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Wonderful pics there!
I'd like to share some of my own. They represent my nashorn, recently finished. Sturmtiger already gave me a few tips to improve it further, but I'd really like to know what you guys think about it!
If larger pics are required, I can supply those on request
thanks in advance!

 

PanzerProfile:
Great work on the Nashorn! I once again feel totally inadequate having just totally messed up a 1/72 M4! Seeing what you and the others have done made me want to start modeling again. Now I remember why I stopped.

 

hey!!!!
practice, practice and practice until you can do it
none of us did it right the first time, for me it took years to be able to build a decent model

 

You can't mess up a tank.Keep going with it until you are finished.You'll be surprised at the results.

 

I can only agree with the previous posts. The whole modelling thing (and the skill coming with it) is simply a matter of time and a lot of practice. Shall I tell you a little story?

When I started modelling (tanks that is, I modelled planes way before with the most disasterous results), I bought a kit I thought I'd like and tried to build it with a tube of glue and no paint at all. After like, 10-15 tanks my glue-ing stkills started to improve, thus I bought needle-glue gear. This improved glueing a lot, after another tank or 10, so I decided to paint my first tank after about 30-40 models, unpainted, some completely covered in glue...
That tank, a Tiger 2, was a 3 colour tryout, and it teached me a little about painting tanks. This was about the moment where I joined the forum and started to ask questions and receiving tips. After a tank or 3, maybe 4, skills improved and I kept on buying paint, so that my stock of colours was now over 10.
Then I got my panther G. I started off enthousiasticly, but after 10 parts and 3 colours I completely lost inspiration. I put it aside for 2 months, did some research on the use and colour schemes (thanks me 262!!) of the tank and then started again. When I posted it, it had taken me 3 months to complete and almost all members at the time said I did a great job. That inspired me to continue painting tanks.

All together all I want to say is: practice, keep posting and you'll end up way better than my nashorn.
Many thanks for your kind complements though

 

we learn from each others, that is the point of this section of the froum and i think this is very good, to be able to look for answers and give some little advice to the others

 

Panzerprofile - great job! I particularly like the Winter camoflage - how on earth do you manage to make it look so authentic, like it is whitewash applied over grey paint, with a lot of wear?

 

thanks for the tips and encouragement. In a few years I might have something to show you.

 

Pshaw! You have something to show us now!

get them pictures up! I don't care if you think it looks cruddy compared to Me262's or PP's, I want to see your models.

 

Still working on UM 1/72 Bare ass Fredinand (i.e. SU-76M).pretty much finished (just needs decals - can't decide which wheicle ) but i can't get info on radiostation mounted in open top fighting compartment :angry:

 

Hi all,
I've just registered to these forums, although i've been reading them for some time.
Recently, i bought a M5 Stuart and i'm intrested in recreating a stuart belonging to the Pakistani army during the indian-pakistani war of 1956.After some research i found only that the tanks belonged to M5 type.Anyone that can help with pictures or so?I hope to post some pictures of it soon.

 

Hi McRis, and welcome aboard!

That sounds like an interesting project, and I'm sure somebody will be able to dig something up for you.

 

Um, do you mean 1965?

Edit:

I have been doing a bit of poking around and I can only find reference to M5 stuart tanks in Indian service in the 1947 war. Sorry...

 

Hi Ricky, thanks for your complements!
Let me tell you how I did that.
First, I painted the parts that needed to be whitewashed in Sandy Yellow. Secondly, I 'wheathered' the edges of the steel plates with metallic paint (humbrol gun metal) so they got their thin grey-metallike edges.

The whitewasing was pretty much literally whitewashing. I took one or two small dots of white paint (matt white) and mixed that with terpentine on a (more or less) 1:10 ratio.The result is a white-like, very fluid paint. Actually it's more like white terpentine more than it is like paint. Anyway, I applied that to the sides of the nashorn, one at the time so I could hold the model in my hands while the paint dried and found a way to distribute itself over the edges of the tank. Naturally, the edges of the sides attract a little more than the surface, which results in the more white edges and more wheathered surface.
When I thought the whitewash was still too thin, I just let it dry and repeated the process.
Stupid of me to apply the crosses and the vehicle's name afterwards...
I hope this helps you along!

 

Dear McRis,

You might want to post your question in the sections dealing with post-war tanks and warfare too. By doing so, you might reach people who are perticularily interested in the war you mean.
Good luck on the job!

greets,
PP

 

Thanks PP!
And actualy it is 1956.I just misprinted the date :-?

 

NOT AGAIN! :angry: TWO times misprinted that 1965!

 

Nice, PanzerProfile! How'd ya' make it?

 

IT is looking cruddy, but I'll post some pics when I have IT completed (supposedly a 1/72 M4A3E8).

 

Wow! You guys certainly know how to paint tanks! To be honest i've only even made one tank (a Tamiya T-62A) and it really wasn't too fun painting the entire thing green... Usually I like to paint WW1 aircraft (particularily German) as they are so colorful, right now i'm making a Pfalz DXII and a Mig 23 Flogger; they have been progressing at an extremely lesiurely rate for over a year now