfnqvHe-o9paZKO4z-TG0LGxRAhhHqxmx8ihMYC7xdS3efy9iVITRXQK2IHDpNRuZPB39Cu6JUS3enfM_dQ4s1hm89XtqFS5aluVnfsAjMsl2ymDYBipPRctolbao/s800/T34MR_07-172-acrylic-mud-closeup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="800" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9t7GP_mBX7Os63jKaH6k3n7NdQ1WF109IdDdlgKcDbmRgcMlBq4frTxdVZjHQ9yUfnqvHe-o9paZKO4z-TG0LGxRAhhHqxmx8ihMYC7xdS3efy9iVITRXQK2IHDpNRuZPB39Cu6JUS3enfM_dQ4s1hm89XtqFS5aluVnfsAjMsl2ymDYBipPRctolbao/w640-h438/T34MR_07-172-acrylic-mud-closeup.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>Just like that I was out of time, and had to leave the mud to dry. Thanks to life being life it took me a good long while before I could continue on the model.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Abteilung weathering oils<br /></span></h2><p>Well, I had a few of these weathering -themed oils, from light to dark earth and I started by mixing a bit of Light Mud (ABT125) for my tracks. Maybe I should've made this stuff really thin, to get the crevices more covered, now they just ended thickly mudded.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qmkeTq4a2Lh-WFNrAYfNg9qcPybmlIrbFl7VJRujiGKPj-KLoZQhVFD2gFEETZhKD2zFQJSRiMbLu6B-4ADMPhq9HdY5z03h4tRk3Y8-dC3m7cA-yyltjuuNC3XVQEMsdRZ5sotc9njkFe7EvBvHPtkGF-ZWb682DjsfNssfrN7DAQxyc1dFknLIImE/s800/T34MR_07-174-abt-light-mud.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="800" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1qmkeTq4a2Lh-WFNrAYfNg9qcPybmlIrbFl7VJRujiGKPj-KLoZQhVFD2gFEETZhKD2zFQJSRiMbLu6B-4ADMPhq9HdY5z03h4tRk3Y8-dC3m7cA-yyltjuuNC3XVQEMsdRZ5sotc9njkFe7EvBvHPtkGF-ZWb682DjsfNssfrN7DAQxyc1dFknLIImE/w640-h378/T34MR_07-174-abt-light-mud.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>To go with the dry stuff I made a tiny amount of darker mud and made it wash-thin (ABT130 Dark Mud), applied it as spots here and there. This weird mix I then blended to see how it looked like in the end. Spoiler: it looked muddy.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjXdHdKe7PFgG9ljsmlrnQ1nFSxg3TJEGKAG98yooZMMwdeC7YmaEvSORmr97daOQOck827AmeU4BVkNl0AVSnJY7W8j1TJ-itFa9XdF7ZXvzeS-AxE0aR-f5YhY4ZfLRf61_LJPnfYo5DfPUnDViLImtHalk1VnK4sMd-uQMouktvnYxliktcrJrUAkA/s800/T34MR_07-175-abt-dark-mud.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="800" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjXdHdKe7PFgG9ljsmlrnQ1nFSxg3TJEGKAG98yooZMMwdeC7YmaEvSORmr97daOQOck827AmeU4BVkNl0AVSnJY7W8j1TJ-itFa9XdF7ZXvzeS-AxE0aR-f5YhY4ZfLRf61_LJPnfYo5DfPUnDViLImtHalk1VnK4sMd-uQMouktvnYxliktcrJrUAkA/w640-h288/T34MR_07-175-abt-dark-mud.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Checking the next day the tracks looked much calmer. With some more time to dry behind us, I used the graphite pen on the edges and ridges of the tracks. No photos were taken of that.<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyqDx-Wlq1n9xrn5pkew3hUDQJPwuCUfhqwy840I5IfexdclORSBvErXciKyT5976hP73t4auCFwJXpPGSD6S7_PeVTXi81dVKBOoMPFy7xDX7dyjSGCBKTq6uhHSzGtLFFCq7mWUxLtkq8F0fRoQyG3YVLI5iAculdl8Q2Ulo8I2AfWw3cC3v-08wRME/s800/T34MR_07-176-oil-mud-dry.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyqDx-Wlq1n9xrn5pkew3hUDQJPwuCUfhqwy840I5IfexdclORSBvErXciKyT5976hP73t4auCFwJXpPGSD6S7_PeVTXi81dVKBOoMPFy7xDX7dyjSGCBKTq6uhHSzGtLFFCq7mWUxLtkq8F0fRoQyG3YVLI5iAculdl8Q2Ulo8I2AfWw3cC3v-08wRME/w640-h320/T34MR_07-176-oil-mud-dry.jpg" width="640" /></a> <br /></div><p>Then I made some thin engine grease (ABT160) and used it on some of the road wheels to try to get a bit of a lubricant leak look on them. I had pretty few places I wanted to use this on, but to make those bulky boxes a bit more interesting I used the oily stuff on the little things on top.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW65yx6zpSruoeCSC82ac0NG29O0F7tDjOFNTzxWyS0F0mMQZDuhCtaCzbzD4ICgbvp8YGnfKgfneyrk6X8CPiYQOL4O2wVBhcCNk4XfBdWFwiNoP8iMVD9S04NyYN_KbwtudFgeZNcCq1bzSQVlfnvYUQC_WQysndjsizqCis3agRKbPeB_Ez92-jRck/s800/T34MR_07-178-engine-grease.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="800" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW65yx6zpSruoeCSC82ac0NG29O0F7tDjOFNTzxWyS0F0mMQZDuhCtaCzbzD4ICgbvp8YGnfKgfneyrk6X8CPiYQOL4O2wVBhcCNk4XfBdWFwiNoP8iMVD9S04NyYN_KbwtudFgeZNcCq1bzSQVlfnvYUQC_WQysndjsizqCis3agRKbPeB_Ez92-jRck/w640-h304/T34MR_07-178-engine-grease.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8JUiWGc44jjwNvv66pInePgK5rm03was8GTipMgM9O-B0zJUU5ULpvKcnvrfMQB4PvFsH623PwHYN9g1EDi0NQVHiq-m_yj7WG2aP46E4_8KZ7nBFXvx8eA9jR0sQAt1GIItsmCKfGsfuIo1s2OCNtUCT5hM_ni5aEQ-Iz2xGcZVLo0kje0PMgh4s_mw/s800/T34MR_07-179-engine-grease.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="800" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8JUiWGc44jjwNvv66pInePgK5rm03was8GTipMgM9O-B0zJUU5ULpvKcnvrfMQB4PvFsH623PwHYN9g1EDi0NQVHiq-m_yj7WG2aP46E4_8KZ7nBFXvx8eA9jR0sQAt1GIItsmCKfGsfuIo1s2OCNtUCT5hM_ni5aEQ-Iz2xGcZVLo0kje0PMgh4s_mw/w640-h250/T34MR_07-179-engine-grease.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>At this point I didn't go for any dot filtering, but in my mind's eye using some buff (ABT035) on some key pieces on the top worked nicely. I tried to contain myself and applied the buff dots on the centerlines of some engine deck panels, front fenders and the upper edge of the front glacis plate.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2_qwsJSWbZkIuZZiN-ZaUfCbufvWF6CL4N47ST_yUuRB-AJfB3Mo1LqMlR1t5Ykom6WqDoPQWfkdmANqiZ7dkhJwps2K3QQtnutka891AYafo-PS3rI6FMlWjz8anYnF3MOIZULNfQCrQpJ8u7_8LKMW5DtkyDgrl9olzWI-qZmPN-9tcCnr91WQJtE/s800/T34MR_07-177-buff-spots.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="800" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2_qwsJSWbZkIuZZiN-ZaUfCbufvWF6CL4N47ST_yUuRB-AJfB3Mo1LqMlR1t5Ykom6WqDoPQWfkdmANqiZ7dkhJwps2K3QQtnutka891AYafo-PS3rI6FMlWjz8anYnF3MOIZULNfQCrQpJ8u7_8LKMW5DtkyDgrl9olzWI-qZmPN-9tcCnr91WQJtE/w640-h318/T34MR_07-177-buff-spots.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>After the first blending and an overnight drying the buffed effect was too strong for my liking. So I blended it some more to take it down a notch.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoFMu4ZwkcdpHWrM2pkdQLzAVaEM-bTGVSh6-C2nuMCIKac8QjN0mZSbVT_656TMMNxWdCNK5MfDS6QGIi7pv_0BXJVJTHsT9VT4oOfIKa3bxhIvJeoIUubRTLvDKo81Fsp9cjDMwH0P3ZDX7DWUhxZvB-Xgh3nnuWUGY2rpyM1Pt_E2aYzdfa74oVN5c/s800/T34MR_07-180-buff-blended.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="800" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoFMu4ZwkcdpHWrM2pkdQLzAVaEM-bTGVSh6-C2nuMCIKac8QjN0mZSbVT_656TMMNxWdCNK5MfDS6QGIi7pv_0BXJVJTHsT9VT4oOfIKa3bxhIvJeoIUubRTLvDKo81Fsp9cjDMwH0P3ZDX7DWUhxZvB-Xgh3nnuWUGY2rpyM1Pt_E2aYzdfa74oVN5c/w640-h280/T34MR_07-180-buff-blended.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Readyish?</span><br /></h2><p></p><p>I started feeling that my tank was just about done now. Looking at the photos I took around the tank made me think how much of a difference had I actually made with all this tinkering. I expected to find something else to fix in addition to reattaching the antenna, painting the front shovel clamp and the light. If there wasn't anything else, the next week's post would show the completed model, but if I had enough to work on, there would be a short post in between.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcHRsnaGPtnuHn79w5z7VpPzh2K4Gvif4DXBv_iYaWOHlTOWAaKc5tHuwCSgAaW5AGQlJ3RNbbahviX7YARrnB1q-0mdxAv4-H_v6IJqAE_BqoZVreKvOlIQCWTQNHXrxlrtRT8ec_3JVreGP_BBD-JXnQgHClsbHqahOCQ2o5p4fZN57o51G8BSUu0Bc/s800/T34MR_07-185-readyish-deck.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="800" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcHRsnaGPtnuHn79w5z7VpPzh2K4Gvif4DXBv_iYaWOHlTOWAaKc5tHuwCSgAaW5AGQlJ3RNbbahviX7YARrnB1q-0mdxAv4-H_v6IJqAE_BqoZVreKvOlIQCWTQNHXrxlrtRT8ec_3JVreGP_BBD-JXnQgHClsbHqahOCQ2o5p4fZN57o51G8BSUu0Bc/w640-h452/T34MR_07-185-readyish-deck.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7eBTue-See2ULeXpeP6Pbq7miVtg6OMIH-KH2RqdFlx2GuPRW5ZzqorPcHJy3VB0lis1Y5WrckR13RkI0HsxQE_8LMyY-pQ54-81MyuNMffepaXruLja0PjAPGLZmype6jkM_kTWWlbrO4N9NDq3ceD6Qmouj8zKaaSHJJANKd_rTGJo_xrNz6sGj_60/s800/T34MR_07-184-readyish-rollers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7eBTue-See2ULeXpeP6Pbq7miVtg6OMIH-KH2RqdFlx2GuPRW5ZzqorPcHJy3VB0lis1Y5WrckR13RkI0HsxQE_8LMyY-pQ54-81MyuNMffepaXruLja0PjAPGLZmype6jkM_kTWWlbrO4N9NDq3ceD6Qmouj8zKaaSHJJANKd_rTGJo_xrNz6sGj_60/w640-h480/T34MR_07-184-readyish-rollers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYnE26UBoZUu5yKCrmLahWMFFRfJ29Zjo0hh_rLZfGNtIBSWnGfsBzgOqioApBF5Hb8BrVLN3vcfpscr6nVwRWEKoZk9GQh73NLyQta86tsKc48yrFRnV4HSu7mPG3QGOo9uqt-D67kJRN-wpPMZPYJp4BLnf0cQCD6I6TKmp211eqx47AwR2-f5fHlY/s800/T34MR_07-183-readyish-rear.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="800" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYnE26UBoZUu5yKCrmLahWMFFRfJ29Zjo0hh_rLZfGNtIBSWnGfsBzgOqioApBF5Hb8BrVLN3vcfpscr6nVwRWEKoZk9GQh73NLyQta86tsKc48yrFRnV4HSu7mPG3QGOo9uqt-D67kJRN-wpPMZPYJp4BLnf0cQCD6I6TKmp211eqx47AwR2-f5fHlY/w640-h370/T34MR_07-183-readyish-rear.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note to self: fix that grass turd hanging from the left fender<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibS37tX3lNWFEKOo3bfoBsl0bQXRRyC65uKazAbD38NptkoZYyYrr_H_QIWFdgkUqGXXLoRfqEcOSVfzNmuoIb7N0N2xiJnMuTufA-qyK3Gn6NuQPbqAEHMTWL8TxDG4GhZkN1GpWxdL-aehxwYLp7K6-RnD3ZniwHCXXlAG_7yDh92kPekEM8V36XKrE/s800/T34MR_07-182-readyish-left.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="800" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibS37tX3lNWFEKOo3bfoBsl0bQXRRyC65uKazAbD38NptkoZYyYrr_H_QIWFdgkUqGXXLoRfqEcOSVfzNmuoIb7N0N2xiJnMuTufA-qyK3Gn6NuQPbqAEHMTWL8TxDG4GhZkN1GpWxdL-aehxwYLp7K6-RnD3ZniwHCXXlAG_7yDh92kPekEM8V36XKrE/w640-h336/T34MR_07-182-readyish-left.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwUwFsm9osMc3LVoNFbydSPvXVX23Ibxe1aYVa2NTBnZjTH_Ba2P0_SUYg4HU6VjLkT_2JsICfy62PwBGflfEMM91hUfUTvvM6jUcc-DqinLK5UZiRvNAA_6fUh2MkUE4Hi65CjUkuwHWYG8tf6C5H1PZHRJxsfn6IDaW5pml1zNlzv5fA2wK8_N4awMk/s800/T34MR_07-181-readyish-right.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="800" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwUwFsm9osMc3LVoNFbydSPvXVX23Ibxe1aYVa2NTBnZjTH_Ba2P0_SUYg4HU6VjLkT_2JsICfy62PwBGflfEMM91hUfUTvvM6jUcc-DqinLK5UZiRvNAA_6fUh2MkUE4Hi65CjUkuwHWYG8tf6C5H1PZHRJxsfn6IDaW5pml1zNlzv5fA2wK8_N4awMk/w640-h340/T34MR_07-181-readyish-right.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Comparison photos<br /></span></h3><p>The angles weren't exactly the same and the lighting conditions were also different, but you could do a bit of a side-by-side comparison. The key changes happened on the overall green, the piece details weren't that much of an important change in a way.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibWqtAWhYbhmpfSIpzAGic-L_4UF9jeNEslOkpUeWnWhvsA9ypHV-kbFUbeP0CJVSXvDZbBBSajh0K3iISQlItd7JzZVwP_WWBOnVl3M0clPxbljOZ8TBYsofc9X9yUh8Pp8IET9azFjdFxTEjAQAR856lDc0-8KjG7MscKF8dnYhQ2t9jrr-Yuj1zkII/s800/T34MR_04-072-dry-fit-tracks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="800" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibWqtAWhYbhmpfSIpzAGic-L_4UF9jeNEslOkpUeWnWhvsA9ypHV-kbFUbeP0CJVSXvDZbBBSajh0K3iISQlItd7JzZVwP_WWBOnVl3M0clPxbljOZ8TBYsofc9X9yUh8Pp8IET9azFjdFxTEjAQAR856lDc0-8KjG7MscKF8dnYhQ2t9jrr-Yuj1zkII/w640-h454/T34MR_04-072-dry-fit-tracks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwUwFsm9osMc3LVoNFbydSPvXVX23Ibxe1aYVa2NTBnZjTH_Ba2P0_SUYg4HU6VjLkT_2JsICfy62PwBGflfEMM91hUfUTvvM6jUcc-DqinLK5UZiRvNAA_6fUh2MkUE4Hi65CjUkuwHWYG8tf6C5H1PZHRJxsfn6IDaW5pml1zNlzv5fA2wK8_N4awMk/s800/T34MR_07-181-readyish-right.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="800" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwUwFsm9osMc3LVoNFbydSPvXVX23Ibxe1aYVa2NTBnZjTH_Ba2P0_SUYg4HU6VjLkT_2JsICfy62PwBGflfEMM91hUfUTvvM6jUcc-DqinLK5UZiRvNAA_6fUh2MkUE4Hi65CjUkuwHWYG8tf6C5H1PZHRJxsfn6IDaW5pml1zNlzv5fA2wK8_N4awMk/w640-h340/T34MR_07-181-readyish-right.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-18876238367600314822024-02-07T12:00:00.189+02:002024-02-07T12:00:00.277+02:00Oiling so many things<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Sepia shadows<br /></span></h2><p>First step in my shadow business was becoming a routine: a thin Sepia (ABT002) wash first. This time my wash ended up being a bit thicker than a pin wash should be, but that didn't prove harmful earlier, either.</p><p>To keep this short and simple: I went through all the gaps, panel lines, weldlines, holes, shadow areas and whatnot on the turret and the hull. The wheels I left alone on purpose, beacuse I hadn't got enough time for everything in one run.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqw5S5KopRsEObV_AU9thJ0xuwv2R85sX7cReNaGbRpCdyHZL_nmNXTzvIQSlFo-0fKsClzS2WMVzb7USjVVwSrcPOMaT9zEEM5XL1NRoznbwk7T-COvK8W25uGtreW37gdN-DWzcFTJhlZcgdy3D4jp8rOwT-0C8hBCu-BnTyDPwQHffeTBrif2RBIng/s800/T34MR_07-122-sepia-washed-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="800" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqw5S5KopRsEObV_AU9thJ0xuwv2R85sX7cReNaGbRpCdyHZL_nmNXTzvIQSlFo-0fKsClzS2WMVzb7USjVVwSrcPOMaT9zEEM5XL1NRoznbwk7T-COvK8W25uGtreW37gdN-DWzcFTJhlZcgdy3D4jp8rOwT-0C8hBCu-BnTyDPwQHffeTBrif2RBIng/w640-h404/T34MR_07-122-sepia-washed-turret.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPXYVr9QKHjYqTSL0_CLtAvVpYbclu0uExD4V37PBEu7hBd5s7ymmzHkpSGthu9Ft7VA13eq_QOc1fsqYiM3vziZOgLwHq9_3VPwaWWMT8-b67A7dk4ACZmea8oM5ms-4GyyW_jP4aVBgRNs50VrlzFQnGs9Ph81KJr6wjVFhT84whVHckqPWmNs5pk7o/s800/T34MR_07-121-sepia-washed-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="800" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPXYVr9QKHjYqTSL0_CLtAvVpYbclu0uExD4V37PBEu7hBd5s7ymmzHkpSGthu9Ft7VA13eq_QOc1fsqYiM3vziZOgLwHq9_3VPwaWWMT8-b67A7dk4ACZmea8oM5ms-4GyyW_jP4aVBgRNs50VrlzFQnGs9Ph81KJr6wjVFhT84whVHckqPWmNs5pk7o/w640-h378/T34MR_07-121-sepia-washed-turret.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>On the hull side I left purposefully some more and larger shadows to the area that was going to be blocked by the turret, and below the tools and boxes. For a while I was thinking if I ought to wash the boxes with this wash, but I thought that the same set's brown wash might be more suitable. Of the metallic parts I only applied this onto the engine compartment's grilles, the rest would only get rusts.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAKc23kcgpAyP1wet84dOsBa0kZUw8QMjRIIsxco-wbCBhQFP95Lw8JLAN3-5pIkFkV0mqs8iAi8TncxfDDvqfNYcJif30NhfWVJqs66cPvyDHhXYbkIIDM_0X0NtCbXSJaBUR3afhi1YLqFYbdGyuAdLP4iATSK2650YUZ-LqXNtOAIjmcA0YiHJx67E/s800/T34MR_07-119-sepia-washed-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="800" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAKc23kcgpAyP1wet84dOsBa0kZUw8QMjRIIsxco-wbCBhQFP95Lw8JLAN3-5pIkFkV0mqs8iAi8TncxfDDvqfNYcJif30NhfWVJqs66cPvyDHhXYbkIIDM_0X0NtCbXSJaBUR3afhi1YLqFYbdGyuAdLP4iATSK2650YUZ-LqXNtOAIjmcA0YiHJx67E/w640-h252/T34MR_07-119-sepia-washed-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoaCwpSgOnJIvpsVnUMUBu52Jo1GB04NAcpOUBMBZQCg319xhjiMBWS8wEpC3K4z_chUZMr3kNOZOa9zyxGSWb_l-GmQhMjrm-bebmfNSTSJ_9nA9ZS1XN0mCCS-Novkm66Y3uy3soMPbwSRDH_xiGqyDbCMiW49DZUObBKC_9Wqg-u_AND9TQxA7A8xA/s800/T34MR_07-120-sepia-washed-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="800" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoaCwpSgOnJIvpsVnUMUBu52Jo1GB04NAcpOUBMBZQCg319xhjiMBWS8wEpC3K4z_chUZMr3kNOZOa9zyxGSWb_l-GmQhMjrm-bebmfNSTSJ_9nA9ZS1XN0mCCS-Novkm66Y3uy3soMPbwSRDH_xiGqyDbCMiW49DZUObBKC_9Wqg-u_AND9TQxA7A8xA/w640-h252/T34MR_07-120-sepia-washed-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The following evening I cleaned up the overflows, in these next photos most of the biggest stains were toned down.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMPNBR8JWkskIb6UsaP_YQFhqt3MGf8bH1VN-KgyUMhUeSBP99Y73L2x-hJkcX5RD7U1iKbBzRG9ewdowU_kSsJi2ypdv3GLqTa4o1hei09aH_NS9lCyrdWtAjnHE9vyHaLqXsZ5-4vGzZU8y3P3sZAToM1kEJkfvsrm__578vv7chneHJQCx3ReA5UxA/s800/T34MR_07-123-wash-cleaned-left.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="800" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMPNBR8JWkskIb6UsaP_YQFhqt3MGf8bH1VN-KgyUMhUeSBP99Y73L2x-hJkcX5RD7U1iKbBzRG9ewdowU_kSsJi2ypdv3GLqTa4o1hei09aH_NS9lCyrdWtAjnHE9vyHaLqXsZ5-4vGzZU8y3P3sZAToM1kEJkfvsrm__578vv7chneHJQCx3ReA5UxA/w640-h404/T34MR_07-123-wash-cleaned-left.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOX3DnKyJVfYPCrzRLdo_21nJyT2WMHyAporS8-qfS1BvLNwi8qlGZTFxoF79J9CUcs6izcheascQ2MBmdL1KuwJk71KLNKRN5O1dq-76TEe6eTpxjSJFhRAcUZJNTi_NU8CTAE9YW_mJgR0IKC317Utj1y2porsDKOv9dz6wEtOvYXrr0tEXws_dVn4k/s800/T34MR_07-124-wash-cleaned-right.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="800" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOX3DnKyJVfYPCrzRLdo_21nJyT2WMHyAporS8-qfS1BvLNwi8qlGZTFxoF79J9CUcs6izcheascQ2MBmdL1KuwJk71KLNKRN5O1dq-76TEe6eTpxjSJFhRAcUZJNTi_NU8CTAE9YW_mJgR0IKC317Utj1y2porsDKOv9dz6wEtOvYXrr0tEXws_dVn4k/w640-h396/T34MR_07-124-wash-cleaned-right.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>On the wheels I went pretty heavy with the sepia. These hadn't got much special surface details except for a couple of chips and scratches I had done earlier. I decided that before I installed these, I wasn't going to do anything more serious on them, so I didn't have to guess their angles or anything in advance for the flows (Engine Grease sounded like a thing to use here).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuKxTK-dsJ6OORW554vLEbAbRCZpaERVxyQIFsbyK6CLzNioevw-tycdsKmM65EYH7GvCEvHAmKdgS6anjnnNduZFhq8hzViXrZcXYr4PFqaOe0U2MLcfSH-imus8_QOENb_Nn3iL76cVDS52Y6dEkSNdXy34RjY6ayhgEAFAt82AdRB_gYhUvIFBxuk/s800/T34MR_07-145-sepia-and-light-rust-wheels.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="800" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuKxTK-dsJ6OORW554vLEbAbRCZpaERVxyQIFsbyK6CLzNioevw-tycdsKmM65EYH7GvCEvHAmKdgS6anjnnNduZFhq8hzViXrZcXYr4PFqaOe0U2MLcfSH-imus8_QOENb_Nn3iL76cVDS52Y6dEkSNdXy34RjY6ayhgEAFAt82AdRB_gYhUvIFBxuk/w640-h418/T34MR_07-145-sepia-and-light-rust-wheels.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">A small, quick brown wash<br /></span></h2><p>For the boxes I made a small batch of the aptly named brown wash (ABT040 Brown Wash) that I only used on the wooden parts. It showed best on the boxes and the shovel handles, the saw's two tiny handles were a bit too small to show anything. The result was that they were a bit less bright and cartoony-looking.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisx4p2ctCjpOZoDVU_6LYHpLDuFUiUA4Js-zFVFoIRPnRmt5SR3izSmqkTgaIMyoBKlXikT0tXMZGcAKndUu9G7vfzgVWzOXvqtIRTuUKDgKaQCxHUM_w19lmlRlFxnnohpY38DGtDa8IVVxXmQFiWRmQgX6jHsAqgaRbPioZvEfGsHzyviz8vHfs6HsA/s800/T34MR_07-125-brownwashed-box.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="800" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisx4p2ctCjpOZoDVU_6LYHpLDuFUiUA4Js-zFVFoIRPnRmt5SR3izSmqkTgaIMyoBKlXikT0tXMZGcAKndUu9G7vfzgVWzOXvqtIRTuUKDgKaQCxHUM_w19lmlRlFxnnohpY38DGtDa8IVVxXmQFiWRmQgX6jHsAqgaRbPioZvEfGsHzyviz8vHfs6HsA/w640-h388/T34MR_07-125-brownwashed-box.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5P0qYeR-RzkcwgTw9RMDIGvvnDymtQaDHnwWDgDmXRdzCFeYTU42Lbd5Uaj47-ubwnXim3nIEWV53gLuapAH7sA8ndT9VZjXDAMDFAVj4tGgzFmZYdErMcY4picr52tSCj_hC8ZpTVrGNbRHkFunv1VHhdYj46UuDYOG1XWLUmVTt32J7eZNe4hHIlyA/s800/T34MR_07-126-brownwashed-box.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="800" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5P0qYeR-RzkcwgTw9RMDIGvvnDymtQaDHnwWDgDmXRdzCFeYTU42Lbd5Uaj47-ubwnXim3nIEWV53gLuapAH7sA8ndT9VZjXDAMDFAVj4tGgzFmZYdErMcY4picr52tSCj_hC8ZpTVrGNbRHkFunv1VHhdYj46UuDYOG1XWLUmVTt32J7eZNe4hHIlyA/w640-h396/T34MR_07-126-brownwashed-box.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Dark rust<br /></span></h2><p>Like before, I made a wash and applied it in places. Some of the obvious first targets were the unpainted steel pieces, especially the exhaust pipes and the spare track parts. I also applied some rust on the outer arc of the mine rollers.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzxDG7riB03E7LktytSy4PhXv4D7Rnx7spsBtn20fUnK44LV1nxsr4Nin81499c1tuSbR-oL6IFja45iuDMautO7ZYhuNHDkahbs6-75Fkzp8-arkGdUYDCaH3O2pm-MCq_GSpXbOwf6eE_THqdiW_Kj41NUXgdmemJXVHk575Z1RTXPYDq6_ZC9aZzBc/s800/T34MR_07-128-dark-rust-exhausts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="800" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzxDG7riB03E7LktytSy4PhXv4D7Rnx7spsBtn20fUnK44LV1nxsr4Nin81499c1tuSbR-oL6IFja45iuDMautO7ZYhuNHDkahbs6-75Fkzp8-arkGdUYDCaH3O2pm-MCq_GSpXbOwf6eE_THqdiW_Kj41NUXgdmemJXVHk575Z1RTXPYDq6_ZC9aZzBc/w640-h390/T34MR_07-128-dark-rust-exhausts.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXZvVO23-2zu-jrKrH4c2H9GPJtxNJWB3g7KF57fMWS1djfi00IF0uVW7Wh5dfaN2rSsxwKftv0RRooWOzHSR83W-YQDhCInV2pTz0c7GNb0wmONAojQslZr3_PMxSZbVF0p2t-_KdcU6sCX0cgcqvAbvBkAwOf8ix2o3O_9m0OL3kWXSolmPPzSaI2qk/s800/T34MR_07-130-dark-rust-saw.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="800" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXZvVO23-2zu-jrKrH4c2H9GPJtxNJWB3g7KF57fMWS1djfi00IF0uVW7Wh5dfaN2rSsxwKftv0RRooWOzHSR83W-YQDhCInV2pTz0c7GNb0wmONAojQslZr3_PMxSZbVF0p2t-_KdcU6sCX0cgcqvAbvBkAwOf8ix2o3O_9m0OL3kWXSolmPPzSaI2qk/w640-h314/T34MR_07-130-dark-rust-saw.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLy1rA3rbl2X510U6GrUXKgKeL_-_VpZ5NtLaONtM9cfsq2Miz9zjJxU9fKB-dpaufWsZsIy7AYkWHtLhE9_6o3shNSQ_AryFvKN9su1U8IjRBONmNyW8jj4hJXD-FStmxVmf5iZEIsqXU9RSv4SPap6O59iHV04Q_0BAfiHd2-CjEUAEWsqNvvKvdZWU/s800/T34MR_07-131-dark-rust-shovels.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLy1rA3rbl2X510U6GrUXKgKeL_-_VpZ5NtLaONtM9cfsq2Miz9zjJxU9fKB-dpaufWsZsIy7AYkWHtLhE9_6o3shNSQ_AryFvKN9su1U8IjRBONmNyW8jj4hJXD-FStmxVmf5iZEIsqXU9RSv4SPap6O59iHV04Q_0BAfiHd2-CjEUAEWsqNvvKvdZWU/w640-h240/T34MR_07-131-dark-rust-shovels.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Maybe less obviously I used the rusty was on the chips I had made previously. The purpose of this layer was to give more life and variety to the mistreatment. I wasn't quite sure if I'd also add light rust or not.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOGfTjzS8vpbZUqJzkxUb1varoWXhZO5pQOODqTOUX9tm-kgW7thqX4fwcQS9AJMxcFBvu0MAeRGPEy5JIHnPHHYNmchBqiZDn_Rmc_uuCVmtI24wAqaxDWhHqC77VlReJMvEp87_54xs-nEMmQ_J0XBmHgFB32RaB27Jr3fzEKhr2jLRUB1NrJhmhdw0/s800/T34MR_07-127-dark-rust-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="800" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOGfTjzS8vpbZUqJzkxUb1varoWXhZO5pQOODqTOUX9tm-kgW7thqX4fwcQS9AJMxcFBvu0MAeRGPEy5JIHnPHHYNmchBqiZDn_Rmc_uuCVmtI24wAqaxDWhHqC77VlReJMvEp87_54xs-nEMmQ_J0XBmHgFB32RaB27Jr3fzEKhr2jLRUB1NrJhmhdw0/w640-h458/T34MR_07-127-dark-rust-turret.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMhNL1M5s_0iEIQr3BJO_F-o0dzUs5G09WaovgaQZ9Fd23XyBWjZ88nkAPk6SxsSmV7z9QYTcxmH9B9kMsbsRYtAYB37X3ACVyc9LfYb90OHp6GlakW_nrgOXRbcVcQAdaciEkYYNvUIajuyr5imw9R6AqVXJK7_svmt6QFfzMK_woUVGqbhX4o0Kbsoc/s800/T34MR_07-129-dark-rust-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMhNL1M5s_0iEIQr3BJO_F-o0dzUs5G09WaovgaQZ9Fd23XyBWjZ88nkAPk6SxsSmV7z9QYTcxmH9B9kMsbsRYtAYB37X3ACVyc9LfYb90OHp6GlakW_nrgOXRbcVcQAdaciEkYYNvUIajuyr5imw9R6AqVXJK7_svmt6QFfzMK_woUVGqbhX4o0Kbsoc/w640-h480/T34MR_07-129-dark-rust-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>On the first round I had enough time to add a good layer of this wash onto the outer side of the tracks. Those would definitely get a light rust layer, but I hadn't made up my mind on how it was to be done. At this moment I was considering the toothpick-spatter method for randomness.<br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Light rust<br /></span></h2><p>Before I applied the light rust wash onto select spots I blended the dark rust regions a bit, because the previous layer had ended up a bit stronger than I had envisioned. After that was done I added fresh rust to rust-deficient bits. I started with the track armour on the front glacis plate, because I had not had the time for it the previous time.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHSonwomiqVbntIxqjew5YnJ4kXntqkyzLq2NzfawZjzZDoOxNruleVT-t3gCrqMNe67qqgGbWvDrn5OcOpPLJPzSvLrE78w-xASN4vpD6ss7faeF5r2AeMm-hvy7op-eZVa1lT3Y10Lm_80_tWEO0XP_WpUVGrdpVLaKP7rUIOaqMUfLL09cYRTj82zs/s800/T34MR_07-132-light-rust-overview.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="800" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHSonwomiqVbntIxqjew5YnJ4kXntqkyzLq2NzfawZjzZDoOxNruleVT-t3gCrqMNe67qqgGbWvDrn5OcOpPLJPzSvLrE78w-xASN4vpD6ss7faeF5r2AeMm-hvy7op-eZVa1lT3Y10Lm_80_tWEO0XP_WpUVGrdpVLaKP7rUIOaqMUfLL09cYRTj82zs/w640-h462/T34MR_07-132-light-rust-overview.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>On the turret I added light bits on many of the already dark-rusted bits, only by the chippings. I tried to keep the fresh ones under tight control.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo405v70eiQOF9e_mzkh-t_FFbNXb-er7ynplYmq7CRaGPEyioOtb2R_R4D7aU7yXYFK_Hsrfxz9BoihHfhL51uCjcwhCxPmpXcM6xWv9J7zO5dFFMqzb85aUQRxrZYUM9JYetW2mOsLavguSE0h7BoPtrdca5ZVR6MLqLGIwu0dLGI-eBlNnNErct-QQ/s800/T34MR_07-133-light-rust-turret-left.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="800" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo405v70eiQOF9e_mzkh-t_FFbNXb-er7ynplYmq7CRaGPEyioOtb2R_R4D7aU7yXYFK_Hsrfxz9BoihHfhL51uCjcwhCxPmpXcM6xWv9J7zO5dFFMqzb85aUQRxrZYUM9JYetW2mOsLavguSE0h7BoPtrdca5ZVR6MLqLGIwu0dLGI-eBlNnNErct-QQ/w640-h432/T34MR_07-133-light-rust-turret-left.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2yhH2H8t4QqoGv1toS6gCq3tAAdwvMfcA_sUUnSropvfEchZJxYVE-pMPHvyyjQv9CTyS88nByBRbo3KaZ_-ZcGPKp2cepto-L4v94BEQLIp99R5MtutIhqAB-6dC1jzPLbjTNzTd8qGZD_rGEN2IFPTRCryazRizq1W8bjxvYwiZnWV3SQ8spwBGw1Y/s800/T34MR_07-134-light-rust-turret-right.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="800" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2yhH2H8t4QqoGv1toS6gCq3tAAdwvMfcA_sUUnSropvfEchZJxYVE-pMPHvyyjQv9CTyS88nByBRbo3KaZ_-ZcGPKp2cepto-L4v94BEQLIp99R5MtutIhqAB-6dC1jzPLbjTNzTd8qGZD_rGEN2IFPTRCryazRizq1W8bjxvYwiZnWV3SQ8spwBGw1Y/w640-h444/T34MR_07-134-light-rust-turret-right.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I tried out the toothpicking method on the outer mine rollers. As you could see in these next two photos, they did require some later blending especially on the left roller, but I was pretty happy with the way it looked on the rim. Like I have said numerous times already, I expected this to be the most abused area of the tank and that would also suffer most from the weather's not-so-gentle touch.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbGQq51VTxxwGieffqSSyNIlEaOXK3pquZ4JFvynB4dWVrV_YJY0x6i4UvS-pyCLXBjatYRIq-nbboNv-Lyx4CI2icbaUZoHSASeMiXHP7n1OdbaZhVOmeMi-e9Yy2LO_l6j102evF_TaJ3apKe88bBUJ5A4QC2DV4q7UYo9m3v3FOXQZcI9NRPR-Q2U/s722/T34MR_07-135-light-rust-roller-left.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="722" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbGQq51VTxxwGieffqSSyNIlEaOXK3pquZ4JFvynB4dWVrV_YJY0x6i4UvS-pyCLXBjatYRIq-nbboNv-Lyx4CI2icbaUZoHSASeMiXHP7n1OdbaZhVOmeMi-e9Yy2LO_l6j102evF_TaJ3apKe88bBUJ5A4QC2DV4q7UYo9m3v3FOXQZcI9NRPR-Q2U/w640-h532/T34MR_07-135-light-rust-roller-left.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCvq5-W9AThtelDRpKdhriOC0NXDu76zl5J454jVshyphenhyphen7MNeWyqyEmPpQz_2yJrTv09sReVM_8wFoFDmYOBV5blYDvilOrBQDyq0P0cM59SPWBdFUWDxd29F9R5a_W4XiKyNRgL2GoMilW3iXgN4OQfSawdmiUuGolpxgVwt1uxmu0dECoGqkYbeVNVCQ/s800/T34MR_07-141-light-rust-roller-right.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="800" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCvq5-W9AThtelDRpKdhriOC0NXDu76zl5J454jVshyphenhyphen7MNeWyqyEmPpQz_2yJrTv09sReVM_8wFoFDmYOBV5blYDvilOrBQDyq0P0cM59SPWBdFUWDxd29F9R5a_W4XiKyNRgL2GoMilW3iXgN4OQfSawdmiUuGolpxgVwt1uxmu0dECoGqkYbeVNVCQ/w640-h448/T34MR_07-141-light-rust-roller-right.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The bit that covered the joining of the lower and upper front glacis plates offered me a great place for fresh rust buildup caused by fluid flow and natural pooling.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxNfq4p4xlMgk_8apZXRXsZ_dml1xj4ROO2SA4uo1MVbOvoK5piCfqHJowjmIM3HOOf2HchpEvf1xKlkpA-_sChaMiNARBKCVubE-J-L2UX-_VHqq61uboV4EX-zc7vf9wuyI0_DaaX2RVNj_9Wj3bHftWFOpO_m5o78mE4Os0LZWVnYa0uhO1EYQVP9g/s800/T34MR_07-136-light-rust-front-glacis-plate.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="800" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxNfq4p4xlMgk_8apZXRXsZ_dml1xj4ROO2SA4uo1MVbOvoK5piCfqHJowjmIM3HOOf2HchpEvf1xKlkpA-_sChaMiNARBKCVubE-J-L2UX-_VHqq61uboV4EX-zc7vf9wuyI0_DaaX2RVNj_9Wj3bHftWFOpO_m5o78mE4Os0LZWVnYa0uhO1EYQVP9g/w640-h336/T34MR_07-136-light-rust-front-glacis-plate.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>One of the shovels had suffered more than the other. Now I just needed to fix the clasplike things.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiQqlL0h13fujObetf3MRnFnZLQsJPaQl8lXTp3ovFQNXSulujIgwGcN8_IoIP1wUCB2tla6xH6M-T_h1RF6VBJHNJKoHkAin5BtRFa26b0oxUg9r8edryV15KD51z-Pmhw7HFdwwOnFgaXIp_b6chn656N6V2Yet8VNJDE7IT9p5cROXSaexHL46-ZPQ/s800/T34MR_07-137-light-rust-shovels.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="800" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiQqlL0h13fujObetf3MRnFnZLQsJPaQl8lXTp3ovFQNXSulujIgwGcN8_IoIP1wUCB2tla6xH6M-T_h1RF6VBJHNJKoHkAin5BtRFa26b0oxUg9r8edryV15KD51z-Pmhw7HFdwwOnFgaXIp_b6chn656N6V2Yet8VNJDE7IT9p5cROXSaexHL46-ZPQ/w640-h356/T34MR_07-137-light-rust-shovels.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-yc-YgZaG775UP5gYtvtPniZrem1AfrS9xC2Sf9LolUSv8HrGOdTeJ6Sr0ddHZ3iWig8ylpji2iopGZW_iywNbB81SbIMEXUub7DhJcyLsWyOikwBO0aqvV7o3SwUxiGhGSmMHMjeSdE8MESmAge6wK-pEw6otgdWEJKGk8F1pEUog9BJEgyz7m6e4I/s800/T34MR_07-139-light-rust-saw.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="800" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-yc-YgZaG775UP5gYtvtPniZrem1AfrS9xC2Sf9LolUSv8HrGOdTeJ6Sr0ddHZ3iWig8ylpji2iopGZW_iywNbB81SbIMEXUub7DhJcyLsWyOikwBO0aqvV7o3SwUxiGhGSmMHMjeSdE8MESmAge6wK-pEw6otgdWEJKGk8F1pEUog9BJEgyz7m6e4I/w640-h210/T34MR_07-139-light-rust-saw.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The sole light source was decently banged up but not too abused. That steel box below it could've been made a bit rougher, but maybe it just happened to be in a fresh-ish condition. At least it didn't look like it was built two minutes ago.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRr-GXgZNFhJ9AyfhJxHV5LicrpmKzKbrH1du6RJBWzK_1kfaB5BR5LWiQIMRzf4iLMfI8zWtYb3fmHLwWgQn24mIgeb7hl9IbPznqe0sJdVfAnhIW7tzxEXugQMD5iN27Lw5tf2Xr3kUypE3cyluhXj2vxHt5b0gK97krxah4jhroKyiDmu0smP8umRI/s800/T34MR_07-142-light-rust-front-left-corner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="800" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRr-GXgZNFhJ9AyfhJxHV5LicrpmKzKbrH1du6RJBWzK_1kfaB5BR5LWiQIMRzf4iLMfI8zWtYb3fmHLwWgQn24mIgeb7hl9IbPznqe0sJdVfAnhIW7tzxEXugQMD5iN27Lw5tf2Xr3kUypE3cyluhXj2vxHt5b0gK97krxah4jhroKyiDmu0smP8umRI/w640-h392/T34MR_07-142-light-rust-front-left-corner.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I still had to clean up these grilles, this photo showed just how they had ended up after getting three different washes stippled on them.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWfJ6X7JWzBTo2p4mpidu0dgi5FQmPeE-ARZhocWnpAJjVGZLTWS0z9GC_uw8Rf83rzDNJPJUSomjefyrO7vz-CthiLIPGWflpx6PScXLh11MjDBc83Pl7oZS3bqkZh-GycftQLsETmAuzA_dMr2FhpWAb5EgH0mi-WQXT7ZhDIeuhc5topbGfA-Na0YE/s800/T34MR_07-138-light-rust-engine-grille.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="800" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWfJ6X7JWzBTo2p4mpidu0dgi5FQmPeE-ARZhocWnpAJjVGZLTWS0z9GC_uw8Rf83rzDNJPJUSomjefyrO7vz-CthiLIPGWflpx6PScXLh11MjDBc83Pl7oZS3bqkZh-GycftQLsETmAuzA_dMr2FhpWAb5EgH0mi-WQXT7ZhDIeuhc5topbGfA-Na0YE/w640-h382/T34MR_07-138-light-rust-engine-grille.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFNfsWeWUmbHK5FuR9TNGTKq8ZwyxgIL77VWSHTxd3L-VQShd8VxYDNEmDUCniBdnKx4DfZnP6I4gjkwGkWdx996NmOjemmlC_aOjOqJh9yQNpSp-Rk_KpAAbuF8aFJ7Kps92FS99IV__pJ-dTvFBv_8R5cEHhkiDbEscMPsfKOUHjwUo2tqpJZGZOqQM/s800/T34MR_07-140-light-rust-rear-deck.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="800" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFNfsWeWUmbHK5FuR9TNGTKq8ZwyxgIL77VWSHTxd3L-VQShd8VxYDNEmDUCniBdnKx4DfZnP6I4gjkwGkWdx996NmOjemmlC_aOjOqJh9yQNpSp-Rk_KpAAbuF8aFJ7Kps92FS99IV__pJ-dTvFBv_8R5cEHhkiDbEscMPsfKOUHjwUo2tqpJZGZOqQM/w640-h440/T34MR_07-140-light-rust-rear-deck.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Somehow I managed to apply the fresh rust on the outer side of the tracks, unevenly but so that the underlaying older rust was still visible. After a few days of drying I'd go through the insides as well, but before that I intended to try out with the roadwheels what areas were going to be constantly grinding against another steel surface. This way my graphite highlights would (or should) work out better.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMbBMrLUnNg5z8Wu394e24FrIoje5sohon0eOFCyCsV8cBXgwq6EKPnrLK7PpdOGzCvSD1APpTD7gdRbqEqG1VLisDVGvl0I1SAsm1sozjoddPpsEdbjCNPMHHTs8SVCY1ffuPRdU9YHWSoCzJydHZpPwCEL4PYDM353GONQ9VBUqwZphHVk2MfScZdk/s800/T34MR_07-144-light-rust-track-outer-surfaces.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="800" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHMbBMrLUnNg5z8Wu394e24FrIoje5sohon0eOFCyCsV8cBXgwq6EKPnrLK7PpdOGzCvSD1APpTD7gdRbqEqG1VLisDVGvl0I1SAsm1sozjoddPpsEdbjCNPMHHTs8SVCY1ffuPRdU9YHWSoCzJydHZpPwCEL4PYDM353GONQ9VBUqwZphHVk2MfScZdk/w640-h392/T34MR_07-144-light-rust-track-outer-surfaces.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>These vinyl tracks still didn't excite me.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The final generic touch-up round</span> <br /></h3><p>I used one final evening to do some general poking around. Before anything else I glued the idler wheels in place, because they were going to be what I would use to anchor the rest of the running gear and the tracks. Idlers were attached with the most flimsy axles, so they weren't really usable for dry-fitting just by pressing them in place.</p><p>Earlier I thought that my rust spatter marks were a bit too strong, so I blended them with the round blending brush. This right side one looked quite a lot better now.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmayV2FRRdk4KAUbgu0HUoMQ09V8CvtXVRLgrdaPmYC4GDNTLztxtG9ZqH0Hit3nVNX_vRrwFny6vnqya26tUWZC_AAaW36GJY7KhXQtpdr_q-U5GeZ4VBZf0Ty2bT8moQOOk7U3z_PXG0x8RKWNt1BtT3vjI-6U_kPDHhEpWzv4JK8GwPHZol5lWzVVI/s800/T34MR_07-146-blended-rust.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="800" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmayV2FRRdk4KAUbgu0HUoMQ09V8CvtXVRLgrdaPmYC4GDNTLztxtG9ZqH0Hit3nVNX_vRrwFny6vnqya26tUWZC_AAaW36GJY7KhXQtpdr_q-U5GeZ4VBZf0Ty2bT8moQOOk7U3z_PXG0x8RKWNt1BtT3vjI-6U_kPDHhEpWzv4JK8GwPHZol5lWzVVI/w640-h428/T34MR_07-146-blended-rust.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Then the left outer roller was much more covered, but I could still tone it down later down the road. I got the fake-looking splotches softened up and that was the most important thing now.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJE2aXpTa6CStWWg4KoNOr59RmvENbJe4kEmFTRrtUWJ6en2lLUVsG1H3dSxW0eWZIofflOheIG6EF2RezBilz7LalCLOs3zIjKsOaUY9L97c5VZoiKFZgipgW3tZRpdGYCQlQ0AQJdpnbC0ZluKezxnM3UYX5-NNW1t-Zh5Q0jtw9tiELkc_5Wbui9I0/s800/T34MR_07-147-blended-rust.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="800" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJE2aXpTa6CStWWg4KoNOr59RmvENbJe4kEmFTRrtUWJ6en2lLUVsG1H3dSxW0eWZIofflOheIG6EF2RezBilz7LalCLOs3zIjKsOaUY9L97c5VZoiKFZgipgW3tZRpdGYCQlQ0AQJdpnbC0ZluKezxnM3UYX5-NNW1t-Zh5Q0jtw9tiELkc_5Wbui9I0/w640-h396/T34MR_07-147-blended-rust.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I also cleaned the track armour in the front, now the fresh rust layer was a bit more relaxed.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikrvU-Pkxn4_-iZu8rUJjdTXKsp0vLNnwBF_Et05ggVgQeuFRDAzV-JZ9o_6fiSL_M8Bz6eicBAS0N1O_hw_NuHkerfrZraxfJr_zx5dJWSxrleHa5FIxX4IRVJGRqTMdXopufuwqfp0KkRYUDoJMopKAR8Kkmf2j9zsto2jk_mEBAlc1VE-NnpJeKsOA/s800/T34MR_07-148-blended-rust.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikrvU-Pkxn4_-iZu8rUJjdTXKsp0vLNnwBF_Et05ggVgQeuFRDAzV-JZ9o_6fiSL_M8Bz6eicBAS0N1O_hw_NuHkerfrZraxfJr_zx5dJWSxrleHa5FIxX4IRVJGRqTMdXopufuwqfp0KkRYUDoJMopKAR8Kkmf2j9zsto2jk_mEBAlc1VE-NnpJeKsOA/w640-h480/T34MR_07-148-blended-rust.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>After a bit of blending the engine deck's grille was better as well.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtW5zBZ_ZV18XBMuhh3-KuQsbJBPAAYS-fGAGynGuctS0xq_OWge9VuBFb0yAw1G5P0pmJa6V_6MUYH6uIonwnmcjX3hzmX9_1rJeq4stSBBL3E4_Z1WIlMoQXpBi6dQ_lu71YTUu4o_Fr6cZ2Gumbqr7Lx2wOpkUsYlH59iEpQs5eMq3vBBcCI4m86iU/s800/T34MR_07-149-blended-rust.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="800" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtW5zBZ_ZV18XBMuhh3-KuQsbJBPAAYS-fGAGynGuctS0xq_OWge9VuBFb0yAw1G5P0pmJa6V_6MUYH6uIonwnmcjX3hzmX9_1rJeq4stSBBL3E4_Z1WIlMoQXpBi6dQ_lu71YTUu4o_Fr6cZ2Gumbqr7Lx2wOpkUsYlH59iEpQs5eMq3vBBcCI4m86iU/w640-h362/T34MR_07-149-blended-rust.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>One evening I got to give a rust-coloured double treatment on the inner surface of the tracks. I concentrated on the outsides as the core would be pretty much constantly ground clean by the roadwheels, drive sprockets and the return rollers. In this photo here the oils were still wet, the proper look was, as always, to be seen in a day or few.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQnvKo60TVmmLhS5cYcw8f4JRQAeYZw8yXBcQUN0ZRUOy6hzF1SJ-ZRy0C0SYPLbKM6KcsjtiA9Ad4QdeVMUcJ5_zACzvQmsuLNcTzxsAdd7flXYcszb3EEdQJKP9Skdo9dlJLu_WPeI1wS_Oqj9m-2MRY4FACu_klt93RB89oPOEBxc4oxd-cAUtD9s/s800/T34MR_07-150-inner-track-rust.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="800" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQnvKo60TVmmLhS5cYcw8f4JRQAeYZw8yXBcQUN0ZRUOy6hzF1SJ-ZRy0C0SYPLbKM6KcsjtiA9Ad4QdeVMUcJ5_zACzvQmsuLNcTzxsAdd7flXYcszb3EEdQJKP9Skdo9dlJLu_WPeI1wS_Oqj9m-2MRY4FACu_klt93RB89oPOEBxc4oxd-cAUtD9s/w640-h346/T34MR_07-150-inner-track-rust.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz395TWIJ9WFNmgIWGpuhzzRBVI0njgWL5RAAKl03jqzOyKy7Vq3KwKddbeCrJ7VZPIzjk1S4qeqYPcQUEFAtQTiGCMFZK9ma8JY4x790EwBUYo8M4CdLWZlF8QkuLjHGw3ev7ETfNT0j_3Hp65uBTOblBhGS7VNlD8Kg6k8UHvOD5uiOMTxf1sh-LwaU/s800/T34MR_07-151-inner-track-rust.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="800" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz395TWIJ9WFNmgIWGpuhzzRBVI0njgWL5RAAKl03jqzOyKy7Vq3KwKddbeCrJ7VZPIzjk1S4qeqYPcQUEFAtQTiGCMFZK9ma8JY4x790EwBUYo8M4CdLWZlF8QkuLjHGw3ev7ETfNT0j_3Hp65uBTOblBhGS7VNlD8Kg6k8UHvOD5uiOMTxf1sh-LwaU/w640-h290/T34MR_07-151-inner-track-rust.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>While messing things up I added more (dark) rust to the roadwheels and drive sprockets, as I had left them still a bit clean the last time. Any and all oil and lubricant leaks, like I had decided at some earlier moment, would be done after installing the tracks.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ryHnPJjbtFI64F8DzILDGlIxL6EejuQOV2F-ra3x6zUnQHdD1VUKNOc9i8RZSIKNpTjpABR-8CFlklgoexqL0EZraoW5I1vC9ReLd4qtUsEgLcdIYlOEjM61vn_MfI-Vy6A1WHSLplYFkp_3iT3rciGEIOQFKWCm5HdXTUztIzYH-Pb5Qj6h1qUjf6c/s800/T34MR_07-152-roadwheel-rust.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="800" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ryHnPJjbtFI64F8DzILDGlIxL6EejuQOV2F-ra3x6zUnQHdD1VUKNOc9i8RZSIKNpTjpABR-8CFlklgoexqL0EZraoW5I1vC9ReLd4qtUsEgLcdIYlOEjM61vn_MfI-Vy6A1WHSLplYFkp_3iT3rciGEIOQFKWCm5HdXTUztIzYH-Pb5Qj6h1qUjf6c/w640-h312/T34MR_07-152-roadwheel-rust.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUd-l2Ufr4eJ0HsMLke8ARXwtOzTvEiejzhzz-ooRMxYtMlh9aBUY5Wq0rOERxSrxaYCnJC7uSOqhzPP-iyxzO8RN_Vzk5d6ONR2bS4SJ7Z9Ed1osdNybmU6iOEqj5Zn6WmEpP_8aqiQLqQ0kEpVbf3xq_h9MW95ZhAGZ-1xN9WXQjZra7hCipk6WOU7s/s661/T34MR_07-153-drive-sprocket-rust.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="661" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUd-l2Ufr4eJ0HsMLke8ARXwtOzTvEiejzhzz-ooRMxYtMlh9aBUY5Wq0rOERxSrxaYCnJC7uSOqhzPP-iyxzO8RN_Vzk5d6ONR2bS4SJ7Z9Ed1osdNybmU6iOEqj5Zn6WmEpP_8aqiQLqQ0kEpVbf3xq_h9MW95ZhAGZ-1xN9WXQjZra7hCipk6WOU7s/w640-h580/T34MR_07-153-drive-sprocket-rust.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>In this condition my T-34 was with some pin washes, fake shadows and rustiness applied. A part of the applications were still fresh, so the shininess was going to go down with time. Before installing the various wheels and tracks I had to let the tank sit for a good while, I was thinking of playing it safe and give it a good number of days, up to a week.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9DVnZ49srFlfBYsV0niu7x4s58ZepbcPFzlDl6yvwfzmG-ieYceLVNJfK5WyDHqnu1nCV5xmqOVdU7u0KeV7J1ef2HD1Sr2ilR3Cm_qE8OHjzGA0EQlaFu_rKhuBusbBQQFtxvCMXJQtYoXKuiGYOOdPyxjCpjCfo1QI2K0e6wWVI47OL2bT02ASuNLw/s800/T34MR_07-154-birds-eye-view.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9DVnZ49srFlfBYsV0niu7x4s58ZepbcPFzlDl6yvwfzmG-ieYceLVNJfK5WyDHqnu1nCV5xmqOVdU7u0KeV7J1ef2HD1Sr2ilR3Cm_qE8OHjzGA0EQlaFu_rKhuBusbBQQFtxvCMXJQtYoXKuiGYOOdPyxjCpjCfo1QI2K0e6wWVI47OL2bT02ASuNLw/w640-h320/T34MR_07-154-birds-eye-view.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-56259284570411319252024-01-31T12:00:00.110+02:002024-01-31T12:00:00.241+02:00Wooden bits and highlights<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Warm browns<br /></span></h2><p>At some point last summer I bought a paintset specifically for wood. It just caught my attention when I was buying something in Hobby Point anyway, and my preexisting wooden paints were all quite dark and getting them out of their bottles was getting dubious at this date.</p><p>I've been using Vallejo paints for ages now, and this new box was a deviation, it was by AK Interactive (a third generation paintset, ooh, aah!). Six paints, and the back of the box showed what kind of wonders a skilled painter could do witht hem. I, on the other hand, knew I wasn't a gifted artist and had no delusions of grandeour no matter what kind of a fancy-ass paintset I utilized.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDlGCdF3Np-vwbtUKHMFh_1hZFWADjJ_-tc84RFUmvN6ekFjepV2rxsb8YZZrozDuTEpZ8oWkXR6puULn3Ie-0TWLr9aZ3Vg-qvM5JsvEplu8ibbgWl1Wj4yoQZA95lBZlJ2W6x-ErTST24m9v1Zvk52cjQ58TrdxnLrxiIOdBeSSulzvEYVHH-npVhvw/s800/T34MR_06-103A-wood-paints.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="800" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDlGCdF3Np-vwbtUKHMFh_1hZFWADjJ_-tc84RFUmvN6ekFjepV2rxsb8YZZrozDuTEpZ8oWkXR6puULn3Ie-0TWLr9aZ3Vg-qvM5JsvEplu8ibbgWl1Wj4yoQZA95lBZlJ2W6x-ErTST24m9v1Zvk52cjQ58TrdxnLrxiIOdBeSSulzvEYVHH-npVhvw/w640-h394/T34MR_06-103A-wood-paints.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmUoxuOjvdCfK8_tKDgmbvcWmQWwpO7d36z6SBb1yC3zhg0LeTVk-wKK0jcfcSk8M9jFENTAOScgnULmjklXZqQ1MiRwYmLxCLMOSECDlPdneLt8RcEcKB09XqlQFHkvbfmOG5zdSvJ0czSbfJKTXrx9xI1pqa5LOS_l-0j-iLGVvG5kg3b97ysUyIQ5Q/s800/T34MR_06-103B-wood-paints.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmUoxuOjvdCfK8_tKDgmbvcWmQWwpO7d36z6SBb1yC3zhg0LeTVk-wKK0jcfcSk8M9jFENTAOScgnULmjklXZqQ1MiRwYmLxCLMOSECDlPdneLt8RcEcKB09XqlQFHkvbfmOG5zdSvJ0czSbfJKTXrx9xI1pqa5LOS_l-0j-iLGVvG5kg3b97ysUyIQ5Q/w640-h320/T34MR_06-103B-wood-paints.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Of course the bottles had colour codes that weren't the same ones in the box's examples (but they did have the corresponding codes on the side), so one had to pay attention to what they did ':)</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The wooden objects<br /></span></h3><p>I thought that the different wooden things would be of different woods, or differently treated, so I was going to paint them in two different ways. The boxes would have a darker and the handles for the shovels and the saw were going to be lighter shade of wood.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Base colours</span><br /></h4><p>All the lighter bits I painted with cork (AK11119 Cork), it looked like a nice shade and I would've believed that it was birch, if someone told me so. Now I needed to have an idea of how to make them look more woodlike with textures.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy6hOW2wHmGSZwyxlhVUriu0HMSj5-Rvj4XK0AwlhPtmgJptZKe9iGC6w_PPm6uBv-DgRu5GzfMOCnoxe6KsDM37BmMkGy9Nd3OdG1qtAtHOcEX1h4WDVe8vo4wQF9S2flZkNgr5JnEyxZrdsuroeUuMbu0IjdkYDDeImMMdhTL8AMYjTHT5yfDcbTypI/s800/T34MR_06-104-shovel-handles.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="800" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy6hOW2wHmGSZwyxlhVUriu0HMSj5-Rvj4XK0AwlhPtmgJptZKe9iGC6w_PPm6uBv-DgRu5GzfMOCnoxe6KsDM37BmMkGy9Nd3OdG1qtAtHOcEX1h4WDVe8vo4wQF9S2flZkNgr5JnEyxZrdsuroeUuMbu0IjdkYDDeImMMdhTL8AMYjTHT5yfDcbTypI/w640-h376/T34MR_06-104-shovel-handles.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Both of the boxes I painted dark brown (AK11110 Weathered wood (Leather Brown)). The planks had some surface texture on them, that I could highlight later a bit with a wash.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbZnqBVNsJL4t8q_-Tz2f9fTUsasqZ4nssVn7UDf7GvYPJFM48mYWiHsdPW9Y1kf5bFC59yxJOtOtSxdv2ngBVxIxV8XMBi1RhARUeiug0uFzoX4h75dcmwwg8J-ruudd4P3eEDNN6eNNjwmRVnsS5EYRhcmUgSjYc2wFwz8X1ArRQ7DCr0hK_erpZ_Bw/s800/T34MR_06-105-right-box-base.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="800" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbZnqBVNsJL4t8q_-Tz2f9fTUsasqZ4nssVn7UDf7GvYPJFM48mYWiHsdPW9Y1kf5bFC59yxJOtOtSxdv2ngBVxIxV8XMBi1RhARUeiug0uFzoX4h75dcmwwg8J-ruudd4P3eEDNN6eNNjwmRVnsS5EYRhcmUgSjYc2wFwz8X1ArRQ7DCr0hK_erpZ_Bw/w640-h378/T34MR_06-105-right-box-base.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Here was the left side's setup as well.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9_s5UAXiIhQbQepqEwJ4XaAfYbq5ISVWS8h2x4ikBjSv7K6EhG2v708Fj0cvpSmhvalqC0RULU6_h5wpI_vpr28j_BwiU_RLYR14SH4BAtcBy2oJFQpmA0CiPo19pgm1cR4ivPBoFdVF_05WLHlvAqFdk_9h39k5zaUmZ5mEiHRV9ClvXCl4Phyphenhyphendq23g/s800/T34MR_06-106-left-side.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="800" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9_s5UAXiIhQbQepqEwJ4XaAfYbq5ISVWS8h2x4ikBjSv7K6EhG2v708Fj0cvpSmhvalqC0RULU6_h5wpI_vpr28j_BwiU_RLYR14SH4BAtcBy2oJFQpmA0CiPo19pgm1cR4ivPBoFdVF_05WLHlvAqFdk_9h39k5zaUmZ5mEiHRV9ClvXCl4Phyphenhyphendq23g/w640-h216/T34MR_06-106-left-side.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Woodgraininess</span></h4><p>In my attempt to make the wood boxes look more wooden I painted on them some more or less squiggly lines with a lighter tone (AK11117 Varnished wood (Cork)). I made sure to add some stronger curves here and there for the branches (whatever the knots were called in actualy English). This first version may have ended up a bit too careful, because the planks just had some varying length thin lines and that didn't look too realistic to me.</p><p>To fix that I went a bit against my cautious nature and made stronger lines so that the base colour would have a smaller role in the look of the boxes. These shapes looked generally acceptable, but maybe a hint too cartoony. For some highlights I was thinking of paining a few fine lines with an even lighter paint (AK11115
Freshly cut timber (Light earth)).</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk6wmqPZacgZGlmrLjKkA55e2TiySDQM3yUH9Qg4BZLxRgRGTvTY7qY4UwIoxd2G4K7N4d5cN5LoWnC_7X2tBm-RU4YDoGxFCr6d18gZ-t7yTvRKeDS4s9hihaHvMZ4urvWTZv7SsIgNXaFjIAXd5AKBkiaR5BFa9YMjpMSJGpoXrb9ceWOuo6i4h_RNc/s800/T34MR_06-107-box-highlights.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="800" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk6wmqPZacgZGlmrLjKkA55e2TiySDQM3yUH9Qg4BZLxRgRGTvTY7qY4UwIoxd2G4K7N4d5cN5LoWnC_7X2tBm-RU4YDoGxFCr6d18gZ-t7yTvRKeDS4s9hihaHvMZ4urvWTZv7SsIgNXaFjIAXd5AKBkiaR5BFa9YMjpMSJGpoXrb9ceWOuo6i4h_RNc/w640-h410/T34MR_06-107-box-highlights.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAkp2MjpP0OH_3JLdfQLpJ4Efi01QKwL1zr4QgxbE4YJzWBRagzuVohodibtebEyWr0OR2Jy05M829Iy9mqlxIc9BFQ34MYtHvjfXcs0TtaESnlh2y2bkNLvZqmhie0D2Xr1hPiYy8zEXv4oWcmHjGldmdLP5Z1TnCTCcv3_qtpXB7wvjO1sYqm2_KHso/s800/T34MR_06-109-box-2-highlights.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="800" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAkp2MjpP0OH_3JLdfQLpJ4Efi01QKwL1zr4QgxbE4YJzWBRagzuVohodibtebEyWr0OR2Jy05M829Iy9mqlxIc9BFQ34MYtHvjfXcs0TtaESnlh2y2bkNLvZqmhie0D2Xr1hPiYy8zEXv4oWcmHjGldmdLP5Z1TnCTCcv3_qtpXB7wvjO1sYqm2_KHso/w640-h446/T34MR_06-109-box-2-highlights.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>To get any kind of a woodgrain effect on the pretty light-coloured shovel handles I used the light brown (AK11115) that I then used to highlight the boxes. On first impression the lighter woods looked better than the darker ones. But how could one know without trying out?</p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg3OSgVyxTCJcp5CxxzA5X54iT99_JmvR1G8hKv_E45IavErFV7obhQc2XwOEVQOKxtEgwjXI-eNqkZga1qg5b90DaHoCRvQ0rGLhzrn5eKZD55WBcA8-pyojs6XQYs4i8tZqrzL4OuVkk3W-cMERMlwz812uZeMHhNST0LIPI194PQrrcxZLfFlBhwG0/s800/T34MR_06-108-shovel-highlights.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="800" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg3OSgVyxTCJcp5CxxzA5X54iT99_JmvR1G8hKv_E45IavErFV7obhQc2XwOEVQOKxtEgwjXI-eNqkZga1qg5b90DaHoCRvQ0rGLhzrn5eKZD55WBcA8-pyojs6XQYs4i8tZqrzL4OuVkk3W-cMERMlwz812uZeMHhNST0LIPI194PQrrcxZLfFlBhwG0/w640-h248/T34MR_06-108-shovel-highlights.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT4tUoM9jm_-jjoQk0OVza9qz-hMtBOKhyphenhyphenMDh_p8pivTpAGW4mXHASwC5bGEKF1IP2A9N0Um2LVUCAFbe-am24eIQHzMazHaRgqMy4bTHdlAj_QSidEtE0mkpoQwX-hD2jJ7Pv_r58tUA3h60LFpVhyphenhyphenQRFecsN7mJyzL4X6OuoW9opYmqLJVMlfed84wk/s800/T34MR_06-110-saw-highlights.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="800" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT4tUoM9jm_-jjoQk0OVza9qz-hMtBOKhyphenhyphenMDh_p8pivTpAGW4mXHASwC5bGEKF1IP2A9N0Um2LVUCAFbe-am24eIQHzMazHaRgqMy4bTHdlAj_QSidEtE0mkpoQwX-hD2jJ7Pv_r58tUA3h60LFpVhyphenhyphenQRFecsN7mJyzL4X6OuoW9opYmqLJVMlfed84wk/w640-h280/T34MR_06-110-saw-highlights.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Again the closeups revealed things. The saw's holder's dark chips were crappily done and there was some painted over cat hair as extra decoration. I was actually a bit surprised that our cats hadn't been more visible on these sets.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Metal bits<br /></span></h3><p>Because I was pleased with the effect of the somewhat suffered unpainted steel, which at best looked like electrozinced steel but at worst just frosted over, I did it again. I thinned down a light grey paint (VGA 72749
Stonewall Grey) with tap water quite a lot, then stippled it on the dark grey bits. Again this managed to reveal some untreated ejector marks or carelessly cleaned up mould lines. Graah!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt37RV8S9lWkFATkN6KRbGzo5XSvx7OVlAYxDmRGDEVeQiIpPvPYkcBUYsLX2kxlGwWgKr7aZbmj8SaGvzvXKHkSYEwvxRtCO6sb0rBAmx8y1T4gmGfizRsm349qFFaCMVqMQWFvIhkXFBZx3dL2FmKmZPHRQtWIGSF9abP0B5Nm9OZNCyl4sBcWHqFYE/s800/T34MR_06-111-cable-shovel-highlights.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="800" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt37RV8S9lWkFATkN6KRbGzo5XSvx7OVlAYxDmRGDEVeQiIpPvPYkcBUYsLX2kxlGwWgKr7aZbmj8SaGvzvXKHkSYEwvxRtCO6sb0rBAmx8y1T4gmGfizRsm349qFFaCMVqMQWFvIhkXFBZx3dL2FmKmZPHRQtWIGSF9abP0B5Nm9OZNCyl4sBcWHqFYE/w640-h338/T34MR_06-111-cable-shovel-highlights.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincFabIFLG1vZKoNnHPEYhY2VlRzo51hQ2riYeVvwEhbbkagLWoaTSQGQEtqS2lin67xsP9KPdOyQMCbcogA7o-DTrLrriczoOrM4xHDOETcE-T0HLgmmWd7eH7M1z23v0L4bIcZaSbV6lNY4MMTxKw-CkKzzVAqMcRtmF2OCae6MUhYV1r3iTLd0u-m8/s800/T34MR_06-112-track-highlights.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Well, I had two rust shades, so it was either old or fresh rust and I usually used them both over each other.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Nails to the tool coffins<br /></span></h4><p>To crown my fantastic achievements I pulled a few nail places from my hat and painted (or tried to paint) tiny dots with dark grey to mark the nail ends. Of course looking at these photos I realized that the top bits were most likely nailed on each of the planks and not just the outermost ones, so it was possible that I returned to this one later on. Or maybe I'd let them be as they were, the idea of nails was already visible and that was important.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmD8VCGu67jx40ma8hwouTcbRZIP27Y8Mnb31CVicobG2zqW4YHXJhobhOyU10my4rdfVgBZV47yIpTywcIHgIiMIeRmCPHHBa6U9j27ydxgy7S-Uh1W51WWe2KZz5OB2lQJR_rC2Ro09Mb1CP1iG6-h0hPV-qdb8XBELSAE8VXhtyweP3l79IojZnmY4/s800/T34MR_06-117-nail-marks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="800" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmD8VCGu67jx40ma8hwouTcbRZIP27Y8Mnb31CVicobG2zqW4YHXJhobhOyU10my4rdfVgBZV47yIpTywcIHgIiMIeRmCPHHBa6U9j27ydxgy7S-Uh1W51WWe2KZz5OB2lQJR_rC2Ro09Mb1CP1iG6-h0hPV-qdb8XBELSAE8VXhtyweP3l79IojZnmY4/w640-h416/T34MR_06-117-nail-marks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtB6axLRyFjRRtyymBSdAOk_o-dpbxG3_i00UYlFpxhn-V_N44pDnYXNttID_W9kwMvdCWMVYZVaBMiWj1lxu8YTP98PV3a8dMxcT5Z7hyo5pOQ5s3CS93E0dw0d8q1Il8-k5-7bWJAFnabXUEGRW0TLRRQ4gv5eBRtbdTApGR6ht0Xe5RUzKUcnjDA5g/s800/T34MR_06-118-nail-marks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="800" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtB6axLRyFjRRtyymBSdAOk_o-dpbxG3_i00UYlFpxhn-V_N44pDnYXNttID_W9kwMvdCWMVYZVaBMiWj1lxu8YTP98PV3a8dMxcT5Z7hyo5pOQ5s3CS93E0dw0d8q1Il8-k5-7bWJAFnabXUEGRW0TLRRQ4gv5eBRtbdTApGR6ht0Xe5RUzKUcnjDA5g/w640-h248/T34MR_06-118-nail-marks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-30137252927590292932024-01-24T15:04:00.145+02:002024-01-24T15:04:00.142+02:00Chipping attempt<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Flakiness on my tank?<br /></span></h2><p>I decided to give uncle Night Shift's chipping process (or a part of it) a shot in the hands of a complete fool. This plan of mine was, to let most of the tank be mostly clean and concentrate mostly on the front of the tank, especially near the mine roller. Somehow it felt like the most natural place for the worst mistreatment to happen where things would be blowing up constantly.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Attempt #1<br /></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">My first attempt was dangerously based on my memory. I did a few test scratches with the lighter green I had used before, to get some of the lighter chips or scratches marked. They didn't stand out too well, so I didn't keep at it for long.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then I mixed a bit of red (VMA 71003 Red RLM23) to the dark grey to play at the rust-protector somehow on the exposed steel. The colour itself turned out really nice-looking in my opinion, but the completely unplanned and manually made test flakes didn't really work out.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Especially here on the mine roller structure they were completely off. Luckily it was quick and easy to cover them up at this point.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRsKJH0cizD1TP-1Q9fnIpadSvVbEtqy0LMkMZFk_UkoJ39p16LAJQV7YzjUmiITwJcOh8_Jr6O_DRwR_ArqVDkf5t4CP3KN0l1yhUEeTSWKz1WEnHBwAyf1s_CDqv9_-nHW54jPAe04wDvFn54NdFGyVh5g4Oo0_9zGqHzBywNGmEquOrZm6i_1o6Y7w/s800/T34MR_05-075-chipping-attempt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRsKJH0cizD1TP-1Q9fnIpadSvVbEtqy0LMkMZFk_UkoJ39p16LAJQV7YzjUmiITwJcOh8_Jr6O_DRwR_ArqVDkf5t4CP3KN0l1yhUEeTSWKz1WEnHBwAyf1s_CDqv9_-nHW54jPAe04wDvFn54NdFGyVh5g4Oo0_9zGqHzBywNGmEquOrZm6i_1o6Y7w/w640-h480/T34MR_05-075-chipping-attempt.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">On the turret's edges they looked somewhat better, but still a bit detached somehow. Maybe my effect was too subtle and didn't stand out in scale as they were.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGcVZQZq2qmPR3G30fFu4ir5sK4m5FOL2x3WYCqm_otBo9AsYzkfY67FGRQLa3mQ0Rwx5l0X6K_dwkfPVJOHv3thuW3F5hCGqPLXsZGQczMgitDpoGjC3M0sW198v9cdJu4Ub3h4qLt3pPM7_ZRgax7rw61PucvaQ7eNGnlWxkvWLAvxya0cJGW0I4pr4/s800/T34MR_05-073-chipping-attempt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="800" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGcVZQZq2qmPR3G30fFu4ir5sK4m5FOL2x3WYCqm_otBo9AsYzkfY67FGRQLa3mQ0Rwx5l0X6K_dwkfPVJOHv3thuW3F5hCGqPLXsZGQczMgitDpoGjC3M0sW198v9cdJu4Ub3h4qLt3pPM7_ZRgax7rw61PucvaQ7eNGnlWxkvWLAvxya0cJGW0I4pr4/w640-h356/T34MR_05-073-chipping-attempt.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The very same evening I rechecked the uncle's method and got a better idea for my next attempt. In short I would just need to lighten up the Russian Green and try again. Maybe I would need to airbrush the already made things out of the way.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Attempt #2 - first evening<br /></span></h3><p>I started all over again. First I mixed a couple of drops of lighter paint (VMA 71075 Sand(Ivory)) into a squirtful of 4BO. The paint was still a bit on the dark side after the first sponge-dabbings, so I mixed in another drop and then another drop a bit later, because the second mix still didn't stand out well enough. It was a bit surprising how light the light tone had to be to work in a way that looked good to me.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Stage one - the light chips</span><br /></h4><p>Against all the basic guidelines and common sense I didn't start this from the most hideable and out of the way place, but straight from the turret itself. To get my chips started I used a sponge and a 10|0 paintbrush to make dents and scratches. Sponging wasn't too good-looking in most places, so in the end I did chips just with the paintbrush.</p><p>Especially with the scratches the paintbrush was good. With the sponge I could make some random sneeze-patterns but I just felt that the brush gave me more control. Of course, I had absolutely no experience with this business so far, but I had to start somewhere.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivl-bd9IngVxamyCHeyjGyAeOz4kFOA87zu6MqhA_BcYHpiVeVFe8yMYgUWpFcyaabOOaHK0OuFIGr_HPFtHzO3P_s6VFJLn7qvzsbHikMAKIW6T4p4NcdKF_xGtxI9j-AJJKEUAXn4moJiTDshJPzPQ-xq5d3G5oOWoMLW6nfS6iNWVfiicm-bSp0eKs/s800/T34MR_05-076-light-chips-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="800" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivl-bd9IngVxamyCHeyjGyAeOz4kFOA87zu6MqhA_BcYHpiVeVFe8yMYgUWpFcyaabOOaHK0OuFIGr_HPFtHzO3P_s6VFJLn7qvzsbHikMAKIW6T4p4NcdKF_xGtxI9j-AJJKEUAXn4moJiTDshJPzPQ-xq5d3G5oOWoMLW6nfS6iNWVfiicm-bSp0eKs/w640-h460/T34MR_05-076-light-chips-turret.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1Mlf9_WyFKRXMzTI5yL9JZbP_LlC7hnK_s7XtUqMyFO2ztdb3EY5Pp9TUs0kG_vbWcMNKIEosd8lX1RLdo_oZzuynlgkw6l5IF2xAw3OIVieuxyYOHZr8BgPIRVh-A916D36e6QJojT9lL2UK6sgKfdtyQz0Ma2fqa8_upfi16quLn6Rm5HkEJIAF5s/s800/T34MR_05-077-light-chips-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1Mlf9_WyFKRXMzTI5yL9JZbP_LlC7hnK_s7XtUqMyFO2ztdb3EY5Pp9TUs0kG_vbWcMNKIEosd8lX1RLdo_oZzuynlgkw6l5IF2xAw3OIVieuxyYOHZr8BgPIRVh-A916D36e6QJojT9lL2UK6sgKfdtyQz0Ma2fqa8_upfi16quLn6Rm5HkEJIAF5s/w640-h400/T34MR_05-077-light-chips-turret.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>That turret ended up looking used and mistreated. Either this got already completely out of hand, or it worked out just fine.</p><p>I had a vision of a sort about the mine roller, I just had no idea how realistic it was. The frame and the rollers needed some touching up, but I could do those separately. Because I had never seen how one of these devices looked like in real life after blowing up some anti-tank and anti-personell mines, I trusted on my gut feeling that told me those explosions would be tossing amounts of rocks, shrapnel, and whatnot.</p><p>Here I concentrated on painting mostly glancing blows -kind of strikes. At least I tried to paint some kind of radial scratches going tangentially from the pressure point.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg1GiuNJIfGRoMr-vaKeMlZyFiU8yfG_WUrTSumRD_z9iK9MWCVujQoeBcqAwhS9Kc229V7W45vaGroHMp3ca8LsejfRfariKTBksHxIfwkc_byGEQ9J9f1r1p3qXy4lLdyXXUcbka-pLIvOBKWd73Mb2aDVzJKXY_S0i15Ysh0H9I4bucUw2GMVH5zKQ/s800/T34MR_05-078-light-chips-roller.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="800" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg1GiuNJIfGRoMr-vaKeMlZyFiU8yfG_WUrTSumRD_z9iK9MWCVujQoeBcqAwhS9Kc229V7W45vaGroHMp3ca8LsejfRfariKTBksHxIfwkc_byGEQ9J9f1r1p3qXy4lLdyXXUcbka-pLIvOBKWd73Mb2aDVzJKXY_S0i15Ysh0H9I4bucUw2GMVH5zKQ/w640-h440/T34MR_05-078-light-chips-roller.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBnpjZablQfzexPqS0hboXy9POVybs7U03ti0vrUHFlUmViXifNsqdkoOCjQ4tLEoZqIhv-3VmKFY3dgrxj9MsIyrLHRkq42knCaKF7vhNi3Sc4pRVtWWF2J81KlUpfIlAqPg7PFwzR4gXPJlnk-7QQLqmYcnquP6DgpTIf-xrEiDbsvSlSUqJEtk0Ef8/s800/T34MR_05-079-light-chips-roller.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="800" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBnpjZablQfzexPqS0hboXy9POVybs7U03ti0vrUHFlUmViXifNsqdkoOCjQ4tLEoZqIhv-3VmKFY3dgrxj9MsIyrLHRkq42knCaKF7vhNi3Sc4pRVtWWF2J81KlUpfIlAqPg7PFwzR4gXPJlnk-7QQLqmYcnquP6DgpTIf-xrEiDbsvSlSUqJEtk0Ef8/w640-h460/T34MR_05-079-light-chips-roller.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYgSFFYyEke0ONmotOk74ICIbxsOWW2TfGiBMRU5Jikn2TtlcjN4zHK4_bjGdXGirOec3e0mlpTCYTDfaCKAf1PvSETRWyG65WdctlyFR1_YekQDxbfB1ue4YIPkB_2sE_Km4cs_oBhwg3k_rmTwSBoDulGdv3b6dQpucLKX4Z3GTfNuc2RvxQgBSHgLE/s800/T34MR_05-083-light-chips-roller.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="800" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYgSFFYyEke0ONmotOk74ICIbxsOWW2TfGiBMRU5Jikn2TtlcjN4zHK4_bjGdXGirOec3e0mlpTCYTDfaCKAf1PvSETRWyG65WdctlyFR1_YekQDxbfB1ue4YIPkB_2sE_Km4cs_oBhwg3k_rmTwSBoDulGdv3b6dQpucLKX4Z3GTfNuc2RvxQgBSHgLE/w640-h362/T34MR_05-083-light-chips-roller.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>On the tank's hull I thought that because of the mines blowing up constantly the front would be the most harmed area. The rest of the tank would be in a much nicer condition, of course there'd be some engine deck -themed wearing out by the edges and the hatches, and by the anchor points. The left front corner of that steel box on the fender was supposed to look like it had been dropped a few times and lazily or hastily dragged around.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7PdVX3gONfzg2pqXPsNEGApBGJmp-Ppa8yV_xnkIjg1GllvgFNEOlN_oJdnXArMq7FuQWpmNPNYeY3eb9jRkxDijaaJUjYHoexaVDr7RBPP1tg9Nq58uOpRdxk9JEQ2Wd2cI7XHOjK65XcY-m7Yv3_mD6Ojhv8gzGEbEDarq_3qh8VDcAPl6ue1BZhLg/s800/T34MR_05-080-light-chips-front-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="800" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7PdVX3gONfzg2pqXPsNEGApBGJmp-Ppa8yV_xnkIjg1GllvgFNEOlN_oJdnXArMq7FuQWpmNPNYeY3eb9jRkxDijaaJUjYHoexaVDr7RBPP1tg9Nq58uOpRdxk9JEQ2Wd2cI7XHOjK65XcY-m7Yv3_mD6Ojhv8gzGEbEDarq_3qh8VDcAPl6ue1BZhLg/w640-h386/T34MR_05-080-light-chips-front-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYAF5mn9mwPfgdsp2y3Vho79b5YI5Xz52oGE1qXXeKWi2Pxv8rNRixbdSX_oJgvGNIRNUB6RBBnfGd_FC-5nGQiS5tadqhAqIWMsslhJSgO6PCbrd5_gjyaUx3Fbfz03dboNID3CjnnrbfRUmEdZwlXubH5CBjTaUsXgyj9cIWPSwDoZbvZxNeWIjJDjM/s800/T34MR_05-081-light-chips-rear-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="800" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYAF5mn9mwPfgdsp2y3Vho79b5YI5Xz52oGE1qXXeKWi2Pxv8rNRixbdSX_oJgvGNIRNUB6RBBnfGd_FC-5nGQiS5tadqhAqIWMsslhJSgO6PCbrd5_gjyaUx3Fbfz03dboNID3CjnnrbfRUmEdZwlXubH5CBjTaUsXgyj9cIWPSwDoZbvZxNeWIjJDjM/w640-h424/T34MR_05-081-light-chips-rear-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLugCSu4XU3tXnoCjQKEKSsr421aHPYY9YYrbCJYEKj02cWXiWVnjqLBVAj1lQMLYP3e3LvGKhT-RWoWq6VUPCKZx47NHJtY8jdftU2xisroeWKmBQMz-nbRF09n1AzHCpjx434BHY7_U2smYCXf9fyKXXRYFjgnUOUgf7A94Gzg0HcFL_zLWBxukPu2k/s800/T34MR_05-082-light-chips-front-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="800" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLugCSu4XU3tXnoCjQKEKSsr421aHPYY9YYrbCJYEKj02cWXiWVnjqLBVAj1lQMLYP3e3LvGKhT-RWoWq6VUPCKZx47NHJtY8jdftU2xisroeWKmBQMz-nbRF09n1AzHCpjx434BHY7_U2smYCXf9fyKXXRYFjgnUOUgf7A94Gzg0HcFL_zLWBxukPu2k/w640-h350/T34MR_05-082-light-chips-front-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>I was pretty content with most of this work. To see more of the effect, I didn't want to spend all of the time available only on the light chips, and also to enjoy some variety <i>and</i> also to avoid going way too far in my excitement, I jumped (again) to the next stage.</p><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Stage two - dark chips<br /></span></h4><p>Ok, my first attempt with the dark chips had worked decently, the red-tinted dark grey looked very fitting after the paint had dried. Trying to repeat my previous mix I added three drops of red into a squirtful of dark grey.</p><p>Like before I started with the turret. I followed the lighter marks I had made earlier, and mostly tried to fill up the larger ones with this dark grey. It was slow and delicate work. While looking at this photoset here I could notice that I hadn't gone through all the light chips that I should have.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDE0W_0gJj1SPZKvgmRuDqri8uXFJ7QSVGKrDPs3365_2qrc1Y1enDJnP0ysivGf2rl-e9bvGEyP3ll_8SIrnCyRT671aZnvMVNnHWqnFw7ZGiyDTXFzyVB6x-eKRcexLYMmp8dYBdg8q9xdaE-_L238TKzXtMfd4qb9l24dS-nMtikbummB3CDCoeN5A/s800/T34MR_05-085-dark-chips-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="800" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDE0W_0gJj1SPZKvgmRuDqri8uXFJ7QSVGKrDPs3365_2qrc1Y1enDJnP0ysivGf2rl-e9bvGEyP3ll_8SIrnCyRT671aZnvMVNnHWqnFw7ZGiyDTXFzyVB6x-eKRcexLYMmp8dYBdg8q9xdaE-_L238TKzXtMfd4qb9l24dS-nMtikbummB3CDCoeN5A/w640-h430/T34MR_05-085-dark-chips-turret.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFMqat3AsF8VFhHuH5q5p6GEjRi2E6pJTyrphmtd1qTWs9n_HTVL2utV8QR_d4A0fzRfNbFIZ-oMmbMadhwDhZfJg5X-SRjysELzovUGt2FRfS0REC11NoTZcroZCW5YTVjFzRrIWpPgGnXxDjUgetI9gEH8gxfIUVvUKb6-Pik_63t1a25UF7cpDMu4/s781/T34MR_05-084-dark-chips-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="781" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFMqat3AsF8VFhHuH5q5p6GEjRi2E6pJTyrphmtd1qTWs9n_HTVL2utV8QR_d4A0fzRfNbFIZ-oMmbMadhwDhZfJg5X-SRjysELzovUGt2FRfS0REC11NoTZcroZCW5YTVjFzRrIWpPgGnXxDjUgetI9gEH8gxfIUVvUKb6-Pik_63t1a25UF7cpDMu4/w640-h492/T34MR_05-084-dark-chips-turret.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKS96Zx9zj8fcfBws8xcfAr3b-O72aSFxYrg2TAvzQYO4ix6P4t8v7KT8hZMB7iTjkTj28Sk7JJaw8mgDmiA6xutZuTnMnYDlK147XsF3TcrlxuDaBqY8cjiXpqiuw16jljGJ4l-1CRWiWxueLzQigDq8TLbFN8HAqysBqLbCOa5j-wOBgctMFWFKSz0/s670/T34MR_05-086-dark-chips-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="670" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkKS96Zx9zj8fcfBws8xcfAr3b-O72aSFxYrg2TAvzQYO4ix6P4t8v7KT8hZMB7iTjkTj28Sk7JJaw8mgDmiA6xutZuTnMnYDlK147XsF3TcrlxuDaBqY8cjiXpqiuw16jljGJ4l-1CRWiWxueLzQigDq8TLbFN8HAqysBqLbCOa5j-wOBgctMFWFKSz0/w640-h574/T34MR_05-086-dark-chips-turret.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The mine rollers got the smallest amount of my attention, because there was stuff to be fixed before these details. Here the outer left roller got a bit of a treatment, and the looked nice on it. In the photo the roller was in a silly position, which made the locking piece look like it was actually falling off.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRvT0MWcmX-cVjsenP-78JhWyLbwgi-RxnVFbEgXr2Zk2AoREIW5U6iZtk_cAgTpSNw2qlo6YLKhabrv-1y3YhAD-LCfTSrD3IC2KrwC_EkCNYlOEfcIqVQmfu4ncR8QMAnp6wAjz349PcNtHlm3HdM79VMRzjNTSBmDyaXpqCmecVqtfqzGKo9zLLbDE/s800/T34MR_05-087-dark-chips-roller.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRvT0MWcmX-cVjsenP-78JhWyLbwgi-RxnVFbEgXr2Zk2AoREIW5U6iZtk_cAgTpSNw2qlo6YLKhabrv-1y3YhAD-LCfTSrD3IC2KrwC_EkCNYlOEfcIqVQmfu4ncR8QMAnp6wAjz349PcNtHlm3HdM79VMRzjNTSBmDyaXpqCmecVqtfqzGKo9zLLbDE/w640-h480/T34MR_05-087-dark-chips-roller.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The effects on the frame looked somehow working, at least the radial scratches had the look I was hoping to achieve. Like I said earlier, I had no idea if this was realistic or not.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGeO2A7WaW7PpubfCMwdiFuAcPVCqkLJNdlZNtIYFxtMLzKFhfGrY85AjaOXrNQsgg7tW763AghgpGsine83pXUr7GDN9B1A2KMgQgnHc_DSdQ85ArUNX3ZXuWqnk5Qxhz-eBhVvpx33EaHXNDtnJ5VRTvAtWmOhc-6EReHJMPdEqsIP6h9aHIcjbJiIU/s800/T34MR_05-092-dark-chips-roller.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="800" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGeO2A7WaW7PpubfCMwdiFuAcPVCqkLJNdlZNtIYFxtMLzKFhfGrY85AjaOXrNQsgg7tW763AghgpGsine83pXUr7GDN9B1A2KMgQgnHc_DSdQ85ArUNX3ZXuWqnk5Qxhz-eBhVvpx33EaHXNDtnJ5VRTvAtWmOhc-6EReHJMPdEqsIP6h9aHIcjbJiIU/w640-h278/T34MR_05-092-dark-chips-roller.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>During this chipping session I didn't get that far on the hull, I did some work on the front and the mudguards. Based on the photos I definitely didn't touch the cable loops, hooks, and guide bits yet.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6Q5ZcMnMsJXsmBrO6PWFtLCyEXT2TwKTMWBDFQjzgKUE-WWsaMfGeV-WTI90MMxwHOdbGD-WrwdF9H5rTnlxi0_6JxO0gCfRspN9nn4NYKnmxOflrIzh6ghiBU2xWQBj-V7ojTl5qQ04EiRuCLZni-RzdFhXiqO8Iv_S2mcKwlbOgkmW7Jwap__gOWk/s800/T34MR_05-088-dark-chips-front-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="800" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih6Q5ZcMnMsJXsmBrO6PWFtLCyEXT2TwKTMWBDFQjzgKUE-WWsaMfGeV-WTI90MMxwHOdbGD-WrwdF9H5rTnlxi0_6JxO0gCfRspN9nn4NYKnmxOflrIzh6ghiBU2xWQBj-V7ojTl5qQ04EiRuCLZni-RzdFhXiqO8Iv_S2mcKwlbOgkmW7Jwap__gOWk/w640-h396/T34MR_05-088-dark-chips-front-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Ec1Fwxl4gLz_Rn2C3lxT6GSp2oJR6bJIDNDGxRmoEJry5V-OgxvTXvHmNSEA_50UoGMGIJ3Tna_Hg8EhOynoJbBz6R4jGGviwLhBjsIyuK3UKspwYjutrRbZdhFWqUGR5M0MNdkSxeClWd3hLr1zv2vPEmw-nP9J3t10qWl2r6_5fguoE5HFriOU4Q8/s800/T34MR_05-089-dark-chips-front-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Ec1Fwxl4gLz_Rn2C3lxT6GSp2oJR6bJIDNDGxRmoEJry5V-OgxvTXvHmNSEA_50UoGMGIJ3Tna_Hg8EhOynoJbBz6R4jGGviwLhBjsIyuK3UKspwYjutrRbZdhFWqUGR5M0MNdkSxeClWd3hLr1zv2vPEmw-nP9J3t10qWl2r6_5fguoE5HFriOU4Q8/w640-h480/T34MR_05-089-dark-chips-front-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC7hKijy-js3xmvcCS6x5Sf_f9VAGC17bt0pqadzY3wfp1kzzp86bMeLnNxeXyvdMzBwRnbRYDq2nJAYxQfoCDCtyRNE4ZDsqHrg5zFfGCaLO48yXB-5oYPYgDI2U7nvqRYvIpAwhbLQDbugPo4JoN-Of6KxSYLc-lMIiC5g4DvvLVMJyuJRLxPeV5J2Y/s800/T34MR_05-090-dark-chips-front-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="800" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC7hKijy-js3xmvcCS6x5Sf_f9VAGC17bt0pqadzY3wfp1kzzp86bMeLnNxeXyvdMzBwRnbRYDq2nJAYxQfoCDCtyRNE4ZDsqHrg5zFfGCaLO48yXB-5oYPYgDI2U7nvqRYvIpAwhbLQDbugPo4JoN-Of6KxSYLc-lMIiC5g4DvvLVMJyuJRLxPeV5J2Y/w640-h454/T34MR_05-090-dark-chips-front-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLy-YWosSu-36DtOrvyoggQic8hLL0pCQh2ykdvI0jaCraOnwiZd9bi9hv45euMQv9fvFqC7dSwyNXgpLzI1qBEldx-ur1GlFn-DSo6GpefWcJiB10cOQwIaSW71di__FvjY22aO7gdWPwKJ6r51hynD8X4IkWzAvilBzpIc9vGrjtLwWD7y9uKAfLmU/s800/T34MR_05-091-dark-chips-front-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="800" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLy-YWosSu-36DtOrvyoggQic8hLL0pCQh2ykdvI0jaCraOnwiZd9bi9hv45euMQv9fvFqC7dSwyNXgpLzI1qBEldx-ur1GlFn-DSo6GpefWcJiB10cOQwIaSW71di__FvjY22aO7gdWPwKJ6r51hynD8X4IkWzAvilBzpIc9vGrjtLwWD7y9uKAfLmU/w640-h422/T34MR_05-091-dark-chips-front-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>Amazingly I managed to use a bit more than an hour on this session in one evening. This was very slow, but also surprisingly enjoyable stuff to work on. Even in the middle of this WIP stage the tank started looking nicely grungy.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Stage two - second evening<br /></span></h3><p>I checked the turret and fixed what stuck me as fixable. Maybe this was it for the turret.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo7VZGHhAxZKyfO0ncjpKgApe7kdZqWG67h3ZhfIpWbZho8KZlFedO906Jd1yN85n1ZejnmU_9mm94kmJhu2J1j_y6SPrUfh9HHL255V-Kymo32QVsixVztmHqj_DIbKb90T0LRCYJRiuRe4PaF-b_jBRheWcsqRG-MzSH5c4er1rUZK9F3qtu1CfytK0/s800/T34MR_05-093-dark-chips-turret-top.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="800" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo7VZGHhAxZKyfO0ncjpKgApe7kdZqWG67h3ZhfIpWbZho8KZlFedO906Jd1yN85n1ZejnmU_9mm94kmJhu2J1j_y6SPrUfh9HHL255V-Kymo32QVsixVztmHqj_DIbKb90T0LRCYJRiuRe4PaF-b_jBRheWcsqRG-MzSH5c4er1rUZK9F3qtu1CfytK0/w640-h440/T34MR_05-093-dark-chips-turret-top.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The wheelery got me swearing a few times, I worked on them at a different pace than with the rest of the model, especially as on these little bits the original chips didn't show even as well as on the tank. During the evening getting darker I realized I had chosen maybe the worst workstation, the lighting conditions were a bit annoying to work on things like these.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9tVsPpiEm08TAv-2plmpB2YCSK8di1KhFZhejd_tiqbk-N1pnFT5atEl0c7AnKw41okumo-R_7Be4WlgAe6ZNXC6GGjxAZxymM58tjZDTbVm4qU6oj-KohwJtxPbMGuPU12LGTt2vikfxJjACp0TMToS2Y-X2y3GaocKX8lmWnpXpihdT_5nKPKahEg/s800/T34MR_05-094-dark-chips-wheels.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="800" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9tVsPpiEm08TAv-2plmpB2YCSK8di1KhFZhejd_tiqbk-N1pnFT5atEl0c7AnKw41okumo-R_7Be4WlgAe6ZNXC6GGjxAZxymM58tjZDTbVm4qU6oj-KohwJtxPbMGuPU12LGTt2vikfxJjACp0TMToS2Y-X2y3GaocKX8lmWnpXpihdT_5nKPKahEg/w640-h434/T34MR_05-094-dark-chips-wheels.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>I added a few more chips into the front of the tanks and fixed the ones that I felt incomplete from the previous evening. In this photo here I feld it was a bit too clear that I hadn't been as meticulous as I should've been while cleaning up the cable loops from mould lines.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiklKU4HsfYmLhc9NXTbyuRbJJPvO8ZiLU96wyPvHsvWEWrmj22PvxMpHQSrqmbfhB3Fsl4tp152mxaOzRbFiMnCVkUD84gb3WjkTGNUpSWwv_h0qk9F5O2fnbr0FuARCCQQa-zSrrzzDoCBTkb8cmYbLuut25ZKAuGRk1PJL2u8L6xHWk_2M8XkWqzk0g/s800/T34MR_05-095-dark-chips-tank-front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="800" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiklKU4HsfYmLhc9NXTbyuRbJJPvO8ZiLU96wyPvHsvWEWrmj22PvxMpHQSrqmbfhB3Fsl4tp152mxaOzRbFiMnCVkUD84gb3WjkTGNUpSWwv_h0qk9F5O2fnbr0FuARCCQQa-zSrrzzDoCBTkb8cmYbLuut25ZKAuGRk1PJL2u8L6xHWk_2M8XkWqzk0g/w640-h382/T34MR_05-095-dark-chips-tank-front.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>After painting the dark chips on the bits left from the previous session, I felt that the deck and the rear hull were a bit too clean in comparison. And no, I had not forgotten that I wanted them to be cleaner than the front.</p><p>I added a few extra dents onto the engine compartment and got this mad idea to make some ringlike scratches to depict something getting stuck under the turret's lip while it rotated. Something like loose rocks or something hard and grindy.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Fxp5NAuBRji-m8P0GtYoWY9Lo5yKiZezMjViWl8bJm-Zkm_Li2wPKcGJliHxKiA0mVAOeDTY9NT6zGW1sLAteKGX7uXWwaMZdm6qK0ZLXxdUKU5b6tXHiimwRaw3kSKaxM2FMwmcVS5-O3Uh2iHuDCqaLVe74G6_ukKycoS9ITHW-fCJL9DpaljDDjE/s800/T34MR_05-096-dark-chips-tank-top.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Fxp5NAuBRji-m8P0GtYoWY9Lo5yKiZezMjViWl8bJm-Zkm_Li2wPKcGJliHxKiA0mVAOeDTY9NT6zGW1sLAteKGX7uXWwaMZdm6qK0ZLXxdUKU5b6tXHiimwRaw3kSKaxM2FMwmcVS5-O3Uh2iHuDCqaLVe74G6_ukKycoS9ITHW-fCJL9DpaljDDjE/w640-h480/T34MR_05-096-dark-chips-tank-top.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Those two boxes in the rear edges were a bit weird, I just hadn't come up with anything for them. I also didn't want them to look either untouched or completely mistreated, so I just added a couple of horizontal scratches thinking that maybe the driver had been rotating the tank too close to trees. That trick was to be seen a few photos later, here you could see some general walked on bits and careless box-carrying -caused marks.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnL4x3v-tmR98CKzy_Qmw6XvjISjOSJ35bpWsYC6dJJXDAZaD7Vus4Hi4v2x1s1571MzYgZUB2Ch7DRAXcmnzf-Dnnvrxz_eMDdAcia2Qg9St774m_2_fATz6UsIC0laYZxRnI23Hdgbk3csPNyyGxBEvZUprNBYaiW3TY1VVeMQgH7u2QdusTdWB3t1M/s800/T34MR_05-097-dark-chips-tank-rear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnL4x3v-tmR98CKzy_Qmw6XvjISjOSJ35bpWsYC6dJJXDAZaD7Vus4Hi4v2x1s1571MzYgZUB2Ch7DRAXcmnzf-Dnnvrxz_eMDdAcia2Qg9St774m_2_fATz6UsIC0laYZxRnI23Hdgbk3csPNyyGxBEvZUprNBYaiW3TY1VVeMQgH7u2QdusTdWB3t1M/w640-h480/T34MR_05-097-dark-chips-tank-rear.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Around the engineering shovels I tried to make some marks that would look like whoever put the shovels in place didn't really care how they did and what sort of a ding it made inside the tank. I wasn't sure of how that came through in the end.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhObKWfZpHdgYf4pSfVYQURcgChqQJJewYz9doYSzGCFKBMWuhg0xCA72HBzju43PG03Bx6QmwSBbHMPA2GLHOJ-AWTG0ue8DoxTKtcbhyphenhyphendes1o6NvCCHNtCg_mS6ifw90fuvvXa_qxV0iWcM3w0b1kKIGxLg67Zfu8cNx5FS2MaqiVMO0pxwpjaDuurp0/s800/T34MR_05-098-dark-chips-tank-right.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhObKWfZpHdgYf4pSfVYQURcgChqQJJewYz9doYSzGCFKBMWuhg0xCA72HBzju43PG03Bx6QmwSBbHMPA2GLHOJ-AWTG0ue8DoxTKtcbhyphenhyphendes1o6NvCCHNtCg_mS6ifw90fuvvXa_qxV0iWcM3w0b1kKIGxLg67Zfu8cNx5FS2MaqiVMO0pxwpjaDuurp0/w640-h480/T34MR_05-098-dark-chips-tank-right.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Overusing the same idea I tried to add a few dents by the place where the tow cable ends lied, to show that the crew just threw them around without much care.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEB1u1JHN6THjRNankES6r_dquvbs7FR0IqNaXATC85gs6giON2nx6y2u4lrtwrmGSxmScZ933kb2A1f2KmqNqvzCWBt7bTwps_M4rdK8_d2zYeZ1k6GsDN8VDRzuC0KjnQveoLTr1zJeakBj_DR28OyrroaS4-4ZZIj0qH0Ext5EYzvijdn6di-Ugmsc/s800/T34MR_05-099-dark-chips-tank-right-rear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEB1u1JHN6THjRNankES6r_dquvbs7FR0IqNaXATC85gs6giON2nx6y2u4lrtwrmGSxmScZ933kb2A1f2KmqNqvzCWBt7bTwps_M4rdK8_d2zYeZ1k6GsDN8VDRzuC0KjnQveoLTr1zJeakBj_DR28OyrroaS4-4ZZIj0qH0Ext5EYzvijdn6di-Ugmsc/w640-h360/T34MR_05-099-dark-chips-tank-right-rear.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6udIA6AC1ZOfiMpffKPLEs2bKRWgQIp8LaihQVfsa_IqhgKjnVyUc8FUxoXB4fnu1rxHwkSH9Uzcp7hTUTmE8SFywBzEOKE7APwKL5ep4ilSuOgohwHHnXQOhX62x3slSZzGuvQqN2nEjJTV4MfwQrr7DXMgEKDb5codZ24ITqIsuBhkDAABcPPqTd3I/s800/T34MR_05-100-dark-chips-tank-rear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="800" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6udIA6AC1ZOfiMpffKPLEs2bKRWgQIp8LaihQVfsa_IqhgKjnVyUc8FUxoXB4fnu1rxHwkSH9Uzcp7hTUTmE8SFywBzEOKE7APwKL5ep4ilSuOgohwHHnXQOhX62x3slSZzGuvQqN2nEjJTV4MfwQrr7DXMgEKDb5codZ24ITqIsuBhkDAABcPPqTd3I/w640-h292/T34MR_05-100-dark-chips-tank-rear.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy7LlIel6xARGM8UE9bZ71E2pIJlxpr3VXCdyz1m58G4rp1zAV1qhxQyvpmmBV3y_m1oHNqPOssBBFnSNg71sBidejzLkawrZQTc9_DJzJapN4hJePd6_K0UUE5H1R0E3fuv5rzCzPlY4UptgqyA0eA8gk4MSFbrwCj1php1qJqRD22ua_-rnyCprkMoA/s800/T34MR_05-101-dark-chips-tank-toolbox.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy7LlIel6xARGM8UE9bZ71E2pIJlxpr3VXCdyz1m58G4rp1zAV1qhxQyvpmmBV3y_m1oHNqPOssBBFnSNg71sBidejzLkawrZQTc9_DJzJapN4hJePd6_K0UUE5H1R0E3fuv5rzCzPlY4UptgqyA0eA8gk4MSFbrwCj1php1qJqRD22ua_-rnyCprkMoA/w640-h480/T34MR_05-101-dark-chips-tank-toolbox.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFArVQTgacvVJ2qsxOf1W7bo52KHmR4tFCOIi_puKGBStcYHm8LblMqk2HHN0-LgmC6_d3AgchlV8HGKbF6_1Rt4cHGv4-fl9kFslpEObRPpYbBsb2decH05RioLbN_KwqBORRM7MLLjHn65FERUCdDXagfXO9gsisf5ROMiAz26wpMoyBm5kLpHAseRY/s800/T34MR_05-102-dark-chips-tank-left-rear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFArVQTgacvVJ2qsxOf1W7bo52KHmR4tFCOIi_puKGBStcYHm8LblMqk2HHN0-LgmC6_d3AgchlV8HGKbF6_1Rt4cHGv4-fl9kFslpEObRPpYbBsb2decH05RioLbN_KwqBORRM7MLLjHn65FERUCdDXagfXO9gsisf5ROMiAz26wpMoyBm5kLpHAseRY/w640-h480/T34MR_05-102-dark-chips-tank-left-rear.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>In this set the wooden boxes looked pretty silly, but I'd get to them the next time I painted. For those I had a new set of paints from sometime last summer.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-17213111453615909912024-01-17T12:00:00.000+02:002024-01-17T12:00:00.149+02:00Steel details<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">More dark grey steel</span><br /></h2><p>This effect seemed to have worked nicely in the last couple of different-scale projects, so I stuck to it. The tracks I had already treated with this same approach, so it wasn't that different.</p><p>Starting in the front of the tank I painted the tip of the machine gun that barely peeked out of the armoured shield. The next I painted the short track bit on the front glacis plate and proceeded to the cables. All the tow loops I left purposefully green, they weren't supposed to be fully worn down to the bare metal.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1xPO69iSLLHCGN8mLnlIy_UnrK9tnywM3Bpv5psxVmlxQMgbHOYwJ_4gb-E0elr50CQkMMFkmfDpwreOZauBxJYa6hYQTkd_Fb3DY6umf6LGUSMInOzS_zj8eBYNaijqyZq5vU-__Lr4AYBYyI2Zi-m29S5NhQ0bFGdKlCn7gPdY4n8BwxLLSzk91WFo/s737/T34MR_04-068-metal-details.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="737" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1xPO69iSLLHCGN8mLnlIy_UnrK9tnywM3Bpv5psxVmlxQMgbHOYwJ_4gb-E0elr50CQkMMFkmfDpwreOZauBxJYa6hYQTkd_Fb3DY6umf6LGUSMInOzS_zj8eBYNaijqyZq5vU-__Lr4AYBYyI2Zi-m29S5NhQ0bFGdKlCn7gPdY4n8BwxLLSzk91WFo/w640-h522/T34MR_04-068-metal-details.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>We had a couple of tow cables on the right side of the tank, I painted them the same way. Later I should do a tiny highlight on them with a slightly lighter grey, perhaps. The only engineering tools were a pair of showels, they too became grey-tipped. While I was on this side I painted the antenna grey as well, but I thought I should check my Armoured Museum reference photos because I wasn't entirely sure of this approach. In the rear end there was that one track link to be painted steely.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Uxa0wcIdyfUqOk2XvhWMAsvK6q_H2QPIqtiDFJKDM6hyphenhyphenBGcuwZbAZHX7yXgW8bntQXHCxKbE_jPxtGCUxx6Rm1iQWAp2oxMWlHBw8NEViyybDqg2D3Z8Fqx4pAGyynr0Jnl_elY22jTBWBSMvLjj6UzUqUoDApppSUPlbuDuM2sMTjL4qr4y3qi3ftk/s800/T34MR_04-069-metal-details.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="800" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Uxa0wcIdyfUqOk2XvhWMAsvK6q_H2QPIqtiDFJKDM6hyphenhyphenBGcuwZbAZHX7yXgW8bntQXHCxKbE_jPxtGCUxx6Rm1iQWAp2oxMWlHBw8NEViyybDqg2D3Z8Fqx4pAGyynr0Jnl_elY22jTBWBSMvLjj6UzUqUoDApppSUPlbuDuM2sMTjL4qr4y3qi3ftk/w640-h286/T34MR_04-069-metal-details.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The flipside had just a saw and another track link.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsr-IE-gEW07EozsygJJ009i_ufU0UCudwWmt1MPUPFtZpJjju5chQ7y5TOxi6zEU7EvAhC_8qsHe07HjDR14Hhe2Ihv51HPu-0VyUWVEW2aL_Mf0QJFTsLp-c-ksNzzPg23wuWPqwoTC_rHlJoKo5awXdtWUKOqwKA6u-cfjOnIg7hPXLJyVS60nwwjQ/s800/T34MR_04-070-metal-details.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="800" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsr-IE-gEW07EozsygJJ009i_ufU0UCudwWmt1MPUPFtZpJjju5chQ7y5TOxi6zEU7EvAhC_8qsHe07HjDR14Hhe2Ihv51HPu-0VyUWVEW2aL_Mf0QJFTsLp-c-ksNzzPg23wuWPqwoTC_rHlJoKo5awXdtWUKOqwKA6u-cfjOnIg7hPXLJyVS60nwwjQ/w640-h274/T34MR_04-070-metal-details.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>After these I painted the roadwheelery. Here my idea was that while the tank was on the move, the outer rims of the road wheels (etc) were going to be pretty clean of rust and dirt, due to the constant movement. That would look much better than the bright steel -painted ones on my T-35, I felt.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZlQzMaVXclhyphenhyphenoOeUyPKDccbIKT8KlMeqUDNODeS_GzR8tcj0MkVIM8L81u_NVLtAALvu2DOADcEVsYdSX43I1h8ahH1hOOGZigOUaDOayyM-KR8gU7QgxQO6XsxlLOr2ZFoBhEBtUuFLv38G1GEi-gHN12vZSqTwtMeacU-pieCfHzOOXGlf3Td0uq0E/s800/T34MR_04-071-metal-details.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="800" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZlQzMaVXclhyphenhyphenoOeUyPKDccbIKT8KlMeqUDNODeS_GzR8tcj0MkVIM8L81u_NVLtAALvu2DOADcEVsYdSX43I1h8ahH1hOOGZigOUaDOayyM-KR8gU7QgxQO6XsxlLOr2ZFoBhEBtUuFLv38G1GEi-gHN12vZSqTwtMeacU-pieCfHzOOXGlf3Td0uq0E/w640-h352/T34MR_04-071-metal-details.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>At this point I remembered that I had just plopped the attachment bolts on the road wheel arms for painting. I plucked them all off, except for the return rollers. This'd be a good-looking setup.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUYOmf1bDvXfWw5SWAphsBkzRuD7hyphenhyphen3prnUWskmDLK2xoUgSApi662cSEnwVyCXbpf_HwB9YLQBlzJhbCPA40NPzPqFIyMYxVLhTudt6D51A1yhjzc_vEavNIEH9bWsUSZM_eMnOjI4rrxahp1NutOjpTTB0UPqz-WOeMFhJtK15iCk75Nm94567pP1Lc/s800/T34MR_04-072-dry-fit-tracks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="800" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUYOmf1bDvXfWw5SWAphsBkzRuD7hyphenhyphen3prnUWskmDLK2xoUgSApi662cSEnwVyCXbpf_HwB9YLQBlzJhbCPA40NPzPqFIyMYxVLhTudt6D51A1yhjzc_vEavNIEH9bWsUSZM_eMnOjI4rrxahp1NutOjpTTB0UPqz-WOeMFhJtK15iCk75Nm94567pP1Lc/w640-h454/T34MR_04-072-dry-fit-tracks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>While I was spinning the model in my hands, I realized that the exhaust pipes were still green and they weren't going to remain that way for long in the nature, so I painted them grey for some upcoming mistreatment. In the same instant I decided to paint the engine deck's partially curved grille as well, I decided they had also suffered enough to lose any paintjob they had ever had.</p><p>Again, I wasn't 100% sure of the last bit, but there was time to change it still. It wouldn't be the first time my gut feeling was a bit off, right?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifNc-0UBy71pl_sICZGuhMN7dmrECENxS0fJKbUBtHuJdPgSPX2z82FveB7WL9Hm-z5r3KklGL5Lwi79Uqj30SnVmuEUKCtkvCSITopExm5VMMjLe1xxv2perahlvkv0GoLIflp0F0udy07pACEBMYuIKtz0T_RqJvkXq6a89oOjWjaZ8z_VKQNKLOnP8/s800/T34MR_04-074-metal-details.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="800" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifNc-0UBy71pl_sICZGuhMN7dmrECENxS0fJKbUBtHuJdPgSPX2z82FveB7WL9Hm-z5r3KklGL5Lwi79Uqj30SnVmuEUKCtkvCSITopExm5VMMjLe1xxv2perahlvkv0GoLIflp0F0udy07pACEBMYuIKtz0T_RqJvkXq6a89oOjWjaZ8z_VKQNKLOnP8/w640-h388/T34MR_04-074-metal-details.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-63197572713650779892024-01-10T12:00:00.000+02:002024-01-10T12:00:00.139+02:00Priming and basecoating in Russia<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Ideologically correct shade of primer<br /></span></h2><p>Fun discovery, I had some white primer in a big bottle left, and I thought I'd use that instead of fooling with the small dropper bottles. This wouldn't run out in the middle of priming.</p><p>The goo was, of course, way too old now and airbrushing it didn't work at all. Damn. After a bit of a cleanup and tossing trash out I returned to the lately often-used red primer (VSP 70624 Pure Red). Despite my concerns I didn't run out of it, I even had some left for any patching up later on. Just in the end while spraying the turret from high above the airbrush started spitting out flakes, that I had to clean up later.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ4eRNtBdRI0uqJwjih6iX8ATt2buq16JphBvviZTYRXLnD0JROlHNLjEhPxfuGE3-JBDQB3PEKQ_mjbuj0mYt2JBTcwiIfLWCCDkfB0piy2kddTs6wAlTs7w0lygnKLFsubyM923Ir2cbeEFp8VwqQ906cOLLGhL64R5H0nH2O2CJnm-7uJ8UfSnw8To/s800/T34MR_03-055-primed-top.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="800" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ4eRNtBdRI0uqJwjih6iX8ATt2buq16JphBvviZTYRXLnD0JROlHNLjEhPxfuGE3-JBDQB3PEKQ_mjbuj0mYt2JBTcwiIfLWCCDkfB0piy2kddTs6wAlTs7w0lygnKLFsubyM923Ir2cbeEFp8VwqQ906cOLLGhL64R5H0nH2O2CJnm-7uJ8UfSnw8To/w640-h386/T34MR_03-055-primed-top.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Blasting the mine rollers with air and paint was <i>interesting</i> to say the least. They spun like windmills in an Autumn storm. Maybe I should consider gluing them together and the axle with white glue or something before doing this again with green or dark grey.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh92kO2mu7qxV1rPToZXI5CdJPlDQIZ6jJ-iD253rmKOvQkHGy8iAObRIPxdWd60ydJh_tmY7t1yLR8iH4F8eBBmYtS2Lya4Wl3UvprBlASQJ3cf6s9vpCM2ZKDpjFOZujxLAWN6G9C9GT6e3BufuL82KRzgeXbHbKHqaHGSOoNsHdlnB5UbJRKnJBZBgQ/s800/T34MR_03-056-primed-closeup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="800" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh92kO2mu7qxV1rPToZXI5CdJPlDQIZ6jJ-iD253rmKOvQkHGy8iAObRIPxdWd60ydJh_tmY7t1yLR8iH4F8eBBmYtS2Lya4Wl3UvprBlASQJ3cf6s9vpCM2ZKDpjFOZujxLAWN6G9C9GT6e3BufuL82KRzgeXbHbKHqaHGSOoNsHdlnB5UbJRKnJBZBgQ/w640-h472/T34MR_03-056-primed-closeup.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpxKBaD8RcYsmz6z5DgbZiVMmgGVVqQ6_hG-nbJANO4YhKPimIkCavt6h5QqDdTLi2amdXcgMxWHpVwMUgObAffL-fOwbnxhyphenhyphenAVRp77XQII20Dod2x8DXPTjtBP9MRQPxlqutB3fKKhBj1lsNR5FBGh266PvajKYkk91cMgbtAPoyM_7BacuU1QwI2_4o/s800/T34MR_03-057-primed-closeup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="800" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpxKBaD8RcYsmz6z5DgbZiVMmgGVVqQ6_hG-nbJANO4YhKPimIkCavt6h5QqDdTLi2amdXcgMxWHpVwMUgObAffL-fOwbnxhyphenhyphenAVRp77XQII20Dod2x8DXPTjtBP9MRQPxlqutB3fKKhBj1lsNR5FBGh266PvajKYkk91cMgbtAPoyM_7BacuU1QwI2_4o/w640-h356/T34MR_03-057-primed-closeup.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>My painting environment was a bit difficult this time, I did some of my painting in a bothersome shade, against the light. Still, the photos didn't reveal anything outrageous or missed major spots. Or I wasn't looking correctly.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Zvezda paints under test</span><br /></h2><p>So here we were, five tiny 16ml bottles of acrylic paints from the neighbouring country. My Russian skills were just about nonexistent, I only recognized the word Stahl for steel on the cap of 08. Google's translator was a bit better:</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>20: black</li><li>25: wood</li><li>08: blue-shaded steel (gunmetal?)</li><li>45: khaki</li><li>55: camouflage (dark green <br /></li></ul><p>I know I should've recognized the last repeating word in each cap: akr/i/l/ - acryl, but I wasn't thinking so far because I didn't recognize the final character with its sound, so I just gave up before thinking of thinking. Funny thing, I with a tiny amount of headscratching I would've actually recognized a new word.</p><p>The sixth and unmarked bottle contained glue, that I didn't need. Maybe that was a good thing, as it didn't have an applicator.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZD4pXU8yWqQ8LD7GoT4xl72h9vDh7D7y-7PyBYuyF4IiK3rzoHkrkMuizOdvkPANBuTbmuCzP17CRq3NFvmxNzHgbfNx9K-GHU3VE8y8drqCUM4LJfbX2svnxhqWRSvcqrOpRHySeyfusjKOFF7njxqFHhV1mw6VVk86KS0wsJe4iKZvNavxsyrC2hbk/s800/T34MR_03-058-Zvezda-paints.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="800" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZD4pXU8yWqQ8LD7GoT4xl72h9vDh7D7y-7PyBYuyF4IiK3rzoHkrkMuizOdvkPANBuTbmuCzP17CRq3NFvmxNzHgbfNx9K-GHU3VE8y8drqCUM4LJfbX2svnxhqWRSvcqrOpRHySeyfusjKOFF7njxqFHhV1mw6VVk86KS0wsJe4iKZvNavxsyrC2hbk/w640-h422/T34MR_03-058-Zvezda-paints.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Before trying it out I shook the camo green heavily and thoroughly, then added a bit to the airbrush and mixed an amount of Vallejo's acrylic thinner. TL;DR: I didn't manage to thin the paint enough, what little came out of my airbrush was too thick and then the paint got way too thin and only came out in strange bursts. I started with the turret's bottom surface, it really didn't work out at all. The colour was surprisingly dark, in my mind the Russian Green was lighter than that, but maybe different manufacturers had their own opinions on the proper shade.</p><p>After that debacle I decided to thin it for paintbrushing and then just paint it by hand for the first time on a tank in a long, long while. The tracks and rollers I was still going to airbrush dark grey, no matter what.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgw7SQUKJDUItGwK5YiBQ6Vtyf2huU1JguwXxUCW1gnxi9YcgfB4ZvWlawVNxRjy5vjYjpbkcr-8XAWyaDRDzZL8kc8Yi70mVRKJk3qy4hSHygXsRd1w0_-cFpNHHBoq3xGrWFNy4ivGYlipoNBUQQWluUCkw6jQPmymIW-tw2b8CK6meiACLQ2HveivI/s800/T34MR_03-059-starting-green-painting.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="800" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgw7SQUKJDUItGwK5YiBQ6Vtyf2huU1JguwXxUCW1gnxi9YcgfB4ZvWlawVNxRjy5vjYjpbkcr-8XAWyaDRDzZL8kc8Yi70mVRKJk3qy4hSHygXsRd1w0_-cFpNHHBoq3xGrWFNy4ivGYlipoNBUQQWluUCkw6jQPmymIW-tw2b8CK6meiACLQ2HveivI/w640-h350/T34MR_03-059-starting-green-painting.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>As you could see, the thinning operation didn't work like I wanted to, at all. I really started considering shifting to Vallejo's Russian Green over this crap.</p><p>Thanks to everyday life being very busy for a long while I didn't get to paint in ages. When I finally found some time, I decided to stop wasting time in unknowns and just use what I knew to work without a fight.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Vallejo Model Air</span></h2><p>Unsurprisingly I was a bit displeased with my issues with the modelmaker's own paints. But what could you do when your skills weren't enough to accommodate? Change the solution instead of swearing about it. Using the trial-error method the Zvezda's Green n°55 would've run out way before the painting was done and what would I have done then? Used Vallejo's paints, because those I had.</p><p>I blasted the tank with the Russian Green (VMA 71017), and the antenna and the mine rollers with Panzer Dark Grey (VMA 71056). For a bit of a variety in the shading I applied a bit of a lighter green (VMA 71022 Light Green RLM82) from a zenithal direction. The contrast between the paints was small so it didn't show up strongly.<br /></p><p>While painting the mine rollers the green on the support structure suffered a bit but that wasn't a problem.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh3LYCduLD7u15nsa693Z4yJdAW_F2ruEgXJKCXIcljIY4frzKxRfpXRRY3YCoSdZFJHI-2P4qqaOhEjjxYyB5aj5Og3os07-FU4NPorPCgQb9RpHXj6ZW1-qhS7R_dn4cmtSVgMcGTMmptDZ-niEl3RSNjZwKFAIP-pcf60LAouQZJ8257wVtN59t_u4/s800/T34MR_03-060-repainting.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="800" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh3LYCduLD7u15nsa693Z4yJdAW_F2ruEgXJKCXIcljIY4frzKxRfpXRRY3YCoSdZFJHI-2P4qqaOhEjjxYyB5aj5Og3os07-FU4NPorPCgQb9RpHXj6ZW1-qhS7R_dn4cmtSVgMcGTMmptDZ-niEl3RSNjZwKFAIP-pcf60LAouQZJ8257wVtN59t_u4/w640-h344/T34MR_03-060-repainting.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Below: a set of photos after the first new airbrushing session. There was a bit of red showing here and there, somewhere the dark grey had gone over the green. Most of the red wasn't harmful because the green paint may have been chipped off. The rest was heading toward a muddy future, so having a bit of the rust protecting layer showing wasn't a bad thing.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv5x7fpV0vm4GTrAqv1GztWCZP2m78gTY_OsFefeu5jHg62k2bTcTGJgCiFHEvHuIp2-NpSogxleGHJuLIl0y009iYqCKHwXWVBQDWAH8Tt23suTAkROJ8MQEfPEvBBD-Nze0QCDQIuZ3kRAafBb5q4dJAlSeP3yxrgUxwbAloZwyd3oETC9Tk26xBB4c/s800/T34MR_03-061-repainting-lower-left.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="800" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv5x7fpV0vm4GTrAqv1GztWCZP2m78gTY_OsFefeu5jHg62k2bTcTGJgCiFHEvHuIp2-NpSogxleGHJuLIl0y009iYqCKHwXWVBQDWAH8Tt23suTAkROJ8MQEfPEvBBD-Nze0QCDQIuZ3kRAafBb5q4dJAlSeP3yxrgUxwbAloZwyd3oETC9Tk26xBB4c/w640-h164/T34MR_03-061-repainting-lower-left.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyE4ntMy3SceLqBZzBnohgKkYWoKH34QU4F-DdKFh9fVvbKyIqpcoasN4ywWIV0VpEzr_tac6WjN8hYMvrzUOTtgJUtybl1zgC2uiRqDiowwcslxirlvZrm4bkx-x9kJpepcE8rOsLXwAjfJ2rPUvc3UCmbuvMIh-sMXs-SqMYzx-ULpLI4lYb0jQ1zTg/s800/T34MR_03-062-repainting-lower-right.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="800" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyE4ntMy3SceLqBZzBnohgKkYWoKH34QU4F-DdKFh9fVvbKyIqpcoasN4ywWIV0VpEzr_tac6WjN8hYMvrzUOTtgJUtybl1zgC2uiRqDiowwcslxirlvZrm4bkx-x9kJpepcE8rOsLXwAjfJ2rPUvc3UCmbuvMIh-sMXs-SqMYzx-ULpLI4lYb0jQ1zTg/w640-h142/T34MR_03-062-repainting-lower-right.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>My gap-filling skills were clearly worse than useless, as you could tell from this photo. Like I was pondering earlier, the back end was going to be pretty muddy-gooey, because I had to hide my crimes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZb01cfDa4fkJfEGtg2EpoNr9ODrvBW04hkkOOySomOkHxkGp16K0WS9DC4aLa-UgZausqQ-upmWaP3A3BQ01t7dYAmafK6laNErdIgM5rSXYaMjgZWc_XXHsEQ6PLZLND5QcipCvNT3cRep5pWrS4pw5F6KKNcZ4ywzuvWP9VLvF-eZEjQCXlFEkhgZ0/s800/T34MR_03-063-repainting-rear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZb01cfDa4fkJfEGtg2EpoNr9ODrvBW04hkkOOySomOkHxkGp16K0WS9DC4aLa-UgZausqQ-upmWaP3A3BQ01t7dYAmafK6laNErdIgM5rSXYaMjgZWc_XXHsEQ6PLZLND5QcipCvNT3cRep5pWrS4pw5F6KKNcZ4ywzuvWP9VLvF-eZEjQCXlFEkhgZ0/w640-h480/T34MR_03-063-repainting-rear.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEPhKm2cVGS0L2AqhSOh2KezdamlW57AJze-ZlaCO1AlzmZaN3vCFWtDWogwQsl37uJ7GnApCra7vjk7-r7lGuwlAD_dRpm8e0sz_iz0FtOxXnPONmAkdz9amlyrwfGV8gDXHTU2ygebujOBqUXNHCIGiTiHA7NEj93oymOfit611hptHneKc-eHhZbQA/s800/T34MR_03-064-repainting-rollers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="800" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEPhKm2cVGS0L2AqhSOh2KezdamlW57AJze-ZlaCO1AlzmZaN3vCFWtDWogwQsl37uJ7GnApCra7vjk7-r7lGuwlAD_dRpm8e0sz_iz0FtOxXnPONmAkdz9amlyrwfGV8gDXHTU2ygebujOBqUXNHCIGiTiHA7NEj93oymOfit611hptHneKc-eHhZbQA/w640-h430/T34MR_03-064-repainting-rollers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Painting the turret didn't make me feel sad, of course it was a bit clean as it was. I was thinking of trying something new again, as soon as I could carve some (=lots of) time and references for it first.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtblWn4mcKL2K6qQOp1_PLR-xcWRT8cY7a7WxTEi86jvhX6BAlaLhZ-xekfyPzBaOwLdfuocISwLHFbhgkWZzuSgO1O27Y1wNqgt4gC8P0nLgfaLgw2Ju2UoH9M894hkxS5xEzpXYB_wZcKC9APoTkJPRUH8gGTclqibpwTac13TxkiL31U_5gC1VIlus/s800/T34MR_03-065-repainting-turret-left.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="800" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtblWn4mcKL2K6qQOp1_PLR-xcWRT8cY7a7WxTEi86jvhX6BAlaLhZ-xekfyPzBaOwLdfuocISwLHFbhgkWZzuSgO1O27Y1wNqgt4gC8P0nLgfaLgw2Ju2UoH9M894hkxS5xEzpXYB_wZcKC9APoTkJPRUH8gGTclqibpwTac13TxkiL31U_5gC1VIlus/w640-h314/T34MR_03-065-repainting-turret-left.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4JNV7hsDVPN49NqiTTpsA2kMO3zTJ8MNoBzkQJVmtjNO790wI_pf8OYkblKe3PUoo8odqv4-D25iTVGGiOY4le0T7h8ZABtAMAEekUqrIP22rz84FGt9ICiPYqKsLSOwGvaNRtoZH2iUzDuBMrvPynVZ6lLthIusB5wFXkV8q0JJPm0FCS9xdDNmZ_2c/s800/T34MR_03-066-repainting-turret-right.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="800" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4JNV7hsDVPN49NqiTTpsA2kMO3zTJ8MNoBzkQJVmtjNO790wI_pf8OYkblKe3PUoo8odqv4-D25iTVGGiOY4le0T7h8ZABtAMAEekUqrIP22rz84FGt9ICiPYqKsLSOwGvaNRtoZH2iUzDuBMrvPynVZ6lLthIusB5wFXkV8q0JJPm0FCS9xdDNmZ_2c/w640-h274/T34MR_03-066-repainting-turret-right.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The tracks got a predicted dark grey basecoat for the rust-mud-graphite weathering. All the wheels got painted green, and if there was some rust-protector red inside, it was fine here as well.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik76a59MDMr4U_sCJgXGjhR5PuGMRgr-XdxIgsD2cDBcDnwaUm9UfRcQNmUDSilNajskdLEmW7apSoYCkKIBUYEdOh5tzt2l1AK6VuN5QxkeXJ9D6QsYJChlbiSfpl3RnmAfBGyk5d0Y4n7BLaUzIlBWvEiKFBghjI49yqiYVR7Ncmmm-kSBqwd_-VukI/s800/T34MR_03-067-repainting-tracks-wheels.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="800" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik76a59MDMr4U_sCJgXGjhR5PuGMRgr-XdxIgsD2cDBcDnwaUm9UfRcQNmUDSilNajskdLEmW7apSoYCkKIBUYEdOh5tzt2l1AK6VuN5QxkeXJ9D6QsYJChlbiSfpl3RnmAfBGyk5d0Y4n7BLaUzIlBWvEiKFBghjI49yqiYVR7Ncmmm-kSBqwd_-VukI/w640-h256/T34MR_03-067-repainting-tracks-wheels.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Maybe this was most of it now. Once again this postful of action had eaten a mindnumbing amount of time in the calendar, even though it was less than 45mins of airbrushing in total. Especially painting the tracks showed me that it was good that I had started wearing nitrile gloves while airbrushing, because otherwise my left hand would've been almost completely green-grey and that wasn't good for the skin. Ah, getting older, what a fantastic thing it was!</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-69511688012840520112024-01-03T12:00:00.000+02:002024-01-03T12:00:00.133+02:00Installations<div style="text-align: left;"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Installing</span></h2></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">After and despite all my ponderings I decided that I'd glue the mine rollers on before painting a thing. Surprisingly (or not so surprisingly) the most difficult part of the process was getting those cables into sensemaking positions and angles. I attempted to get this solved with some glue and using a pair of tweezers as weight.</p><p style="text-align: left;">All the unpredictable and uncontrollable wobbling of the rollers bothered me, so I attempted to glue them together. Like I mentioned the last time, this wasn't going to be played and rolled on the floor or table. Especially if someone was witnessing it.</p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlUOfLUt2ccAbDBfquXxfbNh3u7GxiXsmIU91qRUrnBmaq8Ymen8k9l8M_EL0BBHQcOHHWLyPfY36zY6IlAETBSyhAsixNJAK5dQ2svz1P2WqnkJpWNEc6Vdg4P9bjHvjBGjWsb0iltMmDNVO9WFnmpbzkRK3j9m6-_0sfcO_S0V6QG3u6_C-ozTcfyQ8/s790/T34MR_02-048-roller-installation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="790" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlUOfLUt2ccAbDBfquXxfbNh3u7GxiXsmIU91qRUrnBmaq8Ymen8k9l8M_EL0BBHQcOHHWLyPfY36zY6IlAETBSyhAsixNJAK5dQ2svz1P2WqnkJpWNEc6Vdg4P9bjHvjBGjWsb0iltMmDNVO9WFnmpbzkRK3j9m6-_0sfcO_S0V6QG3u6_C-ozTcfyQ8/w640-h486/T34MR_02-048-roller-installation.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Then I was about to install the custom antenna I had made some time ago, but it was indeed too short. I lit up a candle and stretched a new piece of sprue for a new antenna. This third attempt was the best one so far.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIXdspgbS7O2KqM1kbvoo_FzKRUQnWdm9K4FA9Vf3yU8oov61Kcf-4TAaP8s7YwVu6SU_-c8iiqvaznUKKFzB_UteLKjiIrNEmcDlAnQBs7pthM2K0d73AbshMoXjRRPFr3ly3V9nZZU6q8sRYQaWYqt37AUcSgBVyp_wO_-4RBKa7JybP2HCkX5wRifI/s800/T34MR_02-049-new-antenna.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="800" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIXdspgbS7O2KqM1kbvoo_FzKRUQnWdm9K4FA9Vf3yU8oov61Kcf-4TAaP8s7YwVu6SU_-c8iiqvaznUKKFzB_UteLKjiIrNEmcDlAnQBs7pthM2K0d73AbshMoXjRRPFr3ly3V9nZZU6q8sRYQaWYqt37AUcSgBVyp_wO_-4RBKa7JybP2HCkX5wRifI/w640-h220/T34MR_02-049-new-antenna.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Ws-HwzP9PxEQ6jTgm5HSbfBAMv6VE2RPikdRYWuOk76npjSluY1VkMFJfQoPt5zm1zI8y9Tr4Ukcof0d93B2NKWwAPjeT7aqcD603ph2uR2EbPCGKxYeNDhzGzFKlwHpPgaj38CNi0656fbO8b9GSU6FQChUSzqBG4byo8HO7Y1yj0bYq98_AtT0I8Q/s800/T34MR_02-050-new-antenna-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="800" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Ws-HwzP9PxEQ6jTgm5HSbfBAMv6VE2RPikdRYWuOk76npjSluY1VkMFJfQoPt5zm1zI8y9Tr4Ukcof0d93B2NKWwAPjeT7aqcD603ph2uR2EbPCGKxYeNDhzGzFKlwHpPgaj38CNi0656fbO8b9GSU6FQChUSzqBG4byo8HO7Y1yj0bYq98_AtT0I8Q/w640-h196/T34MR_02-050-new-antenna-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>It could've been pulled a bit thinner even, had I thought of it. I sanded the end a bit narrower and glued it into its socket to the front right corner. This one was such a narrow piece of machinery that it was difficult to catch against a dark background or with suboptimal lighting conditions.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPv8N02xvRn9CY0NeiUnqGb4u9pHSrukcZzF8UKNA7P0Lv4EpiMdXwFDRfNyfPEdfKDRhpn9flhKUT-DTFqffFiUXiTVaUrdo1z7bSL9aV9r6njKcFkg3HORYG1pKt5_jS7XtvpKUwzN3MkFl8VdHfM4cOUQ35y9TZahWu1S29SCtoLKh41Ak2gS7xcZE/s725/T34MR_02-051-antenna-installed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="725" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPv8N02xvRn9CY0NeiUnqGb4u9pHSrukcZzF8UKNA7P0Lv4EpiMdXwFDRfNyfPEdfKDRhpn9flhKUT-DTFqffFiUXiTVaUrdo1z7bSL9aV9r6njKcFkg3HORYG1pKt5_jS7XtvpKUwzN3MkFl8VdHfM4cOUQ35y9TZahWu1S29SCtoLKh41Ak2gS7xcZE/w640-h530/T34MR_02-051-antenna-installed.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Dry-fitting</span></h3><p>The tank looked fine. I would have to be careful when installing the running gear and the tracks, but I didn't feel like worrying about them at all. I was feeling that confident. Later on we'd find out if that was good thing :D</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKVDt4297fMtLpf3jzuulHEeirW0pK2_rylmE-vEqmR0fwVZ_PEOgd2teXqGSB2VaVdZgYyW7ahhF2Zap0cVibr8R2Qn77q8FJYe3BPS8zd4LizrvOHHqq6XymePV9ByafhhJSQ-_65Jd_dDKXG27ivmvf_VGSxTNq_8IY53UxlRHH9sZAT3zZxNb36I/s800/T34MR_02-052-sideview.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="800" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKVDt4297fMtLpf3jzuulHEeirW0pK2_rylmE-vEqmR0fwVZ_PEOgd2teXqGSB2VaVdZgYyW7ahhF2Zap0cVibr8R2Qn77q8FJYe3BPS8zd4LizrvOHHqq6XymePV9ByafhhJSQ-_65Jd_dDKXG27ivmvf_VGSxTNq_8IY53UxlRHH9sZAT3zZxNb36I/w640-h286/T34MR_02-052-sideview.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwawRjSVB9DkNdAJcQWy8nwjgcDVAYNuhg9rI0jidTf6t_EW7Pm7aXmXghYihF8idR6W_s-lAyqIzVvB79dsvYShDhVGW-ShrymcKDMVxJGnHvTsGbZd7ogh08-7tMzEw4eJPsH9_L7PqlI-on__CZLdnLsFgvd-qGcIJowlL1x-Fd-z7GqoRISFS2io4/s766/T34MR_02-053-frontview.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="766" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwawRjSVB9DkNdAJcQWy8nwjgcDVAYNuhg9rI0jidTf6t_EW7Pm7aXmXghYihF8idR6W_s-lAyqIzVvB79dsvYShDhVGW-ShrymcKDMVxJGnHvTsGbZd7ogh08-7tMzEw4eJPsH9_L7PqlI-on__CZLdnLsFgvd-qGcIJowlL1x-Fd-z7GqoRISFS2io4/w640-h502/T34MR_02-053-frontview.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6gyIrG6sOJyRXpdYY99zTxeu49ehCeNHyGQIjkjyZnd02XgDBpKx9lQoxSap0Hz0PefBa5EqV0JhyphenhyphenBi2xAqTZBaZz8NzY5OQe0UnIOdtyStyO8UmdfbO63rGSC0EEURw_ceCpnBXvGznhvUToix1sqOaRta0hbhKwT8oXQ5UrxmrXt_ADeWkG5mvRccM/s800/T34MR_02-054-topview.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="800" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6gyIrG6sOJyRXpdYY99zTxeu49ehCeNHyGQIjkjyZnd02XgDBpKx9lQoxSap0Hz0PefBa5EqV0JhyphenhyphenBi2xAqTZBaZz8NzY5OQe0UnIOdtyStyO8UmdfbO63rGSC0EEURw_ceCpnBXvGznhvUToix1sqOaRta0hbhKwT8oXQ5UrxmrXt_ADeWkG5mvRccM/w640-h294/T34MR_02-054-topview.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Next up: priming! ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-89067650778273855962023-12-27T12:00:00.000+02:002023-12-27T12:00:00.140+02:00Mine-blowing rollers<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Anti-tank mine detonation device</span><br /></h2><p>In a sense this was a pretty simple construct to be installed in front of a tank. A silly amount of steel wheels with little feet on them were set on an axle that was attached on a holder. The tank would just push this setup in front of it and its ground pressure would be enough to trigger the mines without the wheels specially flinching from the explosions - and if they did, they'd suffer less than the tank and its crew.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">n+1 wheels</span><br /></h3><p>At a first glance I managed to shock myself with an expectation of a deranged (and unreliable result expectation) amount of work when I thought I had to install each and every single of the little feet on the rollers, but I I was mistaken again. Each roller required only two bits to be glued on, to places left by the sprue points.</p><p>Had one or both of each of the manually installed bits gone a bit wonky or funky, that wasn't going to be really noticeable in the whole wheel. And even if it did, that could've been just a sign of an explosion twisting some metal.</p><p>I started my roller build with four of them, because the numbers in the instructions dictated that you were to build two pairs, and then in a different step it showed two sets of three. I had to start somewhere and that somewhere happened to be this one: substep 11-b.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCnEvU5YyEcaMbrceJWxX7YhoyP4yjkASUoXAA21ot88C39RvFTcNAFTw84jgTxv0e0F87_olbegCcSNZMYyA5TasRhNUQADfAw25J6dw7EccB5_nF8K8RZpIRAZI7xErI9QWCxLN1GyLGSJMqssnwgIl2ObWEPtTVtYnk8TNxvUgCJxn2qBUbGOUWVBo/s800/T34MR_02-037-roller-progress.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="800" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCnEvU5YyEcaMbrceJWxX7YhoyP4yjkASUoXAA21ot88C39RvFTcNAFTw84jgTxv0e0F87_olbegCcSNZMYyA5TasRhNUQADfAw25J6dw7EccB5_nF8K8RZpIRAZI7xErI9QWCxLN1GyLGSJMqssnwgIl2ObWEPtTVtYnk8TNxvUgCJxn2qBUbGOUWVBo/w640-h440/T34MR_02-037-roller-progress.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>On my first building burst I didn't get to complete more than six rollers, so while waiting for some of them to set I built other subassemblies like the 11-a pair and the 11-c, the bit where the axle was going to be installed. I sanded off all the crap I could, as I expected them to be nicer to paint this way.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1v0gi_r_ucxEVDbqnhQJyMDtU4bUE-dEKyEwfsjIs6u7mTh-vMfOyTCZknOVL-862FmHBkVuTB9tJoksrCIh9wjfU0FOVouYtqgSiXNGn3goa0donEyEd3T52hQMDs1qvMXpPo9Dx7cDFZeKEjR7Zq3sdCpmxMCRGbRdus85X9EOvx91-qd3DHupjds/s800/T34MR_02-038-roller-holder.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="800" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1v0gi_r_ucxEVDbqnhQJyMDtU4bUE-dEKyEwfsjIs6u7mTh-vMfOyTCZknOVL-862FmHBkVuTB9tJoksrCIh9wjfU0FOVouYtqgSiXNGn3goa0donEyEd3T52hQMDs1qvMXpPo9Dx7cDFZeKEjR7Zq3sdCpmxMCRGbRdus85X9EOvx91-qd3DHupjds/w640-h386/T34MR_02-038-roller-holder.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The next time I was low on optinos, so I kept churning out rollers. Out of the ten rollers I had already done six, so the remaining four were not a real problem.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ5-V4VrYVv2T9pyB0YYMNv6jdz9H6Xh43WbWAt5mhoGMlBv9MV3CJYUqtc_P8-l4Ysz2JpcvBpG1E_4xawzRrFL3hhPUzj2KGoCKLicXf_rCxgvsX9pwSBHqrHfUGzF_KWeKjkM-LaRzC5ZuRWaJkb2gn7CzNKyauaQPfSrrKtzGdBa5YO2H_tzxaUfA/s668/T34MR_02-039-rollers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="668" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ5-V4VrYVv2T9pyB0YYMNv6jdz9H6Xh43WbWAt5mhoGMlBv9MV3CJYUqtc_P8-l4Ysz2JpcvBpG1E_4xawzRrFL3hhPUzj2KGoCKLicXf_rCxgvsX9pwSBHqrHfUGzF_KWeKjkM-LaRzC5ZuRWaJkb2gn7CzNKyauaQPfSrrKtzGdBa5YO2H_tzxaUfA/w640-h574/T34MR_02-039-rollers.jpg" width="640" /></a> <br /></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I had to admit that I was wondering why the instructions had such a small amount marked, when there were quite a few still in the other sprue (a full copy of the ones I had now done, to be more exact). My alarms weren't ringing too hard but they were making some noises to keep me from gluing anything fixed yet. Of course I dry-fitted the rollers on the axle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXndQiAwpcEX-eSzxWhlU9yftzQbgTMXe9nMI5BOUYqM-Knq4F8MVcHcAeJah-baJWOjJtTpVmyIgYVYZDpIlWEcXDeEfEviT2RaZcNBV8mkVqVROk2ELpvovTpc-IOOC57NuLz-hiyYeu0q5b_nsXrDtBTcDW4x_ngmMJpqyNvmsRTzRTD8Ho2LqdhTE/s4000/T34MR_02-041-roller-testing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXndQiAwpcEX-eSzxWhlU9yftzQbgTMXe9nMI5BOUYqM-Knq4F8MVcHcAeJah-baJWOjJtTpVmyIgYVYZDpIlWEcXDeEfEviT2RaZcNBV8mkVqVROk2ELpvovTpc-IOOC57NuLz-hiyYeu0q5b_nsXrDtBTcDW4x_ngmMJpqyNvmsRTzRTD8Ho2LqdhTE/w640-h480/T34MR_02-041-roller-testing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUMGD5xVJwXh_J5vg60Y0yIOdS0I-wMkibLwDXF9jQUNP_DNK5FWtzs8jHQ6Q0hpd_BWLaV6lPO9rPbYyAwuiUHONxMidWLm5P_1Dm8eRejZJ8KJyi_sRcNLa0kYdM9FLWNsyEkzIS8CtZYF5YPiTKLSHR3D1QbAhOEfxpjZKjNJ8uoyAXTcWixGGFR4/s4000/T34MR_02-042-roller-testing-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUMGD5xVJwXh_J5vg60Y0yIOdS0I-wMkibLwDXF9jQUNP_DNK5FWtzs8jHQ6Q0hpd_BWLaV6lPO9rPbYyAwuiUHONxMidWLm5P_1Dm8eRejZJ8KJyi_sRcNLa0kYdM9FLWNsyEkzIS8CtZYF5YPiTKLSHR3D1QbAhOEfxpjZKjNJ8uoyAXTcWixGGFR4/w640-h480/T34MR_02-042-roller-testing-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_fnkotZyIcFQ8PjgKZf8pk5qYI5VVMcWbPqZXpnIRGTmgSEFx-ni-B5ndTnrU97FIisG8yoiGlZHjlYvrTnMlZa8gJjZ2c76OC0YyAIZWCEjc1ZwfvjhzrrEQ3POWBS3QzFp4VIPsDnla0rxTta4uY6efxmUl-4oTbdmX5moNZyc7p-819PfXucV6CtU/s4000/T34MR_02-043-roller-testing-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_fnkotZyIcFQ8PjgKZf8pk5qYI5VVMcWbPqZXpnIRGTmgSEFx-ni-B5ndTnrU97FIisG8yoiGlZHjlYvrTnMlZa8gJjZ2c76OC0YyAIZWCEjc1ZwfvjhzrrEQ3POWBS3QzFp4VIPsDnla0rxTta4uY6efxmUl-4oTbdmX5moNZyc7p-819PfXucV6CtU/w640-h480/T34MR_02-043-roller-testing-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">n+1 rollers * 2</span> <br /></h3><p>At this point it ought to have been crystal clear: the numbers in the instrcution sheet didn't say how many rollers or roller pairs were to be done, you had to get it from the pictures and lines. Good thing that I wasn't any further in the process than this.</p><p>Just a bit bothered by this I decided to work on something else for a moment before jumping on the remaining ten rollers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1xQPY4Q6k22gunmH8_masQUK0aqnnNZGH7dprJJI5o3BBjchhcEPOjjRKBI9TXCNswNxF2pgmBdhOGYM39aPvrV7HAb5Y3G7EtgEMPyVdC6HYzyfN6JM2rdoVF2bQZUQHB4FKSKN7cQa7D4mVbvC0hHERGZsKJGTnNyUYhUYsZUVFgxW8DU3px2ceQJ4/s800/T34MR_02-040-roller-beam.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="800" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1xQPY4Q6k22gunmH8_masQUK0aqnnNZGH7dprJJI5o3BBjchhcEPOjjRKBI9TXCNswNxF2pgmBdhOGYM39aPvrV7HAb5Y3G7EtgEMPyVdC6HYzyfN6JM2rdoVF2bQZUQHB4FKSKN7cQa7D4mVbvC0hHERGZsKJGTnNyUYhUYsZUVFgxW8DU3px2ceQJ4/w640-h386/T34MR_02-040-roller-beam.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>One silly day I used a working from home lunchbreak to build my remaining rollers. Like I said a bit further above, the rollers came off the sprue nicely and there was little to clean.</p><p>The original set of rollers I set as they were on the axle, this second half I at least attempted to glue into pairs first and then into bunches (two pairs into the inner bit, three pairs into the outer bit). The free-floating rollers felt a bit too loose and flimsy in a way, like the photo below showed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYd__zp0_7a2JFZ6OIGb63jV5xCzJKhaHC2GMA2wP5Zy5WQIWqAJjmcQEtoOwimwNpKlqRRw_DyvBKh4HzqFAZrRcsepSVDzxm6EwZ7siJf1AHwpUj8-7HqpI0q19hKbuUROO0kIPSE7i581dF3Zlcsn_q1eoajn0YhVW7YOsbPY8Pgk5ZlXSZlXebpGI/s800/T34MR_02-044-rollerset.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="800" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYd__zp0_7a2JFZ6OIGb63jV5xCzJKhaHC2GMA2wP5Zy5WQIWqAJjmcQEtoOwimwNpKlqRRw_DyvBKh4HzqFAZrRcsepSVDzxm6EwZ7siJf1AHwpUj8-7HqpI0q19hKbuUROO0kIPSE7i581dF3Zlcsn_q1eoajn0YhVW7YOsbPY8Pgk5ZlXSZlXebpGI/w640-h440/T34MR_02-044-rollerset.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I was a bit baffled by the amount of loose space for these relatively few rollers, as if a handful was still missing per section. There were no more bits, however, and this did look quite a lot like what the cover art and the instructions showed. Funny thing.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZPcjSZiIeAQVpRgKInwnHlsg58cjOHqY2Zwg8Hz3rhH4jx5QuEyrCyHNYVSajO9mXfvWleOBPwAYxpnNLMA67yeZF148OoJ51sd0fKP-2hrSlbUWXaAqJi8WZLGEEYhfMbKCuduPRrwqO5AWC1qLABvDK2rvx0IM6e0il_cRlzgGKFdtJE8ovUWQkiU/s800/T34MR_02-045-roller-assembly.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="800" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZPcjSZiIeAQVpRgKInwnHlsg58cjOHqY2Zwg8Hz3rhH4jx5QuEyrCyHNYVSajO9mXfvWleOBPwAYxpnNLMA67yeZF148OoJ51sd0fKP-2hrSlbUWXaAqJi8WZLGEEYhfMbKCuduPRrwqO5AWC1qLABvDK2rvx0IM6e0il_cRlzgGKFdtJE8ovUWQkiU/w640-h332/T34MR_02-045-roller-assembly.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Assembly line</span><br /></h3><p>Now all my mine rollers were set together, some more and some less, and I could construct the rest of the device. The rolling frame was glued in (and attached with two intertwined metal loops so it wouldn't fall too far if an explosion broke their mechanical connection). The angle between these two was left to a tiny guiding wedge and my eyeballed feeling. Maybe it was straight enough.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCFQo6HNH6eRig33nEhSvPcYVX3hvnaA2G1q35jfd1oe-_9hvXL1vISS-T_WzmjHE3lmuNKXgvI2ZgStCIt5OK4uxWOuaGR48ia32CpWI0QwcydXbbvyLRpKnboXdxHRRP75EaOGXi_azLWw5nTxM_Uk_tuRmViIKC470e-EpkQqma0H3apKnPhP8V01Y/s735/T34MR_02-046-roller-assembly-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="735" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCFQo6HNH6eRig33nEhSvPcYVX3hvnaA2G1q35jfd1oe-_9hvXL1vISS-T_WzmjHE3lmuNKXgvI2ZgStCIt5OK4uxWOuaGR48ia32CpWI0QwcydXbbvyLRpKnboXdxHRRP75EaOGXi_azLWw5nTxM_Uk_tuRmViIKC470e-EpkQqma0H3apKnPhP8V01Y/w640-h522/T34MR_02-046-roller-assembly-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>After a short glue-curing break I glued the three final pieces into this setup: the curved bit to the end, the attachment hook for the cables, and the eyelet for said cables.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHC-5YFPfQ4yv62wdQqrMUPhQG4MDj8Qf1eujhYr0yQgJR6DoamyBA_FyvlvI4CmqGDBJ7ZrR2BgC6XD4GlM4a0YZRa4lLw9bqy_76VXHqVj9XemJDgB-_LmaB_w2tb7HHF-NU8hmE0EXszceYwjTjj8r1RAM20z0QzP669DZu9Wog4Mjkch07AwJ3R7Q/s749/T34MR_02-047-roller-assembly-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="749" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHC-5YFPfQ4yv62wdQqrMUPhQG4MDj8Qf1eujhYr0yQgJR6DoamyBA_FyvlvI4CmqGDBJ7ZrR2BgC6XD4GlM4a0YZRa4lLw9bqy_76VXHqVj9XemJDgB-_LmaB_w2tb7HHF-NU8hmE0EXszceYwjTjj8r1RAM20z0QzP669DZu9Wog4Mjkch07AwJ3R7Q/w640-h512/T34MR_02-047-roller-assembly-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Painting-constructing mumblings<br /></span></h2><p>At this point I stopped, of course, to ponder on the soon upcoming painting operation. <i>How</i> would I get this beast painted so that there were no visible shadowed areas? Should I just prime and basecoat this and the tank separately, before joining them together forever? That sort of an approach only caused more problems, as the premeditated attachment points rarely hit as accurately as one planned.</p><p>One quickly conjured up idea was to build almost the full mine roller first and only leave the attachment part to be painted alongside the tank itself. That was I could spin this setup pretty freely and concentrate especially on the rollers in the most convenient way possible.</p><p>Except that this damn thing still needed the cables attached after it got glued onto the tank, the cables that somehow kept the mine clearer in a correct angle. Perhaps I would paint the rollers first somehow, to get them out of the way, and then attach this setup for the easier part of painting the static parts? Or maybe I would just glue the rollers in one fixed position, I wasn't going to be driving this model on the floors and tables anyway.</p><p>It was better to ponder on these things in advance instead of swearing like a pirate while attempting to paint... but it did make me grumble a bit anyway.<br /></p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-26194835509412225912023-12-20T12:00:00.000+02:002023-12-20T12:00:00.139+02:00Tank workshopping beyond the Eastern border<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The base hull<br /></span></h2><p>This time I decided to tell the story of the tank's story in larger and not-predefined sections, maybe a session at a time but in a single post. Otherwise this project would in the worst case progress maybe two, three pieces and a spot of paint a week.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Upper hull and the road wheels<br /></span></h3><p>Being the obedient builder I am, I started with the first pre-step by building subassemblies before the first actual building step. That meant that I assembled the exhaust pipes, glued some strenght-providing triangles into the upper rear corners, and build all the [road|idler]wheels and drive sprocets. Those didn't take time, I just sanded the edges clean after detaching from the sprues.</p><p>In the first step all I was told to do was to glue the exhaust pipes on, and add a couple of engine intake vents to the sides. The hull part felt a bit flimsy, but I trusted that I could get any possible grimacing kept in check.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEQuovvbOyRJYCSvZEpJ6_H773RCog3NT_PXHqFO9RnTRjIAZkjm6GXXk9OQi21iSslv2TydPMpOFMmkHIpkAytjwsV9p7Mn0y9sCl7JyGjoef9PjiFBdzBQt8kdRdLDzt7ahgz0E98XgX3VQhy5Nvj_Tkolj-trrXEiW-fCXzAWPFJJRvDU_zDDjUGnE/s800/T34MR_01-001-pieces.jpg-upper-hull-and-roadwheels.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="800" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEQuovvbOyRJYCSvZEpJ6_H773RCog3NT_PXHqFO9RnTRjIAZkjm6GXXk9OQi21iSslv2TydPMpOFMmkHIpkAytjwsV9p7Mn0y9sCl7JyGjoef9PjiFBdzBQt8kdRdLDzt7ahgz0E98XgX3VQhy5Nvj_Tkolj-trrXEiW-fCXzAWPFJJRvDU_zDDjUGnE/w640-h438/T34MR_01-001-pieces.jpg-upper-hull-and-roadwheels.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>What I found a bit baffling was that the lower hull – or as the Germans called it, die Panzerwanne – was built out of four separate pieces. The bottom piece that also included the lower front glacis plate was a bit curved so when I was gluing the sides onto it, I had to do it in stages. The rear end's lower angled part was a bit difficult to attach as its neighbours were grinning so much that there wasn't much contact surface available. That would be fixed with some putty later on, when I had the final shape down.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-p0AvkK1obo_SWRNqnrXHnrFvCNmssTDhNCpmm6WzrAV0_lxv9g8SsjIWcpgBNdKaF4QOftIS2JmjEiMjmGT1lJ5QhJp8_lmxfL2XL8re894vglhOsRJxGTQjSoc1_D11jqKPVon_sPoCw2sGVy4ONvUzzqcg3ZEqMhEsirJ0CVHxVTyFhZCpo0lwAng/s800/T34MR_01-002-lower-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="800" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-p0AvkK1obo_SWRNqnrXHnrFvCNmssTDhNCpmm6WzrAV0_lxv9g8SsjIWcpgBNdKaF4QOftIS2JmjEiMjmGT1lJ5QhJp8_lmxfL2XL8re894vglhOsRJxGTQjSoc1_D11jqKPVon_sPoCw2sGVy4ONvUzzqcg3ZEqMhEsirJ0CVHxVTyFhZCpo0lwAng/w640-h398/T34MR_01-002-lower-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>While the lower hull was curing, I started with the next steps: the driver's hatch and the gun barrel. My biggest concern here was the gun's tip, I didn't want the business end to droop lazily at an angle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqWtF1kOW_RCrgRN_xdcXVEWdm7bD8tOrZm4XFKnrTfiw_FY9_SkOmrIYH__NUMqF7eA2EzdvXi3dCkW6Ft26ROT1KOJeTp99N2QeNnlhnwLXIk9an0_3adhQQp1IY_laBHUDmAJWSE2Fhi7nxgZgE1XnAotTMHXbpdeAYkYtWdcnavgI2ZD6F7JoS-1w/s800/T34MR_01-003-gun-bits.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="800" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqWtF1kOW_RCrgRN_xdcXVEWdm7bD8tOrZm4XFKnrTfiw_FY9_SkOmrIYH__NUMqF7eA2EzdvXi3dCkW6Ft26ROT1KOJeTp99N2QeNnlhnwLXIk9an0_3adhQQp1IY_laBHUDmAJWSE2Fhi7nxgZgE1XnAotTMHXbpdeAYkYtWdcnavgI2ZD6F7JoS-1w/w640-h420/T34MR_01-003-gun-bits.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Of course</i> I was dry-fitting the roadwheels onto the lower hull as soon as the pieces were ready for it. They fit in nicely, but I wasn't going to glue them in anytime soon. The upper hull details were easily and nicely installed<i>, </i>so no problems there either at this point. For the record, I didn't even think of leaving the hatch open because there was absolutely nothing inside the tank.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEZLlUg7W_bHjZEazIdUl7Mf1VtFYELavGWSDTtY30JrlwGDPqbQfP5rTosM-0B3EW2Q7wdi8cSr4MpdIh0JZ8dLMQYinbmWQGdkpAbahLzXXNXb5LcitS9vcfogvQ7MST3nePyToEa14LVWuMmcgnANYnd9GqbJstyO6VtpZU05VPedMdibLwpi-CMY8/s800/T34MR_01-004-hull-progress.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="800" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEZLlUg7W_bHjZEazIdUl7Mf1VtFYELavGWSDTtY30JrlwGDPqbQfP5rTosM-0B3EW2Q7wdi8cSr4MpdIh0JZ8dLMQYinbmWQGdkpAbahLzXXNXb5LcitS9vcfogvQ7MST3nePyToEa14LVWuMmcgnANYnd9GqbJstyO6VtpZU05VPedMdibLwpi-CMY8/w640-h468/T34MR_01-004-hull-progress.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Combining the hull halves</span><br /></h3><p>Dry-fitting the upper and lower halves revealed an amount of ugly gaps. With my tools I had no chance of getting it all set in place in one go, so again I did the gluing in stages.</p><p>First I glued the front edges together and pressed them tightly together. It had a funny eyepatch-wearing duck-like face. Yarr!<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO1lALVi49NMD1oTAo9J5N_Ok3Y4lLCTRzMAEG79RbHfQ7hn1Pg-WJon4XhJCzVzbf26UhHcO9Luzc-eBdgeWrztpKL12HtYGn0JihBqUfyWCY9fIm28txq3NrxNzmER0wVNrEiQCnr4GRU297h7ZnSJVkApN9VCJq5vEfmcqbw32EgtYFyDbqTUglKFI/s4000/T34MR_01-005-front-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO1lALVi49NMD1oTAo9J5N_Ok3Y4lLCTRzMAEG79RbHfQ7hn1Pg-WJon4XhJCzVzbf26UhHcO9Luzc-eBdgeWrztpKL12HtYGn0JihBqUfyWCY9fIm28txq3NrxNzmER0wVNrEiQCnr4GRU297h7ZnSJVkApN9VCJq5vEfmcqbw32EgtYFyDbqTUglKFI/w640-h480/T34MR_01-005-front-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I moved on towards the back of the tank, gluing a lenght of a tank at a time and pressing until the glue had set. The problem here was that these two halves had strangely few contact points between them!</p><p>In the lower photos you could see the gaps in the front, even though the glacis plate edge was pretty tightly pressed shut. Maybe my side armour plates had been fractions of a millimeter off in the end, but I obviously didn't know that when I was originally gluing them in place.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmvsk2JUVmdacQTZxDXDZMwQ1BWg6EPNJ7KtBuln4z5ijL-iPezcvlsBMi7hfehu66H_V0G_4mh4JLedV9LumGa7UZo6scO9Pfs2YbqNWy3o-0_x5c1OBDBAl6yXbvK8k-R13hSrFVqPTnxkN_IcDeomV-J79LYw9bGo7szOeWtXKIssXxc0OU10ugq8/s800/T34MR_01-006-front-side-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmvsk2JUVmdacQTZxDXDZMwQ1BWg6EPNJ7KtBuln4z5ijL-iPezcvlsBMi7hfehu66H_V0G_4mh4JLedV9LumGa7UZo6scO9Pfs2YbqNWy3o-0_x5c1OBDBAl6yXbvK8k-R13hSrFVqPTnxkN_IcDeomV-J79LYw9bGo7szOeWtXKIssXxc0OU10ugq8/w640-h300/T34MR_01-006-front-side-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifPuYK9cuEcjFHIfe5S9iG7uRUrwZoPBmV3D8eep4IENdA3U7-C0n0WnptCeUw0Cm0MYBg6hWCnskRNIEzxDSVyOqh57dAfOcygK4RkXXMAhmqMROiRMczz7wh_5_0_e1HjMrRFBdOGppLqVti873uIKkwixuuVwfo41IVnOKPaEE1vrTtMDP988C-Wds/s800/T34MR_01-007-right-front-side-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifPuYK9cuEcjFHIfe5S9iG7uRUrwZoPBmV3D8eep4IENdA3U7-C0n0WnptCeUw0Cm0MYBg6hWCnskRNIEzxDSVyOqh57dAfOcygK4RkXXMAhmqMROiRMczz7wh_5_0_e1HjMrRFBdOGppLqVti873uIKkwixuuVwfo41IVnOKPaEE1vrTtMDP988C-Wds/w640-h320/T34MR_01-007-right-front-side-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>My tank's rear end looked like a depressed frog. Closing that gap would require something hefty, maybe I could bridge that opening with a few slices of styrene or even mostly closed it. The hood's hinges would suffer, because I obviously didn't think of removing them in advance.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv5xpgDyLBtyDl8HRTW8RUF-NKh4OboHikk3XhyA6VSr0Ks0gbDR1WPmeAMHp7-kL8ToCYsdWng4o8WiIikKRbgcFkRSwS8lZd5avSddP76iNdoab3R-zikMBaeM7eXK7guO3dG34s_VXSl-SKU_FqQjyz9jqpKEyOp23ZrlqrRwhdzcs_DKe0ILCifeI/s800/T34MR_01-008-rear-hull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="800" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv5xpgDyLBtyDl8HRTW8RUF-NKh4OboHikk3XhyA6VSr0Ks0gbDR1WPmeAMHp7-kL8ToCYsdWng4o8WiIikKRbgcFkRSwS8lZd5avSddP76iNdoab3R-zikMBaeM7eXK7guO3dG34s_VXSl-SKU_FqQjyz9jqpKEyOp23ZrlqrRwhdzcs_DKe0ILCifeI/w640-h420/T34MR_01-008-rear-hull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The 76mm gun in its turret<br /></span></h2><p>Assembling the gun was simple. I attempted to build it so that the elevation could be played with later on, but if the axle got glued in one position, that's how life went. There was really little poking these afterwards, anyway.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8-gnqAzk796JGeXI3yWWRQiu6uBgcH903yD_D5YKZofL1mIwC86RSdPVaKW7SL63mrn012sQeoTyGnJTR0tdayhJQL4Qo_PDGvwSNlSKTJTYrOuJ8jvhwEViVZ9H11O_S4gGenfeU52ohGUQCcEIQK-Lf4DW2sBS8A0HZRKIEqypIVgJKLmnPXoWchM/s800/T34MR_01-009-76mm-gun.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="800" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8-gnqAzk796JGeXI3yWWRQiu6uBgcH903yD_D5YKZofL1mIwC86RSdPVaKW7SL63mrn012sQeoTyGnJTR0tdayhJQL4Qo_PDGvwSNlSKTJTYrOuJ8jvhwEViVZ9H11O_S4gGenfeU52ohGUQCcEIQK-Lf4DW2sBS8A0HZRKIEqypIVgJKLmnPXoWchM/w640-h392/T34MR_01-009-76mm-gun.jpg" width="640" /></a> <br /></div><p></p><p>The turret itself was simple but I was again a bit baffled how weakly its armoured sides and the bottom were connected. Baffled, I tell you. There were no insides here, so the tank was going to be buttoned up.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9eX9qXDdHNV3uoffrgSvCO1dk456T6OmztOEsvIRUk8NUvcPdo4u_DFEyOjkrUwmvjkE5G3c4HQN0Ije6mKRKchKmb55JrAR3cn_Ch5v1gBcdP6ETfoXYnb0CI__rr4i2T-0WlHQ9MLwc0w17aIEYJtO7SN44K34ChiEc9u6KzBBqrQCfMAodlUdrAnk/s800/T34MR_01-010-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="800" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9eX9qXDdHNV3uoffrgSvCO1dk456T6OmztOEsvIRUk8NUvcPdo4u_DFEyOjkrUwmvjkE5G3c4HQN0Ije6mKRKchKmb55JrAR3cn_Ch5v1gBcdP6ETfoXYnb0CI__rr4i2T-0WlHQ9MLwc0w17aIEYJtO7SN44K34ChiEc9u6KzBBqrQCfMAodlUdrAnk/w640-h316/T34MR_01-010-turret.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks to my lighting conditions these photos didn't show how the steel surface had been modeled pretty interestingly. First I thought that I had made a mess on it with glue or something, but no, the surface texture was very peculiar on purpose. That was a fun detail, I was looking forward to seeing it painted up.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvkZjUR7b0is46uj-81Fsa9yW5LFIDGug9tNJbYCVRDPJhdpZtcgqS4g2gdYb8acZbfyvgmNr-en7u4L3kdhSKhzN4Ab3UXJYujdSdvvDtnotfoCYvbNEdi3vD564_h-9ORLH7HjEu5SAvWQibDyUAVEEtxZ8w2HImnnyHyrvleyneGpWoD3f0nKm9WKI/s800/T34MR_01-011-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="800" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvkZjUR7b0is46uj-81Fsa9yW5LFIDGug9tNJbYCVRDPJhdpZtcgqS4g2gdYb8acZbfyvgmNr-en7u4L3kdhSKhzN4Ab3UXJYujdSdvvDtnotfoCYvbNEdi3vD564_h-9ORLH7HjEu5SAvWQibDyUAVEEtxZ8w2HImnnyHyrvleyneGpWoD3f0nKm9WKI/w640-h350/T34MR_01-011-turret.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>All the vents, periscopes, pistol ports and handles got glued in slowly and carefully. Those handles especially were really flimsy, I could've always ignored them by drilling holes into the turret and bent some wire to replace them. But that way I'd lost the funky design that was perfect for a hurrying soldier to get caught by their pocket, belt or some other loop.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO43FCLy4UkJHoH1MVl-BQHpXCRxVN1JS4TM4H94XerZvYNtawBXxo0SYZzVQYZqM8GFsxzHAxde1u_H2Co2eouzjdkKa4NaogGAGoNPfUlUeJWfHEQMnjnppz_pfu5jKXlQEfy6kkdP-tY9J2hjAsjuQ2FdBJ8gwvYIowa-qMwlHY-F1u-GoFjWlPpKg/s800/T34MR_01-012-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="800" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO43FCLy4UkJHoH1MVl-BQHpXCRxVN1JS4TM4H94XerZvYNtawBXxo0SYZzVQYZqM8GFsxzHAxde1u_H2Co2eouzjdkKa4NaogGAGoNPfUlUeJWfHEQMnjnppz_pfu5jKXlQEfy6kkdP-tY9J2hjAsjuQ2FdBJ8gwvYIowa-qMwlHY-F1u-GoFjWlPpKg/w640-h476/T34MR_01-012-turret.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIvBiOXdIL6__YL4EPxnUB6gQ3YobTlSNH6ZU2iZbFtYEsIT8s6ZjEMTe2njc92luNfB0gK-taxv_mm4-AYIrdbtHgbrEfbAdzUqQLsTpoFovwL23SmyrEycJB7psl8aeqgYH1hBPYcqz4CfgI72o61QlZyo9BykcFkv1S2gBfLHTMDfyzmKHmpxmvVE/s800/T34MR_01-013-turret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="800" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcIvBiOXdIL6__YL4EPxnUB6gQ3YobTlSNH6ZU2iZbFtYEsIT8s6ZjEMTe2njc92luNfB0gK-taxv_mm4-AYIrdbtHgbrEfbAdzUqQLsTpoFovwL23SmyrEycJB7psl8aeqgYH1hBPYcqz4CfgI72o61QlZyo9BykcFkv1S2gBfLHTMDfyzmKHmpxmvVE/w640-h420/T34MR_01-013-turret.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Getting the turret-lifting loops to point generally in the same direction had to be the most challenging part here. I was a bit afraid that one or more of them were going to snap at some point, but despite my concerns each survived the process. The photo above also finally showed some of the texture I mentioned earlier.</p><p>This finished the turret already. The gun barrel could, in fact, be manipulated by a few degrees. <br /></p><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Tracks</span></h2><p>Now I fetched my cheapest and worst flathead screwdriver from the toolbox, lit a candle and started heating up the tooltip above the flame. I connected the first track halves and pressed them tightly together with (round-tipped) tweezers while I pressed the hot screwdriver tip to melt the plastic bit. Then I flipped the track around 180° and repeated it, sealing one of the tracks. And then the same operation was repeated for the other two-part track.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF4xN8BG303vO966y7k6rZ80OaKI9RivpOUqdinRZOc20xvfTRQZNfQFvfqyr9tDj48Zp6v5wPPjoE_r9gV--foGsEQVsUzhr0DyIlP2smEtll9YP7Qw-9fEw7QF__awAj_GEpp66-W_BHY5ZfGxnDveNA1065_yLSfs8nIBnFqCUXpRt02E__zwtIa0k/s800/T34MR_01-014-tracks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="800" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF4xN8BG303vO966y7k6rZ80OaKI9RivpOUqdinRZOc20xvfTRQZNfQFvfqyr9tDj48Zp6v5wPPjoE_r9gV--foGsEQVsUzhr0DyIlP2smEtll9YP7Qw-9fEw7QF__awAj_GEpp66-W_BHY5ZfGxnDveNA1065_yLSfs8nIBnFqCUXpRt02E__zwtIa0k/w640-h352/T34MR_01-014-tracks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>While I was on a roll I then closed the loops and sealed both of the tracks. I had been pondering for a bit if I should first paint them and then seal them, or vice versa. As you could tell by the description, I had decided to paint them fully closed so I wouldn't have to suffer with the issues of sealing painted plastic. <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKI-ZhYUEeLpmihnDao_ZSHeZIHnYcJcRC2C03o4K2uB2zouQyV5urRfNpLhO1Ssws8LJaWTZcuIjknoIee_FqPXP5iZ89Rt3tMm-f2m8owaSsrPtg0itm7VA24nSc87SDkHaxuc6zDMpX871tUYeD_ZML0ehW3GIBGWS6-H-rawTIVd51_NCvJsrl84Y/s800/T34MR_01-015-tracks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKI-ZhYUEeLpmihnDao_ZSHeZIHnYcJcRC2C03o4K2uB2zouQyV5urRfNpLhO1Ssws8LJaWTZcuIjknoIee_FqPXP5iZ89Rt3tMm-f2m8owaSsrPtg0itm7VA24nSc87SDkHaxuc6zDMpX871tUYeD_ZML0ehW3GIBGWS6-H-rawTIVd51_NCvJsrl84Y/w640-h480/T34MR_01-015-tracks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>While I was playing with fire I decided to get rid of the antenna creation step as well. The instructions said that I ought to cut a six-centimeter bit off a sprue, heat it, stretch it long and narrow, and then cut off a six-centimeter bit to act as an antenna.</p><p>I didn't find it quite as easy, being somewhat inexperienced with this exact process, so my second attempt gave this kind of a maybe 40mm long bit. Large country, large tolerances, they said. I didn't install it yet because I wanted to store the incomplete model in its box, protected from dust as long as possible.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQoWQEP6yEE0AaaPzG7xMoAf-n40X7xOlIH95TAQyak3eXL_TUulgGne-5JhaO7CfZDg3UhsOqAv7U2cK2HrpwJ3cqA-unVeVjfiO5V9KbjTzV2HPGjIcQXRE_tIi_Dn3ZBP8zlFw0EW_zIF8GRLfJdWvS82PLCWL9fsdEU-k3XZLCQbKV27V-ONnX5Vs/s800/T34MR_01-016-antenna.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="800" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQoWQEP6yEE0AaaPzG7xMoAf-n40X7xOlIH95TAQyak3eXL_TUulgGne-5JhaO7CfZDg3UhsOqAv7U2cK2HrpwJ3cqA-unVeVjfiO5V9KbjTzV2HPGjIcQXRE_tIi_Dn3ZBP8zlFw0EW_zIF8GRLfJdWvS82PLCWL9fsdEU-k3XZLCQbKV27V-ONnX5Vs/w640-h310/T34MR_01-016-antenna.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Deck decorations I<br /></span></h2><p>Most of the tank's parts were now done as far as I could install them at this point before painting. I also had to install the bits based on what I could any given evening and what time allowed. While something was curing I juggled the project by working on something else meanwhile. In a way that slowed the progress for individual steps but kept me doing something so the overall pace was kept better.</p><p>A pair of these boxes were destined for the rear deck. While assembling them I wasn't quite sure if I could glue them in place before installing the tracks or not.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg41rGYvCHMkJr7uIQaGUAqBRcG3qv7koAdK96n7LheEP2yFR8VivX9iQkJQ_rOQLSH3b7HamT4L9yE3qnrkKBS9CIIe7jf_tjWDjGFFgLSfUo0nh-FxI9aglZaHQlOjAhCtkuVSpTYlic_d1VoV2l0a2aevDyX8ZwiXDpCNkeadfOe1qVjGhnxs3xmsjk/s800/T34MR_01-017-stowage-bins.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg41rGYvCHMkJr7uIQaGUAqBRcG3qv7koAdK96n7LheEP2yFR8VivX9iQkJQ_rOQLSH3b7HamT4L9yE3qnrkKBS9CIIe7jf_tjWDjGFFgLSfUo0nh-FxI9aglZaHQlOjAhCtkuVSpTYlic_d1VoV2l0a2aevDyX8ZwiXDpCNkeadfOe1qVjGhnxs3xmsjk/w640-h400/T34MR_01-017-stowage-bins.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi5AFP7QesPWEyB8PykMi8B6StmxUEp5HgSMX-toJV49-MTyNd_30UvNZdSz4kax8dGNK4ZaIdjnNOJNNK40O4yHIVM8fQYxQ-ZA13f1ebGXAKuKLxjoI9nFT6zOZOsG6k4WSDFlBALtco8EQWL71Y1MGiLvqwGjXjNULtTSOeQe3_OZQFjPA8LW41h2o/s800/T34MR_01-018-stowage-bins.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="800" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi5AFP7QesPWEyB8PykMi8B6StmxUEp5HgSMX-toJV49-MTyNd_30UvNZdSz4kax8dGNK4ZaIdjnNOJNNK40O4yHIVM8fQYxQ-ZA13f1ebGXAKuKLxjoI9nFT6zOZOsG6k4WSDFlBALtco8EQWL71Y1MGiLvqwGjXjNULtTSOeQe3_OZQFjPA8LW41h2o/w640-h382/T34MR_01-018-stowage-bins.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>These towcable hooks looked mean enough to impale some dissidents on them. Or perhaps some deer or warthogs for an ad-hoc lunch.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3UTlNMosNvE2HJath9XVkQ1imqpIkUCmcoIxRK5go2DGdEZLWxpxg-rukz07Bw8ftrgpQdoacn4L-av8HTIi29n5r_ZUwMsbLCMYicuzW1tNRNECGl_nGaYmQZAgvjhzC947QmWqHrzIIvOEKa1RZjVgPgDQTumHgRes6RHMskKDpIajTQ_uThMNdZCQ/s800/T34MR_01-019-front-detailing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3UTlNMosNvE2HJath9XVkQ1imqpIkUCmcoIxRK5go2DGdEZLWxpxg-rukz07Bw8ftrgpQdoacn4L-av8HTIi29n5r_ZUwMsbLCMYicuzW1tNRNECGl_nGaYmQZAgvjhzC947QmWqHrzIIvOEKa1RZjVgPgDQTumHgRes6RHMskKDpIajTQ_uThMNdZCQ/w640-h480/T34MR_01-019-front-detailing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1bB21QTdtGGLz9AymsGwrXAtI0i33XudMIcrq_w210nKydVpxZnRrAT7v158rU1K04l-kaueZ054ly0oj0ASs1-nnCpF1CdcsIPJQAY55ZS8TluLZWF82WNmGG80p24vR3gxPI4bYUfFYLFlU0bWQMTvwmf9x6uEm5FxA8LejoIs_YctwawRM4irI-Q/s800/T34MR_01-020-rear-tow-hooks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1bB21QTdtGGLz9AymsGwrXAtI0i33XudMIcrq_w210nKydVpxZnRrAT7v158rU1K04l-kaueZ054ly0oj0ASs1-nnCpF1CdcsIPJQAY55ZS8TluLZWF82WNmGG80p24vR3gxPI4bYUfFYLFlU0bWQMTvwmf9x6uEm5FxA8LejoIs_YctwawRM4irI-Q/w640-h424/T34MR_01-020-rear-tow-hooks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Gap filling</span><br /></h2><p>Outside the all-seeying eye of my phone camera I glued on some toolboxes, a saw, something that looked like a horn, and the searchlight as well. Then I decided to work on something much more tedious but important: I glued a series of narrow bits of styrene onto the inside of the rear hull, inserting the bits through the gap. The idea with these was to fill in the massive gap, but also to provide more ground for the soon-to-be-added putty, so that I didn't end up shooting a tubeful of that into the tank and still have a gap to fill.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSJV7hrIzh5s3UezHz-h14FWMV09PLEK3Q6WMYfFxYk2B-WDIfD29vb3Xaq2UhPamVrHmkx2yZA_TF60_TToDCt4f4FgccCIT2lDes7rOpSly4GehsVItxKGYL7rpGfY6nBh96uTGiox6icK8e4P8hbxTm9zx2rm7IUA3MdPLR3oSoByGmwJA_PY_uO8o/s800/T34MR_01-021-polystyrene_filler.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="800" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSJV7hrIzh5s3UezHz-h14FWMV09PLEK3Q6WMYfFxYk2B-WDIfD29vb3Xaq2UhPamVrHmkx2yZA_TF60_TToDCt4f4FgccCIT2lDes7rOpSly4GehsVItxKGYL7rpGfY6nBh96uTGiox6icK8e4P8hbxTm9zx2rm7IUA3MdPLR3oSoByGmwJA_PY_uO8o/w640-h380/T34MR_01-021-polystyrene_filler.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I didn't have handily available the styrene that was half-thick, so I let it be. The frog/troll ended up looking funnier than before. After having my giggles I applied a bunch of sillily quickly setting putty (Gunze Mr Hobby: Mr White Putty) and left it to dry.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv--DTi2mNaRu4FHJzX_VrgwuDBSVJfNzPbIQXlyxZMc2UuN6KFbLEO-CdPV9VDCbyX5hbfZ7aDwv4XEaLLgEM-_jZPhOr4DIpXE1p46t0qdzoupxc0WylljBLNa_R0-qhNi6zMSPh06uryx8Tm3OsZR0ws_3aWesE9nTE2juFLt68c-jRN5pFC5XSrUQ/s800/T34MR_01-022-putty.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="800" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv--DTi2mNaRu4FHJzX_VrgwuDBSVJfNzPbIQXlyxZMc2UuN6KFbLEO-CdPV9VDCbyX5hbfZ7aDwv4XEaLLgEM-_jZPhOr4DIpXE1p46t0qdzoupxc0WylljBLNa_R0-qhNi6zMSPh06uryx8Tm3OsZR0ws_3aWesE9nTE2juFLt68c-jRN5pFC5XSrUQ/w640-h432/T34MR_01-022-putty.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>While puttying around I also filled up the gaps in the front, as far as I felt it made sense. While taking a photo of the model upside down I noticed I could've also filled the narrow gaps in the mudguards but I had time if I only remembered the next time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaBWJTMsHyQa60ia7H8UOjSuI5QxDHqTessGqbRJr83fCMGOSYaE2rYJVXt-pRLGeN1EJIBaaWZofdTG5Hs9Wq0ltLgAqno3RiNek8ygObDuEydDZD5BF_wgJy6eqULT5imm0dDilz80RjJOMYHVcOpoI1NJM4luWPaOk5GhegKOYxVYx3fkfrGHoV_VE/s800/T34MR_01-023-putty.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="800" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaBWJTMsHyQa60ia7H8UOjSuI5QxDHqTessGqbRJr83fCMGOSYaE2rYJVXt-pRLGeN1EJIBaaWZofdTG5Hs9Wq0ltLgAqno3RiNek8ygObDuEydDZD5BF_wgJy6eqULT5imm0dDilz80RjJOMYHVcOpoI1NJM4luWPaOk5GhegKOYxVYx3fkfrGHoV_VE/w640-h418/T34MR_01-023-putty.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>At worst this was going to take a few cycles. Next I'd sand/file away the dry putty, and if I opened up something again or found out new holes, I'd repeat this but with much less putty and on a smaller surface. And oh boy, was there a lot to do. But that's how I had to putty the <a href="https://projectmumblings.blogspot.com/2018/04/session-xvi.html">T-35 a few years ago</a>.</p><p>Sanding the front edge was pretty easy and problemless, the sides were much more bothersome. My four-surfaced nail sander was a bit too bulky, and so were my files.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMQYaHEzn-_31hGyEA2UM5dfPMUDBLjmi45Oxli5t33SjVv8CEA294BZnPi0IOyfyqzEx3D26qrj6rI5g2H5tEp3_IilnJa15ZtRkwHOAInoMpWEZT7UoN077sD-pFu-7lvP2GqIANiJZAf0UVgToq1gyO3QPKMFW9-IyL-EmK-hXu_1r5ESQ36llV5pY/s800/T34MR_01-024-sanding-front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="800" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMQYaHEzn-_31hGyEA2UM5dfPMUDBLjmi45Oxli5t33SjVv8CEA294BZnPi0IOyfyqzEx3D26qrj6rI5g2H5tEp3_IilnJa15ZtRkwHOAInoMpWEZT7UoN077sD-pFu-7lvP2GqIANiJZAf0UVgToq1gyO3QPKMFW9-IyL-EmK-hXu_1r5ESQ36llV5pY/w640-h258/T34MR_01-024-sanding-front.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Then the problem child, the rear end. Here the issue was the amount of crap around the gap. The lower surface was pretty easy, but the upper one not so much with the exhaust pipes and the bolt row. In one session I got it somewhat cleaned up, the next time I'd get on it with the file for somewhat more pinpointed work. I was a bit afraid that the bolt ends were going to disappear and that I had to come up with a replacement.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5FoEMoS0hmCn_IP_8JEo12MQKG00Gc59v7ohuYN5VI6hpka_Be2C3rWyV1satBiGGuHChrXlig-EIk1B8kpTK3jHlH-dIrFBpmRh15bpyQxeMmzczsgFuWuTOgTuvD7MxLacmepTjj_hKlsS_WUw2enLROjYNJLS-y5YO_Yf-gM9rgnMZps-krWwuzR8/s800/T34MR_01-025-sanding-rear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="800" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5FoEMoS0hmCn_IP_8JEo12MQKG00Gc59v7ohuYN5VI6hpka_Be2C3rWyV1satBiGGuHChrXlig-EIk1B8kpTK3jHlH-dIrFBpmRh15bpyQxeMmzczsgFuWuTOgTuvD7MxLacmepTjj_hKlsS_WUw2enLROjYNJLS-y5YO_Yf-gM9rgnMZps-krWwuzR8/w640-h350/T34MR_01-025-sanding-rear.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Deck decorations II</span></h2><p>Now I went back to gluing extra piece on the tank. The upper glacis plate got a short length of a track on it, without any sort of a visible attachment method. Maybe there just was something that the track part just lied on freely.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkTXqU4NhEt_7JvTMOtqaNY3xCePrd16J8o02mKOErlqKxNmJ9brvhDBw3MEKXqdfqhe8bR83cWBE6FQFVOFqL0rWflb3uAn9yUOhIpnRxLdVRyX9xphyl0bL2FUTNT84ZrTHP88u1uHcqI5oglE2t817gxYzwM3rrMmluOYQAEtnUm3wgOd3VAznoUR4/s800/T34MR_01-026-track-bits.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="800" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkTXqU4NhEt_7JvTMOtqaNY3xCePrd16J8o02mKOErlqKxNmJ9brvhDBw3MEKXqdfqhe8bR83cWBE6FQFVOFqL0rWflb3uAn9yUOhIpnRxLdVRyX9xphyl0bL2FUTNT84ZrTHP88u1uHcqI5oglE2t817gxYzwM3rrMmluOYQAEtnUm3wgOd3VAznoUR4/w640-h318/T34MR_01-026-track-bits.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Both the left and right rear corners got a two-link spare track part, not joined together but funnily stacked. This wasn't too clear from the image in the instructions, and I wasn't quite sure based on the model itself how it was actually supposed to work in real life. Most likely somehow wedging them into the edges of the tank or something, so I just glued them as they fell and it was going to be on the viewer's brain to tell the story.</p><p>I decided to glue the mystery boxes onto the tank, they were a bit weakly attached but seemed to stay in place. The left one might benefit from a touch of putty, or at least its corner looked a bit grungy.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq9suAmQnSbDxVd5IZ86nBzAdTztMAIwKQ_fy__sG23LuvtSnQNq5tbjybvgOntjVOLYRFu-Oco17zQQkbjvXaz57SGFcwG84LULbI5ruIK_VQ5NxtuyZ4wrb4bDT1XJ6ci6ob_GIdwfIOhqFkkOg0SfwhRpYDAAMvUY5BV_sUrnzqXDSq1P5shVhl-C4/s800/T34MR_01-027-items.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq9suAmQnSbDxVd5IZ86nBzAdTztMAIwKQ_fy__sG23LuvtSnQNq5tbjybvgOntjVOLYRFu-Oco17zQQkbjvXaz57SGFcwG84LULbI5ruIK_VQ5NxtuyZ4wrb4bDT1XJ6ci6ob_GIdwfIOhqFkkOg0SfwhRpYDAAMvUY5BV_sUrnzqXDSq1P5shVhl-C4/w640-h360/T34MR_01-027-items.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4JtgVv2U-IeiEL8On-Fhb04tSBvZ4DUGyQaIqIefD7ABLFQsMgH8aSTQvlFgbxDJh60iIcbaMlzGo04v7OjaqTPbdpqWy-lurb6G0Prnyz4peONMqSNLVMN8ftRNWfH0mUrkNOwerpSeG4lTWV2NcvHOo0RQ4l6TDWSgAOOffyyTxOeR3UISoAg6r5sQ/s800/T34MR_01-028-items.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="800" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4JtgVv2U-IeiEL8On-Fhb04tSBvZ4DUGyQaIqIefD7ABLFQsMgH8aSTQvlFgbxDJh60iIcbaMlzGo04v7OjaqTPbdpqWy-lurb6G0Prnyz4peONMqSNLVMN8ftRNWfH0mUrkNOwerpSeG4lTWV2NcvHOo0RQ4l6TDWSgAOOffyyTxOeR3UISoAg6r5sQ/w640-h384/T34MR_01-028-items.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>At this point the only missing engineering tool was the shovel pair and I glued it onto the right side of the tank. Of course the outward facing parts of the shovelholders had visible dimples on them.</p><p>I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to fight with the superflimsy handles on the upper edge. Maybe I just had to glue them in, the tank would look better with them than without.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQe7UbEjtVce6h4v-9q5jfaR3VF03OEyAWYN5V86EM5uhHVqZ00JiZmWdYENpPdgYoNiL-_FpNZLmwhcTaRYD-PXYYRLjQBsinvpQxJmUkT6YRIKYP3NODIwArnTQKwmqbdwybVvZckEmyRHfLjX6nwcy4i_92g2LYvW-33vtIIQBS2qsPHblk8sYT2Lg/s800/T34MR_01-029-engineering-tools.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="800" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQe7UbEjtVce6h4v-9q5jfaR3VF03OEyAWYN5V86EM5uhHVqZ00JiZmWdYENpPdgYoNiL-_FpNZLmwhcTaRYD-PXYYRLjQBsinvpQxJmUkT6YRIKYP3NODIwArnTQKwmqbdwybVvZckEmyRHfLjX6nwcy4i_92g2LYvW-33vtIIQBS2qsPHblk8sYT2Lg/w640-h370/T34MR_01-029-engineering-tools.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Now my basic T-34 was only missing some metallic hokos from the front and rear end, the tow cables, and a couple of wooden boxes. My biggest issue here was my severly limited hobby time. With the boxes I was also teetering a bit between if I did or didn't want them to just hang around, but I felt I was somehow leaning on doing them. All the little things made the tank more alive.</p><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Deck decorations III</span><br /></h2><p>A few days later I got to build again. Not much was left, like I was thinking above. </p><p>At some point I had been wondering what was the A15 piece left alone in the sprue because I didn't remember it from the instructions. After a bit of a go-through I found out the corner it was marked in, it was the antenna mount. I sanded both of the attaching surfaces a bit rougher so they'd glue better. Also, those high-strung handles were sickeningly flimsy but they did remain in place.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhBr4MAFc9BgQY78-0bUmJQlNWN4bsyyr4yUH1YFYuWESb-qAcOZ3ltEaz3vi4ROZysRnRpuP1t3CJi_rlmp-UUWOk43cPszv_OP3CdqNMcjrwK4SebS_VX497961r8kLzRyxokxaU1jc16ZAUbmnkI4Ov7jei-a71hc11DllcZlYZH6RDMkaybXxR8Pc/s800/T34MR_01-030-antenna-mount-handles.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhBr4MAFc9BgQY78-0bUmJQlNWN4bsyyr4yUH1YFYuWESb-qAcOZ3ltEaz3vi4ROZysRnRpuP1t3CJi_rlmp-UUWOk43cPszv_OP3CdqNMcjrwK4SebS_VX497961r8kLzRyxokxaU1jc16ZAUbmnkI4Ov7jei-a71hc11DllcZlYZH6RDMkaybXxR8Pc/w640-h480/T34MR_01-030-antenna-mount-handles.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>Both of the towcables were left on the right side of the tank, these were just straight bits with no sag or any planned shape or form. I roughly followed the instructions and tried to get them set in a semi-believable way on the mudguard, even if I expected that in reality they'd behave a bit more cable-like, especially from the toolbox on.<br /></p><p>These two wooden boxes weer supposed to be next and kind of on top of each other, on the right side of the tank. That's where the first one went, but I threw the second one on the left side and a bit offset as well. This felt visually nicer to me, it kept the left side from being almost completely empty while the right one would've been like a hoarder's home.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjve2QwEhGoL-liMEkyfbz8Q7XONhET6jqpLf95_Eo1hFizxGF3e_h5qdKrlpzns3xUilvN3rk6w6zBvq-Krt6WUYtEdVROlWWdjrIFNXqdHUUhN_-SY2yF4S0OnFxIw7gus9NuAr_yT_ZSXqDAMKd9TE3edZviH_nuW3GTGR76GZIy-yXMFFbHhuZe5cg/s800/T34MR_01-031-tow-cables.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="800" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjve2QwEhGoL-liMEkyfbz8Q7XONhET6jqpLf95_Eo1hFizxGF3e_h5qdKrlpzns3xUilvN3rk6w6zBvq-Krt6WUYtEdVROlWWdjrIFNXqdHUUhN_-SY2yF4S0OnFxIw7gus9NuAr_yT_ZSXqDAMKd9TE3edZviH_nuW3GTGR76GZIy-yXMFFbHhuZe5cg/w640-h460/T34MR_01-031-tow-cables.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Ah, and I had happily forgotten those four tiny bits by the tow cable hooks. Ignoring this omission I was happily dry-fitting the wheelery. Without their locking bolts they fell immediately off if the model wasn't exactly flat. Well, at least I didn't have to use violence to force them (the wheels) in place.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYteiynqFYL_S61VYNXg7aKNTOjlY1r2gr_UvPIK-qGXTWVXC3GzBlGiVO1lHAoS599Sqv8jJucgEF78Pn3NZ9xbfWIMBsscAnNoid_y0Hs0GA_Gq20gveXnJzl2Uw5reLynFFYb85kvN6PSbiqatur264ruTWurp0VGa7c51LUriPxN6DW-yY4E2Oios/s800/T34MR_01-032-roadwheel-fit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYteiynqFYL_S61VYNXg7aKNTOjlY1r2gr_UvPIK-qGXTWVXC3GzBlGiVO1lHAoS599Sqv8jJucgEF78Pn3NZ9xbfWIMBsscAnNoid_y0Hs0GA_Gq20gveXnJzl2Uw5reLynFFYb85kvN6PSbiqatur264ruTWurp0VGa7c51LUriPxN6DW-yY4E2Oios/w640-h426/T34MR_01-032-roadwheel-fit.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>While I was fooling with the model I also tested out the turret. It looked like a proper T-34 now, and I was thinking how to paint the wheel area the best way. While looking at this photo I got an idea: I'd paint the wheels separately as almost always, but while painting the hull I'd push the lock bits in place so they'd also get a decent and correct paintjob at the same time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKxiiq-IZFaFtex5ldOv4WdV02vXNYNtTVLsqxuIR0ZXmyLQmYTL-aipPA-Hk-v6648mdrXJoGTYSC998YNJFoF_B_vN1E2DQbiRdq1FkmMlvgUcvyj6v7UE5tkcnrn0nnwNSjOtvvLrp7fg6HohidUmJILuUuvOAiZwWHxYjE_bYXqKVeRC6Z7YDzKWw/s800/T34MR_01-033-dryfit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="800" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKxiiq-IZFaFtex5ldOv4WdV02vXNYNtTVLsqxuIR0ZXmyLQmYTL-aipPA-Hk-v6648mdrXJoGTYSC998YNJFoF_B_vN1E2DQbiRdq1FkmMlvgUcvyj6v7UE5tkcnrn0nnwNSjOtvvLrp7fg6HohidUmJILuUuvOAiZwWHxYjE_bYXqKVeRC6Z7YDzKWw/w640-h416/T34MR_01-033-dryfit.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The final flimsy bits<br /></span></h3><p>Now I remembered them and installed the four identical tiny pieces on the opposite sides of each of the towcable hooks. I wasn't 100% sure that they went exactly as instructed, but I just couldn't see any better. These, finally, were the last missing pieces of the T-34/76 itself, excluding the antenna but like I have said, it was intentionally left last.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGIr1LUjY1R8ey_DwJgZNC9-2s0ym7VJOjxwjerkFW-qSV7_7-p9bvzpmpBXa8Ss5Iv7CXQu0esrBU6_nQlAwua-pCfQMIpkdXA5bn68vO_gpBu4JorC_AhGOz5yk9H1bZniHIChcr9AaEqP7q06GjeRYhEcYUXUWTPgzJWbYJHT4eJjjw4cPFKrlyyAM/s800/T34MR_01-034-front-hooks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGIr1LUjY1R8ey_DwJgZNC9-2s0ym7VJOjxwjerkFW-qSV7_7-p9bvzpmpBXa8Ss5Iv7CXQu0esrBU6_nQlAwua-pCfQMIpkdXA5bn68vO_gpBu4JorC_AhGOz5yk9H1bZniHIChcr9AaEqP7q06GjeRYhEcYUXUWTPgzJWbYJHT4eJjjw4cPFKrlyyAM/w640-h480/T34MR_01-034-front-hooks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>While the hooks were curing I used some time to sand and file the hood a bit more. Had I foreseen this, I would've left the exhaust pipe installation to a much later stage, so they wouldn't have been on the way and I could've just brutally filed the end of the tank clean. But how could I have predicted it?</p><p>In any case I couldn't clean the back end perfectly, it was left with some gunk. That I could later on cover with mud or other goo, so a small amount of crap wasn't be a problem nor visible underneath.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwQbwiZSYds9XCZiUbWvX3iujqUsJ3bECSUpHmrgAXvku0G9SnnZAPynIe4DvHa40Fbld9cYN3Kjk3M46UNnqtCUTiHO7xcXaa-3b9hzCFD7poYUsx7q4qk1_AmIPxLeJ1bKRZi30qq1DjxXTGqYgUteDkbESJjM15pPaQ_yO8xh96-_3nI5I37kRAW8E/s800/T34MR_01-035-rear-hooks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwQbwiZSYds9XCZiUbWvX3iujqUsJ3bECSUpHmrgAXvku0G9SnnZAPynIe4DvHa40Fbld9cYN3Kjk3M46UNnqtCUTiHO7xcXaa-3b9hzCFD7poYUsx7q4qk1_AmIPxLeJ1bKRZi30qq1DjxXTGqYgUteDkbESJjM15pPaQ_yO8xh96-_3nI5I37kRAW8E/w640-h480/T34MR_01-035-rear-hooks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Just a while earlier I was thinking of the locking bolts for the road wheels. I detached and cleaned them all, then I wiggled them onto their axles. Maybe before airbrushing I should mask the cylinder parts so gluing them into the roadwheels would be simpler.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsN9301Hn0_aWXy6q9tDGSilbxJoPOZ4vB9_PO4KJbSXnrfhDssaRpRo7YSezBEn5KMTveI-36OYgWGYSHkK7D_pDFqYFGE_2v55LcWA8nicmXqUNE3g_0t3h7OjAGKfHH9cjv-tRFdBubM3QP599M8sR8m5iklPfDED-A8cTvutolUjQ7p5tSKjHySs/s800/T34MR_01-036-wheel-bolts.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsN9301Hn0_aWXy6q9tDGSilbxJoPOZ4vB9_PO4KJbSXnrfhDssaRpRo7YSezBEn5KMTveI-36OYgWGYSHkK7D_pDFqYFGE_2v55LcWA8nicmXqUNE3g_0t3h7OjAGKfHH9cjv-tRFdBubM3QP599M8sR8m5iklPfDED-A8cTvutolUjQ7p5tSKjHySs/w640-h480/T34MR_01-036-wheel-bolts.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>So there, the shockingly many weeks were spent on the calendar and the building process for the tank was now complete. If you found the text, or its flow, in this post a bit unusual, I was writing this whenever I had built something and edited my photos. So whenever I was referring to "<i>the last time</i>", or "<i>earlier</i>", I may have been talking about the previous week even if it was just the previous paragraph in the text itself.</p><p>The next time I was going to work on the external tool, known as the mine roller. Perhaps that setup was buildable within a decent amount of time, perhaps it was going to cause an indecent amount of swearing. There was only one way to find out.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-1661261499706223892023-12-13T12:00:00.002+02:002023-12-13T12:00:00.259+02:00Project IV/23<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">T-34/76 with mine rollers</span><br /></h2><p>It wasn't that long since I got this set (with paints!), I had decided to take it on the project table right after the 'Mechs. Now that I was thinking of it, I haven't made that many Zvezda models in total, and only one of them has been a tank, the T-35 a few years ago. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNpiy7PrB1wS4jBSumfM4FoHZO7Q-moRU0oKPI2-Dn7eYF5xQc196goNuk6abL9sLaqqAbvLDm7zYCv6q7u30_990BdFwuDhYz_0b48y35wCXD84cy_qpvNIn9SkeHfB-QS-dcDaIxsY_c-li9E6L4W0qbvIwDViJPF5EGHzmJZrrOrOMNzPwOOQtOzL4/s800/T-34_00_000_box-front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="800" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNpiy7PrB1wS4jBSumfM4FoHZO7Q-moRU0oKPI2-Dn7eYF5xQc196goNuk6abL9sLaqqAbvLDm7zYCv6q7u30_990BdFwuDhYz_0b48y35wCXD84cy_qpvNIn9SkeHfB-QS-dcDaIxsY_c-li9E6L4W0qbvIwDViJPF5EGHzmJZrrOrOMNzPwOOQtOzL4/w640-h390/T-34_00_000_box-front.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I was certain that this was going to be a fun build, if nothing else, the mine roller setup would be a very interesting subassembly. Beforehand my biggest question mark was the set of paints, and how they'd behave in my airbrush.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Guidelines</span></h3><p>Who knew what had happened to me in the last decades but lately I've started everything with the instructions. Enough mistakes and disasters under my belt, perhaps?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-uzuOGwj9OnOcD2Ok32RhfSUoYWSkUcBsN8_ITXIv6a3Rt2z_28qq5X7BsJpBMwz-bGvvDa-06yksP9k4xIpERoRD6sSB9gQQFT9JTKEwAabzKyWeO1ja6cte8jNBXnuUEsHDKkDETiK7NdjEs1OUQ364V8uwTRYYEwKKtaj-A0aGjTppKjSXiNDcpxM/s800/T34MR_00-004-instructions-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="800" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-uzuOGwj9OnOcD2Ok32RhfSUoYWSkUcBsN8_ITXIv6a3Rt2z_28qq5X7BsJpBMwz-bGvvDa-06yksP9k4xIpERoRD6sSB9gQQFT9JTKEwAabzKyWeO1ja6cte8jNBXnuUEsHDKkDETiK7NdjEs1OUQ364V8uwTRYYEwKKtaj-A0aGjTppKjSXiNDcpxM/w640-h346/T34MR_00-004-instructions-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZuhsg8q_ikakwOatO6HvoPQcUMc6XVOFAKTJKCqbkNLukuuoYXrLYKCXwKikYF7zYnEh6uybpGt1Wp-4iS_gGHgZYNiUqVIc16Ij9lY2sOGbNerGCbjcJP2U0Zu_D6dSsGKYivk6m86v3KD-wU4dPVUImCkSkNVajHU0QEhVAW4Dmp0GMKsbl0d3nWnI/s800/T34MR_00-005-instructions-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="800" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZuhsg8q_ikakwOatO6HvoPQcUMc6XVOFAKTJKCqbkNLukuuoYXrLYKCXwKikYF7zYnEh6uybpGt1Wp-4iS_gGHgZYNiUqVIc16Ij9lY2sOGbNerGCbjcJP2U0Zu_D6dSsGKYivk6m86v3KD-wU4dPVUImCkSkNVajHU0QEhVAW4Dmp0GMKsbl0d3nWnI/w640-h450/T34MR_00-005-instructions-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSpopYiw0yw4M38OeQS7jTKEM_OdFX2BegSsUMTKCbgmRC2tOl65HSgMoC2dzzYuhe8qsnt7sBGfnnW4nn2tjDcOo5U2eRTXecpOnsw7_59-ceFhv5TVe4USG4CMskRC9u4mj6tc6MIm-sJTGcAQoF4LObYFRqaVjPPgNdHPQfxgH3GO16O8WKJoT6-E/s800/T34MR_00-006-instructions-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="800" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSpopYiw0yw4M38OeQS7jTKEM_OdFX2BegSsUMTKCbgmRC2tOl65HSgMoC2dzzYuhe8qsnt7sBGfnnW4nn2tjDcOo5U2eRTXecpOnsw7_59-ceFhv5TVe4USG4CMskRC9u4mj6tc6MIm-sJTGcAQoF4LObYFRqaVjPPgNdHPQfxgH3GO16O8WKJoT6-E/w640-h316/T34MR_00-006-instructions-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vRqdnvVdOFRlWQMbJpMFYL_qdtk4PdcSVhgbhUdA42Wz-13GH4iUWHbmc8pIAWFD58N_waakYFr1eCQF1nxDON0hEBBIc1JiLAX6BrCRSV8ZFT_zo951ODVrffp5-dHGohOVBS-ZFvqRz_yBQw_qVYfITPvVtolW4MsbNy1irchDoHjZnpGkVDcA1XI/s800/T34MR_00-007-instructions-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="800" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vRqdnvVdOFRlWQMbJpMFYL_qdtk4PdcSVhgbhUdA42Wz-13GH4iUWHbmc8pIAWFD58N_waakYFr1eCQF1nxDON0hEBBIc1JiLAX6BrCRSV8ZFT_zo951ODVrffp5-dHGohOVBS-ZFvqRz_yBQw_qVYfITPvVtolW4MsbNy1irchDoHjZnpGkVDcA1XI/w640-h344/T34MR_00-007-instructions-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The general painting instructions didn't seem too bothersome, mostly they wanted me to paint it green. I hadn't thought of it one bit, because it was mostly going to be Soviet green anyway. Right now the topmost winterish one intrigued me the most, but like I said, a basic green would also work just fine.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8pc_AEF-fooFn0r-WJVbCLLjiRa5BsBd0jbH5tLcBwpPRML88F0H7FkiwO-1Fwha5XA1961q-HOz-nMOf8HPSqJdv4pk788nAhaiiRNOnwjZTBZGwWUoanKcbsgNKWjJQ-mmGMfJYi71ybMeiSsW71sigPgIhjRw6lvC0OqOdc3UHfV_OzV-RR3wf1Ws/s800/T34MR_00-008-instructions-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="800" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8pc_AEF-fooFn0r-WJVbCLLjiRa5BsBd0jbH5tLcBwpPRML88F0H7FkiwO-1Fwha5XA1961q-HOz-nMOf8HPSqJdv4pk788nAhaiiRNOnwjZTBZGwWUoanKcbsgNKWjJQ-mmGMfJYi71ybMeiSsW71sigPgIhjRw6lvC0OqOdc3UHfV_OzV-RR3wf1Ws/w640-h392/T34MR_00-008-instructions-5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Decals were surprisingly few in number. Four different unit numbers, a tactical sign, three silly red stars and a catchphrase.</p><p>The catchphrase intrigued me, as I wasn't known for my skills in Russian. The second word did start with "<span style="font-family: courier;">Rod</span>" and as I somehow knew that motherland was "rodina", I anchored into that. Maybe it could have said "<i>for the motherland!</i>" or something like it? Our friend, the G translated me after a couple of attempts that "<i>to motherland</i>" == "На Родину" and if you ignored the first character that looked like a number three, it was pretty much that. Did it mean "<i>Let's go home!</i>" or "<i>You go home!</i>"? I had no idea but was left wondering.</p><p>A bit later I played with the translator, as the phrase kept bothering me. The text was supposed to be Za Rodinu - for the motherland. So I guessed decently, even though confirming it required searching for proper cyrillic letters and playing backwards from there.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh55-fXDmTH60rQqC8190RNyTsCRvE8HRpuVqlp8os7YykFFFGgdhCjCUMqhgNYJppkWKC-2rmDHeKPF3cwSaVUySBhqn1ocCTAieplNE1fAH6hcjzMYsdLe6woyMk6j5on_oh0BxxGtjON_PxsbCGw35ZU87q-NHlum--Nr9tQ4Ak142919L-Qq1Xsa5k/s800/T34MR_00-002-decals.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="800" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh55-fXDmTH60rQqC8190RNyTsCRvE8HRpuVqlp8os7YykFFFGgdhCjCUMqhgNYJppkWKC-2rmDHeKPF3cwSaVUySBhqn1ocCTAieplNE1fAH6hcjzMYsdLe6woyMk6j5on_oh0BxxGtjON_PxsbCGw35ZU87q-NHlum--Nr9tQ4Ak142919L-Qq1Xsa5k/w640-h332/T34MR_00-002-decals.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Piece sets<br /></span></h3><p>Hmh. Floppy tracks in four acts, two per side. These would be funny, they were even painted metallic and that was new to me. Obviously we couldn't leave them like that, but it was fun.</p><p>Thinking really hard I thought I had maybe had a model with this kind of a two-part tracks, but usually they had been one per side. Never in the history of anything had they been nice, that was for sure.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYuEqDHtiDzNSoRiu6ioTvQ5dXU7dlgN67GlVCmSm08H9TjzAFCF53a5WQClGI_vqlZT1rKzmb3pQG3Cb05kgUQMIZIOuzwYT64NTQx9X6AQDa31FczeV6qTDgznQPF7OQJ4N9ng4J3q3erv8W9dW_baJ5fxlyk4dZmQLND-PsRNyK7Xdv45rfAA9sMgk/s800/T34MR_00-003-floppy-tracks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="800" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYuEqDHtiDzNSoRiu6ioTvQ5dXU7dlgN67GlVCmSm08H9TjzAFCF53a5WQClGI_vqlZT1rKzmb3pQG3Cb05kgUQMIZIOuzwYT64NTQx9X6AQDa31FczeV6qTDgznQPF7OQJ4N9ng4J3q3erv8W9dW_baJ5fxlyk4dZmQLND-PsRNyK7Xdv45rfAA9sMgk/w640-h392/T34MR_00-003-floppy-tracks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>Getting to the tank parts themselves, they looked like a normal amount of pieces. A couple of sprues for the wheels, the turret and its gun in one, apparently the lower hull ate one sprue, then the specialty of this kit came in a few sprues: two for the mine rollers and one for the attachment setup. And the top hull was separately inside the box.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyIkOKJpB5tkVTOpQsIseFAQW0sVKADTfHtPhC4KpbR8MUNCAOFFOpTD7WumYfpMvqg1V1bF0zwD7rg1m6VXeRRPHnCJ5ISf8gzArM5AMcOfG_zNc_5s3uEeGxe9udig3-i6kc2RFZYf0Ywvd_8dh-8bWdK9az3P4RTKEIiO2ooKx1aafNAEoIJzS40yc/s800/T34MR_00-009-pieces.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="800" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyIkOKJpB5tkVTOpQsIseFAQW0sVKADTfHtPhC4KpbR8MUNCAOFFOpTD7WumYfpMvqg1V1bF0zwD7rg1m6VXeRRPHnCJ5ISf8gzArM5AMcOfG_zNc_5s3uEeGxe9udig3-i6kc2RFZYf0Ywvd_8dh-8bWdK9az3P4RTKEIiO2ooKx1aafNAEoIJzS40yc/w640-h416/T34MR_00-009-pieces.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I didn't expect anything weird here. My pareidolia made me chuckle at the expression of the turret, and then I got staring at the armoured tub: it consisted of a few separate pieces unlike Tamiya (or the one Takom) kits. Maybe it had enough support structure so that it didn't start scowling like the Hero of the Work on a Monday morning.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-22676780524980601222023-12-10T08:00:00.407+02:002023-12-10T15:34:28.071+02:00Doom 30y<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KpxxwACpjqGxU5StckZ0K3TkYzy-bDWq7TxSGChE1UQncXGdzyL1HRBaRJonxbfOnLpwKyx1TL2eikF4PfAju8FGrzvzWab3TabtwkPaD9G6T5r6KtSzONclDnINBlT0oCYPkF69WtPAxdEBDzjNRtlXuOXe_yKZq3_2VOWdDriRl6rkz5R4hYsG-_k/s603/doom_logo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="603" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KpxxwACpjqGxU5StckZ0K3TkYzy-bDWq7TxSGChE1UQncXGdzyL1HRBaRJonxbfOnLpwKyx1TL2eikF4PfAju8FGrzvzWab3TabtwkPaD9G6T5r6KtSzONclDnINBlT0oCYPkF69WtPAxdEBDzjNRtlXuOXe_yKZq3_2VOWdDriRl6rkz5R4hYsG-_k/w640-h390/doom_logo.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>Happy thirtieth birthday, Doom! Of course this was a milestone I was going to recognize out loud, I was a child of the eighties, after all, and an avid gamer since I had something to play with.</p><p style="text-align: center;">⚠️ beware: ramblings of a middle-aged nerd ⚠️</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Before Doomsday<br /></span></h2><p>What did we have <i>before</i> Doom and what did we gaming kids get excited about? At home we had a few years old 286 with an EGA display and the pc-squeaker, and Wolfenstein 3-D:s shareware version was maybe the most impressive of the action games it could run. As long as you shrunk the screen a bit. For some reason me and my friends played the not-too-stable alpha version of Wolf. Of the other Apogee games we spent a sick amount on Keen 1 and 2. And in case you, dear reader, didn't have to experience the wonders of PC-speaker: it made <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v36e4_jars">awful noises</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1CSEAIYKBY">foul screeches</a> at best, so we usually had the sounds off.</p><p>At that point in history I was just a bit older than Project Assistant I is now. How ridiculous was that?</p><p>My classmate Mikko (and his older brother) had a fresher computer (486 + SoundBlaster Pro), we went in batches to their apartment to witness noisy, violent games like Syndicate and Space Hulk. I still remember clearly how Mikko was explaining to me at the school yard that they had the newest game of the Wolfenstein people, how it had indoor, outdoor spaces, lights, many weapons, windows, up/down moving doors and walls, and lifts! Being used to that entering a lift in Wolfenstein meant that you proceeded to the next level, I asked if you could go back to where you were before and what sort of witchcraft was this?</p><p>Yeah, the point of this silly example was to describe what a huge change in games Doom was. A young child couldn't imagine all that was described without seeing. For one reason or another I never went to Mikko's to play or even watch someone else play Doom, and I couldn't remember any kind of an explanation.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">My own Doomsday</span> <br /></h2><p>Funnily enough there were three of us classmates that got a new multimedia computer (hah!) at their homes at about the same time. Ours was a Compaq Presario 720, which translated into a 486SX/66/4 with a double-speed cd drive (our computer's memory was doubled and then redoubled to maximum over some years), I guess it had a ~600MB hard drive that felt endless for some time. My namesake's family was the first of us to get there, so at his place I saw and especially <i>heard</i> Doom for the first time.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5qmmgA92Ejs5LaACLKBlVk9RIOSb_6g95FVWjB2eJdqGC7BbE9Nm1jdcHfYqIl-OyMqLFG6CMeFFIInlxex5JjmTz4j7SeaM-U5P19jaegepA2aQH4EGDd02li25UZX6cNMzbSolqQ2sjCUUVZ2UtF7OHyLPqvKabFyU0MDXCk7vDLO7SAluk2Nt3zBk/s640/Doom-dos4gw.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5qmmgA92Ejs5LaACLKBlVk9RIOSb_6g95FVWjB2eJdqGC7BbE9Nm1jdcHfYqIl-OyMqLFG6CMeFFIInlxex5JjmTz4j7SeaM-U5P19jaegepA2aQH4EGDd02li25UZX6cNMzbSolqQ2sjCUUVZ2UtF7OHyLPqvKabFyU0MDXCk7vDLO7SAluk2Nt3zBk/w640-h400/Doom-dos4gw.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This view became quite familiar over the years<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrD0J8yVjlzl_-lfTj4-uUJY0Ztyp6u83RKBTaz3XbhrWszDtAM1W4909b0hKYdKW8sMnpA3dNzDEjP33o2sNrv4ODYRezAxWIKHMoQcN7ks_5f13mOmL1zFlgUugf_Dj_GDTh5VTk9vhW24PSCe4Auq-Ac9BNXAMgHLH0eBs0d-insVqTJJ7LW3rJdFA/s450/Doom-splash-screen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="450" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrD0J8yVjlzl_-lfTj4-uUJY0Ztyp6u83RKBTaz3XbhrWszDtAM1W4909b0hKYdKW8sMnpA3dNzDEjP33o2sNrv4ODYRezAxWIKHMoQcN7ks_5f13mOmL1zFlgUugf_Dj_GDTh5VTk9vhW24PSCe4Auq-Ac9BNXAMgHLH0eBs0d-insVqTJJ7LW3rJdFA/w640-h360/Doom-splash-screen.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Here we had a serious risk of me using cliches and exaggerations, but what could I do: Doom blew up my mind and pulled my legs from under my own self. Nothing, and I meant absolutely fucking <i>nothing</i> has ever made a comparable impression in gaming during the next three decades.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXig-o8iTYR-FdSiUsRIcenC3GmnKE00Ba8L0CYy4OCLxCppX3a_M7S76TOxgKzL06mxkGqVq7KybEuVh9HfOp3qy1F8miraeaR02hz2XHlyAa4v5miA4jUXJz-5PVRWf7ZgocWnBRc_uYjApZiEEBS52W-L51K11deAUd07Ki6cFHjrpsoJg6ZvTLrmw/s640/Doom-e1m1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXig-o8iTYR-FdSiUsRIcenC3GmnKE00Ba8L0CYy4OCLxCppX3a_M7S76TOxgKzL06mxkGqVq7KybEuVh9HfOp3qy1F8miraeaR02hz2XHlyAa4v5miA4jUXJz-5PVRWf7ZgocWnBRc_uYjApZiEEBS52W-L51K11deAUd07Ki6cFHjrpsoJg6ZvTLrmw/w640-h480/Doom-e1m1.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you didn't <i>hear</i> At Doom's Gate right now, you may have gone beyond all help<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The monsters were making and awful racket in the darkness, the lights strobed and blinked, then there were some mofos throwing fireballs from beyond a poison pit! Staircases, lifts, yards, computer rooms. And that was the first level only, between the levels there was a cool map that showed where you just were and where were you heading. To help getting lost there was an automap so you didn't need to try to draw your own maps anymore. Nope, none of this could be imagined if Wolfenstein was the epitome of 3d in your brain.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMolza_uNphDhlR6mTISIAy5r2u8G1Yl6-Lyni4nT3MINyiVwcNU-F57Qcd3j5T1JyAiFgOHncw69fOlata9Go6jMnZTotBtFk5Y5brQC66PdIJHQxMv0-5pfG2B2g3S5MsmdFcZU-N2bOISNnGvwXox0xAX44tOxCCPBeMp2A69DI9NukMzZoYAowq4/s1222/Doom-e1m1-automap.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1222" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMolza_uNphDhlR6mTISIAy5r2u8G1Yl6-Lyni4nT3MINyiVwcNU-F57Qcd3j5T1JyAiFgOHncw69fOlata9Go6jMnZTotBtFk5Y5brQC66PdIJHQxMv0-5pfG2B2g3S5MsmdFcZU-N2bOISNnGvwXox0xAX44tOxCCPBeMp2A69DI9NukMzZoYAowq4/w640-h478/Doom-e1m1-automap.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw2pXDe9HPdH6Qomkmdbb8XB4U2fQxiQdljMcbp6ZT0-8_8AMAHNBoTlSEnq5ea-JNMqJpZElJonp3MORVcRchRBJHOUJJcuV1PuGGtKrKnTPlAm7mo9yP6gyrl1YYA0I6Wg_KwfKadlUFE23kwytHg8U8uJ-hLTWGlOn-aK4JtdKfeW4GBUSVAKp3Ww/s1284/Doom-intermission-map.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1284" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw2pXDe9HPdH6Qomkmdbb8XB4U2fQxiQdljMcbp6ZT0-8_8AMAHNBoTlSEnq5ea-JNMqJpZElJonp3MORVcRchRBJHOUJJcuV1PuGGtKrKnTPlAm7mo9yP6gyrl1YYA0I6Wg_KwfKadlUFE23kwytHg8U8uJ-hLTWGlOn-aK4JtdKfeW4GBUSVAKp3Ww/w640-h398/Doom-intermission-map.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>The tiniest details have been devoured by the looming dementia, but the computer with 4MB RAM (and Bill Gate's infamous 512kB) forced you to fight with boot disks (did someone actually miss poking autoexec.bat and config.sys? Unlikely) to even get a game running. Could've been that the shareware Doom's older versions were more prone to crash as well, because in the earliest of my Doom memories it was pretty common that the game just crashed in the middle of the one and only episode and just dropped you back to DOS.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Wads and editors</span></h2><p>At some point soon we also got a new computer and of course its sound card (an integrated ESS Audiodrive) made everyone go ooh and aah with the smooth sounds. The first amazer was Prince of Persia with its music, and I was pretty much the only one who was endlessly amused by the death screams of the nazis in Wolfenstein. And then there were the countless hours of Doom (and later Doom II) that echoed around the apartment.</p><p>Back in the mid-nineties being online wasn't quite what it is today, when you had to call with your 14400 baud modem to someplace (after five, due to the cheaper local calls) like a BBS or something, if you wanted to find files. Mostly my age group's big brothers were the ones who knew things and we younglings just shuffled floppies full of good levels in the sneakernet. Or then someone (or their parents) bought one of those megacds that had hundreds of wads, and those were a source of good levels if they happened to work.</p><p>I mostly played random levels or levelpacks, or fooled around replacing sounds with dmaud, mostly I changed things to be pretty stupid. Level editing (with DEU) looked too complicated to me, who was used to Wolfenstein's mapedit. Pics for comparison:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdGj5WS58OMSr66nszOqDQoEAfp-l4vwCtHBLqSn1GiB-7Vdk-Q3aQfmXKWW_hmF7F3axpEYq79TNGJ4lfcp5Kg5KErUH455NhplMjJALOD5-uK9GwQVo0yvsrqdN1LAXZhfLwiM4RTplgGk8QqU3qx1H0lgRmEcf8DJ67SdtF-fF6w9zef1v8PgFbHg/s1278/Doom-wolf3d-mapedit.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1278" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdGj5WS58OMSr66nszOqDQoEAfp-l4vwCtHBLqSn1GiB-7Vdk-Q3aQfmXKWW_hmF7F3axpEYq79TNGJ4lfcp5Kg5KErUH455NhplMjJALOD5-uK9GwQVo0yvsrqdN1LAXZhfLwiM4RTplgGk8QqU3qx1H0lgRmEcf8DJ67SdtF-fF6w9zef1v8PgFbHg/w640-h482/Doom-wolf3d-mapedit.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk8oCu0YOcnJeLSCQiQCAqPq_4t-G5oon9jx0p8xM21ChAcH9xKgq1b5i-0r9JY5f0SOR53-0DJJSyRcw7NK4l14X3wxpyrOaG6xFOenJf2jTxcqHir3fKpSL_GLQskbaqFzgRTu9FI7Vqcxehco4VuPXpCNE8T1Z5ZcdzjOBw3cV-mkM4afdk-w9PWm4/s640/Doom-DEU.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk8oCu0YOcnJeLSCQiQCAqPq_4t-G5oon9jx0p8xM21ChAcH9xKgq1b5i-0r9JY5f0SOR53-0DJJSyRcw7NK4l14X3wxpyrOaG6xFOenJf2jTxcqHir3fKpSL_GLQskbaqFzgRTu9FI7Vqcxehco4VuPXpCNE8T1Z5ZcdzjOBw3cV-mkM4afdk-w9PWm4/w640-h480/Doom-DEU.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://github.com/robilic/DEU">https://github.com/robilic/DEU</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>At some point I discovered DeHackEd that allowed to tweak Doom's internal params. Very few pwads came with .deh changes, but they did exist. The biggest issues with cool conversion projects like Star Wars Doom or Aliens Doom was that they were mostly found as a zipfile (or an .arj, which I preferred) full of individual .wad files and that gave you a part of the full experience. It was a long way to proper TCs, and I wasn't deep enough in this to get too far with my trial and error approach.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Retail Doom<br /></span></h3><p>I had to admit that I got a full version of Doom from a friend at school at some point back in the day. The fact that no one in my circles had no practical way of register Doom in those days was just that, an excuse. Later I've bought Doom a few times (the cd releases of Ultimate Doom, Doom II, and I think I got Final Doom and maybe the Master Levels as gifts from friends, then I have bought the classic Doom games in Steam and finally I also bought Doom for the Switch as well because why not?). Maybe that compensated a bit afterwards.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRCJ1K5loQ7DnC1hE2Iuy5ez8k6Kg9gwXoimOLeCMj3TgH2diiRrN78WCbB-Dl6g4-gDWLaJISf-Sj6gyDmyLngbg9Sp2Nf3BBRnbeeUtmpfRLPPzHEy6zvu-nEPDwtMi6IddR2AUZVsyaRjCndRufW9GV2c92JDhvCpa_myXToJBLnJoy02-vWZ8gW6o/s800/Doom-cds.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="800" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRCJ1K5loQ7DnC1hE2Iuy5ez8k6Kg9gwXoimOLeCMj3TgH2diiRrN78WCbB-Dl6g4-gDWLaJISf-Sj6gyDmyLngbg9Sp2Nf3BBRnbeeUtmpfRLPPzHEy6zvu-nEPDwtMi6IddR2AUZVsyaRjCndRufW9GV2c92JDhvCpa_myXToJBLnJoy02-vWZ8gW6o/w640-h290/Doom-cds.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The shareware version wasn't enough for a while, because I and everyone else wanted to get the next two episodes and especially to experience BFG-9000. At some point Doom got updated to 1.9 that added the fourth episode.</p><p>I guess you could imagine how disappointed and displeased I was already as a preteen that one couldn't get a Doom t-shirt in this buttcrack of the planet. Luckily the current owner of the rights sells these logo shirts and the original cover art t-shirts even to people like myself. I just wished I could tell the young ISD that "<i>worry not, when you're grown up you've got a few of these and even your colleagues love them</i>" but being a bit of a cynical little bastard, I most likely wouldn't have believed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxWonNDaBSZc2GgQe-_AFBzxVim6UIiEnJPW_EwOfqKYvphEmg_VVpoVCHoZ5FKQfhf-GHMiu0moSPGpxGTNuQStsl3GrNEprvt-VDFW-wPpCiheRcEdIo22r3XFNTdfAdvjlpcBYXe8-UlcecWCmmqdyH6C7zVPfcOkYf6tvjSN_NWEWlZz0blolHiZc/s800/doom_shirt-and-coffeemug.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="800" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxWonNDaBSZc2GgQe-_AFBzxVim6UIiEnJPW_EwOfqKYvphEmg_VVpoVCHoZ5FKQfhf-GHMiu0moSPGpxGTNuQStsl3GrNEprvt-VDFW-wPpCiheRcEdIo22r3XFNTdfAdvjlpcBYXe8-UlcecWCmmqdyH6C7zVPfcOkYf6tvjSN_NWEWlZz0blolHiZc/w640-h466/doom_shirt-and-coffeemug.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">ATDT090001234</span></h2><p>Ah, the crappy old times and the issues with connections. We had to agree who calls whom, and to keep the rest of the inhabitants far away from the phones because picking up the receiver killed the game. Or if someone answered the call when it was intended for the modem and instead of Doom you heard someone's "<i>hello?</i>". Luckily that was a mostly forgotten thing of the distant past, even though it was lots of fun back in the day.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNzbw77Sg6CuXa8Dp5Zx3tMyKv7NBofe8_xambMy2xqbFBmILMRzk0q2izlVENm1KFU6CvQQkw04FSN-q6Ip9c9QI3NQVj_r12DyRYuKA9yjn2W3zDNNE1_VNGy918IKUH9XcA9EVy-zMWfpGpsZIUKBBT36l3GV-Jkld4fKR8zGgIg7RjInUmP_ZEyGA/s580/Doom-APCIDOOM-1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="580" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNzbw77Sg6CuXa8Dp5Zx3tMyKv7NBofe8_xambMy2xqbFBmILMRzk0q2izlVENm1KFU6CvQQkw04FSN-q6Ip9c9QI3NQVj_r12DyRYuKA9yjn2W3zDNNE1_VNGy918IKUH9XcA9EVy-zMWfpGpsZIUKBBT36l3GV-Jkld4fKR8zGgIg7RjInUmP_ZEyGA/w640-h400/Doom-APCIDOOM-1.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">APCiDoom (https://kangaroopunch.com/software/apcidoom)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <p></p><p>We didn't play co-operative games much with my then-friend X, not in Doom, Duke Nukem 3d, Heretic nor Hexen. We concentrated on Deathmatch. An insane amount of hours had given us our favourite levels, weapons and most likely our go-to in-game tricks.</p><p>For some reason our absolute favourite Deathmatch map was E1M4 "<i>Command Control</i>", and based on some sort of a gentleperson's deal we only used the shotgun and chaingun, because fighting with them was the most fun. At best we spent so long in a single game that the frag counter went around (it was only two-digit, but it took a while to murder your friend a hundred times). I tried to make a sort of a heatmap of the level to show where our usual deathmatching there concentrated on:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOmKMIPhSEMJgA9Jrd92UGbjRxugcv-oXfK9uhv6TKYpNWN0supyZYMar-WWDdHS9iTqShjwPyxcJk7so2nsqwb-NnKvOWWd9Fovizak8nBGGqQGIQVQzStXTnF23pWXU2U5Aj2jD9wTyrZBV92IX8hE8yz4iA4DHqk_HmZIQ57j_01VfkMf8z0cbwKXQ/s800/Doom-e1m4-dmheatmap.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="800" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOmKMIPhSEMJgA9Jrd92UGbjRxugcv-oXfK9uhv6TKYpNWN0supyZYMar-WWDdHS9iTqShjwPyxcJk7so2nsqwb-NnKvOWWd9Fovizak8nBGGqQGIQVQzStXTnF23pWXU2U5Aj2jD9wTyrZBV92IX8hE8yz4iA4DHqk_HmZIQ57j_01VfkMf8z0cbwKXQ/w640-h438/Doom-e1m4-dmheatmap.png" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>This realization gave us boys a glorious idea. What if we just removed everything <i>we</i> felt unnecessary and played that way? Like a concentrated arena of death. The first version was quickly done, most of the objects got simply deleted, the doorways leading to the useless areas were blocked by making them impassable and changing the wall textures appropriately. While playing this version we found it fitting to our playing style.</p><p>I remembered really clearly poking this one level, but the things following it were much less clear in my mind. Of course I may have been now building some fake memories too, but I think we went through a similar process over a number of the normal levels. Thinking about this afterwards made me believe that most of our "<i>useless area</i>" complaints were caused by the levels being large and on modems we could only play 1vs1 games instead of three- or four-Doomguy massacres.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The pain of creation<br /></span></h2><p>At some point a couple of us friends decided that we could poke the level editor a bit more, to go a bit further than just editing the existing levels. Like so many other beginners, I started copying something from the real world. I tried to recreate my friend X's home (he lived in a two-floor rowhouse) both inside and outside while I had no understanding of how not-easy it was going to be - if even possible. Of course I made a sauna, and <i>of course</i> you got more damage the higher up you went. Just. like. in. every. single. Doom sauna. ever.</p><p>Somehow this one level "<i>hey, let's make X's home for Deatchmatch</i>" idea developed into a full single-player episode. Two of us made the level editing work, and the third did the filling with items. Planning and playtesting we did tightly together. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD5wd2IoaCdgrwBUMsNqt_fIfJFPnS8XA5aOdWuj8bxnII9xahExtGEV9y-jPqrqHPvXmFZGf8md2XgPv9YJSUix4cnrO7PXZInG28SjxcKg7VyR3LnmAa7VuqUk2NLwQj0eKKFhMEkbnbJIL4GMieAWXeUz8Vak_z5BgGE1rS-obWQz211AZ8yPQ9ZFE/s720/Doom-Parallel-disc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="720" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD5wd2IoaCdgrwBUMsNqt_fIfJFPnS8XA5aOdWuj8bxnII9xahExtGEV9y-jPqrqHPvXmFZGf8md2XgPv9YJSUix4cnrO7PXZInG28SjxcKg7VyR3LnmAa7VuqUk2NLwQj0eKKFhMEkbnbJIL4GMieAWXeUz8Vak_z5BgGE1rS-obWQz211AZ8yPQ9ZFE/w640-h534/Doom-Parallel-disc.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4xYMQREkRfueYDH3MNUHKUYljPF2MOgAsLyLVs3T_SxVg88kHYZ2xQJyqV2TcQfEOTDGTdDVn_AtT_bTjE3uvwGCILFtCmH-IR92b1PiXmUEcE1AhRv73SslvccV1qggzcW7ZGe27dbi5WXMIQY_g4kpsccQKM45u8lF4UPfgGO36uLR0PemHXP8LcUA/s640/Doom-PT-level-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4xYMQREkRfueYDH3MNUHKUYljPF2MOgAsLyLVs3T_SxVg88kHYZ2xQJyqV2TcQfEOTDGTdDVn_AtT_bTjE3uvwGCILFtCmH-IR92b1PiXmUEcE1AhRv73SslvccV1qggzcW7ZGe27dbi5WXMIQY_g4kpsccQKM45u8lF4UPfgGO36uLR0PemHXP8LcUA/w640-h400/Doom-PT-level-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">📷 (c) Sir Robin<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Being unaware of the engine and its <a href="https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Static_limits">limitations</a> we managed to overgrow our levels (IIRC the fifth level started throwing a fatal visplane overflow error when you got to a specific point in the level's critical path). X, being an excited internaut found out a new Doom Source Port – Team TNT's Boom – removed the visplane limit and added tons of cool new features.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha12zOUp1XaUNVCVoiyotgTMu2yoFM8CCtIn_4pS3ZjRMCvrOR59nL34eTFFgfo3FFS2JPj9hrtURmlFR1_lFWG6PvwkIBAWKWZksQkaPF4mLnwKcE4rVOljcJano8FJ8R9cqzvMNhgTalt8srbQxVP-kn6LVG-0j5FfBCorkd_dRBxj7QMMsYUhCEDwE/s640/Doom-PT-level-5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha12zOUp1XaUNVCVoiyotgTMu2yoFM8CCtIn_4pS3ZjRMCvrOR59nL34eTFFgfo3FFS2JPj9hrtURmlFR1_lFWG6PvwkIBAWKWZksQkaPF4mLnwKcE4rVOljcJano8FJ8R9cqzvMNhgTalt8srbQxVP-kn6LVG-0j5FfBCorkd_dRBxj7QMMsYUhCEDwE/w640-h400/Doom-PT-level-5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">📷 (c) Sir Robin</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>As one would have expected, we started using the new features and tricks excitedly, but the already finished levels had things I complained back in the day and I still hated them, like the third level's one pixel too deep acid pits that you couldn't get out of. Or the invisible impassable linedef in the next screenshot's area - it made no sense without anything blocking, but supposedly "<i>anything else would've looked stupid</i>". Both the first two levels had some illogicalities and some of the universally loathed "<i>if you don't guess in advance that that's unescapable, it's your own fault for being stupid</i>" deathtraps, and I bet we went against a bunch of Romer's original Doom Level Design Basic Rules that we had been oblivious about. We learned to behave on our own during this project of hours, but but... One key issue that we should've thought about was to make the first level last instead of trying to build things sequentially. But that was us then, and it was a quarter of a century ago.</p><p>While digging my memories I tried to find some screenshots to show, but I didn't manage to find anything I truly wanted. X was, already at that point, eager to update every place with the latest stuff and hiding anything older than a month, let alone 20+ years.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxEeyZBABFlJy6Di6cem63Koi2Rl1GUKA31XSjbF7ZtJqncVVDGJh0E2_vAykVjroVZxxJFsZFSGgoxMpKBLk9u8FWJqebQ79oRbicOxzMNT00LS40Ar8HxTiBls52VD6sAiqC55hfiL0SXC6EDCkRJp-vEYVY3KJdPzOql4nH25SQmGJpe4ESC82_QYg/s640/Doom-PT-level-end.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxEeyZBABFlJy6Di6cem63Koi2Rl1GUKA31XSjbF7ZtJqncVVDGJh0E2_vAykVjroVZxxJFsZFSGgoxMpKBLk9u8FWJqebQ79oRbicOxzMNT00LS40Ar8HxTiBls52VD6sAiqC55hfiL0SXC6EDCkRJp-vEYVY3KJdPzOql4nH25SQmGJpe4ESC82_QYg/w640-h400/Doom-PT-level-end.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">📷 (c) Sir Robin</td></tr></tbody></table><p>After some digging I got to Sir Robin's Castle and he had a review and an astonishing set of 11 screenshots. Those I used because I didn't have anything original quickly available. Here the last photo showed Duke Nukem 3D's (and TNT:Evilution's level 19: "<i>Shipping/Respawning</i>") effect with the real world copying, and that I hadn't fixed the x-offsets of the linedefs even though they were very clearly off. One of the limitations of the editor we used back in the day was, as noticeable, the minimum of 8px separation between vertices.</p><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Silly tests<br /></span></h4><p><span style="font-size: small;">In addition to our so-called official episode, I had some silliness projects with Z. With those we played with ZDoom's new tricks, effects and features like adding new animated linedefs and sector textures in addition to the pre-existing ones, making some sort of intros and cutscenes with self-recorded voicelines and subtitles, making floating bridges and whatnot.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Then all of it just <i>fell away</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Those ancient silly maps have been lost to /dev/null over the years and computer changes. None of those were published, that I knew.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">The itching in the brain<br /></span></h3><p><span style="font-size: small;">Occasionally I've found myself thinking if I should install both Dooms and the addons (gzdoom as the source port, zeth for level editing and if someone had a better suggestion, I was open for ideas) to see what kind of stupid nonsense I could come up with. Eevee's <a href="https://eev.ee/blog/2015/12/19/you-should-make-a-doom-level-part-1/">articleset</a> <i>almost</i> got me off my buttocks last year, but I didn't have time for everything. If I got truly mad, I could even try it on Steam Deck but I wasn't too confident on using the editors without a separate mouse + keyboard.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">As a leveltype I've always been most fond of the Techbase levels, which made out most of Knee-deep in the Dead. The Inferno levels were always awfully messy-looking and even ugly (thinking primarily of <i>Mt. Erebus</i> what was chock-full of that animated blue-red wall). So if the inspiration bit me a tiny bit more forcefully and time wasn't so limiting, I could see myself poking at something simple again.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">A funny thing, in October I chatted with a colleague about Doom maps and zdoom's craftier tricks. Standing by the stairwell in the lower floor of the office, we started talking how to implement the Room over Room effect in a convincing way in zdoom.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">For some reason moving the polyobjects has taken an amount of processing time in my head lately. Not just because they'd allow some funky-ass space doors, but neat bridges over poisonous sludge that would roll sideways out of the wall with its safety fences and all. A bit like the walkway rises in E1M5 <i>Phobos Lab</i>, but much, <i>much</i> neater.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqytPZwGdhgCLWzvhD1lpj-3TlaktwHmJm9_Yb-ngG3RsnpiLUWQ5_dwGPjdNoX7dDQTGsiZv2MZsB3pa4N3HRJWGm531bVaqNljT0DMRF4B1_ZhfehZEeC_J8AdaGxUDuX5MOszyDwgtQrW1uQisi5VbG7poqZSB8eGTFloL8qBc936X-nCeKkxThP0U/s800/Doom-e1m5-isometric.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="800" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqytPZwGdhgCLWzvhD1lpj-3TlaktwHmJm9_Yb-ngG3RsnpiLUWQ5_dwGPjdNoX7dDQTGsiZv2MZsB3pa4N3HRJWGm531bVaqNljT0DMRF4B1_ZhfehZEeC_J8AdaGxUDuX5MOszyDwgtQrW1uQisi5VbG7poqZSB8eGTFloL8qBc936X-nCeKkxThP0U/w640-h430/Doom-e1m5-isometric.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://ian-albert.com/games/doom_maps/">https://ian-albert.com/games/doom_maps/</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Anyone reading my nonsense over these many years may have noticed the natural progress of my ponderings at this volume. Now the only problem was - like I said before - time, the most limited resource we had...</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Doomed texts</span><br /></span></h3><p><span style="font-size: small;">A bit less time-consuming has been my low-burn python3 nonsense, that I was writing just for my own amusement sometime earlier, and that I even commented in the <a href="https://projectmumblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/its-teenager-now.html">yearly post 2023</a>. This script had no interaction whatsoever, it just randomizes the starting variables and starts running 1vs1 duels between Doomguy and a randomly chosen (the maxIndex for the array grows by one per round until it covers it all) enemy. In these screenshots below I had ended in the latest version, where just about all of the descriptions were set as colour-coded placeholders:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZY1RMe8PmsCnfg7jXUA-lqfvF_Y2EnA8z7X9VMbxUyZTSmjzUEk8aAMFb5kTikwmFDPB1L5h5dACSRlPS1RkERfkhswMFu2gKfWXRFAo5wYHJsmNJX8nsR512zsCCjopstq1HGWDdHgqGkYCiRTJEDU9CjZ5937pv4n0PL-6D9rBAEwa5PRUsswwOBOE/s800/Doom-story-generator-1-start.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="800" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZY1RMe8PmsCnfg7jXUA-lqfvF_Y2EnA8z7X9VMbxUyZTSmjzUEk8aAMFb5kTikwmFDPB1L5h5dACSRlPS1RkERfkhswMFu2gKfWXRFAo5wYHJsmNJX8nsR512zsCCjopstq1HGWDdHgqGkYCiRTJEDU9CjZ5937pv4n0PL-6D9rBAEwa5PRUsswwOBOE/w640-h170/Doom-story-generator-1-start.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">In addition to the basic stats the only important value that was handled was the generic distance, based on which Doomguy and the different enemy classes (close combat enemies like Demons; purely shooting enemies like the Cyberdemon; or those who could do both like the Revenants) chose how to move in that round: trying to get closer to attack / keep the distance / get further away, and then attack if they could. The stats and such were of course taken from Doomwiki to get the values exactly as they were supposed to be. I did one key change, and that was if Doomguy had the Berserk pack and he was within charging (running) distance -> the weapon was autoswitched to [0] Fist and the distance was driven to 0 so that Doomguy could start ripping and tearing. Adding the capital B into Berserking, that is.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyeudTh0Bj56g7m-_AIoyj_NZtPrMwNdRrno3y4R12hyphenhyphenJB0XhuBBtq4-F1ju7-0bIGMJDU-RzV0vTVUQOYh7XxdX-z5X3CPItnusMeW4Sx-Mss70M4aNlb5Ul23f2K2CI4LAOvUH0VXVJXKJytFvpZm3M80jyq1UzaesGOa7Umov1Vr25e60Q1dIjMvyE/s548/Doom-story-generator-2-midgame-print.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="548" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyeudTh0Bj56g7m-_AIoyj_NZtPrMwNdRrno3y4R12hyphenhyphenJB0XhuBBtq4-F1ju7-0bIGMJDU-RzV0vTVUQOYh7XxdX-z5X3CPItnusMeW4Sx-Mss70M4aNlb5Ul23f2K2CI4LAOvUH0VXVJXKJytFvpZm3M80jyq1UzaesGOa7Umov1Vr25e60Q1dIjMvyE/w640-h330/Doom-story-generator-2-midgame-print.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">My delusional plan was that this would just print slowly (at more or less my reading pace) a continually proceeding story of Doomguy diving deeper into a level, gathering stuff and killing enemies. Even in the earlier and less well-structured code it was much more entertaining than scrolling throuh zwitter, years before the ownership change and what crap followed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp1MEEVYVdBfUsuMkvqAUs1Z6kc44Xh8c86ief17XUzBjgpojJzlxHajvuqbqo4-FH2FMazRqxcN1tVCYoxaNi_F1WTqAaaF7ZNqVPslNQz0-GZPKtSgBNC_ckr02_jU6GpMTRYUDv01iW6ixPj3VqWuyfwq64vdm2b57icSBVsbCG_Dfp-8IgdeKNNj4/s742/Doom-story-generator-3-end.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="742" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp1MEEVYVdBfUsuMkvqAUs1Z6kc44Xh8c86ief17XUzBjgpojJzlxHajvuqbqo4-FH2FMazRqxcN1tVCYoxaNi_F1WTqAaaF7ZNqVPslNQz0-GZPKtSgBNC_ckr02_jU6GpMTRYUDv01iW6ixPj3VqWuyfwq64vdm2b57icSBVsbCG_Dfp-8IgdeKNNj4/w640-h466/Doom-story-generator-3-end.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: small;">And <i>of course</i> the script kept statistics of how the adventure had gone, how many monsters were slain and so on. While writing this text up I didn't doublecheck, but I remembered that the final row's death description was just as randomized as every other not-Doom-source-based text. Maybe I'd write a silly post about this supremely interesting and silly miniproject in a different post, even if this was just another hat-tip to the original Doom and its effect on me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-aRccYqO1tyDmU_-3E4rC1FlzfBAkniU1FCyRfDz1wi0KGJmovwzIiNTngwI88KMQQ9aAo5EnYEfJYFGKw-VXYtozIMuLZShvVLUhTEmKQL9qsz5i5b1xwfnDi7SaqNSBRxDoJsxrAINqJ_23cYe67ovHzIZfrvytCJU_WD_j-LcpsVKeRcZpATZuD-M_/s321/Doom-steam-activity.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-aRccYqO1tyDmU_-3E4rC1FlzfBAkniU1FCyRfDz1wi0KGJmovwzIiNTngwI88KMQQ9aAo5EnYEfJYFGKw-VXYtozIMuLZShvVLUhTEmKQL9qsz5i5b1xwfnDi7SaqNSBRxDoJsxrAINqJ_23cYe67ovHzIZfrvytCJU_WD_j-LcpsVKeRcZpATZuD-M_/s16000/Doom-steam-activity.PNG" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><p></p><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;">Final words</span><br /></h2><p><span style="font-size: small;">No matter how much time has passed and what else I have encountered, Doom has never faded away. You all had your own experiences with it, I surely have anchored myself with it pretty damn tightly.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">I wouldn't leave if I were you. DOS is much worse.</span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></b></p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-83255725647479762342023-12-06T12:00:00.000+02:002024-01-17T09:45:01.463+02:00Finished: Project II/23<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The personal BattleMech of the Arcduke of Arc-Royal<br /></span></h2><p>First things first: my memories and knowledge of the co-founder of Kell Hounds were mostly based on the Classic BattleTech novels I read in early 2000s that told the main storyline. Of the Inner Sphere side, I've only read the Blood of Kerensky -trilogy multiple times, but I was going to get to reread the Warrior trilogy soon enough.</p><p>During the Clan invasion Morgan Kell didn't seem to spend that much time on the battlefield (excluding the Battle of Luthien, of course) as the stories concentrated more on the next generation. Somehow I had this idea that such a big shot, mister-sir colonel was mostly operating a propaganda-worthy 'Mech. Pretty often the artwork of 'spheroid 'Mechs had lots of personalizations like graffiti, victory markings, catchphrases and whatnot. In my opinion those didn't suit this character, which is why I painted this mini as a "pure" Kell Hound.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJv1e3MWuK8u9P30zy8sPCnImwRuI0EXvx8tqsk5Mz-GDEV7H39VXq90mCGcvW7piwtZjPTO9WJe1WmCFoOwKwzYA8ttky8C1_UWxRSyLj4uA4l7F6ryCOJPozicuRu0StkGATl925TTkDoqxLifP4ECpE3jpHnkerx2eNFihejOiB6CGmX8e7oLXfpE/s1024/ARC-2R-Morgan-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="1024" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJv1e3MWuK8u9P30zy8sPCnImwRuI0EXvx8tqsk5Mz-GDEV7H39VXq90mCGcvW7piwtZjPTO9WJe1WmCFoOwKwzYA8ttky8C1_UWxRSyLj4uA4l7F6ryCOJPozicuRu0StkGATl925TTkDoqxLifP4ECpE3jpHnkerx2eNFihejOiB6CGmX8e7oLXfpE/w640-h608/ARC-2R-Morgan-10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I felt that the cockpit effect worked pretty nicely from a certain point of view - or some points of view, even though it had its issues. The next ones would be better again.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">ARC-2R Archer Morgan</span><br /></h3><p>The original stock-set ARC-2R had been updated during the Clan invasion with some Star League and tech stolen from fallen Clan Warriors. Its LRM launchers were relaced with Clan LRM-20s with the fantastic Artemis IV fire control system, single Heat Sinks were replaced with doubles, which freed up space for more armour and missiles, CASE, and for an Active Probe. None of this was visible outside except for the CASE panels, so all this was just for backstory purposes in this project.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdj6ClDSoeZawYl9ejCDTa2lC3Ubx1nueQ12Bxjgu-1t9BZ3OYortvAFmxQhCvTAoHGkU4bAsFrRqJwn4jR2s3X8bKGGtvSboCvLkjFOZdK7fa6c9Qa7Ddgy8ETcbEc8hw3jDv0cvsPY0GB-uHpN3L13cMXB6pYN42gqljUfbz1d4bF2QOoAi4kTmV0I/s1024/ARC-2R-Morgan-11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1018" data-original-width="1024" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLdj6ClDSoeZawYl9ejCDTa2lC3Ubx1nueQ12Bxjgu-1t9BZ3OYortvAFmxQhCvTAoHGkU4bAsFrRqJwn4jR2s3X8bKGGtvSboCvLkjFOZdK7fa6c9Qa7Ddgy8ETcbEc8hw3jDv0cvsPY0GB-uHpN3L13cMXB6pYN42gqljUfbz1d4bF2QOoAi4kTmV0I/w640-h636/ARC-2R-Morgan-11.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>One thing I was wondering, how didn't they replace the Diverse Optics lasers with Clan-sourced ER Lasers. Perhaps the greatly improved LRMs with Artemis IV were a performance leap enough.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvE0OXJykRHbTu0SpmSQR9CaRMbc4X0RtbNXq1iKfwN5jEiW1qY3YsJk-PcIEK-3TASVoBoNhCg4v5ENwbPLfJaqI0DBubIrObzXvsN1IAhJeJVT-Dj5YGE0Q2vXqUKPOXM5Pmslh07CWxFLiSWKkqnWcY8OnXSAMOCHc7eEvwBFAQ24cvqtOz8do6nSs/s1167/ARC-2R-Morgan-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1167" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvE0OXJykRHbTu0SpmSQR9CaRMbc4X0RtbNXq1iKfwN5jEiW1qY3YsJk-PcIEK-3TASVoBoNhCg4v5ENwbPLfJaqI0DBubIrObzXvsN1IAhJeJVT-Dj5YGE0Q2vXqUKPOXM5Pmslh07CWxFLiSWKkqnWcY8OnXSAMOCHc7eEvwBFAQ24cvqtOz8do6nSs/w562-h640/ARC-2R-Morgan-1.jpg" width="562" /></a></div><p></p><p>This hex base looked neat. Maybe I should repeat the same process a couple of times in the future to be sure.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOWzkeRc4Hv0K5HGwFJ_ZhytAuR4WX0Pam1dV0rdBODAWKQ4EGOYSmsBUSVuTAxNV5kOLEAhSNIsl9tUOHpLkXM5bw1idvNJ1Lf6XPyi5SUkPeBK5yd_wkR2J4cSOFoWNvdYtHrlB_rpDFknh2bwnIxi4usKfcdvp-L6w80ovrfZOL0y1eFNmgLQcHWGU/s1026/ARC-2R-Morgan-9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOWzkeRc4Hv0K5HGwFJ_ZhytAuR4WX0Pam1dV0rdBODAWKQ4EGOYSmsBUSVuTAxNV5kOLEAhSNIsl9tUOHpLkXM5bw1idvNJ1Lf6XPyi5SUkPeBK5yd_wkR2J4cSOFoWNvdYtHrlB_rpDFknh2bwnIxi4usKfcdvp-L6w80ovrfZOL0y1eFNmgLQcHWGU/w638-h640/ARC-2R-Morgan-9.jpg" width="638" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_mgspMa1u4E_2NPmu20_gwp7iqQa4Jw-frPmSoZD_EmKftRDXjLu2K1ikcPPrTO0JBPQgK1Iq4w9wJ427g_baCr0Do2Q5J29CaLz_3VSxQMstkbV1iQBQ6fJ8RUgDxJvi1H3EA6hDZtMavqg7mfEjpGRW_xPRc-qhHVDIQI027IP5hOV8_k2KnHHTSA/s1037/ARC-2R-Morgan-8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_mgspMa1u4E_2NPmu20_gwp7iqQa4Jw-frPmSoZD_EmKftRDXjLu2K1ikcPPrTO0JBPQgK1Iq4w9wJ427g_baCr0Do2Q5J29CaLz_3VSxQMstkbV1iQBQ6fJ8RUgDxJvi1H3EA6hDZtMavqg7mfEjpGRW_xPRc-qhHVDIQI027IP5hOV8_k2KnHHTSA/w632-h640/ARC-2R-Morgan-8.jpg" width="632" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLN4UajMxUVmrtYkYsiaACu_Wy8k482MAG4TUCJR_AfSU3laQn1MoHCVXMzlXZK0va3aCsw2vTbicte8_ZOom9wtcvz-3LBk5dG92cN_5okA7Hf9e-Ib9o5-4oB1Exi9ZYhYiBWhFr9ZneF5Lb6Nrv6lMk-sBUfWUNApYzIegOGBhhK_-fuJveHBLzPLQ/s1156/ARC-2R-Morgan-7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLN4UajMxUVmrtYkYsiaACu_Wy8k482MAG4TUCJR_AfSU3laQn1MoHCVXMzlXZK0va3aCsw2vTbicte8_ZOom9wtcvz-3LBk5dG92cN_5okA7Hf9e-Ib9o5-4oB1Exi9ZYhYiBWhFr9ZneF5Lb6Nrv6lMk-sBUfWUNApYzIegOGBhhK_-fuJveHBLzPLQ/w566-h640/ARC-2R-Morgan-7.jpg" width="566" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZQS2SzFOl6FLqnQUAuDa0Mj96AShznPH2QUWVRbxzy4iKSWRiwSjp7BSfjM9y8ykgwQO-BfwgOa__Pzx7pjz1MvXrHCz6gQeBZc_OBzzTMPUQ2mC_UuBjeTuPSi1b6NeCMypC0C9a9ohR8QEKWSEIR5Ch7w4XDbD1nRnc6EiSJ0a-uDPRZkABsOS7Xtg/s1088/ARC-2R-Morgan-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZQS2SzFOl6FLqnQUAuDa0Mj96AShznPH2QUWVRbxzy4iKSWRiwSjp7BSfjM9y8ykgwQO-BfwgOa__Pzx7pjz1MvXrHCz6gQeBZc_OBzzTMPUQ2mC_UuBjeTuPSi1b6NeCMypC0C9a9ohR8QEKWSEIR5Ch7w4XDbD1nRnc6EiSJ0a-uDPRZkABsOS7Xtg/w602-h640/ARC-2R-Morgan-6.jpg" width="602" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIKlxvNa68YnmOJw0kWRMtLl5Mi6cAiK5KAjjmuWkT4wTeVVMTMI6ZmOlSlafHUTAo6w8k-BFKxDgDJWQpdzFZy12g_toxYxoW_srtMiC5QWwRyhnWNyHeF7DY3i3ACgCxWW7-a4fOVloDLLbvLqe0HANWUHfkw8lpeCvF0XhEyhzfbAXe3Nh_tbSBrc0/s1024/ARC-2R-Morgan-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="1024" height="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIKlxvNa68YnmOJw0kWRMtLl5Mi6cAiK5KAjjmuWkT4wTeVVMTMI6ZmOlSlafHUTAo6w8k-BFKxDgDJWQpdzFZy12g_toxYxoW_srtMiC5QWwRyhnWNyHeF7DY3i3ACgCxWW7-a4fOVloDLLbvLqe0HANWUHfkw8lpeCvF0XhEyhzfbAXe3Nh_tbSBrc0/w640-h620/ARC-2R-Morgan-5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Hmct8V6bE6zUqwiRMyuxvJNil4zkA2sgBmMl6cah28LWe_YLImvhq5391bFd5t6UHm6l0-S_7JdOU2NLolGic1kEo9bmMLQNyNRfQurL2kkr__R8EJ95wiBSnG5dCZEaTkJSqDdFPlD8270nZN6cVnS-FMZH51YxOcaCNu5IpJnmYkejy-J58Klc0W4/s1024/ARC-2R-Morgan-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1024" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Hmct8V6bE6zUqwiRMyuxvJNil4zkA2sgBmMl6cah28LWe_YLImvhq5391bFd5t6UHm6l0-S_7JdOU2NLolGic1kEo9bmMLQNyNRfQurL2kkr__R8EJ95wiBSnG5dCZEaTkJSqDdFPlD8270nZN6cVnS-FMZH51YxOcaCNu5IpJnmYkejy-J58Klc0W4/w640-h616/ARC-2R-Morgan-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>That was it, of course I forgot to actually check how much time I had used, but I didn't think it took even three hours of active work time. I wrote up five process posts, in the calendar I think it spread over seven different days.</p><p>Taking and editing this handful of photos didn't take much time either, less than an hour in all. My original guesstimate was that I'd get this completed within a 7,5h workday and I ended up using about half of it. In a way it was funny to think that one single miniature took a bunch of hours, but on the other hand maybe I've moved forward from the time when I managed to build, paint and (badly) photograph a Ju-87 in one short evening... Hopefully the end results have improved since that.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-90773538633203543312023-11-29T12:00:00.000+02:002024-01-17T09:44:57.359+02:00Lasers, Viewports and the Hex base<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The fine-tuning stage with fine details</span></h2><p>After the oily weathering sessions the Archer had been sitting in a dry and hopefully dustless place for a few days. Now I only had a couple of quick, easy but for an eager person very time-consuming details left. Being an amateur and otherwise quite unskilled painter, I wasn't going to spend hours on the lenses and their jeweling effects. The same method that I used on the Assault Star was going to suit this as well.</p><h3><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Lenses on the Lasers<br /></span></h3><p>I had four pieces of Diverse Optics type 18 Medium Lasers to paint. Two of them were in the Lower Arms, according to the lore there was supposed to be a turret-like thing over the head for the remaining two but the mini looked like they were in the backside, L/R Torso. I may have called them exhaust pipes a couple of posts ago.</p><p>These four ERLas cannons I painted the exact same way as the previous lasers: a green (VGA 72732 Escorpena Green) layer on the bottom. Then I mixed in a drop of white (VMA 71270 RAL9001 White) to get a lighter green, painted the lower right sector (if we were looking at a clock, it'd be something like the 1600-1900 area). Had these been larger, I'd done a third layer but nope. Instead I added a white drop to 1700 on each.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCdM4FB4AC3Q5fisRGXgheogpUwJxfjeWC4jzXcjQ2pToPQlglMBZCsCzJ3KhneUG87p_Eo85ysxKMQFHZbqNUNQ2JPoapNAeLZcWhPovOYP5L8c5ax6QAno_4HeX1-DS7Gcm9OJ2F24zrwdW73_aSqh6u48rfDlneKC3R9TWAPLxji1wlArsgNd2yz68/s682/Archer_wip-049-underarm-mlasers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="682" height="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCdM4FB4AC3Q5fisRGXgheogpUwJxfjeWC4jzXcjQ2pToPQlglMBZCsCzJ3KhneUG87p_Eo85ysxKMQFHZbqNUNQ2JPoapNAeLZcWhPovOYP5L8c5ax6QAno_4HeX1-DS7Gcm9OJ2F24zrwdW73_aSqh6u48rfDlneKC3R9TWAPLxji1wlArsgNd2yz68/w640-h564/Archer_wip-049-underarm-mlasers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLdkk2amQs8t9vMRZ78LhvYXHxHU5acx6hcR0cqsLzEiJAeE5HkLhTEAEdyhO5N33u9ZsYV7uWEiNpwd8tm5wPZuewlt30NhWuVroIWVRakfD6Mq76lUfJoE-XlYCZU9IF-1KJO7wNsquA3Tm9a7-FD5usxLI0ra-XMMhpCiKAtjSJ7taPAN1_pT_oyts/s800/Archer_wip-050-underarm-mlasers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="800" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLdkk2amQs8t9vMRZ78LhvYXHxHU5acx6hcR0cqsLzEiJAeE5HkLhTEAEdyhO5N33u9ZsYV7uWEiNpwd8tm5wPZuewlt30NhWuVroIWVRakfD6Mq76lUfJoE-XlYCZU9IF-1KJO7wNsquA3Tm9a7-FD5usxLI0ra-XMMhpCiKAtjSJ7taPAN1_pT_oyts/w640-h428/Archer_wip-050-underarm-mlasers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb5cVcrVAOfRsMTLieveL5YMMeuTJAFtsvsLRSzjNDL8wmTmcjCCIsgiHARrhrDvki-b2OYp7EvUff1BOAPpmDTZBOX6HWVVCfJoy_qQQrKqf3wfx6ZaadGNxVcjVv2-8wQdW1fjr7yqCX48clUvNJKEXhfQ4q6o6AGge6D-pd8GntpYUOR-pz5GVQcno/s800/Archer_wip-051-reartorso-mlasers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="800" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb5cVcrVAOfRsMTLieveL5YMMeuTJAFtsvsLRSzjNDL8wmTmcjCCIsgiHARrhrDvki-b2OYp7EvUff1BOAPpmDTZBOX6HWVVCfJoy_qQQrKqf3wfx6ZaadGNxVcjVv2-8wQdW1fjr7yqCX48clUvNJKEXhfQ4q6o6AGge6D-pd8GntpYUOR-pz5GVQcno/w640-h366/Archer_wip-051-reartorso-mlasers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p> At least they stood out nicely.<br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Cockpit canopy<br /></span></h3><p>I had chosen green as the cockpit colour for this unit some twelve years ago, so that's what I kept using. The viewports had already been painted dark grey, so I didn't need to worry about them anymore.</p><p>The base was a green (VGA 72730 Goblin Green) layer on both panes. Then I lightened my paint up a bit and added a slightly smaller area from the bottom right corners. Due to the smallness of the bits I only did three layers. Finally I painted a white dot into the top left corners. The dots could've been smaller, but such was life.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQCCBuaEkxaAsjQCgHk8b3qpxxwCcAFj7E-aUuYvpGP6olHeuRwJgh9m5kgTSvFtZucDYxkYe7lIDYwgVqHynuGWvU7D9o50mB3lNpTqiSygv0YDthlNDK7pZYs9M514fcRWTpE92A_vnN2e8BgOVOu1pgtVPTxYwIAwahOJuD_R3TgdcVi9AoUQ0-voo/s755/Archer_wip-052-canopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="755" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQCCBuaEkxaAsjQCgHk8b3qpxxwCcAFj7E-aUuYvpGP6olHeuRwJgh9m5kgTSvFtZucDYxkYe7lIDYwgVqHynuGWvU7D9o50mB3lNpTqiSygv0YDthlNDK7pZYs9M514fcRWTpE92A_vnN2e8BgOVOu1pgtVPTxYwIAwahOJuD_R3TgdcVi9AoUQ0-voo/w640-h508/Archer_wip-052-canopy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>After that I painted the hex edges dark grey. Now they looked uniform and also fit in wonderfully with the caution stripes on the front edge.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGEHf2FmviHK6NLPTdtqMQm3gqEKt6L3hckan81B6T2f5lKpUm3gltMyeHiIVR3WllzYDmewG1VjpNG9sIa5ewiWmWKUBTHuVIVJ3UVxS4vCO2QSZpRrwmSObb75wainl_iIgcRaWp3NA9qG_zl8NGjxn60TnM2o0WcVapM2Viuk4AcsNF4rSYv7ywmgE/s670/Archer_wip-053-canopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="670" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGEHf2FmviHK6NLPTdtqMQm3gqEKt6L3hckan81B6T2f5lKpUm3gltMyeHiIVR3WllzYDmewG1VjpNG9sIa5ewiWmWKUBTHuVIVJ3UVxS4vCO2QSZpRrwmSObb75wainl_iIgcRaWp3NA9qG_zl8NGjxn60TnM2o0WcVapM2Viuk4AcsNF4rSYv7ywmgE/w640-h574/Archer_wip-053-canopy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>I certainly wasn't going to become a shade or gradient master. If needed, I might still fix the armour edges with dark grey if the greens went annoyingly over.</p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The ground to stomp on<br /></span></h3><p>Now the hex base was the difficult one, as I hadn't decided it years or months ago. I didn't intend to do anything complicated, especially on a quick snack project.</p><p>Somehow I remembered that I had somewhere the years old Woodland Scenics stuff and when checking I found I had two bags of those (Ballast, Fine, Light Gray and Buff - the light gray was open so I used that). I covered the ground with white glue and let it cure a short moment.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6yC6srYAeXPbnfpM-d8Shidk5lb6btNMCuBWvIbivx7CXfY8fkWeK8bL4xJI1sFB6h2NmU7MRUmNuXc_UEB4Puhxg9eeMkmiH0U8w2D-41-3ihzNqijyZGhy3m6oolZ3rdj5UWG_5LofYk5O8Di5e0hBt9vNUuuN8kxQmCZeN27FHrKoDix14KE9GZfE/s800/Archer_wip-054-baseprep.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="800" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6yC6srYAeXPbnfpM-d8Shidk5lb6btNMCuBWvIbivx7CXfY8fkWeK8bL4xJI1sFB6h2NmU7MRUmNuXc_UEB4Puhxg9eeMkmiH0U8w2D-41-3ihzNqijyZGhy3m6oolZ3rdj5UWG_5LofYk5O8Di5e0hBt9vNUuuN8kxQmCZeN27FHrKoDix14KE9GZfE/w640-h414/Archer_wip-054-baseprep.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>On the base I sprinkled an amount of the light gray ballast and added a couple of shreds of their fake greenery (I had two types of that too: Coarse Turf, Medium Green and Foliage, Light Green). This was a generally functioning base, I have done these before.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-X5QH8lgUvaywcKJ5xItn-x-1yvcI-b0T7c66I9P-0SfVdLotQakEChYxguGOtPMiMIR8hRiRcjuLV5dP2dfwqQgkIte7-pWtgLqjTpxSohVZyxRaGxpoxlBAvtmWyUtnIvVrofojQnxGCgwyNdVsns90UKyYx04r-byOHQO7jUiE1gMNUdzXaotI4zc/s724/Archer_wip-055-base-ballast.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="724" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-X5QH8lgUvaywcKJ5xItn-x-1yvcI-b0T7c66I9P-0SfVdLotQakEChYxguGOtPMiMIR8hRiRcjuLV5dP2dfwqQgkIte7-pWtgLqjTpxSohVZyxRaGxpoxlBAvtmWyUtnIvVrofojQnxGCgwyNdVsns90UKyYx04r-byOHQO7jUiE1gMNUdzXaotI4zc/w640-h530/Archer_wip-055-base-ballast.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimqLU83o4elyO8BF6dkT-Lq733qZtUzxBcsOM6VSgo9g3xEwE2-cSrTjX6TUjRr4mII5AvqM0MSFkphhSPFQB1i2cbPd6muOYczmC0_rlbdSrN38RoxUmRRgZI9wPQgqsLU_txgC0tQIMgCAusbjPSHr4X5S5eu9egL7KH7DnPyZB7wc998PxP04TlmUg/s800/Archer_wip-056-base-ballast.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="800" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimqLU83o4elyO8BF6dkT-Lq733qZtUzxBcsOM6VSgo9g3xEwE2-cSrTjX6TUjRr4mII5AvqM0MSFkphhSPFQB1i2cbPd6muOYczmC0_rlbdSrN38RoxUmRRgZI9wPQgqsLU_txgC0tQIMgCAusbjPSHr4X5S5eu9egL7KH7DnPyZB7wc998PxP04TlmUg/w640-h430/Archer_wip-056-base-ballast.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>I stopped to think if I should tint this pretty light-coloured ballast a bit? I could mix some sort of a brown oil wash, that'd bring the ground more to the earthy look, now it looked like sun-baked desert. While thinking of this option I left the mini to dry overnight.</p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Oiled earths<br /></span></h3><p>Luckily I had a six-tube weathering colours set, that was a great source. I started by making a brown wash (ABT093 Earth) and applied it just about all over the ballast ground.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRAmeHv3sGroiRXPucrXWO6xgT551BrhV2wGPy_xvaybrdAz9fpc5NmViIpnm0aJAVhS2Go8vPDH35isn6EfZHXTUdbCTlgUsyj0Adt83h39ZSrFYqhz6YGIH8ycbPgcJkTV3M2A5rBf-1caSQ7ytJwfGiLSmDWSuho0a-E3UWwJSdLhgQ6uCC-4tYGng/s800/Archer_wip-057-earth-wash.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="800" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRAmeHv3sGroiRXPucrXWO6xgT551BrhV2wGPy_xvaybrdAz9fpc5NmViIpnm0aJAVhS2Go8vPDH35isn6EfZHXTUdbCTlgUsyj0Adt83h39ZSrFYqhz6YGIH8ycbPgcJkTV3M2A5rBf-1caSQ7ytJwfGiLSmDWSuho0a-E3UWwJSdLhgQ6uCC-4tYGng/w640-h380/Archer_wip-057-earth-wash.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Something made me think that I shouldn't leave it this way, monocoloured. The set also had two different mud colours, so I made a tiny amount of dark mud (ABT130) and dabbed it into some random spots.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4oq8XvUTJHNiu3U1cHHtUvcbTyFrXwC2sp8QKHnHvXua8dfslIHsqXxdNH-qga_wlvG2Zp4K0LZL02CIR9ZaiRSAUO8rmX64poip5Lr-HuP9F73FNeZC_z5WYdgVbsJeUYgNr9DEzwdFPm9Aq7Z95ZmgHgACGtHoW3AcXwiTtcV9p-uEbKPqLQqtf7Fo/s800/Archer_wip-058-dark-mud-wash.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="800" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4oq8XvUTJHNiu3U1cHHtUvcbTyFrXwC2sp8QKHnHvXua8dfslIHsqXxdNH-qga_wlvG2Zp4K0LZL02CIR9ZaiRSAUO8rmX64poip5Lr-HuP9F73FNeZC_z5WYdgVbsJeUYgNr9DEzwdFPm9Aq7Z95ZmgHgACGtHoW3AcXwiTtcV9p-uEbKPqLQqtf7Fo/w640-h418/Archer_wip-058-dark-mud-wash.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>For extra variety I made a bit of light mud wash (ABT125) and dabbed that into some other spots, including the 'Mech's feet.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyaDieXlZH99_Yqxo-wQdfQSl7dsxFs8-mfiDXz350ft7EUn5IMRPJL14ivZs1wMn4KucT0HSbDKRaThSjgZspXrO7KWqd-51TPKgWxKoJ5nWtbxJ9dv4m2yQ303AGqfvl7EEhRtUgeAAe-4rLnrQPQioa-eBayfYqWkcV0HH93jQ58wd38TuHNmti79g/s800/Archer_wip-059-light-mud-wash.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="800" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyaDieXlZH99_Yqxo-wQdfQSl7dsxFs8-mfiDXz350ft7EUn5IMRPJL14ivZs1wMn4KucT0HSbDKRaThSjgZspXrO7KWqd-51TPKgWxKoJ5nWtbxJ9dv4m2yQ303AGqfvl7EEhRtUgeAAe-4rLnrQPQioa-eBayfYqWkcV0HH93jQ58wd38TuHNmti79g/w640-h464/Archer_wip-059-light-mud-wash.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Now the ground wasn't uniform or boringly monocoloured. While taking these photos the paint was still wet, so the actual end result was going to be visible the next day.</p><p>In addition to the paint drying time this miniature had nothing left, unless I spotted some tiny fixable spots, and applying the gloss varnish on the lenses and viewport panels. Of those I wasn't going to write a separate post anymore, for the next week I intended to get the final photos taken and gimped.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-81851862006913532322023-11-22T12:00:00.000+02:002024-01-17T09:44:51.431+02:00Oil painting<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">A slow-drying weathering operation</span><br /></h2><p>The story so far: I had painted the BattleMech in two short painting sessions on two consecutive evenings. After this I'd have to let my paintwork dry a bit longer, from a couple of days to up to a week, depending on how my calendar behaved.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Sepia</span></h3><p>Preparing the wash for panel lines and gentle shadows was becoming familiar: a small dollop of paint (ABT002 Sepia) onto the palette, add drops of thinner until the result got thin enough. Now I didn't get too stressed about overapplying the wash somewhere, as I knew that it went away quickly and easily whenever I wanted.</p><p>Edge by edge, corner by corner I applied my wash on the panel lines and all the darkenable surfaces. On the LRM launchers the effect was quite nice, even though I hadn't drilled the individual missile ports open. When I had applied my wash thoroughly, I wiped off the excesses pretty soon after. I wanted to keep the flat surfaces, especially the topmost ones and the forearms, clean while the joints, corners, nooks and crannies were allowed to remain darker.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8TKCYto46-Q3-lEkM7YSHHZNA82rW8W4lcMa6oG290F_iTluOOHZLcuDWTKBf8O6LS0UIvoEXyRjYaFuP-IeKi39vZaG0naaqreDoZBJfYpWTX1sGMpgZcbSIN6xY4NeaNj9Z4QsBSbhREFWaaTLi2qWjdaVvq3-8kl1jqo-4IG8JuXXBLUef3y0HFzY/s800/Archer_wip-035-pinwash-shadows.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="800" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8TKCYto46-Q3-lEkM7YSHHZNA82rW8W4lcMa6oG290F_iTluOOHZLcuDWTKBf8O6LS0UIvoEXyRjYaFuP-IeKi39vZaG0naaqreDoZBJfYpWTX1sGMpgZcbSIN6xY4NeaNj9Z4QsBSbhREFWaaTLi2qWjdaVvq3-8kl1jqo-4IG8JuXXBLUef3y0HFzY/w640-h456/Archer_wip-035-pinwash-shadows.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="644" height="596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEDk_PMV9ICwWKsKNP42EpfGWWE82ysO75et7QA5530_rfsOu0Cp2t-j6L10KhQGc54EckQ0k4G4IZztVnuhJplXW8pO1-IfBRG0sdTMa0MGa5AM87NyKmqFAlNIqhtiNY8PhMtFhiW7gbgCZId8e_meAxWLV2o67Dw-wWHTIWhyx85XDgSpbiU6hCXIM/w640-h596/Archer_wip-040-pinwash-shadows.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>This was the state I left it, to dry in peace. The shininess would be mostly gone by the next day, but it wasn't going to be touch-dry anytime soon, but sooner than if I had applied thicker paint. In any case I decided to give it a few days to begin with.</p><p>Three days later the Archer's look was somewhat more subdued. Now it was ready for the next treatment or toning this effect up or down. I was pretty happy with the panels and the shadows, so I didn't give it a new treatment.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh60wENa4gWxvE1RhYZc6USeUdlg0DsGqa0ijEJKyHPWzWv5sb-PG4ZaOZjOE-EqoGbbh7VZzm8jlqi8icsoa5--Y6hFKxCFQKdeIbbW4FWn86Uv2F1J8U1v-7EkqkUWOxYkqPUCF-ZIt5rT3qCdzlqh-LJ4QefD-RIu8lN3gwDAKNLCL8ff4nOd7d221w/s600/Archer_wip-041-shadows-dried.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="466" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh60wENa4gWxvE1RhYZc6USeUdlg0DsGqa0ijEJKyHPWzWv5sb-PG4ZaOZjOE-EqoGbbh7VZzm8jlqi8icsoa5--Y6hFKxCFQKdeIbbW4FWn86Uv2F1J8U1v-7EkqkUWOxYkqPUCF-ZIt5rT3qCdzlqh-LJ4QefD-RIu8lN3gwDAKNLCL8ff4nOd7d221w/w498-h640/Archer_wip-041-shadows-dried.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9zbLAHfSLiNXPFV_6bDSCr_szDMbqjKkmArWplcAVh9LtmBTSvLBu_e1b_D-uxUF66CB8huiBdwD3t7__5KLyBLRPCrebhAi4wSR1ZoQ3S8QqwBGk_bGHsp5z-14kUJnvdePWWH4GRsVXiSeB6Ev5WW0zop-t7A8LnkKPcn60W9bQ6hkPPMxZntsgTRg/s600/Archer_wip-042-shadows-dried.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="545" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9zbLAHfSLiNXPFV_6bDSCr_szDMbqjKkmArWplcAVh9LtmBTSvLBu_e1b_D-uxUF66CB8huiBdwD3t7__5KLyBLRPCrebhAi4wSR1ZoQ3S8QqwBGk_bGHsp5z-14kUJnvdePWWH4GRsVXiSeB6Ev5WW0zop-t7A8LnkKPcn60W9bQ6hkPPMxZntsgTRg/w582-h640/Archer_wip-042-shadows-dried.jpg" width="582" /></a></div><p>I had pondered if I should give this 'Mech a dot filter, but I was a bit worried about getting carried away and the effect not working that well in a small-scale item like this. A gentle lightening, on the other hand, sounded nice so I decided to go for it. Lightly.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Buffaliciousness<br /></span></h3><p></p><p>I chose a random, very small amount of spots where I applied a dot of paint (ABT035 Buff) with a toothpick. The colours and the sizes of the dots made this look almost symphatetic and something completely different from a warmachine from the future. It was <i>almost</i> a shame to not leave them be.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8PTN3U_KUgZIEIHj9f1ofO4ti9xWKlxNaSpxQaJprgoo3BPSNSnpCXz7VhTlltG8GdPWL6XBmWGJkoKcA6ysiC2UX1aHB4_42g2RGw5XhwTIQEk2cUvFEumeGRpTQdIGdT8TOcH5GSHL9KTQIa9TuomQjuxEd-xkJFc4W78DZHOQR4c2zzbfv26qIaW0/s600/Archer_wip-043-buff-dots-in-place.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="551" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8PTN3U_KUgZIEIHj9f1ofO4ti9xWKlxNaSpxQaJprgoo3BPSNSnpCXz7VhTlltG8GdPWL6XBmWGJkoKcA6ysiC2UX1aHB4_42g2RGw5XhwTIQEk2cUvFEumeGRpTQdIGdT8TOcH5GSHL9KTQIa9TuomQjuxEd-xkJFc4W78DZHOQR4c2zzbfv26qIaW0/w588-h640/Archer_wip-043-buff-dots-in-place.jpg" width="588" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQEqcB7oUmorOdOwHZ1ucvBa31HOYHhu2bFEkjGOm361HTxXSHJIC3lW92E6MwswjTm_rxyGQFPAeh1g93MMYfF8JqkwuzwKwXAYNC1j_MTgOuie1fNE9jNTgr2y7nA04w_OjNGFNnndZZKVTEqEHz5DP9ehFEKoz7nB_XUnA7L_duWqr9JnYc2rmpMck/s697/Archer_wip-044-buff-dots-in-place.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="697" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQEqcB7oUmorOdOwHZ1ucvBa31HOYHhu2bFEkjGOm361HTxXSHJIC3lW92E6MwswjTm_rxyGQFPAeh1g93MMYfF8JqkwuzwKwXAYNC1j_MTgOuie1fNE9jNTgr2y7nA04w_OjNGFNnndZZKVTEqEHz5DP9ehFEKoz7nB_XUnA7L_duWqr9JnYc2rmpMck/w640-h550/Archer_wip-044-buff-dots-in-place.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>As instructed by smarter and better people, I blended the dots away with a rolling motion using my round-tipped blending brush. Then I left the mini to wait for a better day:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYW8FbuAx5qL5tpMmKk6fwAHtH2sypisvkUQQ3GZSz4To7LvolP20vSjFMrKDPvLy1DM2EfMI9BJH7qtVOUqPUoeHi6Z-GYoL6pXRVhAUVJBwR7COgxI1UGefjnVlYRyt-q9vqm-DxJ8dMKsxMZq5rDrny4aXdJK1HHjWdLJ57ZOznHYpSGKOwhyDhpdc/s800/Archer_wip-045-buffed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="800" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYW8FbuAx5qL5tpMmKk6fwAHtH2sypisvkUQQ3GZSz4To7LvolP20vSjFMrKDPvLy1DM2EfMI9BJH7qtVOUqPUoeHi6Z-GYoL6pXRVhAUVJBwR7COgxI1UGefjnVlYRyt-q9vqm-DxJ8dMKsxMZq5rDrny4aXdJK1HHjWdLJ57ZOznHYpSGKOwhyDhpdc/w640-h478/Archer_wip-045-buffed.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVg5XDYtEM-6dt-KywWI8tHN8JEBB0fte4ZnpvkJXNOPvfTQEv0FRvgrswgt4FqPRjpJ9TrMsVddlCXK12SdBcuP7d-gyp8kKluNcNte2kJ_GfHwWxKHSCDjf1updikZdPMZJPbkthv_LS2rmENaplKWP1L8KqDzQ5tvhcwcCxJSIYjAr_Anu9M39Rzg8/s706/Archer_wip-046-buffed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="706" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVg5XDYtEM-6dt-KywWI8tHN8JEBB0fte4ZnpvkJXNOPvfTQEv0FRvgrswgt4FqPRjpJ9TrMsVddlCXK12SdBcuP7d-gyp8kKluNcNte2kJ_GfHwWxKHSCDjf1updikZdPMZJPbkthv_LS2rmENaplKWP1L8KqDzQ5tvhcwcCxJSIYjAr_Anu9M39Rzg8/w640-h544/Archer_wip-046-buffed.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The effect was pretty strong when wet. For comparison purposes I took a quick set of photos a couple of days later. Of course I ruined any kind of comparability by taking these photos in a different lighting set, opposite corner of the apartment and at a very different time of day.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJwHaxWrcrnDwD6lgdMsfDaWEi9I_EQbb4T2IC5z-ALJT_EfK3Mws01q4GNPUIn8KlC6o5m8RJTaeofqGYAmrh0AQ_2uSe0mR5hoRnIqbgRBi4V5G_eG4GzPxnyHzuuDQleTxJhKvOxGXw5hTEucBOtvCJaU6X9tfm4Ykhbd4OF7snM_Dvp7QcWuYzOk8/s600/Archer_wip-047-buff-dried.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="518" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJwHaxWrcrnDwD6lgdMsfDaWEi9I_EQbb4T2IC5z-ALJT_EfK3Mws01q4GNPUIn8KlC6o5m8RJTaeofqGYAmrh0AQ_2uSe0mR5hoRnIqbgRBi4V5G_eG4GzPxnyHzuuDQleTxJhKvOxGXw5hTEucBOtvCJaU6X9tfm4Ykhbd4OF7snM_Dvp7QcWuYzOk8/w552-h640/Archer_wip-047-buff-dried.jpg" width="552" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjujL9TZ0MWZiGiP7qYjCj1uufAAkhhW4b79qTCWEUBm42mdlGIK-X5zScpJv-xvjJACsiimcdK-Jw8uRNZmkmpT2HbLaROLQXURPTBsi00V9KG-ZvYZYuxRc48t0PG2eeQ_OaJXDQsB2159BU8Ss3oCBg-V0vl2-ZDTupLDkcj0fxw_ILCJp-NRRkiltQ/s626/Archer_wip-048-buff-dried.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="626" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjujL9TZ0MWZiGiP7qYjCj1uufAAkhhW4b79qTCWEUBm42mdlGIK-X5zScpJv-xvjJACsiimcdK-Jw8uRNZmkmpT2HbLaROLQXURPTBsi00V9KG-ZvYZYuxRc48t0PG2eeQ_OaJXDQsB2159BU8Ss3oCBg-V0vl2-ZDTupLDkcj0fxw_ILCJp-NRRkiltQ/w640-h614/Archer_wip-048-buff-dried.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>I felt the efffect worked better with a bare eye, but I also didn't spend that much time setting up my photos. Hopefully they gave some sort of an idea anyway.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-22098074542309146482023-11-15T12:00:00.057+02:002023-11-15T12:00:00.144+02:00Project III/23<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Running in the Death Star trench<br /></span></h2><p>The Autumn side Father's Day brought, in addition to the mumblings-unrelated things, some Lego! This has been a good theme for years and I was more than happy to build things.</p><p>It was an action diorama. I remembered seeing someone building (or upgrading) this one as an automata, but it could also have been a yet another fake memory of mine.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3CctmqgrBbNnKBD42a6v05pPAgK5UeuXR7EZz0CDj0DCWA00QoUrjx8TuGF7MAPvG_ifZRyyRhgFPYEUxqEiNnjPGTOTP9GezBFqKUrFdsnafVE4xopXApwXGQ2ods2Bj0YcmGmkaK6uKKCu6k6pKaddgbTXSuTKbdE_eYJS3eiqVw-GVkQzuj230x9Q/s639/TrenchRun-00A-box.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="639" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3CctmqgrBbNnKBD42a6v05pPAgK5UeuXR7EZz0CDj0DCWA00QoUrjx8TuGF7MAPvG_ifZRyyRhgFPYEUxqEiNnjPGTOTP9GezBFqKUrFdsnafVE4xopXApwXGQ2ods2Bj0YcmGmkaK6uKKCu6k6pKaddgbTXSuTKbdE_eYJS3eiqVw-GVkQzuj230x9Q/w640-h600/TrenchRun-00A-box.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju9bRBljIgfX7KiAG-jipTQj-e3jPcEhLdUpQuKJrvKIRr18pAvpG6_PCc-mZCXHUiiWVael3LeJyW3ssZaQ9bgxvcrxGoivMRiPgb3k5UTNY3dx4IHBW9jKjzO1J1Z3I7us_3BJU0wp0jm2pd7X1K2jOPCoeBFhUd76615zDLR-mUgf6pl7LvCLsVDjc/s727/TrenchRun-00B-box-back.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="727" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju9bRBljIgfX7KiAG-jipTQj-e3jPcEhLdUpQuKJrvKIRr18pAvpG6_PCc-mZCXHUiiWVael3LeJyW3ssZaQ9bgxvcrxGoivMRiPgb3k5UTNY3dx4IHBW9jKjzO1J1Z3I7us_3BJU0wp0jm2pd7X1K2jOPCoeBFhUd76615zDLR-mUgf6pl7LvCLsVDjc/w640-h528/TrenchRun-00B-box-back.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The trench</span><br /></h3><p>Building this set was quick and hassle-free, just perfect for a quick afternoon build. It only had almost 666 pieces so the expectation was "<i>almost done</i>".</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJf_GxOnHc0rTIjrEL_lU3xnItz8QOAIvHBZrzBuaALalU0O1N5obJgNlQqUC7Z1OJF5yuxgwEp988A8zBGJBLu8nTNcgE1sGt0k9s7JYl73WhQ-GCuSE-ZGc9k_zxw-NMFvDSsLXpIwQry5AyxMBad7SawbrvrVm_I4dq0Y6HYleFSTJWJV4bp89C-A/s800/TrenchRun-01-first-stage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="800" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJf_GxOnHc0rTIjrEL_lU3xnItz8QOAIvHBZrzBuaALalU0O1N5obJgNlQqUC7Z1OJF5yuxgwEp988A8zBGJBLu8nTNcgE1sGt0k9s7JYl73WhQ-GCuSE-ZGc9k_zxw-NMFvDSsLXpIwQry5AyxMBad7SawbrvrVm_I4dq0Y6HYleFSTJWJV4bp89C-A/w640-h388/TrenchRun-01-first-stage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>With the first bag's baseplate done, the next couple were full of greebling at random places. My set was missing one light grey ingot (99563) from the center-middle, that I could complain about to the Danes and get a replacement. I just wasn't familiar with the process and wasn't sure if I wanted to bother.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2LzA2fEb4yufn2cvJjAYIWRTXmreZ86tINzz8xgfyrZiL8jDuahsQiafjo2hgtQ0a1UBa32CKJzUJuxBzJ_Ms06yLU9iFMOdCIR6dvpsrmWZ3b1n8443Zbv89DoFIzqTEJbXYZiEQosv6JNnZb_PbnNAghqw7TeGYxmOI7h39iM6g62fd0LjizLToTlY/s800/TrenchRun-02-second-stage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="800" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2LzA2fEb4yufn2cvJjAYIWRTXmreZ86tINzz8xgfyrZiL8jDuahsQiafjo2hgtQ0a1UBa32CKJzUJuxBzJ_Ms06yLU9iFMOdCIR6dvpsrmWZ3b1n8443Zbv89DoFIzqTEJbXYZiEQosv6JNnZb_PbnNAghqw7TeGYxmOI7h39iM6g62fd0LjizLToTlY/w640-h332/TrenchRun-02-second-stage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7PVqvbSZMGR14hyphenhyphenipMxUQ-NHafkMFIw68cq2zr27zGQWgM4fnpX7EQYo6hTGZ52jmZBN5OYtgiDtbfDO3szSmF0wGBPN-wPqLzvpp7nQw3HQMT6mrbijao2cagPwUUEQrh_I8nXvG_PmwIrAz5Wd_P6ettuvXqgNvSGjUpUqOzEYjRxlMj0uqlJOVXs/s800/TrenchRun-03-third-stage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="800" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7PVqvbSZMGR14hyphenhyphenipMxUQ-NHafkMFIw68cq2zr27zGQWgM4fnpX7EQYo6hTGZ52jmZBN5OYtgiDtbfDO3szSmF0wGBPN-wPqLzvpp7nQw3HQMT6mrbijao2cagPwUUEQrh_I8nXvG_PmwIrAz5Wd_P6ettuvXqgNvSGjUpUqOzEYjRxlMj0uqlJOVXs/w640-h352/TrenchRun-03-third-stage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>With the floor of the trench done I moved on to the sidewall, that received a good amount of greeblies. In the middle you could see a couple of the claws that I had set 90° wrong, but I fixed that as soon as I noticed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM1HenNHlGMsTxhdqxlsNepKAcNu-urS6LptMX8O-wXmPu4k-zdTJhqgeXh6gXBZBtTsyj29jrxJ48oqIHAxCxKmS7KQz-k97J_XE4FC1uIgWWMaDe1sxFMfE5LuE8s1y2qT3Ee3gc9bHpsoStAMvWp_tFSSmj_CBUuaXEXW9Ar_uFFF16R361Uu8hUAU/s800/TrenchRun-04-fourth-stage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="800" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM1HenNHlGMsTxhdqxlsNepKAcNu-urS6LptMX8O-wXmPu4k-zdTJhqgeXh6gXBZBtTsyj29jrxJ48oqIHAxCxKmS7KQz-k97J_XE4FC1uIgWWMaDe1sxFMfE5LuE8s1y2qT3Ee3gc9bHpsoStAMvWp_tFSSmj_CBUuaXEXW9Ar_uFFF16R361Uu8hUAU/w640-h246/TrenchRun-04-fourth-stage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFEzq64KPGuOaXCfwyandg5lgNLBe3b62bvFSlQxOsWYK68qw7VLB2jgl-viDRZmJOMtnRBZ6mQkPRlwKZeyU9zszcQ4cAd85USC-IkDGk8z5hVc3QskmEqEI0pKoV40PNCAHJYTR1zKR5qyyhK88nGn_7E04PoZqHUxtVi3i9UUPVXuIN_6hnAGKB7_E/s800/TrenchRun-05-side-wall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="800" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFEzq64KPGuOaXCfwyandg5lgNLBe3b62bvFSlQxOsWYK68qw7VLB2jgl-viDRZmJOMtnRBZ6mQkPRlwKZeyU9zszcQ4cAd85USC-IkDGk8z5hVc3QskmEqEI0pKoV40PNCAHJYTR1zKR5qyyhK88nGn_7E04PoZqHUxtVi3i9UUPVXuIN_6hnAGKB7_E/w640-h312/TrenchRun-05-side-wall.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The completed sidewall sat sturdily on the baseplate and it got then impaled into it with two (for some reason of different length) studs. Undoing this might be interesting, but I didn't see that appearing into my calendar anytime soon.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4Xsa4R1gkrBmN70Q-6KcXbZdpyBkfWbFKcTpWDJbj6_5gbSGbFY0jStLATlQgd2Ov9qbBeKRGJR8VB77nhnLueQag-c7Vi9PIgkYJ0uwgTNxxMJ0zaHgXU8rLZbcnzMW17e8-sEU4_-90WdlM0ic47X-fNKDPyxp5-XyStjSHalZbKqyyRidQnl5qg8/s688/TrenchRun-06-trench.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="688" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4Xsa4R1gkrBmN70Q-6KcXbZdpyBkfWbFKcTpWDJbj6_5gbSGbFY0jStLATlQgd2Ov9qbBeKRGJR8VB77nhnLueQag-c7Vi9PIgkYJ0uwgTNxxMJ0zaHgXU8rLZbcnzMW17e8-sEU4_-90WdlM0ic47X-fNKDPyxp5-XyStjSHalZbKqyyRidQnl5qg8/w640-h558/TrenchRun-06-trench.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Black squadron</span><br /></h3><p>In this scene Darth Vader was escorted by two wingpeople, both in TIE/ln starfighters. Unlike what the instructions said, I set the green laser blasts a bit offset for both of the firing units, because I just found it more visually appealing than the dual-firing ones.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFQW1th1GBAiebJX4RWKktt9Ve8urBfIXXzx6-XNdL_giQmdiKVSpo1_DkgUgdZmsGMXvpeDVoI9WwHMfsbLB1K3FPgOdAXsoyCy-SxHtI1M_SZT1ksqlbT2I_syAoyY6Pgz-aLe_2OWkcjhqgnHDQTVxNK53Czs3C3DrrLA5oD1x2mtjtWEc6DO9Gf0I/s684/TrenchRun-07-wingman-firing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="684" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFQW1th1GBAiebJX4RWKktt9Ve8urBfIXXzx6-XNdL_giQmdiKVSpo1_DkgUgdZmsGMXvpeDVoI9WwHMfsbLB1K3FPgOdAXsoyCy-SxHtI1M_SZT1ksqlbT2I_syAoyY6Pgz-aLe_2OWkcjhqgnHDQTVxNK53Czs3C3DrrLA5oD1x2mtjtWEc6DO9Gf0I/w640-h562/TrenchRun-07-wingman-firing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQhvhdRCLdWLA9J4oviDkWEnDWBKKTVidJcOP9IBClp7AL9f2PgCdImJ13jJMIG4B0l0mW2t7ag0UhFhh3kAW8rA3tSyeY6dsFmABxRaWa0wEsODWQSyBZ7m6_AHXhFOieE-zrNJAyF1K6BkmDWgw0K1j4F6j7dq1b_RCh5UeYY6w34GsjbLwaEl5Bjo/s731/TrenchRun-08-Vader.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="731" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQhvhdRCLdWLA9J4oviDkWEnDWBKKTVidJcOP9IBClp7AL9f2PgCdImJ13jJMIG4B0l0mW2t7ag0UhFhh3kAW8rA3tSyeY6dsFmABxRaWa0wEsODWQSyBZ7m6_AHXhFOieE-zrNJAyF1K6BkmDWgw0K1j4F6j7dq1b_RCh5UeYY6w34GsjbLwaEl5Bjo/w640-h526/TrenchRun-08-Vader.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM9j3H40Y2GN_zqINeJv8L_A2oDaU4LPXrJOppirbPdoNmGt0W5Gs4t5Dg5hfbArSRA1gBZ8BKbSlLhYYFJPbtOUupMSZZwTvpk6O3y_EWsekomAxGiE_UUEZhsxdpGXnN-LXdAYlMEyDIgtAily7yiLf6XqfTyGSzju39caNWLkcezMcbceH0VoIT2rk/s668/TrenchRun-09-wingman-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="668" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM9j3H40Y2GN_zqINeJv8L_A2oDaU4LPXrJOppirbPdoNmGt0W5Gs4t5Dg5hfbArSRA1gBZ8BKbSlLhYYFJPbtOUupMSZZwTvpk6O3y_EWsekomAxGiE_UUEZhsxdpGXnN-LXdAYlMEyDIgtAily7yiLf6XqfTyGSzju39caNWLkcezMcbceH0VoIT2rk/w640-h574/TrenchRun-09-wingman-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>To get the best-looking and most active scene I might have to fine-tune the angles of these a bit still.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvlU4Vbv1bX1OTYO7yKqZVfxwKFqMwKAb8Yt9nql28Bqa41IXBgQyRF8NvY-L2Ma_hrWG0r-d8t-O0NS-TqqgbYh_axzJL8enr9HaYrW43J_oiwZ26W91CK8cla4o6h_LJGV4SQZdoOVApFr1NQvwBsSR5ELgwq7dTEK6mxbyXLkAawLwO0YD-Q8PPAY8/s800/TrenchRun-10-TIEs-in-place.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="800" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvlU4Vbv1bX1OTYO7yKqZVfxwKFqMwKAb8Yt9nql28Bqa41IXBgQyRF8NvY-L2Ma_hrWG0r-d8t-O0NS-TqqgbYh_axzJL8enr9HaYrW43J_oiwZ26W91CK8cla4o6h_LJGV4SQZdoOVApFr1NQvwBsSR5ELgwq7dTEK6mxbyXLkAawLwO0YD-Q8PPAY8/w640-h416/TrenchRun-10-TIEs-in-place.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Red 5</span><br /></h3><p></p><p>Then the baddie of the scene, flown by the Red five from the Red Squadron of the space terrorists, his Incom T-65C was a pretty decent representation in this scale. While building it I was wondering a bit why the spaceframe's front and back halves were only connected with two studs instead of all the four available, but maybe it looked better this way, greeblie-wise. The S-Foils were not adjustable: the split-wings were going to stay open so you couldn't use the fighter on a more calm scene just as it was.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiToeUhfq2ygc54iG6MtNm31omLh_UKp7GKTWHIqBIpnsUT_4BFnMlJAvD3yTZdowJvvtNlsskXDSi76Uetr7Rnqu7ONWXaumcKPrPXVxvpk6X-RRWPKw_S9UBHpKoEvaHb19Q94eskNWKm24qw_wey04Vu0KowxMI0293kdmHnOV8Fww1QRA6xaeo6nzg/s800/TrenchRun-12-X-Wing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="800" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiToeUhfq2ygc54iG6MtNm31omLh_UKp7GKTWHIqBIpnsUT_4BFnMlJAvD3yTZdowJvvtNlsskXDSi76Uetr7Rnqu7ONWXaumcKPrPXVxvpk6X-RRWPKw_S9UBHpKoEvaHb19Q94eskNWKm24qw_wey04Vu0KowxMI0293kdmHnOV8Fww1QRA6xaeo6nzg/w640-h464/TrenchRun-12-X-Wing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiC7gkJrBh63EcnpwBD9l93qS0c4IZRbsJdKuZmlYDGREo8Y_kJR3imwJ_kMKwGRjwV5V64R4UL7FySfxp1AAg62VAjAZpVubdDcE-xwm8yMg2Fbs7IChtJaqs37uC8cuBriptUEcB_thsd63Nv4aDwd1uqIEf4zXxpOZFRUr61jl-Vx9PQkrHSi2bxLA/s800/TrenchRun-11-X-Wing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="800" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiC7gkJrBh63EcnpwBD9l93qS0c4IZRbsJdKuZmlYDGREo8Y_kJR3imwJ_kMKwGRjwV5V64R4UL7FySfxp1AAg62VAjAZpVubdDcE-xwm8yMg2Fbs7IChtJaqs37uC8cuBriptUEcB_thsd63Nv4aDwd1uqIEf4zXxpOZFRUr61jl-Vx9PQkrHSi2bxLA/w640-h332/TrenchRun-11-X-Wing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Diorama</span></h2><p>With the fighters built and installed only the Taim & Bak XX-9 heavy turbolaser turret was missing. It was a pleasantly poseable piece, even though it didn't have any green turbolaser blasts for the barrels. As befit the scene.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiU2wdyrwfuBdaOtZc5I7AxjUXqPlfFdet8QrUDsjCFWHNWosQK6dFVTUmX0WVRyBdh-UsY0aFCTV8vOuAGC8-9P4OBNn5q0HXRZr-OTbVM12ZCBr46qswDON53ojzNMPcCfth54K1LBLEFc1-v1T9pAQsCI2AV7FlVLi60WUZgd4x9JsxpFHAUyYwFYs/s695/TrenchRun-13-Diorama.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="695" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiU2wdyrwfuBdaOtZc5I7AxjUXqPlfFdet8QrUDsjCFWHNWosQK6dFVTUmX0WVRyBdh-UsY0aFCTV8vOuAGC8-9P4OBNn5q0HXRZr-OTbVM12ZCBr46qswDON53ojzNMPcCfth54K1LBLEFc1-v1T9pAQsCI2AV7FlVLi60WUZgd4x9JsxpFHAUyYwFYs/w640-h552/TrenchRun-13-Diorama.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsio2x2gKetxuiON2mkuJY0cN7E4a3FdlaIE8oilCZVFeuwYN0eh0epKQ0AuN2kuFagPs5FyDqQx73Xa0oz4KLUBHpMQ4P4Us0dNHmo9jI_MY5JTb9_QgWHzdIL0wnrUe3cntDPz7vUPIVHLQoMZ1vxRsPai6mMcxgY3-ZjB1aMaTjjqbD6VoLqACzjIA/s651/TrenchRun-14-Diorama.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: helvetica;">The actual paintjob</span></h2><p>Now that my basework of the Archer's paintjob was done, I got to tweak it. It was somehow fun to notice that sometime earlier at this point I'd call my painting done all but for the weathering. Over the years I've slid further and further away from that and added more tweaking and finetuning layers. And I still haven't started doing chipping or somesuch time-consuming stuff.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Taking the black down a bit</span><br /></h3><p>Highlighting the upper arms, hips and thigs with dark grey (VMA 71055 Black Grey RLM66) over the flat black was interesting, but I tried to approach this so that the black worked as shadow and panel line decorator. I used the dark grey to cover most of the surfaces, concentrating on the topmost parts to try to follow the flow of natural light. The lower/bottom parts I mostly left alone. When the paint dried the effect was a bit clearer than when wet. All this looked like it worked decently with the naked eye, in the photos it seemed a bit stronger.</p><p>I think I reached my goal of highlighting the details of the black-painted parts from the flat darkness.</p><p>While I was playing with the dark grey I also painted some of the bits that I couldn't touch the last time as I ran out of paint. These included the insides of the missile bay doors, the lower arm laser cannon barrels, the random bits and greeblies in the Archer's backside. A couple of the nozzles looked like Jump Jets but were most likely heat sinks instead, as this was a steady groundpounder by the specs.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4pRwe7p5EcXkKLRbPA_rMbWdbAcKNOGBaClcGr9FOICFlwY79YzX4hb1koQB5nuPqPy0-rrkcCU5X1jpYC7V0wGqt3pJVkruYsy1mSM8QP9dz6LUDX-EYVeunFgAnOBbX8YHMnkKPDcdw_L7GXw_IY0Ua9m78zDRvZWfVXmitz_l_P366qd06_DRkra0/s600/Archer_wip-019-german-grey-paneling.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="584" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4pRwe7p5EcXkKLRbPA_rMbWdbAcKNOGBaClcGr9FOICFlwY79YzX4hb1koQB5nuPqPy0-rrkcCU5X1jpYC7V0wGqt3pJVkruYsy1mSM8QP9dz6LUDX-EYVeunFgAnOBbX8YHMnkKPDcdw_L7GXw_IY0Ua9m78zDRvZWfVXmitz_l_P366qd06_DRkra0/w622-h640/Archer_wip-019-german-grey-paneling.jpg" width="622" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrE4KL3llVDajLEloBFiJDmcWv0xt1EU16aa6MGOmlMEooYnSG3MhEf2JGX7tZCW8MUy1Ytgp-JrZ-bU64GWtFEmdQCykV0BX3F1dnoginLnx1-5ueoYaGBxc7SJEm-1WrPzBdY_AXs64F1LIFybDu7IDuk1WN-mGWQURF34qycROjvnIrhH4HFKqB11Y/s698/Archer_wip-020-german-grey-paneling.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="698" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrE4KL3llVDajLEloBFiJDmcWv0xt1EU16aa6MGOmlMEooYnSG3MhEf2JGX7tZCW8MUy1Ytgp-JrZ-bU64GWtFEmdQCykV0BX3F1dnoginLnx1-5ueoYaGBxc7SJEm-1WrPzBdY_AXs64F1LIFybDu7IDuk1WN-mGWQURF34qycROjvnIrhH4HFKqB11Y/w640-h550/Archer_wip-020-german-grey-paneling.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Metallic paint<br /></span></h3><p></p><p>The only place I used metallic paint (VMA 71072 Gunmetal) were the LRM launchers. I thought that as they were behind the armored doors, they'd stand out nicely from the insides of said doors. I'd wash them darker later so that they wouldn't stand out quite that strongly.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieKqWB8j_c0x6Z7zaQgk5wGVKBnUdfBIxc3_oYOp7l3ZnVNRPZqdoiEcByxJhwDXyxO9rT3vO8dHKj4nYuKOD_FjG-OV17FqwDPWVj-Go3NYSey2jnCxmt5ytkJI89dtufwGx03LyZl_0cKuaj6S49b2xa4eLFDAUwczdvJvJavh-Fk5DQaBvdAEao2v0/s685/Archer_wip-021-metallic-LRMs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="685" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieKqWB8j_c0x6Z7zaQgk5wGVKBnUdfBIxc3_oYOp7l3ZnVNRPZqdoiEcByxJhwDXyxO9rT3vO8dHKj4nYuKOD_FjG-OV17FqwDPWVj-Go3NYSey2jnCxmt5ytkJI89dtufwGx03LyZl_0cKuaj6S49b2xa4eLFDAUwczdvJvJavh-Fk5DQaBvdAEao2v0/w640-h560/Archer_wip-021-metallic-LRMs.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Red paneling</span><br /></h3><p>The dark grey panel effects worked pretty nicely on the black so I wanted to do something similar on the red bits as well. My problem was that my basic red was so bright that I didn't have much in storage to stand out, but I also didn't trust my mixing skills to be able to get a slightly brighter red that wasn't straight out pink.</p><p>Ultimately I borrowed some Ferrari Red (VMA 71085) from the Project Assistant I and that worked decently. The difference wasn't massive but you could tell. At this point I mostly worked on the upper parts and the protruding pieces like the forearms and the legs.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLr1a-AVl8A4uQSnouJlN93PX42GWs7AAPZpOJN0bFZqQQyE2pZ0U3KDwXrAqABBAZ2domt3qn703tcbckEjTaLQW8Tynk5NYwxFbwQmOZIUAlzDOFoZM1_f_Iwvzju_OO-afcx_JdcIX1mDgqWQX-NA0JYiUnl8hkZlGRE6HUiMW1nUtWNO31pgkoRQ0/s800/Archer_wip-022-Ferrari-red-paneling.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="800" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLr1a-AVl8A4uQSnouJlN93PX42GWs7AAPZpOJN0bFZqQQyE2pZ0U3KDwXrAqABBAZ2domt3qn703tcbckEjTaLQW8Tynk5NYwxFbwQmOZIUAlzDOFoZM1_f_Iwvzju_OO-afcx_JdcIX1mDgqWQX-NA0JYiUnl8hkZlGRE6HUiMW1nUtWNO31pgkoRQ0/w640-h470/Archer_wip-022-Ferrari-red-paneling.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVf-bRBRoTfNNqp2ww55osUQpBjrWZMM7KWBKFoDXwiRWXqTX415MfrNtc-O3DisUIueMM2djFQL4kKFwQRqvL65dso1p6J9bkcdwbJH9_pq_V5d1YAjMhiG3lcO3tPkTmdID6xj2mKOR0siyGLgNrFAwdnc2Ybgmnr4wEu_hmLGe4jdMWfsI2IA2p8r0/s728/Archer_wip-025-Ferrari-red-paneling.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="728" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVf-bRBRoTfNNqp2ww55osUQpBjrWZMM7KWBKFoDXwiRWXqTX415MfrNtc-O3DisUIueMM2djFQL4kKFwQRqvL65dso1p6J9bkcdwbJH9_pq_V5d1YAjMhiG3lcO3tPkTmdID6xj2mKOR0siyGLgNrFAwdnc2Ybgmnr4wEu_hmLGe4jdMWfsI2IA2p8r0/w640-h528/Archer_wip-025-Ferrari-red-paneling.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioV9VFJQehR4nNxb07eu2Lo44zo95z40XS_Lg8I6WRPYJ4MWcLa5W9uDFDHr9Qclf0sVgk9BxyUlZEPwXu8LQ4sQ-cD3w0JT3_WuFPhhWfuD2TXXimx_mWeOKgMsAKIk_3NcapJxf_VBrRd89mrJSWlN2sOEKicLjWUDR_xvy5Jib3DEeQYrZE4YBaCRc/s732/Archer_wip-026-Ferrari-red-paneling.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="732" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioV9VFJQehR4nNxb07eu2Lo44zo95z40XS_Lg8I6WRPYJ4MWcLa5W9uDFDHr9Qclf0sVgk9BxyUlZEPwXu8LQ4sQ-cD3w0JT3_WuFPhhWfuD2TXXimx_mWeOKgMsAKIk_3NcapJxf_VBrRd89mrJSWlN2sOEKicLjWUDR_xvy5Jib3DEeQYrZE4YBaCRc/w640-h524/Archer_wip-026-Ferrari-red-paneling.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdA7EsDq0FkUp2vvJ1b1V59euigU1D_1yDjHVzbgUeQqlGKhmSu7Rb6eDqu8VW9BX34dl5A4bAmuZUqo_He0qfv9ulPVSRdoOASS37ex72SnIFgp6LDZecYogeSdczwRGfTfISbLUrXiTY-S3YHHNINv4b_zAa0-i9Tul6iC2mfW7gihBDiIyDIpIoE_8/s600/Archer_wip-027-Ferrari-red-paneling.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="591" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdA7EsDq0FkUp2vvJ1b1V59euigU1D_1yDjHVzbgUeQqlGKhmSu7Rb6eDqu8VW9BX34dl5A4bAmuZUqo_He0qfv9ulPVSRdoOASS37ex72SnIFgp6LDZecYogeSdczwRGfTfISbLUrXiTY-S3YHHNINv4b_zAa0-i9Tul6iC2mfW7gihBDiIyDIpIoE_8/w630-h640/Archer_wip-027-Ferrari-red-paneling.jpg" width="630" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBfJ7euT3w6AwcRlS01u0WerWth46J10s8k3VPd4fAz6TSa-e-HqqUAjne8o19aHOFaN1djkLc1LSBqkMxcxLhI8uKDHZketWf-vt8OGDedMyrpai82GHmwYofjMWI6BjZaP5xo5k4v-9NddekEeDsB0S2w-CD2ZIdTDapLodLB6UrRCjZBdb_MbnzBp8/s600/Archer_wip-028-Ferrari-red-paneling.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="571" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBfJ7euT3w6AwcRlS01u0WerWth46J10s8k3VPd4fAz6TSa-e-HqqUAjne8o19aHOFaN1djkLc1LSBqkMxcxLhI8uKDHZketWf-vt8OGDedMyrpai82GHmwYofjMWI6BjZaP5xo5k4v-9NddekEeDsB0S2w-CD2ZIdTDapLodLB6UrRCjZBdb_MbnzBp8/w610-h640/Archer_wip-028-Ferrari-red-paneling.jpg" width="610" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Detail work<br /></span></h2><p>The caution stripes have been my favourite decorations on 'Mechs and such. This time I managed to rein myself in and chose only a few spots to highlight: the inner edges of the missile bay doors, the heat sink edges on the rear side, and the front edge of the hex base.</p><p>Of course I encountered a problem with my yellow paint (VMA 71002 Medium Yellow), it was at best a half-wet lump inside its bottle. I plopped out a dollop onto my palette and with some tap water I managed to get something spreadableish. The fact that this paint wasn't smooth or provided even coverage was not a bad thing but was perfect for a worn and suffered surface.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghgwdL_3jg3LXo9W6HZiEmcWw5GfXffJzxc9vZgXc6xzgeT-YyMoEgSDijA49bKKgAkqfaB58w_RJQtgP9vzoojtOBQm7styrwEc9lpWxiy9oW70WEfYkSo3u-9sQ1IGDQzOJycw5WgAjEPg2dJMASJL6PwxLHqKsk4j6CE6-T36dqLxyrUqxUFdOGJkc/s680/Archer_wip-029-medium-yellows.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="680" height="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghgwdL_3jg3LXo9W6HZiEmcWw5GfXffJzxc9vZgXc6xzgeT-YyMoEgSDijA49bKKgAkqfaB58w_RJQtgP9vzoojtOBQm7styrwEc9lpWxiy9oW70WEfYkSo3u-9sQ1IGDQzOJycw5WgAjEPg2dJMASJL6PwxLHqKsk4j6CE6-T36dqLxyrUqxUFdOGJkc/w640-h564/Archer_wip-029-medium-yellows.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcfYQF1MfhdnYYKc7apPudRiXmzUBPGSBXZU4AzjtWXgh4iEFnCz0lFon0BjKkIDJv7FiO5iuc8yzlAgpKpi6DT9WRO6MOuub5xKvkAdrAqPYgbEkcf7psP4AGZPYuFr7RHyvTGVqJJk5c8UoByGqLd4S93Hpb_KSjFjYRWh22CeVXlSVdfzg-ztzUKP4/s756/Archer_wip-030-medium-yellows.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="756" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcfYQF1MfhdnYYKc7apPudRiXmzUBPGSBXZU4AzjtWXgh4iEFnCz0lFon0BjKkIDJv7FiO5iuc8yzlAgpKpi6DT9WRO6MOuub5xKvkAdrAqPYgbEkcf7psP4AGZPYuFr7RHyvTGVqJJk5c8UoByGqLd4S93Hpb_KSjFjYRWh22CeVXlSVdfzg-ztzUKP4/w640-h508/Archer_wip-030-medium-yellows.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>My black paint was still out, and I used the dark grey again. In advance I was a bit concerned of my stripes becoming too faded, but the result was just fine.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZLHDZIKA2C7UvLyYg4OZ-PgrVenN8-fYX-T6OI6GNuE0Fi1d_WJAYNETMySwmG2VHcEry4A1Bc3NscAlC4300gOvx8pG2KivD5Qr3M7Ask3lGgrpplzFgiieJ4o2VbypDdnFIcfKUXriBIcW72fSPYpsTHFS6dDo1E208BcTuieFqd1B94ppoNS9sXjU/s736/Archer_wip-031-caution-stripes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="736" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZLHDZIKA2C7UvLyYg4OZ-PgrVenN8-fYX-T6OI6GNuE0Fi1d_WJAYNETMySwmG2VHcEry4A1Bc3NscAlC4300gOvx8pG2KivD5Qr3M7Ask3lGgrpplzFgiieJ4o2VbypDdnFIcfKUXriBIcW72fSPYpsTHFS6dDo1E208BcTuieFqd1B94ppoNS9sXjU/w640-h522/Archer_wip-031-caution-stripes.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp5qH6bxalgEWzQSnjMhY8H6YZpCTt5KTvE2JgcCA4ZmiamVb0ZQG_4PyYbDm4dMO0f0Um6lwDk6q9wpIUGM-__DDpCZpTWwWMy0KJJ4z634ekmr9Yyyg5qHd4Fupu8Ct-qpBTq9SzzyAfqLzOQxjsg7eyJTOUX519noZRPWh5OmN6H72hemubQE08Y0c/s744/Archer_wip-032-caution-stripes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="744" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp5qH6bxalgEWzQSnjMhY8H6YZpCTt5KTvE2JgcCA4ZmiamVb0ZQG_4PyYbDm4dMO0f0Um6lwDk6q9wpIUGM-__DDpCZpTWwWMy0KJJ4z634ekmr9Yyyg5qHd4Fupu8Ct-qpBTq9SzzyAfqLzOQxjsg7eyJTOUX519noZRPWh5OmN6H72hemubQE08Y0c/w640-h516/Archer_wip-032-caution-stripes.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuNzByINi_gU-jIHKQjMRt6Ixlbe04n8l75TwL6OVprbA-BkMP_Dlo5i5iKvbylrI4hhzNhVpPG0yYu_4fKU68FF80dw4uY7oW2YOXOCgqvbLxOdoLdnjFDP_UtkihUakNhmFnCvUu8bwgMPRRuTiB71dfA5nY-R6k9GmAsgSxBAx4OBkKXUVDzH0qyJw/s645/Archer_wip-034-Ferrari-red-paneling.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="645" height="596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuNzByINi_gU-jIHKQjMRt6Ixlbe04n8l75TwL6OVprbA-BkMP_Dlo5i5iKvbylrI4hhzNhVpPG0yYu_4fKU68FF80dw4uY7oW2YOXOCgqvbLxOdoLdnjFDP_UtkihUakNhmFnCvUu8bwgMPRRuTiB71dfA5nY-R6k9GmAsgSxBAx4OBkKXUVDzH0qyJw/w640-h596/Archer_wip-034-Ferrari-red-paneling.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Kell Hounds insignia</span> <br /></h3><p>As Camospecs told us the doggies had their insignia on the 'Mech's Left Torso. The insignia was an inverted black-lined red triangle with a black hound's head, something that even I could approximate badly in freehand. I guess I could've gotten tighter triangle edges with a better hand-control or a thinner paintbrush.</p><p>This torso had few suitable spots where I would've dared to start painting something as simple as this. My own choice would've been in the middle of the top Center Torso, but as that wasn't according to the specs, I painted it onto the open missile bay door. And yes, I did remember to paint it upside down so it'd be the right way when the door got closed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjkrbsY14nr_8A-BZQ_jxKE3NDz9H3K3sK9EqcXbq3QVsUluzIVxTWgOYNdWq4_ImKxouYjTaLp0EYgJXREc7lp67B-Kxyf_8ZfV_9IksxEl8foU-7pwA_OpeOaHodOen13pqPkx7R2c6qNq1YPNf7LZRkq9dbU9KAE1jymV6igDTSiI6ipE9IbBqZ78/s729/Archer_wip-033-regimental-symbol.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="729" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjkrbsY14nr_8A-BZQ_jxKE3NDz9H3K3sK9EqcXbq3QVsUluzIVxTWgOYNdWq4_ImKxouYjTaLp0EYgJXREc7lp67B-Kxyf_8ZfV_9IksxEl8foU-7pwA_OpeOaHodOen13pqPkx7R2c6qNq1YPNf7LZRkq9dbU9KAE1jymV6igDTSiI6ipE9IbBqZ78/w640-h526/Archer_wip-033-regimental-symbol.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>This was pretty much what I was going to do for decoration. During my short painting sessions I noticed a few spots here and there that I painted dark grey after I had originally considered myself ready. Now I was content, the red sections were broken down enough but not too distractingly.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-89547529214844213702023-11-01T12:00:00.079+02:002024-01-17T09:44:42.331+02:00Groundwork on the armor<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Hands dirty<br /></span></h2><p>After a tiny bit of scratching and sanding off plastics I decided that I wasn't going to poke it anymore. Now it was time to paint.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Priming</span></h3><p>Ok, so I had managed to completely ignore topping up my storage of primers, but luckily I had over a bottleful of red primer (VSP 70624 Pure Red). I blasted the miniature top to bottom, then bottom-up to get all the corners and angles covered.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCcvZBv6Se_YYiHwYSdGAoL8CvggLAJJShS5Or7srXcshrN16IC3CDYKEbZiKv5iwsMZVnVwKF2TrwBfqZKyljp3EaChCLNll-Kitxw7veuEJRq8Me9Z5571LBQZdiT_9PLasBSn6I34Mn_XFj6cq0-_HrHWDdJcNhE0PtNoTYiFL9rD17Burs8yWWU0I/s800/Archer_wip-009-red-primer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="800" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCcvZBv6Se_YYiHwYSdGAoL8CvggLAJJShS5Or7srXcshrN16IC3CDYKEbZiKv5iwsMZVnVwKF2TrwBfqZKyljp3EaChCLNll-Kitxw7veuEJRq8Me9Z5571LBQZdiT_9PLasBSn6I34Mn_XFj6cq0-_HrHWDdJcNhE0PtNoTYiFL9rD17Burs8yWWU0I/w640-h444/Archer_wip-009-red-primer.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVIo4KA87T_gUXL4bgaGsitRe_AdBkjJFYCa6DUbE8Bg2dSrzPT4iGbckuoEv2uDXmNdDlPvb9xFkwLNFptfKAB_DPwnEhw7wnuLHi4SbtlyS7WwY21rwTRE0ejrOwsmzn43zd1kBOlm1x3aC94OtRap1mKoLis98FlSDBP8FhPhBr1izhFJJzlun7CA/s600/Archer_wip-010-red-primer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="451" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVIo4KA87T_gUXL4bgaGsitRe_AdBkjJFYCa6DUbE8Bg2dSrzPT4iGbckuoEv2uDXmNdDlPvb9xFkwLNFptfKAB_DPwnEhw7wnuLHi4SbtlyS7WwY21rwTRE0ejrOwsmzn43zd1kBOlm1x3aC94OtRap1mKoLis98FlSDBP8FhPhBr1izhFJJzlun7CA/w482-h640/Archer_wip-010-red-primer.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoZvu1OChVQ3lyxNttce7FKqvnO-4fXG9HQu6xiWM-e9kK46LuWmUustn26EUGCLEQwtcSeL4gO-uzwpjaEYl5eI7Y5UKmQ-Z9CAK_xEStKSEvxbYkM_DjFGin4wSaKYZFNO8gb094XHxi8Azx9a9AApBTWZrqCRUQEWFCo1Vygm3YTRkEnEC5xleLtw/s735/Archer_wip-011-red-primer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="735" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoZvu1OChVQ3lyxNttce7FKqvnO-4fXG9HQu6xiWM-e9kK46LuWmUustn26EUGCLEQwtcSeL4gO-uzwpjaEYl5eI7Y5UKmQ-Z9CAK_xEStKSEvxbYkM_DjFGin4wSaKYZFNO8gb094XHxi8Azx9a9AApBTWZrqCRUQEWFCo1Vygm3YTRkEnEC5xleLtw/w640-h522/Archer_wip-011-red-primer.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMRMI9K84BFgS9z1bdz2-ff33kGB_pLzdVza1byEz7yzOJpuwAXiOp1oUInSm5_xhjdyiuKBL3DOP7nGPHJSg1vKaBKxEC9AbuwS1Headq_VA5it9b6W9fkox3iaLDIZpcVmVVZW8Wb7V6QSa74ANEIl6ML5Jvr27_ZVmanjzhRwnMrizesBZTyupmClE/s735/Archer_wip-012-red-primer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="735" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMRMI9K84BFgS9z1bdz2-ff33kGB_pLzdVza1byEz7yzOJpuwAXiOp1oUInSm5_xhjdyiuKBL3DOP7nGPHJSg1vKaBKxEC9AbuwS1Headq_VA5it9b6W9fkox3iaLDIZpcVmVVZW8Wb7V6QSa74ANEIl6ML5Jvr27_ZVmanjzhRwnMrizesBZTyupmClE/w640-h522/Archer_wip-012-red-primer.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Even the photos didn't immediately show any missed spots. Nice.<br /> </p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The red parts</span><br /></h3><p>If I had any of the gory red that I had used painting the previous Kell Hounds, it wasn't going to pass through my airbrush anymore. Lately I've relied on the RLM23 red (VMA 71003), as you may have noticed, so I was going to stick to it now as well.</p><p>I used the flip side of the Alpha Strike card's artwork as a quick reference of Morgan Kell's BattleMech. Based on the small pic I painted especially the lower legs, arms, and the torso from the hip up.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKq3uVbDJlnRiDd_w36QOME0A6yIi9q7AJI_eK8giGR7JiHvk_M37F_DXbXaOAZ-q3MdIu8ObQ5t_WKIcrmOlo73ZAhr3suWT00k3FojanvTfm-GvigXRAmYE45Hn4oDsymlHBCYoX2mAGAQZ37nIy-HitODe6NmpTPxK3XabyiJqxqXZdaFe3y6fy_sE/s753/Archer_wip-013-RLM23red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="753" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKq3uVbDJlnRiDd_w36QOME0A6yIi9q7AJI_eK8giGR7JiHvk_M37F_DXbXaOAZ-q3MdIu8ObQ5t_WKIcrmOlo73ZAhr3suWT00k3FojanvTfm-GvigXRAmYE45Hn4oDsymlHBCYoX2mAGAQZ37nIy-HitODe6NmpTPxK3XabyiJqxqXZdaFe3y6fy_sE/w640-h510/Archer_wip-013-RLM23red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3SyOUpHoBkqt7U1uKxLTeeS85BlT6HLuiKHbtJJPeCrH3RZIXUZIJOJDjjbKsTaNR2DrwJ9w_XTfUFN9uchClcccr98jnTnAPWd5K1tvWZARhm_Ehx6_DqAhALUw7hC4Zgi9f-7kQJ9K16nDYd_C-u7KrB6Nm72noTNcXAe8ikNIdR2XMWULyVWdGGvE/s786/Archer_wip-014-RLM23red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="786" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3SyOUpHoBkqt7U1uKxLTeeS85BlT6HLuiKHbtJJPeCrH3RZIXUZIJOJDjjbKsTaNR2DrwJ9w_XTfUFN9uchClcccr98jnTnAPWd5K1tvWZARhm_Ehx6_DqAhALUw7hC4Zgi9f-7kQJ9K16nDYd_C-u7KrB6Nm72noTNcXAe8ikNIdR2XMWULyVWdGGvE/w640-h488/Archer_wip-014-RLM23red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKiZnXgBxGBh4GyE_nvLmEWNaGztHfmA2HmcxIlwgyQuUr9GbEF80-fW3YDEftTPT6bkUsis_eXY8AXAUwSVWYs_4FTHCSIXA7-F2TIEs_UJh0simGTQSsEAXcbztcwkGdtuOPJ6MjEpoNSIZmYwzC8J2BTLYi-UPGL_entHPOhfpEIZSPWsAbDyrDiE/s800/Archer_wip-015-RLM23red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="800" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKiZnXgBxGBh4GyE_nvLmEWNaGztHfmA2HmcxIlwgyQuUr9GbEF80-fW3YDEftTPT6bkUsis_eXY8AXAUwSVWYs_4FTHCSIXA7-F2TIEs_UJh0simGTQSsEAXcbztcwkGdtuOPJ6MjEpoNSIZmYwzC8J2BTLYi-UPGL_entHPOhfpEIZSPWsAbDyrDiE/w640-h472/Archer_wip-015-RLM23red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>These shades of red differed from each other a bit but not strongly. If I didn't actually <i>know</i> I used different paints, I might not be able to tell it with my crappy eyes... </p><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Blackness</span></h3><p>After air-drying the red layers I decided I had a tiny problem with black paint (VMA 71057). My last bottle of black was so low that I barely got a thin layer of it painted to give me a guideline for the dark grey layers.</p><p>How did this happen? Black had been one of my main paints for ages. I realized it right away: I've moved without noticing away from the extreme colours also in the bits that are instructed to be painted as black/white, because they are somewhat unnatural-looking in these scales.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOzHTHzKbqJFRYg4fBnN2j0QPIcke0oB_5HOy4wIPRdLEttrvU6qBPdcPZzqb__ZOMxFUOBt1BvgkEAhiVaIKYNhG795TQ08Zlofkx1CY2y4stZrVxKDOJe3NYq6CNZk0fOwXp33ds2nZ7StoDbz1gfE8Zg1T89cI44nLN_Tx_TDZ_LD18dmoockc44eQ/s666/Archer_wip-016-black-bits.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="666" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOzHTHzKbqJFRYg4fBnN2j0QPIcke0oB_5HOy4wIPRdLEttrvU6qBPdcPZzqb__ZOMxFUOBt1BvgkEAhiVaIKYNhG795TQ08Zlofkx1CY2y4stZrVxKDOJe3NYq6CNZk0fOwXp33ds2nZ7StoDbz1gfE8Zg1T89cI44nLN_Tx_TDZ_LD18dmoockc44eQ/w640-h576/Archer_wip-016-black-bits.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>That wasn't too much of a problem, this black layer had the honour of working as a pathfinder and the base of shadows. Just about everything I painted black was going to be overpainted with dark grey (black grey or german grey), and maybe they would also get a slightly lighter grey over them.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHMVNJGKWOcNgU_LYQoIpDOGoMLe7iQ7dztAl0CdQFFmGpmpbtW7MBSOvHtKEp5_2IuI-s80uptRMZVFbkicVC_tC1C9xlSsNBz-BSnykVR29u4ORW9tAZPK4SLKRu4icCXZ_1ia4ngYMOHtqK6PEMvlQhI2Rq3KkuXMufcnmcJU9IEhPBk0HiQfa74k/s732/Archer_wip-017-black-bits.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="732" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHMVNJGKWOcNgU_LYQoIpDOGoMLe7iQ7dztAl0CdQFFmGpmpbtW7MBSOvHtKEp5_2IuI-s80uptRMZVFbkicVC_tC1C9xlSsNBz-BSnykVR29u4ORW9tAZPK4SLKRu4icCXZ_1ia4ngYMOHtqK6PEMvlQhI2Rq3KkuXMufcnmcJU9IEhPBk0HiQfa74k/w640-h524/Archer_wip-017-black-bits.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>These photos didn't show too well that the area between the side torso's armoured ridge and the shoulder was red. While painting the other bits I was thinking if that ought to be black too or would a dark wash be enough to differentiate it.</p><p>The past ISD made one sort of a decision for me by not buing more black paint, so at least today those bits remained red. Perhaps I'd practice making fake shadows with the oil paints, this could be a fantastic guinea pig for such a process.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSc6sSKjyOQUNz6hRRE1z-0-XNvquPdHknQt_FZJIKdlquqj_g4MteB_FCM7e3kbmQdgj_djh-BK6HlJoueie6T3U7WwV3UBTGI5rugeNBlKTazmAJjg413dO3H_4hX7gkc7C1Zxkx2-9PbhLAXUIBfV8PI1FXYzcOlcsqUQhrnTTJ9avLkv6lTjUFxn8/s800/Archer_wip-018-black-bits.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSc6sSKjyOQUNz6hRRE1z-0-XNvquPdHknQt_FZJIKdlquqj_g4MteB_FCM7e3kbmQdgj_djh-BK6HlJoueie6T3U7WwV3UBTGI5rugeNBlKTazmAJjg413dO3H_4hX7gkc7C1Zxkx2-9PbhLAXUIBfV8PI1FXYzcOlcsqUQhrnTTJ9avLkv6lTjUFxn8/w640-h480/Archer_wip-018-black-bits.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>A couple of red bits were shining through in the hips and on the antennae, so I had ran out of black a tiny bit too soon. This last photo showed how I had decided to paint narrow strips of the lower R/L Torso black, to break the monoblocks of red in the torso. It felt like a good breakpoint, especially from the viewpoint of a vehicle or an unfortunate foot soldier.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Next up<br /></span></h4><p>Next time I'd paint over the black parts with grey and go through the metallic parts (laser cannons, missile launchers, the insides of the missile bay doors, the hinges). I should also go over the cockpit canopy bits too, so that the green jewe effects would have convenient dark frames.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-10600729273329172382023-10-25T12:00:00.058+03:002024-01-17T09:44:37.489+02:00Project II/23<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Legendary but not the Legend Killer</span><br /></h2><p>My previous project was supposed to be a bit of a quick snack, but it did eat an amount of time after all. Now I wanted to do something even quicker to cleanse my palate, before jumping onto a larger-scale model again.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD7n1d_j--sPu6fir2SwaEBBuQraSeMsN02VuNidbVgHMmLfY_o5es0p07MXxHgmkwLFgtkQKguKMapIU3H5zrCoJCw-QjyCNCgsKYp8Iut3W7rulyzl-hJqC2yT3s47OrwDARH7FJJgJCR_MQzbBDLwIkq8TI5C0nabZJciXNbZeRHaFS_xlnNwgTSXU/s690/Archer_wip-000-box.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="690" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD7n1d_j--sPu6fir2SwaEBBuQraSeMsN02VuNidbVgHMmLfY_o5es0p07MXxHgmkwLFgtkQKguKMapIU3H5zrCoJCw-QjyCNCgsKYp8Iut3W7rulyzl-hJqC2yT3s47OrwDARH7FJJgJCR_MQzbBDLwIkq8TI5C0nabZJciXNbZeRHaFS_xlnNwgTSXU/w640-h556/Archer_wip-000-box.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I rummaged through my Clan Invasion box and checked what the random boxes had, those unmarked ones living next to my two untouched Star boxes. From the list [Urbanmech, Stormcrow, Mongrel, Archer] I popped out Morgan Kell's modified Archer. The man may have been a legendary 'Mech jock, but the 'Mech itself was a bit boring compared to many others. Of course there were much uglier ones, so this was still ok.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZPzpjOa0SLbkrN2jJhJ_RrqBQr6jKJZvRwMfb7PnlM_Qpp5khIks09ng44XZiopFGcu373jlHldUTuOQZB_R8PLQ_x0w2buVSQrWKyPg9jcYuArwnue8rdIg4JMzdzqMCeMLMtUcxt-Q4c_zsxNCOhNGErUlfPPURpMvWmvHs2tYx7sb_pmCE9xhKkSA/s788/Archer_wip-001-untouched.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="788" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZPzpjOa0SLbkrN2jJhJ_RrqBQr6jKJZvRwMfb7PnlM_Qpp5khIks09ng44XZiopFGcu373jlHldUTuOQZB_R8PLQ_x0w2buVSQrWKyPg9jcYuArwnue8rdIg4JMzdzqMCeMLMtUcxt-Q4c_zsxNCOhNGErUlfPPURpMvWmvHs2tYx7sb_pmCE9xhKkSA/w640-h488/Archer_wip-001-untouched.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwex4yRZOlloTHfP7HV440-9ZUOEKlANA--HXYH97Tva2vjtNMgX2zSyQDixoG0LnUT9FB1Ao4d4hxXEL30TohJhnRlymWgiiiRxxp-S6h9CdkcBEiyNyVGYzPPlsLPOWjRyh-p7NVwVTQ1gF70ecvgQY3d5nFWk5Oht-EMkgtHZvlQMXfSTsWdcRzXVw/s800/Archer_wip-002-untouched.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="782" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZG7Wm_yUn5JXYwgma0aEc_qK56xYdfHUEiwNjXMiaRw5u1zl12yDYvTkCaM7fheTPAmWURSpS9r8Ie3-2QiE_J0K4zJO3PpIDXyZX8teTyQHMEppHEBXbsnT6D-eKLnW5CqpG5KgagWi6wlKQNY1_M97WXKCWedRXp8cTLvp3U8KKcQz151zWzJNzJc/w640-h492/Archer_wip-008-untouched.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>My plan was just to paint one individual 'Mech without pondering on how it would fit into a larger collection. Of course I already <i>had</i> a Lanceful of those awful plastic -molded Kell Hounds from twelve years ago ([Clint, Spider, Panther, Hunchback]) so this wasn't going to be a complete loner. Then again, with one more I'd have <i>five</i> doggies and I'd need three more to fill up the second Lance.</p><p>Not every Merc unit needed to be fully equipped and army-sized, so I wasn't going to stress too much about it.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Randomly wandering thoughts</span> <br /></h3><p>At this point my pre-made plans or thoughts about this project were such that the basic paintjob would be quickly done. Fine-tuning it shouldn't take awfully long, either. I'd spend at least twice as much time with the details (metallic parts either painted metallic or dark grey, right now I was leaning toward metallic paints; green cockpit windows; laser cannon lenses (4); individualizing as in the KH insignia and potential highlights).</p><p>Panel line and shadow washing with oils – and cleaning that all up again – would eat something over an hour, a potential dot filtering less than an hour, maybe some modulation would round it up to an hour. In practice the oils would require long drying times, but I wasn't counting them in in my project time even if I could.</p><p>The hex base would take two sessions: the surface textures first, then painting it. All in all it should be quick. If I chose to do some water/mud effects, it'd take a bit more time but most of this would be waiting again.</p><p>Maybe all this would be done within the hours of a normal workday. The fact was that my calendar had been <i>challenging</i>, to say the least, for a good while, so despite its apparent simplicity this might spread over something like two months. It'd be fun to see in the end how this guessing of mine has hit or missed.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-78277572472809336652023-10-18T12:00:00.107+03:002024-01-17T09:44:29.187+02:00Finished: Project I/23<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxRaLuPlszRlplgaUZUEMqc3c3hIOuQqMRFdq8BP3YuOysiTreOxpr7yMm8MjJsYEpbe8_woJ7813d3PtY_h16LPAkuyf4GDh_gIaOXWDNkBpsVQoLoPT6ewegVHfABB2rhBEDR3MmPne5rw4qvJBwKCYFSBml6Omm3aeeMp894xiA6EMKsTFR4WGmRU/s1200/Assault-Star-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="1200" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxRaLuPlszRlplgaUZUEMqc3c3hIOuQqMRFdq8BP3YuOysiTreOxpr7yMm8MjJsYEpbe8_woJ7813d3PtY_h16LPAkuyf4GDh_gIaOXWDNkBpsVQoLoPT6ewegVHfABB2rhBEDR3MmPne5rw4qvJBwKCYFSBml6Omm3aeeMp894xiA6EMKsTFR4WGmRU/w640-h372/Assault-Star-1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">An Assault Starful of hardware<br /></span></h2><p>Well, it took some time after all despite my idea of doing something quick, and I got to try new things again. Most likely the next one wasn't going to include anything totally new, or at least while I was writing this I had no real idea of what I was going to do or what could I even try.</p><p>I noticed that I was thinking of this a year ago, but I really should take a couple of comparison photos of these newest CGL 'mechs with the ones I painted last year. Each of these five I could also pose next to an IWM miniature (or a couple of them) that had been painted over a decade ago, to see how my paintings and the paintables differed.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Dire Wolf Prime #231</span><br /></h3><p>The people of Draconis Combine called the 100-ton Dire Wolf the Great Death
(大いなる死). It was a mad unit indeed, with an LRM-10 rack on the shoulder, both arms with UAC/5, each with a pair of ER Large Lasers and a pair of Medium Pulse Lasers.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmscGxtgkfvH_HeV-x5YPtBmJ2CKEUSfqce3Q89Eb7sEYBTLpvUsnwCmn-4HL9np5FtUNcfmQmH3u19zT07JLwU-6kFKdsVqG_ToVzcM5eMUHZ48elY4bYXAaxgBBpzjFciZtAssQlH5CiYQdSVbM8ctBoREKXJHYbF0MajOyDnd8hXWURDkGnvhDtTE/s1200/DireWolf-231-2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="1200" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmscGxtgkfvH_HeV-x5YPtBmJ2CKEUSfqce3Q89Eb7sEYBTLpvUsnwCmn-4HL9np5FtUNcfmQmH3u19zT07JLwU-6kFKdsVqG_ToVzcM5eMUHZ48elY4bYXAaxgBBpzjFciZtAssQlH5CiYQdSVbM8ctBoREKXJHYbF0MajOyDnd8hXWURDkGnvhDtTE/w640-h598/DireWolf-231-2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZ4XLGRprT7hUFgc1-sED_KcLuoQpSUM-u_8qPAKz1YM01s7KAQsERXaKK2pfpR6JBZ_bdhR0h1XK7Xr0OlvRkAhaaNaNvhsw_uQJZGF6KzN7nqc9qFX_zdD2lWSsM0p1wIQ-F4vpxR_D1M-nvYx_O4gJg02FD8iRhzG4Wn_mQGJX9_UBCFBGchmHmAc/s1200/DireWolf-231-6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1065" data-original-width="1200" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZ4XLGRprT7hUFgc1-sED_KcLuoQpSUM-u_8qPAKz1YM01s7KAQsERXaKK2pfpR6JBZ_bdhR0h1XK7Xr0OlvRkAhaaNaNvhsw_uQJZGF6KzN7nqc9qFX_zdD2lWSsM0p1wIQ-F4vpxR_D1M-nvYx_O4gJg02FD8iRhzG4Wn_mQGJX9_UBCFBGchmHmAc/w640-h568/DireWolf-231-6.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Summoner Prime #235</span></h3><p></p><p>The freebirth little prince named the 70-ton Summoner based on some hammer-wielder from Norwegian lore, because of its weapons: lightning (ER PPC) and thunder (LB-10X) plus the LRM-15 launcher on its shoulder.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Bvvm5rk9sp3v9FWylwwfYxpvAjSBD9imVSZopils0rcwcgNo0VHQ32QvHbJMlpiPiYSDRz6iBzyA82BsvaWjBYOjZcuad_r_ol7dh6tvoHJAQct-JykOUNvvm9gmB5WN_gTl2BlonWPQJptEHFHXIbVOyA5Ca0Lv1RdM1ESmwydlEmC05Kk3k1UR7v4/s1200/Summoner-235-2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1051" data-original-width="1200" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Bvvm5rk9sp3v9FWylwwfYxpvAjSBD9imVSZopils0rcwcgNo0VHQ32QvHbJMlpiPiYSDRz6iBzyA82BsvaWjBYOjZcuad_r_ol7dh6tvoHJAQct-JykOUNvvm9gmB5WN_gTl2BlonWPQJptEHFHXIbVOyA5Ca0Lv1RdM1ESmwydlEmC05Kk3k1UR7v4/w640-h560/Summoner-235-2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLInG-cV-_aJp4ySom0Zw3z_LfOqr0j7CesHG8wc_6a2SOQCu_WI2W9Q-7dMS3n4YA5CfRDc04A9ZjLPB52gYQT0sZlj_SATve9Va_YBCRs058LRZyceteTU4Hm_oy6KooILcJHpD3wOJOJ2PwpJ2EAGMxCczsveYr9EUaHug-iqIXMfdly902nelrV_g/s1200/Summoner-235-5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="1200" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLInG-cV-_aJp4ySom0Zw3z_LfOqr0j7CesHG8wc_6a2SOQCu_WI2W9Q-7dMS3n4YA5CfRDc04A9ZjLPB52gYQT0sZlj_SATve9Va_YBCRs058LRZyceteTU4Hm_oy6KooILcJHpD3wOJOJ2PwpJ2EAGMxCczsveYr9EUaHug-iqIXMfdly902nelrV_g/w640-h468/Summoner-235-5.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Gargoyle Prime #221</span></h3><p></p><p>In the Assault class the 80-ton fugly Gargoyle punished the Spheroids (among many others) with a pair of LB-5X Autocannons and their underslung SRM-6 packs. It also had an ER Small Laser installed into the chest, maybe to carve some obscenities into the bunker walls of its foes. The baffled Spheroids named it after the Man-of-war ship class, most probably because of its size and the broadsides. Weird people, those.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP2v91uvis3jHrQ-4KFhlS0E7rCNfo2t3WrBr7lRNI1SX5uV5bOt0zMG1vnIAuCYHOfyz_jvBi-8mWnBsPaXVqNtJYw3x1vgnE8Hv42uzs1TcQ8y2wjbqKyfHHk3ol344wsBTreCFfi-wIFX6oW8A7cE76SIYiGlJuFXy1WJ3bLPaKnkBG27Af1ldlibc/s3119/Gargoyle-221-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2502" data-original-width="3119" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP2v91uvis3jHrQ-4KFhlS0E7rCNfo2t3WrBr7lRNI1SX5uV5bOt0zMG1vnIAuCYHOfyz_jvBi-8mWnBsPaXVqNtJYw3x1vgnE8Hv42uzs1TcQ8y2wjbqKyfHHk3ol344wsBTreCFfi-wIFX6oW8A7cE76SIYiGlJuFXy1WJ3bLPaKnkBG27Af1ldlibc/w640-h514/Gargoyle-221-1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmrltbmc48tSdWdFSafVpV-yA_-gevQxYs9zZu47watVyPzTQklp9Bk56PLWABWWtyappjkN3saG0PI6_yPK3NH9hkcOEV6Yp4JUkxMN2LT1xBFGbRzNTzMdWNaxZzxM9lusVRJAb-WNxz4YnLyqjNrqMWXC7TxpBD592iTOIcvQHjVso9zq-QZVJeuBE/s1200/Gargoyle-221-2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="997" data-original-width="1200" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmrltbmc48tSdWdFSafVpV-yA_-gevQxYs9zZu47watVyPzTQklp9Bk56PLWABWWtyappjkN3saG0PI6_yPK3NH9hkcOEV6Yp4JUkxMN2LT1xBFGbRzNTzMdWNaxZzxM9lusVRJAb-WNxz4YnLyqjNrqMWXC7TxpBD592iTOIcvQHjVso9zq-QZVJeuBE/w640-h532/Gargoyle-221-2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Mad Dog Prime #222</span></h3><p></p><p>The servants of the Dragon had given their own name to the Mad Dog, as well – for some reason they called it a Vulture
(ハゲタカ) – because why not? Barely in the Heavy class this OmniMech has always been to my liking, a fantastic machine. The LRM-20 racks on the both sides of the cockpit were just a fun approach to life, the arms then housed Large and Medium Pulse Lasers, symmetrically the same set of death rays in each hand.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5gd4ygvFYR_4kUYdLXFQf2-q2Xfd-TQG7CtuWLmBmNbDHaZ7q3IaxEgfUhX541K_p6b963WVEjlGzWl0f4LX5Xl7JDttpU7pgkqnrgP3O4mXl7NC3ZCdx19MKbe-kBJI6206lWEz2d_M7k3KOyxIGaabtF1iZ1_BluLDXRZu883vjRF5JiMppeN1VQk4/s1200/MadDog-223-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="935" data-original-width="1200" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5gd4ygvFYR_4kUYdLXFQf2-q2Xfd-TQG7CtuWLmBmNbDHaZ7q3IaxEgfUhX541K_p6b963WVEjlGzWl0f4LX5Xl7JDttpU7pgkqnrgP3O4mXl7NC3ZCdx19MKbe-kBJI6206lWEz2d_M7k3KOyxIGaabtF1iZ1_BluLDXRZu883vjRF5JiMppeN1VQk4/w640-h498/MadDog-223-1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iZxGHnUfTecVxbpL26TCRrqThj7aYdnwy_T-Z8AT7b1DFKXEysjyu_5jaQlFAbU-JZGaVH_2bsrO5_MzgmRIf5MZ_jaEE4MNaiOvzikDm0m6eVrHl6taYqhxqQGT9CC5BYRzGI--6GsY7bV1s09OEScPUm5zAbAGuKcNg0wX3NKMR4K2TCNIARYJ4ng/s1200/MadDog-223-2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="897" data-original-width="1200" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iZxGHnUfTecVxbpL26TCRrqThj7aYdnwy_T-Z8AT7b1DFKXEysjyu_5jaQlFAbU-JZGaVH_2bsrO5_MzgmRIf5MZ_jaEE4MNaiOvzikDm0m6eVrHl6taYqhxqQGT9CC5BYRzGI--6GsY7bV1s09OEScPUm5zAbAGuKcNg0wX3NKMR4K2TCNIARYJ4ng/w640-h478/MadDog-223-2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMK72AeUhDtFZE-ViATinHtaSRl-0Buy8ZB4Jgc0vR5gNlgBkVwTdfvKyUrwHbqKTNV-iO48EuVo1gQgYEaA0wtlrqZ7ewdbZswJuA6K9PhTkZMtteuY9M64X5084hqQRFU4MLKafiBVf-cqK1eoy2Hq6PGylEjN6Ll0LZp7LyDgBvgnDOhGV3kYHB_Zg/s1200/MadDog-223-5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1200" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMK72AeUhDtFZE-ViATinHtaSRl-0Buy8ZB4Jgc0vR5gNlgBkVwTdfvKyUrwHbqKTNV-iO48EuVo1gQgYEaA0wtlrqZ7ewdbZswJuA6K9PhTkZMtteuY9M64X5084hqQRFU4MLKafiBVf-cqK1eoy2Hq6PGylEjN6Ll0LZp7LyDgBvgnDOhGV3kYHB_Zg/w640-h518/MadDog-223-5.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Hellbringer Prime #223</span></h3><p></p><p>A sibling 'Mech of the Summoner, the sixty-five ton Hellbringer worked awesomely as a pair, which was most likely the reason the little prince's henchman Galen Cox decided to call it Loki. The amount of weaponry, especially in the eyes of freebirths, was indeed shocking: ER PPCs in the arms, an AMS above the cockpit, a cluster of three ER Medium Lasers in the Left Torso, a SSRM-6 launcher, four AP pods in the legs against any infantry, and to top it all a pair of Machine Guns in the Right Torso. Still there was armour and cooling fins for actual operations, just like on its sibling.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-P5c8LKHHRdiUpzC6hEfQhic1n-UVtcxFSXkIZ_0TB02eGbTvtTlEO1LLNTPirx-w6YsNizZIWuwRRQXE9o3Du5NPJ_QA15NXc4vygMakuenYDQhJO-K24SKYbZMlNnqfxwlPu2J8Cpf-zX9ZKX1aH1_mizkRb9tI7r0gz5wM8waHhqkwmcr-QjeLWgk/s1200/Hellbringer-222-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="917" data-original-width="1200" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-P5c8LKHHRdiUpzC6hEfQhic1n-UVtcxFSXkIZ_0TB02eGbTvtTlEO1LLNTPirx-w6YsNizZIWuwRRQXE9o3Du5NPJ_QA15NXc4vygMakuenYDQhJO-K24SKYbZMlNnqfxwlPu2J8Cpf-zX9ZKX1aH1_mizkRb9tI7r0gz5wM8waHhqkwmcr-QjeLWgk/w640-h490/Hellbringer-222-1.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvDGZFsEdSmGCz_zjldMEuAwpDq2oqWtTf-U1ovZxwR4iFFjhX4Hd-tgmcENu-jGB8ijkqTeDqcOv3M1Y_s2-ncbZrur5rYhKETMu5mjAPiBzqXNceLt5jWLc60yG2UOJcb-rE13zunew5kHDrQvA1YLDz7RA1t4aqUZZpgnjws-mMOn_nELJ_lVHP928/s1200/Hellbringer-222-6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="953" data-original-width="1200" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvDGZFsEdSmGCz_zjldMEuAwpDq2oqWtTf-U1ovZxwR4iFFjhX4Hd-tgmcENu-jGB8ijkqTeDqcOv3M1Y_s2-ncbZrur5rYhKETMu5mjAPiBzqXNceLt5jWLc60yG2UOJcb-rE13zunew5kHDrQvA1YLDz7RA1t4aqUZZpgnjws-mMOn_nELJ_lVHP928/w640-h508/Hellbringer-222-6.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">The end<br /></span></h3><p>These five didn't really belong into the same Star, at least in my current list of the Cluster, but based on their unit numbers they were from the Trinary Beta's Stars two and three. Of course that made no actual difference, because I was never going to play anything that serious, I was just doing all this collecting, painting and organizing just for the sheer fun of it. I may have mentioned it a bunch of times already.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgsyH7d6Rn_QbROdx4sBkpYke7SWDVHwHKuDPgtVMSEUblpBkGibaBWKsuCTg9av_HEWpBxGMcyhefvV8e4CdIlfhrF0BuJpAkGig49OTPmWpzQEohaRW-NFnhWn5xBwrAyZRwr6VmWjswFKMWZvOd9_sMdJKXmZdUqVmaiMxeWD7t97kF3bhOj_xpXdk/s1200/Assault-Star-2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="1200" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgsyH7d6Rn_QbROdx4sBkpYke7SWDVHwHKuDPgtVMSEUblpBkGibaBWKsuCTg9av_HEWpBxGMcyhefvV8e4CdIlfhrF0BuJpAkGig49OTPmWpzQEohaRW-NFnhWn5xBwrAyZRwr6VmWjswFKMWZvOd9_sMdJKXmZdUqVmaiMxeWD7t97kF3bhOj_xpXdk/w640-h290/Assault-Star-2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Next Wednesday I should have something new going on. At this point I was thinking between two options, at this rate I'd end up tossing a coin.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6009701759195351667.post-12056394094762465602023-10-11T12:00:00.030+03:002024-01-17T09:44:24.035+02:00Final detailings<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Hex bases with their jade stripes<br /></span></h2><p>To keep things simple I painted the edges of the bases flat black. While I was playing with black I painted the barrels of each of the Autocannons as they were a bit too light in dark grey.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia6xsasBzmJAqx9_ZtSLmd0uPC3iKtKTdvhThEwbVTm4yXMpaB30STKzEMsDeGEruYXzqLzIizhoTYybGTEvStwgSkT6RPf-pL2SAj4vTuh7tnjOAWpwt2L8RqM_QpEqkG22KqS1ILk3w2eK5pWELp317Da8HjF_lDhb5VyHRjTQdmkkZOLaZZi38rtp4/s775/NewStar_160-base-edges.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="775" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia6xsasBzmJAqx9_ZtSLmd0uPC3iKtKTdvhThEwbVTm4yXMpaB30STKzEMsDeGEruYXzqLzIizhoTYybGTEvStwgSkT6RPf-pL2SAj4vTuh7tnjOAWpwt2L8RqM_QpEqkG22KqS1ILk3w2eK5pWELp317Da8HjF_lDhb5VyHRjTQdmkkZOLaZZi38rtp4/w640-h496/NewStar_160-base-edges.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Earlier I had been thinking if I'd paint the lower third or even half of the front-facing hex edge with jade green, but based on a freehand attempt it didn't look as neat as I had hoped. I then painted the full edge in green instead.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCCImYHazQ7wptIAvJOgtAdfyYyswQOwziw93cTauWvOoD8liP7SVdbzKNWKdWwiOI2PGCzuwdMviqKAAFFZbFY9993ZIbqmGuqc6fKMemdVnBCO0eDAordqKrxT1RBsVNRmGyF7PERhbPnlpvzb9aeEzgnIlX-HEkLSiPaOlsHMMf7cq9bYZk1H3EEVE/s770/NewStar_161-base-edges.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="770" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCCImYHazQ7wptIAvJOgtAdfyYyswQOwziw93cTauWvOoD8liP7SVdbzKNWKdWwiOI2PGCzuwdMviqKAAFFZbFY9993ZIbqmGuqc6fKMemdVnBCO0eDAordqKrxT1RBsVNRmGyF7PERhbPnlpvzb9aeEzgnIlX-HEkLSiPaOlsHMMf7cq9bYZk1H3EEVE/w640-h498/NewStar_161-base-edges.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>With a bit of masking and a new layer of black those could be transformed into having a caution stripe, for example. I left these thoughts simmer while the second layer of the gloss varnish on the energy weapons was drying.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Metal pigmentage</span> <br /></h2><p>This one was a pretty quick operation. I dropped some AK Interactive's Dark Steel pigment onto the palette and added thinner on it. When I had a thin enough liquid mixed up, I applied that on the metallic surfaces of mine. These photos were taken in a somewhat funny lighting conditions, and in general I felt the pigment didn't stand out as interestingly from the German Grey surface as from the Jagdpanzer's camouflage colours. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTgIxgPsD6oiyT8asGnQJyuYVLS_IzE5PeZDIVxdOPYI9FK1K78fwPidNn0it_WJXVbO8bmJ5ICmCV2iKQlr9E1us9sfwDZ1cuAWetMOrPAf0a2nFyNoe-pHXxfdMY9vgP-XPBX4coHLxM-Xotw9-giJdtr7WLdvMjYZn2zTY4VQO6GOgWZsF9VdBsZqM/s761/NewStar_167-DireWolf-pigments-front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="761" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTgIxgPsD6oiyT8asGnQJyuYVLS_IzE5PeZDIVxdOPYI9FK1K78fwPidNn0it_WJXVbO8bmJ5ICmCV2iKQlr9E1us9sfwDZ1cuAWetMOrPAf0a2nFyNoe-pHXxfdMY9vgP-XPBX4coHLxM-Xotw9-giJdtr7WLdvMjYZn2zTY4VQO6GOgWZsF9VdBsZqM/w640-h504/NewStar_167-DireWolf-pigments-front.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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This wasn't important enough to take photos of each just to show I did it, as they were going to be visible in the next photos anyway.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Disgusting browns<br /></span></h2><p>On the bases I painted some sort of a haphazard layer of dirty brown (VMA 71133 Dirt), and as a result this made each of the hex bases look like my 'Mechs were ankle-deep in a dog playground. Then I painted with a different emphasis some woody brown (VMA 71077 Wood) that didn't really improve the overall look much, if at all. After giving these paints a short bit to dry, I applied a wash (VMW 76513 Brown) over the bases.<br /></p><p>They really looked disgusting, but I <i>was</i> going for a nasty muddiness. Maybe I could use some acrylic still water on some dots, or something, later on.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0q981ImHhZVsooqTDmbSMNX2JmNJjTZlY6KUbtCcWPnrCKe84BDBV5pt0kR6P74HykwJTuTFiRINLCWmHeTDHJhSZdiUkDneoOI4usY15EgLRlZWPHKZ5tcKp4Hx8KY0zQENBs8y9nBAEPWe6JI8idm3_SbVhvVxPOXtadBsTHO_JsEma4F1X7pznnLo/s662/NewStar_149-DireWolf-basing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="662" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0q981ImHhZVsooqTDmbSMNX2JmNJjTZlY6KUbtCcWPnrCKe84BDBV5pt0kR6P74HykwJTuTFiRINLCWmHeTDHJhSZdiUkDneoOI4usY15EgLRlZWPHKZ5tcKp4Hx8KY0zQENBs8y9nBAEPWe6JI8idm3_SbVhvVxPOXtadBsTHO_JsEma4F1X7pznnLo/w640-h580/NewStar_149-DireWolf-basing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>As one simple detail I finally painted the Summoner's LRM-15 launcher's tubelike bits with a rubbery paint (VMA 71315 Tire Black). Not to make them look like they were some rubber hoses, but to separate them from the camo and the other parts but not so much that they'd stand out like a Pride parade in Moscow.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCUaGPlGfJhZLbu4NYXAO3NLVS3VrT1kOa_HAP-Gif8dduF6r8OsUV-QISN2NsAKdwauy-AJQcf5X2vypeDMDK6hn2YhG0N5kDj4eDI9S3ocZAXpdwhd0LO9jPQjGinCagoED1CYkCSPeb-X8KijBVbzHY38VvOsLQ9ynD3HSVMYvD1_egib4VZMGclEk/s671/NewStar_150-Summoner-basing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="671" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCUaGPlGfJhZLbu4NYXAO3NLVS3VrT1kOa_HAP-Gif8dduF6r8OsUV-QISN2NsAKdwauy-AJQcf5X2vypeDMDK6hn2YhG0N5kDj4eDI9S3ocZAXpdwhd0LO9jPQjGinCagoED1CYkCSPeb-X8KijBVbzHY38VvOsLQ9ynD3HSVMYvD1_egib4VZMGclEk/w640-h572/NewStar_150-Summoner-basing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCWi6xobSrMmQ8DbT0pSoFePc4n_8kX5N877BcgTY1hK2NgteGZYTBqB7SkUpxci0q8EK6-FWQ23fOK4shgdno80x8hswXyxuFOeX6ApL4YI0MpGoR8CSTtmEn0pcfbcmEVOd65LIpfvMtjB68bBxocwaAMwTgR_zrpdljrUigDtRmzZz56UyyBTOed3s/s764/NewStar_151-Gargoyle-basing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="764" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCWi6xobSrMmQ8DbT0pSoFePc4n_8kX5N877BcgTY1hK2NgteGZYTBqB7SkUpxci0q8EK6-FWQ23fOK4shgdno80x8hswXyxuFOeX6ApL4YI0MpGoR8CSTtmEn0pcfbcmEVOd65LIpfvMtjB68bBxocwaAMwTgR_zrpdljrUigDtRmzZz56UyyBTOed3s/w640-h502/NewStar_151-Gargoyle-basing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4xjiYuXvyD5U19Jtcj4KSRnPeZuxq4wH6bDEVkq97KZiWqdwkfxIHvPvYZNQL1w7y6lfGjPtw-Xa3mh69DPZux5vUyEqFeepBnjG5DxLPXXL8fvJbi65txZrD_p2QxS_H0BksZC6tvKw9dsMDNKgyHhOpaf-4Sx_WMhcNhWcKF6MtDmIRrv4YW9z-Xg/s800/NewStar_152-MadDog-basing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="800" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4xjiYuXvyD5U19Jtcj4KSRnPeZuxq4wH6bDEVkq97KZiWqdwkfxIHvPvYZNQL1w7y6lfGjPtw-Xa3mh69DPZux5vUyEqFeepBnjG5DxLPXXL8fvJbi65txZrD_p2QxS_H0BksZC6tvKw9dsMDNKgyHhOpaf-4Sx_WMhcNhWcKF6MtDmIRrv4YW9z-Xg/w640-h430/NewStar_152-MadDog-basing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibfAFtRmaLN0PgmU6arwomVekSNaT9xdtKSofrNHaplhUpxwWq2lKO3y9pkO-rn0fPijXcPKCbm8_mVKiy8dCQCoNy3CE9LpPRVUhODdb7UhYXn9VF8DrM0XOl0YW78hoqwo-Wln46FGmKO5IGsEFnJ-b__jdR7g7u9lmelOelMZGnQnzTmzcMwhPlumE/s800/NewStar_153-Hellbringer-basing.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="800" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibfAFtRmaLN0PgmU6arwomVekSNaT9xdtKSofrNHaplhUpxwWq2lKO3y9pkO-rn0fPijXcPKCbm8_mVKiy8dCQCoNy3CE9LpPRVUhODdb7UhYXn9VF8DrM0XOl0YW78hoqwo-Wln46FGmKO5IGsEFnJ-b__jdR7g7u9lmelOelMZGnQnzTmzcMwhPlumE/w640-h444/NewStar_153-Hellbringer-basing.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: helvetica;">Gloss varnish on the !glasses<br /></span></h2><p></p><p>All the canopy pieces and the energy weapon lenses got a layer of Gloss Varnish (Vallejo 70510). Each of the death ray tubes would need three layers, the canopies would be fine with one. At this point I only had time to do one layer only, as they would need to cure for a day before the next layer could be applied. Also, this was nothing that would need to be photographed every time.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9tjfyAyARhqtmWZ_YO0pgtdinSOCVVMOaHbhVTqxWQqC-q5jxQSnC2h9IgOPTeaEcoPm-VSE_9XGs8fWYC60zcDjjMmiqpDCJXWoNsNBYI86Ul75vr1sH7ea8kkQipWNp8gVI3a0WbdpKbFgcG2JRArYbxsaoTom7C9et7trL66mFQYL5UpilYVakw-g/s800/NewStar_154-DireWolf-gloss-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="800" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9tjfyAyARhqtmWZ_YO0pgtdinSOCVVMOaHbhVTqxWQqC-q5jxQSnC2h9IgOPTeaEcoPm-VSE_9XGs8fWYC60zcDjjMmiqpDCJXWoNsNBYI86Ul75vr1sH7ea8kkQipWNp8gVI3a0WbdpKbFgcG2JRArYbxsaoTom7C9et7trL66mFQYL5UpilYVakw-g/w640-h456/NewStar_154-DireWolf-gloss-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwXSnsT-oamzUbGQ4iDzHn1byMr_nemimP-sJ1VFu0DXb_YxmxgZYLGdZ_5aA0jITOupD8nuBHyS-ErZJ-HWKmLScuu5HAeRQ_yrVu9ZCzRfwmC-55RCdU89P6TYRXAmuodvGHiSkdXxKznXrdFSxbuhkcZpd2UuVtMF59mh-i1rUtNUuVqkBoF1DC55w/s800/NewStar_155-Summoner-gloss-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="800" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwXSnsT-oamzUbGQ4iDzHn1byMr_nemimP-sJ1VFu0DXb_YxmxgZYLGdZ_5aA0jITOupD8nuBHyS-ErZJ-HWKmLScuu5HAeRQ_yrVu9ZCzRfwmC-55RCdU89P6TYRXAmuodvGHiSkdXxKznXrdFSxbuhkcZpd2UuVtMF59mh-i1rUtNUuVqkBoF1DC55w/w640-h430/NewStar_155-Summoner-gloss-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZmLZXmDH8AaYV2EXtv7ytVffg454eyZZjZDAqb6bkb-A65zoJeizNwfsd_I6pkq329L2OJ-7XyUFfzQTynP-5l44lOvIrVFOXtQNjO3RyQJuzFtSQnv5-G7ayKf7aOd6LIqPxDhZtsP0Ga78XTe0H_ZyRr23QovfQPDBzVbgMJmNIONpfC3vgJPRLSPY/s800/NewStar_156-Gargoyle-gloss-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="800" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZmLZXmDH8AaYV2EXtv7ytVffg454eyZZjZDAqb6bkb-A65zoJeizNwfsd_I6pkq329L2OJ-7XyUFfzQTynP-5l44lOvIrVFOXtQNjO3RyQJuzFtSQnv5-G7ayKf7aOd6LIqPxDhZtsP0Ga78XTe0H_ZyRr23QovfQPDBzVbgMJmNIONpfC3vgJPRLSPY/w640-h470/NewStar_156-Gargoyle-gloss-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQ6--j4gAkzgM80-u-LRjNwGDG8K5-7COArf8T548Lvl6-ddDdiEhtYGIu9WhbcwvOS-PshpJBAfI9z42OuHy9tsRWOHV3of7mlceq8jAMvbOlwD7Qi_pZd0ywwbaBfjl5oMaAFZRcvUjGbT7F13z2pHbkI8jno_YS5T7YNVJfduzFkcsDsrWpmxZF6o/s800/NewStar_157-MadDog-gloss-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="800" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQ6--j4gAkzgM80-u-LRjNwGDG8K5-7COArf8T548Lvl6-ddDdiEhtYGIu9WhbcwvOS-PshpJBAfI9z42OuHy9tsRWOHV3of7mlceq8jAMvbOlwD7Qi_pZd0ywwbaBfjl5oMaAFZRcvUjGbT7F13z2pHbkI8jno_YS5T7YNVJfduzFkcsDsrWpmxZF6o/w640-h388/NewStar_157-MadDog-gloss-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-8_CuoBrCmuDWnEzY2getCR7MJwKvUJw0-8E71WYHdIk-u64VKNUt4SQppuHIqelMJdJE5lH3R7yQnEAK2qcYNXzwWKO--Wvi2iiGuTTLbbeFNUdwUba0-iOqNqE1rd5bKkrONPuUcaKI6XeoKkaouJjeeluJjmNAYD479iYWHo4w_iOhHTFu-eWHOv8/s800/NewStar_158-Hellbringer-gloss-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="800" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-8_CuoBrCmuDWnEzY2getCR7MJwKvUJw0-8E71WYHdIk-u64VKNUt4SQppuHIqelMJdJE5lH3R7yQnEAK2qcYNXzwWKO--Wvi2iiGuTTLbbeFNUdwUba0-iOqNqE1rd5bKkrONPuUcaKI6XeoKkaouJjeeluJjmNAYD479iYWHo4w_iOhHTFu-eWHOv8/w640-h418/NewStar_158-Hellbringer-gloss-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>These five Points were just about done now. Playing with the gloss coat would take a few days, but that wouldn't even need to be mentioned considering active project time.</p><p>All I knew I still had to do was to paint the edges of the hex bases, maybe I could paint the first edges with a jade highlight (to mark what was "forward" for the 'Mech). Maybe I could spend fifteen minutes in trying out how the dark steel pigment would look in this scale, there were quite a few non-metallic bits to experiment on.</p>ISDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809967677433702639noreply@blogger.com0