What are you working on right now?

Summer is over and I´ve begun modelling on a regular basis again.


The season is started off with a 1/72 scale Fokker E.III ( Eduard ), a 1/72 scale A-37 Dragonfly ( Academy ) to be finished in Peruvian colours, a nearly finished 1/35 scale BTR-80 ( Dragon ), a 1/35 scale M21 Mortar Carrier ( Tamiya ) and a 1/35 scale M4A3 (76)W HVSS Sherman ( Dragon ).

 

that sure is quite a lot!
As for me, I have started to try and paint a DC-3 Dakota. hard job, because the decalls are already installed. (it was some old model I still had somewhere) the aluminium belly does look very nice now though!
By the way, any ideas on how I could make a civilian plane look wheathered?

 

Why not paint over it all and add new decals?

Weathering -
how complicated do you want it?

A good trick is the use of a silver pencil on the edges of hatches/doors/inspection panels that were regularly used on the plane to similate chipped/worn paint.

Some modellers spray the tops of their plane models with a slightly lighter shade of the base colour to give a 'bleached-by-the-sun' effect.

However, I have just realised that you have an aluminium-finish model, so none of that works...

You could try mixing paints to get slightly different shades of aluminium to use on the flaps, panels etc (check with colour photos to see which panels were different shades first!). A polish with toothpaste actually brings up metal-effect paints really well, but do not do this if the transfers are already on!
Obviously add soot/oil leaks etc - either by drybrushing, or powders, or whatever takes your fancy.

Do drybrush any non-metal paintwork.

 

I'm currently working on a Panther Ausf. D in 1/72 scale.I'm going for the Kursk look on this one.

 

Hi.

I´m working on a 1:72 japanese type 94 tk resin kit and on a 1:35 Type 3 Chi-Nu.

By the way, what have I to take care of when working on a resin it?

Yours

tom

 

Ricky would that be a PUMA armoured car?

 

Nope -
I do have a Puma (8 wheels, 50mm gun, very nice...).
This is one of the early models, used in Poland & France, basically a 6-wheel truck chassis with armour & a turret.

 

Try this link

http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/german/mb231.htm

 

Yup, that's it!
Sdkfz 231 (6 rad)
But mine has the big chunky 'bedframe-type' radio aerial on top.

 

Well, don't keep us in suspense, show us the money!

 

That's a Matchbox kit I've seen so often!

Is it any good?

 

Hello.
Better than a long list, a photograph ,it will be necessary that one day I finish them

 

Alright, I spot an Hanomag, a Tiger, a Sturmtiger and a Jagdpanzer 4/48. Am I right? :-?

 

A Panther, a T34/85 and a Kübelwagen too.

 

Hello.
A Stug IV late and a Sd.kfz 250,PanzerProfile.
Yes, Roel and also a Cromwell,a KV2,a Js2,a Dragon Wagon with Sherman,a Flak 88 and ....there is too much of it and never enough time
A better photo

 

It is challenging.
Most of it is fine, it is just the upper & lower parts of the hull that do not quite fit properly.
Which is why it is still a work in progress...

 

I am now working on a 1:35 scale tiger tank form tamiya
:bang:

 

pretty tough too. I take it that you only work on 1/35 scale, considdering the railway gun and the tiger?

 

My current project (thank you sadists!) is rather delayed - at the moment I only get about 1 day a fortnight to work on it - provided my parents are not using the table. :cry:

 

are you still living with your parents? how old are you, then? Or are these too personal questions. (I can understand)

Too bad you have to wait for them to use the table and work on.