A Hideo Kojima edition>JAPAN GROUP BUILD IS ONGOINGprevious thread: >>11697872This thread is for the discussion of scale plastic (and resin, PE, wood, etc) models kit-Post photos of your builds in progress and your finished builds-Have your builds critiqued or critique others-Discuss tips and techniques-Ask for advice or give advice to othersAlways remember: Don't drop your keys on your Ha-GoSome helpful guides to get started:https://www.scalemates.com/http://www.mediafire.com/view/1vf1aw7v91pz5pa/Airfix%20Model%20World%20Specia%20%28Scale%20Modelling%20Step-By-Step%29.pdfhttp://www.scalemodelguide.com/http://www.modelersite.com/en/area/98/scale-models-techniqueshttp://fichtenfoo.net/blog/model-tutorials-and-in-progshttp://ipmsstockholm.org/https://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/http://www.primeportal.net/home.htmhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/156268995@N04/albumsPlus there are tons of people on YouTube with pretty good videos on techniques etc.Some sites to purchase models, extras, and supplies(largely outdated):>ebayhttps://www.dersockelshop.de/ (GER)https://www.scalehobbyist.com/index.php (US)https://www.alfahobby.se/ (SWE)http://spruebrothers.com/ (US)https://freetimehobbies.com/ (US)http://www.hobbyeasy.com/ (HK)http://www.luckymodel.com/ (HK)http://www.hlj.com/ (JP)https://www.modellbau-koenig.de/en (GER)http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/m/ (JP)https://www.hannants.co.uk/ (UK)https://www.jadarhobby.pl/index.php?language=en (PL)https://www.bnamodelworld.com/ (AUS)http://volksusastore.com/webstores/scale/ (US) (Carry Mr. Color and GaiaNotes paint)https://www.emodels.co.uk/ (UK)https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/https://www.super-hobby.com (EU/UK/RU/US/PL)https://plastmodel.pl/ (PL/EU)https://agtom.eu/en/(PL/EU)https://exito.site/en_GB/index(PL/EU)https://m-zone.pl (PL only)
Everyone hates you.
>>11728656What did I fuck up this time? I can hand it over to someone else, if you guys want.
>>11728660Ebony and ivory. You glow like the sun.
Glorp Athena Ken Paul it’s all the same shit.>huh
what do you guys recommend for JIA khaki? it kinda has an almost green gray tone
>>11728697Ak11905, they have a set of late war IJA paints
What exactly is the perfect ratio for thinner to varnish to get a good matte coat I have the AK ultra matt and it seems that the standard 1/1 ratio kinda doesn't cut it My tank looks like it is doused in morning dew after 2 coatsWhat am I doing wrong?
>>11729075don't mind me, I'm retarded, it turned out, you can just spray it out of the bottle just fine
>>11728865hmmm kinda, it seems to lack that gray green tone.
>>11728697Revell 45 or 362, pic rel is 362
Speaking of paint does anyone know where to buy Hataka Orange Line lacquers that ships to/within the USA? I used to get them from Mega Hobby but since they're closing that option isn't available anymore. Same goes for the acrylic lacquer AK Real Colors, they had some great sets and I have had a really hard time finding them in the past year.
>>11728697
>>11728697The late war set has the greenish khaki.
>>11727432not starting a fifth build but once these are done i'll start on either a 1/72 tamiya zero or seiran or an afv 1/350 ijn i-19 as group build entry
>>11729227>>11729228these look nice but i can't spray lacquers inside.
>>11729312nice MiG 31
>>11729358thanks! she's the second ever airbrushed model after the 1/144 mig15. once the gloss is dry i'll add some stains and marks with oils
>>11729368You should replace those tiny stars if possible. That's not what it looks like.
I think he came out pretty good, definitely messed up the masking but I'm happy with him.
>>11729554The hull looks okay, but the grey tracks and rubber wheels don't look like anything they are supposed to.
>>11729583unfortunately I couldn't assemble the tracks and wheels separately so I kinda just went for that red soil color you see in nam.
>>11728697i use vmc khaki for early war and xf-49 for post 1942
I forgot how many wheels tigers have, this is going to take awhile
4chin downtime was good for me, I actually made progress on the kit
First time trying to paint Should i use more than 4 colors?
>>11730121That’s a really cool in focus monster can
>>11730182Thanks
>>11730065Have I ever shown the finished Pantsir? Zvezda, 1/35.
>>11730763nice
>>11730763Where do people get the shelfspace for these modern volumebeasts in 1:35
>>11730848nta, but have your own house with no wife or kids. I'm completely free to shit up every square inch of this place with pure autism. which reminds me, I need to figure out where to put a 1/35 leopold so i can start building that dirty cocksucker, lots of options
>>11730763is this in the aftermath of a salt water rain?
>>11730763Those premium chinese tires look mighty inflated, not very historically accurate.>>11730856NTA, but you obviously haven't seen the aftermath of limestone gravel dust on vehicles. That shit is like glue as well. Could it be done better? For sure. Have I seen such effects on vehicles after that dust + mud + rain. Sure have.
>>11730848I have it in a regular Detolf atm.
>>11730856This is more beige/sand coloured irl, appears whiter due to lighting.
things i hate: painting wheels.things i hate more: NO STENCIL FITS.niggerand where are the group builds?
>>11730917you can hold the wheels in ultra-thin tweezers by the axle and brush paint the rubber partif you really insist on stencils, liquid mask, grandpa
>>11730917>and where are the group builds?I'm building mine right now. original I was going to submit my samurai, it came out ok but I'm not 100% on it so I'm doing something else.
>>11730941who are you calling grampa?i saw metallica, acdc, fear factory, alice cooper, motörhead, darkthrone, mayhem, rock bitch (fistfuck live performance <3), sepultura with the original bros lineup and korn live btw. when they were still young.im gonna brush paint the inside of the wheel last, theres a gap between wheel and rubber so it wont be super hard.>>11731207samurai the plane or the motorbike?and now checkout this 1981 tamiya king tiger rc generation 2 or 3. like new condition, looks like a forever shame of shelf case.thats the real gramp here.
>>11731676>samurai the plane or the motorbike?a samurai
>>11730917>and where are the group builds?b5n is mostly assembled, but I got distracted by fretting about tracks and wheels on some wehrshit
I'm finally done with this one Now onto the ha-go, semovente and all backlog kits that have been sitting there since 2020
and speaking of the ha-go, I lost the fucking decal sheetThat's what I get for cleaning up my work desk
>>11731737>mediocre "thin your paints" style paintjob>fairly awful freehand>gibberish cyrillic >questionable aesthetic choices>visible mold linesStill the US flag boggles the mind the most. What? Why?
>>11731676>They took the Tiger II transmission and complicated it further. Gott im Himmel
>>11731737cute flag
>>11731892the gibberish and flag are there on the real tank?
>>11731942>the gibberish and flag are there on the real tank?Only the top line is. The rest you just made up apparently. The "ю" you turned into "ac" ("yu" into "ass" which I guess is fitting) the rest isn't legible and the bottom line isn't there and not even cyrillic.
>>11731893when you look at the arisaka rifleand realize its based on a mauser 98then you understand what horrors unfoldwhen the japanese start to "improve" things>>11731737pretty gays ass writings on this tankcheckout this one, same crude finish but waaaay cooooler logo. 'eil
>>11728651any recs for matte varnish? airbrush or can. for use as final varnish coat to unify finish. i tried using a pebeo matte picture varnish but the cans have super low pressure and deposit absurd amounts of liquid on the model
>>11732098AK ones have been great for models. Their ultra matte is fucking ultra matte though. Like "will catch all dust particles matte". So yeah.
>>11732098xf-86 for me
>>11732098
>>11732098vallejo mecha matte varnish is pretty good.
>>11732088I can assure you there is no Ю anywhere on the tank
>every BLUFOR builder is okay to good >every REDFOR builder is toddler-tier with fingerpainted bullshit Really gets the noggin joggin.
>>11732101>>11732108>>11732111>>11732147ty anons, ordered ak and tamiya to try out. i'm still too traumatised from the vallejo gloss to consider another vallejo varnish
help me out dudes, do yous guys know of any 1/35 scale figures similar to the badies from mgs? I was looking at modern russian special forces figs from chineseium recasters and the chernobyl sets from icm. they kinda look similar but I'm open to suggestions.
>>11732310Not what you are asking for but there are 1/35 figures of the baddies from mgsvhttps://www.scalemates.com/kits/kotobukiya-kp-321-metal-gear-solid-v-ground-zeroes-set--1001069
so just build tamiya tanks in the last timenow I've tried a trumpeter, an icm.just looked at the kits.upper hull broken in like 5 huge parts without alinment marks, which would be one part in tamiyas case. 3x-4x more parts over the whole model.nope.im building another tamiya 1/35.im getting old, the challenge of a more difficult kit screams work at me and I fall into a burnout depression.or am I just lazy?
>>11732476trumpeter armor kits have too many parts and the engineering and quality is shit, especially compared to new brands ICM armor remains firmly in the distant future of 1999, I hope they get better
>>11732317yeah I already know about that, not what I'm after
wehrabros, how do you paint pads like these without it being a major ball ache? spraying them then hand painting the second colour on each one individually sounds high effort and will look shite
Bought this kid for the fun of it
it seems i forgot to add nose weights. on the plus side i made this little display base to glue it down on
>>11732310They're wearing American BDU uniforms with American ALICE rigs, and equipped with the FAMAS G1 for some reason. Good fucking luck finding any set that has the ALICE rig, but no PASGT vest underneath, or rolled-up sleeves because lolguflwar. Maybe if you can find a 'Nam set somewhere.
>>11732655I want it for the robit dogs
>>11732693reminds me more of this compared to that dragon kit
>>11732603If you just started painting instead of complaining, you would have already painted the only 100 or something pads. Plus half will probably be caked in mud or dust, so what's the fucking issue?
>>11732754Well you're wrong.
>>11732962cunt
>>11732603glassessmall brushare the toolsa spliffeases the mind for the task
>>11733003I don't think you get it, I'm not looking for "le historically accurate must be this le specific equipment" I'm looking for something that fits the design/aesthetic.
Is the hasegawa 1:71 AH1 Cobra kit any good?
>>11733351what kinda weirdo scale is that?
>>11732603looks like a pretty quick drybrush job just don't glue the running gear to the model until you're done
>>11733415Meant 1:72. Fat fingered the keyboard
>>11733193NTA, but do you think maybe outlining that in your original post would give you better replies?
Why do people want to murder me for not doing a 100% historical camouflage?
>>11733768because you deserve it
>>11733768depends does it look ugly?
>>11733768what people?
>builds on hold for lack of paint>order was supposed to be delivered tuesday>tracker just says its in transit>usps wont declare a package lost until two weeks since last updatesuicide may be the only option here
>>11734040i wanted to make su-57 in ta-154 camo
>>11734527>build on hold for lack of sandpaper
Pretty much done with the body. Just need to paint the emblem and side indicators. I used Tamiya wax on this. Can't see much of a difference, but it feels much smoother to the touch and had a nice fragrance for a few days after application.
>>11734696Forgot to mention, I painted the lights with a Molotow chrome marker. Absolutely miserable. No idea what I was thinking not buying the smallest tip size. It looks nice if you can apply it well though.
A lot of color corrections are to be had, finally got around to make progress on this one
Haven't built models in a decade at least, found 2 boxed up kits at home, Revell 03991 C.200 and 04341 Bf 110 E-1, maybe it's time to get back into it
>>11730917i usually don't post builds until it's donei've been stalling due to the figures for a few weeks but they're ready for varnish and washes now, just need to touch up the actual build camo then it's smooth sailing
Hello from the very dead model train thread.Some of my models require adhesive to attach fine detail/parts or number plates, can you recommend anything?They are N gauge and some surfaces will be plastic, some metal, some rubber. I have the Tamiya cement I use on model car kits, and some of my shittier HO stuff, but I know it melts the surface, so looking for something more like hot glue, which won't damage it and could be removed if needed (hot glue won't work mainly due to size in this case).The instructions say "rubber cement/adhesive", but the only place I can find that is in tyre repair kits, and I'm not sure if that's the same thing; and last time I repaired a tyre, the adhesive didn't seem like the stuff I'd want to put on my models.
>>11734965never worked on train stuff but ca glue might be what you're looking for you should also grab debonder just in case
>>11734984So just super glue?
>>11734990super glue is a ca glue but certain dedicated brands have different types like thin, rubber, quick dry, etc
>>11734984Debonder attacks PS plastic, use with care
>>11734965>>11735073I found "Gorilla Glue Rubber Cement" available locally, it looks pretty good and forgiving, so I think I'll go with that.And hopefully with its screw lid container it will last for many years, since I'm only going to use a few literal drops.
Just started my first proper scale model (1/35 Churchill AVRE) since I was a kid, great fun so far. I've done quite a lot of mini painting and I don't know if that will transfer over or I should learn more traditional scale modelling style/weathering. The details on this are ridiculous compared to a Russ or something.
>>11735180>The details on this are ridiculous compared to a Russ or something.if this is the AFV club kit, than yea, definitely a bold pick for a cherry popper.
>>11735180some skills carry over but it's best to look into traditional weathering techniques for armour, it's a very different world despite how much overlap there is
>>11735216That's the one. No huge issues so far, it'll be sloppy by the standards scale modellers seem to go for but it's basically going together. I'm finding the number of parts and detail actually makes it easier in some ways - I screwed up a little bit assembling the suspension but because it's all little dry-fit parts I could just mess with it til it was straightened out. As opposed to 'welp glued half of it on wrong, it's dead'
>>11735223Yeah I think you're right, I'd go nuts trying to paint this my usual way
>>11733768It's fine if you do it on modernslop>>11734273Me
>>11734965Don't put 'glue' for scalemodeling on it since it will melt the plastic
I may have gone too far in a few places...
>>11735581
>>11735581SEX OOOHHH SEXXXX
>>11735227>it's going quite well haha>the suspension must be the small parts haha detailed >no issues at all!It's been 3 days and I still haven't got past the track assemblies. I've started just throwing away details that are smaller than sprue dust after I butcher them with my giant palsied balloon hands and craft knife with a roof tile for a blade. Next kit is going to be a 1/1 Duplo space hopper
I wonder if I (ever) finish my Type-59 should I paint the base with red lacquer?
>>11735857then you'd be doing the modeling equivalent of chinese restaurant font
>this is a 1/48 partcount your days eduard>did you pixelate your fingerpr-yes
>>11735955>yeslmao why
>>11735969Identity theft protection.
>>11736023If you are online, your private data was already stolen thanks to extreme mismanagement from all services
>>11735851I remember building their Churchill VI at 14 and it being the first encounter with PE at all, iirc they even have the screwheads for gascan carriage assembly as separate parts
>>11732476Work is kicking my ass at the moment, I've been Tamiya 1:48 exclusively for a while as a result. There is something be said for toughing it out, I did an AFV club half track that was basically warped out of the box and clung on to the bitter end. Damn thing is more filler than plastic. But you have to be in a slightly masochistic mood where its sucking is actively fun somehow.
>>11735969Unhealthy paranoia? I dunno what kind of weirdo anons there are out there!
What's the oldest model (by when you built it, not molds) you still have?
>>11734623I get the autism if you were trying to replicate an actual historic camo and people sperg out, I'm like that. But screaming over someone just doing a thing doesn't make sense to me. Either make it totally unhistorical (like what you want to do) or make the historical/alt-history version make sense in the historical framework. Like I don't mind someone painting some girls and panzers pink tank, but if someone makes an early war panzer in light grey I think they are objectively wrong and/or retarded.
>>11735581Oh... oh no.The tank looks nice (I would give the wheels/tracks more attention, but it's fine) and the actual paint job and gradients and detailing looks great. But the static grass really just looks like someone dumped a bunch of static grass on your nice tank. From what I can tell it's also not painted I think? Which makes it worse. Unpainted static grass looks like absolute shit, no matter how hard you try. It's just not going to work. No skill issue or anything, just the material will never resemble actual grass.
>>11728651work continues on the gater. i might have overestimated my patience with the deck. i think next time i'll opt for a lighter brown as base. the initial plan was to partially cover the wood effect with black to create a weathered look but i haven't had a good idea for a technique to achieve that
How long do you guys spend on a model? I'm the anonymous just dabbling after being used to wargaming minis^ and I heard a guy in a tutorial video say something like "so you've spent 3-6 months building and you're ready to paint...". Is that usual for one kit? Or would he have been talking about scratch building parts and stuff like that.
>>11736656heavily depends on the subject, level of detail and really how much time you want to spend with it. i can easily see a memelevel detail battleship with 6 gorillion pe parts taking half a year to build or a basic plane kit you can stick together in an evening.research your kits.
>>11736585I'd recommend to use different browns/yellow/red/grey and either drybrush or wash your baselayer with them very irregularly, looks the most realistics in my experience and seems weathered/natural>>11736656I haven't built anything in less than a month in years, usually 3-4 months
>>11736870thanks for the tip, will consider for i-19. the idea of the black was more about simulating the paint being worn off the wood, so most of the wooden effect would end up covered. i painted indivodual planks because i thought plank ends would be the first to wear.
>>11736023No one's going to hack your shit based off a picture of your finger, sweaty.
tamiya should bring back moko chan and rabbi kun as their mascots, I would also like some 1/35 scale waifu girls in military uniforms to pilot my tanks.
>>11737210YES
>>11728651group build?ALL GLORY TO THE DAIMYŌWHEELS MUST BE PAINTED FOR THE DAIMYŌseems like I'm gonna finish the first chi ha of the chi ha tank rush coming out of this buildif we can make a chi ha division from the group build?
>>11735581why is your tank covered in dog hair?
>>11737332how come you paint them on the sprue? just stick a cocktail stick through the centre and hold them on that while you paint
>>11737374The wheels aren't hollow, you can't do that
>finish first model>scared of painting with airbrush>no booth/gas mask>no idea how to mix paints properlyam i gonna regret it?
>>11737436worst thing she could say is "no", bro
>>11737436>>11718355
>>11737436>no idea how to mix paints properlywhat is there to know
>>11734527the saga continues>no shipping update in 5 days>place order from another site>hedge my bets a bit and only order what paints I can justify having duplicates of>original shipment wakes up and is out for delivery todaygonna have a lot of black primer and a lot of dark green. The timing works out too, even though the bereg's been sitting there, the 2P16 Luna is almost completely built up with most of the subassemblies ready for paint
>>11737436If you're spraying water based paints, who cares. wear a dust mask if you want. If you're spraying alcohol based paints (tamiya, mr hobby aqueous) then yeah get a half face mask with some filters.
>>11736186I have made many, many mistakes. The main thing I'm learning is just how careful you have to be with stuff that isn't made to be thrown around a table by kids/sperg lords. I've broken so many details just holding the thing or pushing them together while they dry. I feel like the next one will be a lot better and take *way* longer
>>11732693Why is dragon so hard to find nowadays, I love their kits but they cost a gorillion dollars and are limited to 2-3 armor kits at my local hobby store? I love their 1/35 figures too but again it's such a bitch to find them.
made by a 9 year old girl
>>11737584Very 1990s colors.
>>11737584cute and wholesome
so if i buy a diorama or lets say a scale statue of a buildingdo i stay in this thread or go where?
>>11737637you'll be fine as long as you won't build it and just bitch about stuff a most of the people do here.
>>11737641i mean buying something like thisdoes this count as a statue or something else?https://www.wetanz.com/us/minas-tirithand lets say i put mini people on it
>>11737637>>11737643nta, honestly just post whatever as long as it's model. just fyi /toy/ is kinda focused on armor, aircraft, and cars. /m/ is gundam, macross, and occasionally maschinen krieger. /tg/ is fantasy miniatures, and /diy/ has a dedicated GK thread.
>>11737436Bro use a brush bri
>>11737436drybrushthat's what i did before i got an air brushit takes longer, but it looks about the same
primered up a few more parts on the bereg, fresh bottle sprays nice. The Luna's ready for some paint now too. I wanted this thing in travel mode with the rear stabilizers up, but there's no options in the instructions for it, and going by pictures the parts as is will not allow it. Required some modifications, but I like it. It's a bit different from most trumpy kits, sprues are different, feels a lil chunky, but everything fit nicely save one part.
>>11737511The only Dragon kits that hold up nowadays are their German and Japanese vehicles and the T-34 series. Almost everything else has much better alternatives from other companies.
>Alright, got this cool resin printer>did my little calibration>lets find a cool model to print>oh cool a Shahed drone, let's try that!
>>11737936>AHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>11737937FORGOT MY PIC OF THE MURDER
>>11737936>once chance at being a complete autist>doesnt pick my WWI austro hungarian armored trainDEAD TO ME
>>11737939jfc print at 45s my man. the extra print time is worth less cleanup.
>>11737948Shiiiiiii nigga where's the sauce for that?>>11737949Lol I actual printed out a 1/20 scale shasneed at a full straight 90° with the nose down and it came out pretty ok. I snapped off the inner rear stabs but I just gotta tweak the supports. I was just being a cheater and trying to see if I could do it at 15° because>7 hour printLesson learned.
>>11737971landshipsmodeling.com bbI tend to tilt 45 degrees then rotate 45 degrees for most prints to get the the least amount of supports. Printing flat or close to flat does work, better than slicing software would have you think, I just save it for non detail surfaces.
>>11737936>Wow that looks super over-supported...>>11737939>aaaaAAAAAAAaaaAAAAAAAA>>11737949Do you mean 45 degrees? Because that has no bearing on the supports being fuckhueg.
>>11735955This guy knows game.
>>11728651aircraft anons, do you install landing gears before or after painting?
>>11738059do it after if you can
>>11738059Depends on how complicated the paintjob is and how robust the gear is, leave it off in 1:72 and smaller and add it in 1:48 and bigger
>>11737584>>11737601Reminds me of my first model kit, some sort of fictional transforming (or possibly hybrid) plane/helicopter with a similar colour scheme. Wish I could remember the name of that line so I could look it up. I don't think it was Revell's Power Aces, but it was that sort of thing.
>>11738154Revell Robotech?
>>11738315I don't remember which company made it, but the transformation was simplistic, like the helicopter blades folded on top of each other and maybe the wings unfurled ever so slightly; something like this. Pretty sure it would have been in the 90s.
am i gonna regret buying a cheap shit tamiya 1/350 ship? it's 1/3 of revell price in my area
>>11738480revell is littorally shit
>>11738480If its a newer tooling it probably will be but if it's some 1980s piece of crap tooling then tamiya is your best bet. I'm trying to make my way through the Revell Corsair right now and it's wings are an absolute pain to deal with. Amazing how revell fights to maintain it's place at the bottom of the barrel.
>>11738620Basically all of the Tamiya ships are pretty old but they are still pretty good just lacking the autistic level of detail newer kits have with PE/resin
>>11738620>Revell Corsair if you mean the 1/72, it's decent enough
>>11738468MASK Switchblade?
>>11738867Oh yeah, that's the vehicle I was thinking of. This line was what I was trying to remember.
>>11738874Oh, ok. And your memory merged the two? Looks very 90s with comic like writing.
Done with the Cappuccino. I'll take nicer pictures tomorrow when the sun is up.
>>11739087But before that, a nice fresh cuppa
>>11739087nice>>11739089looks yummy
>>11737813the luna looks really cool anon, what colour scheme are you going to do for it?
>>11737509Yep this is turning into another schizo tier hobby fad. Why am I like this
>>11739349probably the one with the white stripes and white rocket. I'll have to find a color plate of it. PE was finished last night and shes in the booth now gettin primed up
>>11739362tanks are cool, that's why i recommend starting with the tamiya kit first, those are pretty beginner friendly
>>11739362>dragon T-72
>>11739426The T-72 goes together decently. It's the T-80 that's the write off.
>>11739652It doesn't, the kit is doodoo feces
i sure wish I could post my progress instead of constantly being ip range banned for no reason
>>11739744haven't been able to post all week so might as well get in while I still canworking on revell 1/48 bf-110. the detail is really nice and I honestly would have been fine without the eduard PE set but I bought it anyways, some time agothe mold quality is as expected of revell, even though this particular release is only a couple years older than its initial tooling it still has a crazy amount of flash. surprisingly I haven't actually encountered any CRAZY bad fitting parts besides a few small spots. namely, the "bulkhead" piece that is supposed to sit behind the pilot's seat (which is totally innacurate based on literally every photo I've seen of a bf-110 lol) doesn't sit centered, so I just ended up ripping it back out. Theres a pretty big seam down the middle of the fuselage but theres also a panel line there on the actual plane. I'll probably still fill it in and then re scribe it so its not quite as grand canyon-esque. theres also some service panels or ports or something on the leading edge of the wings that I will absolutely decimate fixing the seams and I have no idea how I'm going to neatly recreate them. I did get some metal stencil sheets to try and guide me but I can only foresee pain and suffering.pain and suffering is also just what I expect from the rest of the kit going forward, but I've had this one in the stash for the longest so I wanted to finally get it out of the wayanyways I'm sure I'll be inexplicably banned from posting again for another week despite this being the only board and general I even post in
>>11739393>>11739426I did a little bit of research and chose those two on purpose so I know the Dragon kit is going to be brutal. I figured one for fun and getting the hang of it then hopefully nice results, and one to force me to git gud
Does anyone know of any other sites that sell the models so you can 3D print them at home? I ain't paying £130 for a french half track.https://landshipsmodeling.com
>buy this thing>while also having unpainted chi ha + 109f4>while also having unbuilt eduard profipak 109e3>anxious about starting 3m without finishing chi ha and 109>still want to buy morehappen iyc?
>>11740179yes, I'm trying not to buy any more kits until I put a dent into my stash. the problem is that when I run out of something like paint and see all the plastic crack on the shelves I can't help myself. I blame my personal lack of impulse control.
>>11740179I just finished the Meng T-72 and am on track to finish the Ha-Go, but the guys in the hobby shop just had to have the new batch of zvezda things like the Tor in 1/72 and I have the border models Tesla tank and a trumpeter mentally challenger in 1/48 on order I think I may be addicted to just buying and starting the kits
>>11740179i keep getting ideas for new builds in the middle of whatever i'm working on, although usually i'm good enough to finish the model i'm working on before starting a new onei probably shouldn't buy any new kits for a very long time
>>11740229>border models Tesla tankI'm currently finishing up the japanese tiger 1 from border models and the kit had some major fit issues with pretty much everything. the wheels were exceptionally poor in terms of fit. also it was missing the bar to hold the spare tracks on the lower haul, so I had to scratch build it. just be very observant of how things go together and you will probably need to do some remodeling. the casting is really nice but holy shit was it a pain to build.
>>11740249Their entire red alert range of models are made to be babby's first model and have very good engineering I had no issues with both of their apocalypse tanks and the grizzly tankIt's like amusing hobby, where 100% of the effort went to make the best T-72 (and variants) on the market and the rest of their models range from outsourced trumpeter trash (Panther 2) to good (conqueror)Their quality is so wildly inconsistent that my local hobby shop has their prices cut in half for almost a year and nobody is buying them
>>11740253it's really weird how companies can be so inconsistent with the engineering
>>11740179>he isnt stashmaxxing
>>11740648i don't have a shed im an apartmentcuck
>>11740179im sitting on 2-3 cubic metres of kitsif build that till i die im good.i went crazy on some prime days and hobby store salesnot enough time to buildbut enough time to buy crap online while on the shitterimpulse control? me?
i dislike chipping
>>11739723Skill issue.
>>11740907use sponge
>>11740943I dislike the effect itself
>>11740648I love that setup.
>crack cockpit glass in halfGod damn nooooooo
>>11741117Tarp build time
>>11739362>finishing Tiger after maximum effort, taking time to clean every single part to death >100% perfect, first thing I haven't fucked up in some way>'huh why won't the turret sit right'>glued the turret bustle on upside down and it's too cured to get it back offI'll get a replacement on Ebay or something, such is life. This T72 kit seems ok apart from the cryptic instructions but it *stinks* for some reason
>>11740648damn that's sexy
>>11740179finish what you started
>>11740669you can fix that by buying a house. then you can do whatever you want without answering to a landlord.
Coincidentally built this Eduard zero 1/48 during the group build. It came in a two pack and I'm working on making the second one dark green
>>11741408nice, also before uploading a pick go into edit and just crop it slightly
i've done a bit of looking around and couldn't find a definitive answer, but does anyone know the colours of the late war nwe british tanks?best i can find is that they were the base was british olive drab, but i've seen conflicting info that they didn't get camo outside of the winter whitewash, or if some of them got the blue-black counter shade
started work on this seiran while the oils on gato&swift are drying.>>11741408what's the body color for this livery? i have a 1/72 tamiya zero i want to do in a pearl harbour livery
>>11741762I used AK11892 IJN J3 SP (Amber Grey). There's an endless amount of autism regarding the proper color for Zeros but this one is what I used and I liked it. AK11894 IJN D2 Green Black is what I'm going to use for the 2nd one in the kit
Registered my models for the show this weekend in Sarajevo, only 600 kms and 2 countries away
>>11741975good luck dude! please post some pictures here if you can
>>11741975Remember to zigzag
detail painting now. I truly hate spraying white paint.
>>11742158looks good anon, keep us posted! wondering about getting this kit myself, do you reckon i could turn the rocket from a nuclear warhead into a conventional HE warhead easily?
>>11742164ty ty. I'm not sure what the difference between rocket heads looks like, but the 2nd stage carrying the warhead is a round piece with nozzle holes, two halves that get glued together, and then a cone. Seems likely you'd need to scratch build the two halves at least. Probably pretty easy if you have a 3d printer.Kit itself is pretty decent. Feels a little different from standard trumpy kits, but the fit is mostly good with only one part giving me trouble. No major cleanup needed. Part count is pretty low, save for the individual track links. No option to build the stabilizers in the travel position without surgery and guesswork though.
>>11742101sniper alley is only a block away, will keep that in mind
>>11742158>I truly hate spraying white paint.I have yet to find a white that isn't a total pain in the ass to work with. looks sick though dude.
wip pic
>>11742158>I truly hate spraying white paint.Can't you sponge it? Those stripes were painted int the firld with whatever ivans had at hand so little patchines or unevens won't be much off from original.
>>11742656maybe, the reference pic makes it look fairly clean, but I've never been a stickler for 1000% autism accuracy. The issue is mainly about coverage>>11742493I'm all acrylic as I dont have ventilation. There's a razors edge between sputtering white blobs and spiderwebs of milky water with this shit. I've got some Tamiya white that I may try one day if I set up outside or something.The rocket's taking at least two coats per side, so 4 spraying sessions, but looking at it, it might need 3. then there's the red stripes and red also sucks penis when spraying, so probably another 2 or that.
>>11742685I guess good reference for those stripes would be Prague Spring. I don't think soviets used them anywhere else.
>>11742642looking good, but the tracks are a bit too flat? >>11742738white stripes are used in training exercises to mark opfor formations
my contribution to the group build, tamiya's type 1 spgthis kit is ancient and i know i fucked up the return rollers due to my insistence on keeping the wheels separate until after the hull is weathered i wish tamiya remastered this kit, it was definitely showing its age during construction with how many gaps there were
ni hao, min na sansis this colour close enough?and should I aotake? the kit says no, but every example online has it. why do ijn colours have to be so autistic
I HATE TRACKS! I HATE TRACKS!I FUCKING HATE TRACKS!!!
>>11743301The paint looks so tasty it's unreal mmmmmmmThe colour is close, these would be seen mostly in bright sunlight so these conditions and withering suffered from that can make it look somewhat lighter (like in the pic) compared to the tone in instructions/schemes.Yes you should aotake, but only on the gearbays, gearcovers, exposed sing insides where they fold and in the inside of the engine cowling, the instructions are usually meager with paitning directions and reference of the original should always be prioritized
>>11728651rip swift. was almost finished but the fucking super thin ca was a stupid decision to try out. on both sides. fuck
>>11743702the fucking what?
>>11743495arigatou aniki. mr hobby paint is oishi desu. I've been trying to lighten up generally for 1/72.I read somewhere that there were a few planes at ph without it, but that was regarding zeroes - other planes have barely any information. I guess I'll do it, especially since it's bright and unusual.perhaps if japan had put more effort in and not gotten stomped so hard, we would have more reference material
decals and dry fitting the launcher with the rocket.
>>11743702Bird strike diorama>>11743809Ye, I don't ever account for how scale affects the appearance of colours but looks right anyway. I never heard any of such zeroes, from what I know navy aircraft were (from 41-45) never in bare metal anywhere, they where completely primed (reddish) on exterior while fuselage and wing interior was largely aotake (the parts that would be affected by weather or any wear, likely the entire structure at least on 41' PH aircraft, later in the war this definitely changed leading to some blank interior areas. Mind tho that this is about gearbays and rearfuselage/engine mounts, the cockpit and crew areas are most often in green or orange-tan[kawasaki only]). The Army did things differently since they used bare metal surfaces starting sometime in 42, some Hayabusas had bare gearbays so IJA was (from what I remember and regarding fighters) quite resourcefull with Aotake usage.Do the Aotake in any case it belongs, which paint would you use for it?Picrel has Vallejos Aotake on the Ki-67 while the zero has smth more conventional that I mixed iirc. I can't recall any reference or wreckage having such an emerald green tint of Aotake with all being more Cyan leaning turquoise at best, but it looks amazing over metal, semi transparent as it is
>>11743702Thin CA has only caused me problems, what is it actually useful for
>>11743894nice! dude you should take some pics of your collection some time
For being such a total noob and the kit being so ancient and jank this was relatively painless, I enjoyed it a lot. Lots of little fuckups but I'll put some time into tidying it up before painting. Taking loose reference from some First Chechen War pics for the colour scheme
>>11743894great job, it looks really cool! looking forward to seeing it with the wheels and tracks on
>>11744172Something looks wrong about your ERA layout. Also I don't think that plate on top of the mantlet was used at all.
>>11744182It's faaaairly identical to the instruction sheet ERA-wise, slightly further apart in spots because I didn't trust myself hacking off too much of the turret moulding to have it all lie flat enough. The mantle shroud thing is pictured on the base model plus both ERA configurations so I dunno. From the quick browse I had first the '--m2'variant was a cheapo export model so maybe that's why. I'll assume they weren't too fussy about what they drove into Grozny to get barbecued. Also bear in mind I'm used to grimderp cartoon tanks with turrets smaller than their own gun breaches so I'll take that for now.
>>11744182No way, anon How could a ~40 year old kit have inaccuracies?
>>11743989the basement display. I'm gonna build pretty much an exact copy of this for another open wall down there
>>11743989the office display, probably shouldve closed the blinds but oh well. >>11744176it's getting there. Gotta give everything a satin coat and then I can run with the weathering.
>>11743939interesting info>I don't ever account for how scale affects the appearance of colours but looks right anywayI gather it's 'correct' to lighten any given thing by an amount per its scale, but I'm just in this to make things look a bit better. I've made a bunch of small stuff in dark schemes without compensating at all, and it mostly doesn't look interesting. I guess if you're doing lighter schemes you could just ignore scale effect>which paint would you use for it?I'll just mix up something transparent to go over the aluminium, but I've got to paint a big mess of green over the upper surfaces first, which will probably be a big hasslebtw we can all see inside betty's intimate area
>>11742642ok I'm done, I'll try getting better pictures later. but this is going to be my submission for the group build once I get better pics.
>>11744316Looks good, did the figure come with the kit?
>friend offered me tamiya tirpitz 1/350 with eduard PE, metal barrels and wooden deck addons for 35$... should i?
>>11744392Why not? unless it's waterline.
>>11744572What's the point of waterline? It looks disgusting
>>11744344thank you, yeah he came with the kit. the sculpt is really nice I kinda want to pick up some more figures from border.
>>11744316Very nice. Can you explain in detail what you did with the main painted areas on the tank?
>>11744942primer: mr surfacer blackbase coat: airbrushed with a mixture of khaki and red brown, followed by a highlight of khaki and dark yellow, and a final highlight of khaki + dark yellow and buff (all tamiya paints)brown camo: base coat of red brown followed by a highlight of red brown and flat earth + buffgreen camo: base coat of dark green followed by a highlight of dark green + olive drab and buff.painted the details by brush with vallejo and ak paints.used oils to pin wash, blend colors, and add rust effects.used enamels and pigments for more rust effects.used texture paste for mud and dirt.the figure was airbrushed and details were painted with a brush, I also used oils to add more contrast.
>>11728651how do you mask complex shapes? is there special flexible masking tape?
>>11745006masking fluid, you paint it on and it dries into a rubbery film
>>11745006there is. you can also use things like blu tack. what kind of shapes are we talking about?
Scale modeling exists since at least the iron age The figure is located in the National Museum of Bosnia (not to be confused with the National History Museum of Bosnia next door which will host the scale model show)>>11745006Silly putty or those plasticine type erasers and liquid mask
>I dont need a 1/32 zero>I dont need a 1/32 zero>I dont need a 1/32 zeroI'm gonna buy the fucking thing aren't I.
>>11744249That kit was after drawings of the venerable Steve Zaloga. Cut it some slack. It's a historical document in its own right.
>>11745006If you're hysterical like me you just use 8000 layers of machine cut masking you make on your desk. But mostly just what others said and gut feel for everything but markings
>>11744316>once I get better picsactually never mind these pics are fine, unfortunately I'm not good at talking pictures
>>11745287>>11745006This WIP job which I haven't gotten further with since posting in the last thread due to commitments here there and everywhere up my ass is entirely manually masked using patience, tamiya tape and a fresh blade
>>11745292respect for that, I once masked the digital pattern on a 1/48 Su-57 by hand and i never want to do anything like that again
>>11745338Yearp......
>>11745371badass dude
>>11745371zvezda kit?who makes the Mig kits, and do they exist in 1/48?
>>11728651in my infinite wisdom i have painted my tape seatbelts in tape color. quite happy with the gloss effect on the instruments tho.
>>11745006Burshpaint the edeg
I know zvezda is usually the place to go for russian vehicles but is there anyone else who does a good BMP 1? I'm looking for one in 1:72
>>11745514Everything that I find that is not a nearly 30 year old kit from ACE or Modelist is in resin. The best looking one that I have seen is the MMK one, but it is a resin PE kit.
The Sarajevo show has begun, will upload the pics in a Google drive later
If I had a nickel for every time someone decided to build a German self-propelled anti tank gun in a stahlhelm, I would have 2 nickels, which is not a lot, but it's weird it happened twice
>>11745410The MiG 1.44 kits are from Revell/Zvezda and only exist in 1/72. But one super based guy tried, and stopped posting about, building a full size turbine jet R/C plane based on slices of the kit https://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-jets-120/11610873-mig-1-44-project-2015-a.html
>>11745828I've seen a few people use helmets as bases
I've been watching a lot of build videos to get a feel for and I keep noticing a lot of people seem weirdly terrible at brush painting. Like, people who who go to the effort of designing more accurate components to print out and get photo-realistic finishes with an airbrush/weathering so it's not lack of knowledge or skill. But when they're painting instrument panels and stuff they go full THIN YOUR PAINTS and look like they're rushing through it and barely trying. Is it because scale kits are expected to be viewed as part of collections so the overall impression is all that matters, or what?
>>11746038maybe they don't give a shit about internals they'll never see, or they have brain damage from spraying lacquers
>>11745292Had the patience and time today to get the underside done. I think the top came out better and more accurate to the livery I'm trying to do, but still pretty good. At least this side won't be seen that much either. >>11746038Yeah it's just about not caring about what's unseen. I've spent days on cockpits, especially 1/48 WWII stuff, that isn't even visible with open canopy builds so I just barely care about them now
Here are the photos, there was an absolutely reasonable 1/16 aircraft, the boat from jaws, an absolutely reasonably sized 1/72 Ratte, absolutely no death cruizers (to the collective relief of all 1/144 passengers) and an incredible Sherman hybrid The show was a bit of a mess where there were rewards, but they were unclear for what model, got second place in 48 tanks and I had to askTurned out it was the Panzer 4 I started attending shows with from 2024https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kkFKdfx_2mdq0c9ihBNmv_Sv2mV48hep
WE ARE SO BACK HE 177 IN 1:48 IS REAL AGAINJust after finishing the Ju-188 in 1:48 and already having Do-217 here next they release the maginificenz Greif again
>>11746038>watching latest model minutes>he's brush painting yellow over blue>instead of just attempting to mask or airbrush the yellow first and use putty to block off the landing gear bay
>>11746285I can't really criticise anyone else this evening, fuck me>hm, gobbling a boatload of random knockoff pharmaceuticals and having a little airbrush session sounds relaxing>cue total fucking chaos, half my living room blasted olive drab, full airbrush cup of paint dumped all over the engine deck, components skittering away across the floor, thinners and cleaners knocked over, more paint in my lungs than on the kitI don't know what I expected to happen there but mental note: don't
>>11746332>gobbling a boatload of random knockoff pharmaceuticalsWhat?Also, pics or it didn't happen.
>>11746341Why did I listen to you. I'd cleared everything up but now I've got CA everywhere trying to fix all the shit I'd knocked loose on the turret and my phone is trying to fuse to my hand. I am one donkey brained fuck
>>11746078>twitter just popped up your account in my for you page with your planehow does it know
>>11746038Most people became total aeropilled brushcel noobs unable to do anything by hand without masking, the consequences of people relying on tech to get things right instead of doing it by hand, modernmaxxers they are. Didn't do that in my day I say
>>11746357CA spills can be potent. Had a clogged up nozzle and instead of clearing it out decided to give it a full gorilla retard squeeze. Blew out all over my desk, shit was burning my eyes within seconds.
>>11746285low effort builds. I guess he's just cranking shit out to make x videos per week
>>11740648stashmaxxing you say?
>>11746739hell yea brother
>>11746739What is the Ronald McDonald fishing model kit?
Finished the Mimic (I think 205 is Scream...?) Su-47 from Ace Combat 7. Found some old Russian/Soviet style decals from a bunch of old kits to put on since nothing in the box was useful. Overall: The Hobby Boss kit is really nice to build, but there are many places it is not accurate to the real thing. Engine nozzles especially, so if you care about that shit get some aftermarket conversions. Or maybe the Zvezda/Italeri/Hasegawa/Revell kit is more accurate idfk. Did this one basically just to try painting the cool ass dazzle camo which was all manually masked with some hours of patience. I did cut the mask directly on the plane which is visible in the final result so I guess don't do that if you want a nicer result.
>>11746888Also bought a much bigger lightbox that's a 50x50x50cm cube so now I can take good pics of bigger planes. I only had a shit cheap one half the size before and even in 1/72 like this one the Russian planes don't fit at all. K&F Concept something or other on Amazon if anyone else is wondering if it's worth getting one of these (yes it is)
>>11746739What's that NX-01 enterprise kit from? I've wanted to do some trek stuff for a while
have any of you worked with rt diorama kits? how are they compared to the miniart diorama stuff?
Ju-188 is finally done for good, but new things will only arrive on Wednesday. Until then I'm restoring the ICM 1:48 Ki-21 lb I started in December 23 and abandoned in Spring 24, got a few damages from storage like a caved in bombsight and bent rudders/broken rear machine gun but overall easily fixable and 70% complete already.Pic rel is her unchanged April 2024 condition a bit worse for wear, will post progress once I make it
these arent the same color at all, special hobby.
>>11747649That's some beautiful work on the birdcage, those are my achilles heel. DId you use a masking kit?
Found new images of original Aotake remnants, these are reportedly from an A6M. I cannot tell anything about how weathering may have influenced these (taken from a wreck on some godforsaken pacific Island after 40 years in a wet sunny jungle or taken from scrap postwar and kept safe?) or where the slight difference comes from but there seems to be indeed some variation and types of more blueish/more turquoise Aotake. The left one seems a perfect match for the 'usual' Aotake which is semi translucent Cyan, but the right is the first and only time I found originals leaning into the green/turquoise tint. Nothing close to Vallejo's emerald shade but nonetheless interesting>>11747670Thanks, I brushpaint everything but I actually used masks for this one, painting tape pressed in tight and then cut along the cage struts
>>11747677i wonder if a speed/contrast paints mini painters use over metallic would work well for this
>>11728651>love obscure subjects>strongly prefer modern toolingswhy does it have to be like this
>>11746739>stuff stashed on the flooran man of culture, fellow hoarder!
>>11746739>mfw I have no face
>get deep into project>run into hurdle which makes you quesion whether you even want to continuethis time the canopy is massively wonky and I have no idea how or why. The fuselage wasn't wonky, the halves went together just fine. Just eduard things?
>>11748332nice wing root nerd
>>11748332The trick is to glue it on in a not wonky way.
>>11748371Forgot to fill that bit
>engine blocks are crooked because no notches>machineguns missing>wings are crooked because shitty tooling>wings have holes in them>everything is crooked>engine cover is crooked>air intake is crooked>antennas are crooked>tail is crooked>fuselage is crookedwould you continue?
>>11748459Do you have any fireworks left
>>11746739nice
>>11748459Where are the fräuleins from?
>>11748893nta but they are from aurora model (japan)https://aurora-model.jp/e-index.html
>>11748332No test fit? I'd just set the canopy open at that point.
>>11746871thats a mcdonalds kids menu bag from the late 80s. minus the burger n fries which i ate. back in the day of course.>>11746895its a bandai 1/1000 snapfit prepainted with lighting. it was nicely made and had good aztec paneling. pretty expensive as far as i recall. bought it for my college gf in the 2000s when we watched the show. to get her into models. didnt work. she kept the ship, i got the empty box which is now a greebly vault.>>11748297you should see my gun locker
>parcel arrives>ordered paint I already had>forgot a colour I neededfuck sake
>>11749257just go to the hobby store
>>11749257I did the same thing yesterday
>>11749332They dont stock mr color/hobby and it would cost more in bus fare than simply buying and paying shipping for one jar of paint.
>>11749229>you should see my gun lockerYeah, don't show me. I know these issues.
>>11749257Many such cases. I have the app to track my paints but I still mess up at times.>>11749332NTA, but in Europe I tend to just order straight from AK interactive, because they (mostly) have everything in stock, or from some German or Polish gigastores as the local hobby stores that stock more than just Warhammer and DnD crap are several hours away, have fuck all in terms of choice and ask for twice the price compared to ordering from the other side of Europe with shipping.
>>11749450you don't own a car?
for my next build I can't decide between a sherman m4a1 midthat new schwimmwagen by tamiya or some good ol' fashioned maschinen krieger
>>11750346there's enough shermans in the world as is. Unless you build a Firefly, of course.MaK does look pretty cool, though. Are you considering a suit or a vehicle? I hadn't heard of it before this.I'm torn between a lot of kits, myself. All I know is I want a 1/48 plane.typhoon, c.202, mirage, av-8b, apache, T-33A, F3F-2...maybe even a 1/700 kongo or myoko.. man, the choices...
has anyone here tried designing models?
>>11750375>MaK does look pretty cool, though. Are you considering a suit or a vehicle? I hadn't heard of it before this.I have a few kits in my stash, I'll probably build the gucker; it's a suit. but yeah the genre is really cool, it's what got me into armor actually. it's the perfect middle point between historical models and mecha.
>>11750261Not yet, I have license but car costs in bongland are beyond insane. I want to get a bike. Gf would be more mad that a bigger stash
>>11728651soooo, how bad does debonder fuck up plastic?
>>11750843Does nothing to it in my experience. But I guess your mileage may vary depending on the product. I've just used it and then quickly cleaned with alcohol.
>>11750619>car costs in bongland are beyond insane.Define "insane."
we have reach bump limitsombondy make a new thread
>>11751253it takes him awhile to toast a new breadI would make one but I would be too tempted to use my models for the op image
>>11750845Some are part acetone which will fuck up PS plastic. Maybe hobby branded ones are safer chemicals
>>11751070Like $5000 for a used car that isn't a rusted out shell
>>11752143What country are you in?
>>11751519As long as you don't use some stock shit or reddit images, imo it's ok.
mods are asleep post car model kits you are working on
How's this for an op post?
>>11753463Built for big british cannons.
Fixed up the pepsi bike I dropped my phone on as best I could. The frame is still slightly bent in a way I can't see. Big decals are awful to work with.
>>11728651>first paint thinners shortages because iran war>now PS Pellets used for kitsits unironically over
>>11753463it's better to use works toasted in the bread.
>>11753511looks good so far, it's hard to even see the damage.
>>11753542we have to be willing to sacrifice everything for our greatest ally
>>11750376Yeah when I was like 7 or 8>>11750375>1:48Check the ICM twin engine line up, please. If you wanna 1:700 do it they are fun to build cheap and don't need much space but preferabyl take an early war IJN ship, or and Allied one. Do not look into real reference or you notice details missing thar drive you inro insaniry. Late war ships do not have the singke 25mm and radar looks like matresses, simple as, cept for new Aoshima and all Fujimi. Also AliExpress has IJN radars as PE in bulk if you feel like
The border models Tesla tank is a noticable step down in quality compared to the rest of the range The parts are chunky and the ones that are supposed to slot in, just don't, so you have to shave a lot of material No clear parts for optics, headlights, just the ball for the Tesla coils that house a cheap LED (that you don't get in certain markets)No tow cables, crew hatches are molded shut, didn't even get a decal sheet, absolutely not worth the price
>>11753722yeah I had major fit issues with the ija tiger, the geometry of the wheel assembly was really fucked. I have their mid production sherman and I hope it's less of a nightmare. they have some nice molded parts and figures, but the fit is really poor.
>>11751253>>11751519I wait until page 10 or image limit. There is no need for a new thread yet, since the thread could be up for another four or five days at least.I have been AFK for a bit, but it is good to see the stuff finished this thread. Not to blogpost, but I am in university and my graduation is approaching (I still have until the end of the year, but my project needs to be finished within the next month), so I will be very busy for the time being. Sorry about that guys, I will bake the bread in due time, though.>>11752278That's the whole reason why I took over from the last guy. I may suck, but at least I am not him.
>>11754334lol it's all good dude, good luck with your dissertation
I recently dropped a just primed piece and the texture got all fucked up, how do I remove the primer so I can start again? I've read that soaking them in alcohol for a while and then scrubbing with a toothbrush does the trick but I'm concerned that this will fuck up the resin (its a resin piece), can any anons here help?
>>11754454You're not very specific but literally sand it off nigga don't be lazy. Also learn to ask better more specific questions because all you've told us with your question is you fucked up and it's not alcohol soluble. Maybe start with what kind of fucking primer you used next time so you can get a qualified answer instead
>>11754454sand off the primer or take a cheap brush and use super glue debonder on the primed surface. debonder will remove lacquer, careful not to mix it with other striping solutions as this can fuck up plastic, but applied on its own with a brush will remove the primer.
>>11754493that anon never said it wasn't alcohol soluble, he asked if using alcohol with a toothpick would work without damaging the resin surface.
>>11754454>>11754570just to give you an example of how well this works: I'm currently stripping an old kit I started a year ago.
>>11754436Thanks.>dissertationActually it is a project. When I am done, I should have my undergraduate degree in engineering (Aerospace), then I will start with grad stuff. The goal is to work in a major airline's engineering department. I have one particular carrier in mind, but my parents are urging me to get into defense or space, but I will almost certainly be denied a security clearance. I could continue to blogpost about why this is, but I won't unless someone is interested.To put things back on topic, what are you guys thoughts on building an entire airport in model form? Aoshima has some sets in 1/700, but I was thinking of doing something larger and breaking it down into tiles. Maybe in 1/144, if I had to choose one now.
>>11754595>an air craft modeler who's going into engineering lol talk about obsessed>1/144 airport if you got the shelf space dude, I assume 1/700 scale aircraft isn't as common place
>>11754595At 1/144 even a small regional airport will be over 50ft/15m, so I really hope you've got the space for it.
>>11728651calling gato done for now. maybe add rigging once it arrives. i do have to better plan out the weathering for these 1/350 ships. airbrushed salt stains are definitely overdone. just happy to have a build without major fuckups after the issues i had with the aircraft
>>11754608No, but Aoshima gives you all the aircraft with their airport kits. A 1/144 airport would need to be scratch built plus I figure it would take about a while to make, since I would need to find a base material that can be printed on as well as built on (foam board is the current favorite and one sheet of 20" x 30" is $1.50).>obsessedYou don't even know half of it... If I told you how many RC aircraft I had plus my investment in that hobby as well as this one, you might get to see just how obsessed I am.>>11754624Reason why I am thinking about making tiles. I am inspired by train modellers.The goal would be for a large airport (Kai Tak, Songshan, Opa Locka, Tivat, Cogonhas or Mirny). I know how big it would be, but if it can break down easily, then it should not be an issue. It will also help displaying smaller sections.
>>11754595>but my parents are urging me to get into defense or space, but I will almost certainly be denied a security clearanceThere's only a couple ways to be denied a clearance, mainly what they are looking for is no way for someone to get easy leverage on you, and whether or not youre trustworthy. So if you don't have a gambling problem, drug addiction, or prance around with balloons up your shirt, and don't lie to your case worker, you'll probably get one.>knew an actual russian born guy with a US secret clearance.
>>11754627nice! the deck looks really good
>>11754719That's a relief. Last year I was dating an Iranian national. Ditched her since she was a commie. Her father worked for IAIO. I have not spoken to her since October, though.
>>11754719> prance around with balloons up your shirtKEK
>>11754762oh yea that aint bad, the russian even had family in the motherland. Just don't lie on your paperwork or in any interviews. It's actually the only area of government interaction where honesty works in your favor. Had a couple coworkers that were stuck in no clearance purgatory for lying about getting fired over weed on a previous job, or stealing navy scuba gear for beer money. Petty shit, but if you arent honest you're not trustworthy and you're not getting a secret clearance.
>>11754674someone did kai tak in 1/400. airplanes are diecast. the article says it's 9x3 meters.
Stug-gore-carnageto put the support wheels (or however they are called in anglospeak) higher
>>11753542They just announced a new AE86 tool, nuke israel and get it over and done with to secure Hasegawa's inventory
>>11754951>>11753542>>11753596"Fun" fact, I tend to build a lot of "baddies", liek Russia, China, Iran, Saddam-era Iraq, African savages, krauts, etc. but after Gaza, Israel is the one subject I can't stomach. It's just too much unchecked, unpunished evil happening in our present day (and in the past) for me to sit down and build something for 12 months from them.
>>11728651>heres your next 1/48 academy jet broAnother mother fucking super hornetWHOS ASKING FOR THIS SHIT WHEN THERES 4 MODERN KITS ALREADY??????????????
>the front fairing decal is two parts>can't get the wrinkles out for the life of meFUJIMIIIIIIII
>>11754880Dragon made sets based off of Chek Lap Kok in the 2008-2011 time period in 1/400 came with a 1/400 plastic kit too.In a sense I want it to be really big, though. Probably no smaller than 1/300 (Hobbycraft, Kitech, Zhengdefu, Doyusha and F-Toys offer kits in this size). Decals would be a pain outside of 1/144 and maybe 1/200, since I want to keep the carriers realistic for a time period. For example, it wouldn't make sense to have a Lufthansa A320 at Kai Tak. It would just frustrate me.>>11754976I am sick of only doing military kits. I get burnt out easily by them. My airliners always come out better too.
>>11754454IPA and toothbrush works but it's kind of annoying. I have heard great things about Green stuff World paint remover but have not used it myself yet. If you are talking 3D resin then IPA does fuck all to it. As for other resins I can't say a 100% but IPA is a fairly soft solvent when talking plastics so probably won't fuck it up. Acetone and such probably will.
>>11754595>I could continue to blogpost about why this is, but I won't unless someone is interested.Would I want to know why /smg/ threadanon will get v& in the near future? Fuck yes. So far the most entertainment /smg/ has given me was the dumpster anon and that one sperg that brush paints Tamiya.
>>11755140My favourite was family lighter anon.I said the basic thing here.>>11754762 She was a couple years younger than me (I was 20 and she was 18) and she was a ballerina. Her father worked on a few different projects including the F-14 upgrades and the Saeqeh program (no, he was not the guy who glued the extra vertical on). She was really cute, though. She even took a picture of her without a hijab on (how scandalous).>inb4 brownIf she lets me build models, then I will take her. Call it low standards, but if I cannot be happy, then there is no need to come with the extra hassles of married life.Not as exciting as you probably expected. Not van worthy, but it could have been an issue.
>>11755151>I said the basic thing here.As >>11754719 said, I'm just assuming it's the same in pretty much all of NATO countries, when I went in for my NATO clearance interview they knew fuck all about me and as I had no debts, no gf at the time, no known gang affiliations, no financial troubles, no gambling addiction they prtty much just handwaved me through the process. I knew people that had NATO clearance that due to business crossed over to r*ssia several times a month. Back then Ukraine had not blown up yet of course, but it was fucking dodgy in any case seeing as the fuckfaces were already abducting officials in order to prisoner exchange their own assholes back to their "great motherland".>inb4 brownI mean iranians are pretty fucking white as far as the near-east goes. Good judgement on the relationship. I'll probably be going through a breakup in the near future. Will have to hoist my collection to my old place or take a loan and buy out the current place from my ex, not sure which yet. At least it's not a "your shit is outside" sort of situation. But communicate with your partners, guys. It helps. /soc
I just got my gf into building models because she's slightly autistic and likes crafting.
>>11755182Yeah, when I asked on another board some guy said that I had no chance. I trust the people here more, so he seems like a tard.Best of luck with things concerning your breakup. My current relationship is slow, but at least she only lives 1 hour away (but that is still over 50 miles away). 4 months in and no date, but I had Dengue for a month, then the following month I was travelling and then she was travelling afterwards. Just hoping she is the one because she said she wanted to build stuff with me or at least help (she knows fabric work and is active with cosplay stuff).>>11755193What does she like building?
>>11755199Cars, I bought her an aoshima ramen truck and she did almost all of it but kind of ragequit because the paint I bought was absolute dogshit.She started a VW camper van a while back but hasn't worked on it in a good while cause when she comes over she just wants to chill. I just stay hands off while telling her a couple airbrushing tips.
>>11755199Breakup anon here, my now soon to be ex just built whatever I handed to her. She's slightly autistic I'm sure and ADHD, so getting her to properly clean and modify parts was out of the question but she asked me to get cars for her so I gave her a couple of 1/72 cars to build. Also Meng egg scale models worked fine. Had her paint one DnD figure, but she really didn't want to go past blocking in the base colors, so I did the finishing touches. As I had so many of my own things to do I never got around to painting any of her stuff other than that one egg scale Panther tank.
>>11755202I see. Have you looked into any of the newer Aoshima car kits? They are engineered to be like GunPla, so the fit should be good.>>11755210That is nice, hopefully the next girl you date also likes to build or at least accepts that you do. Speaking from experience, there was a girl who wanted me to quit all of my hobbies and it ended poorly for her (though the circumstances had nothing to do with hobby stuff). Long story short, she got pissed off at me and started screaming and crying that I was true to my word in doing my laundry on a Sunday morning when she wanted for me to scrap all of my plans and wash a boat for her.
>>11755232haven't looked into those. She's 100% on board with cleaning sprue nubs so likes the building part. Trying to convince her to paint black plastic black fell on deaf ears however.
>>11755266Maybe demonstrate with a price of sprue.>Gunplafags not cleaning sprue nubsI know about the meme, but I have not seen it first hand.
>>11755275>pricePiece.
Bros, I want to order one more model kit, just split on what to get.>ShinMaywa PS-1>Sikorsky SH-3>Mitsubishi F-1>Kawasaki C-2>MBB BK-117 (x2)>Bell 412>Grumman GooseAll but the Goose fit the group build theme.
>>11755344The PS-1
>>11755466>Add PS-1 to cart>The XC-2 I was going to order is out of stock now.Welp, maybe this is a sign or I am going to get another kit.
The Tesla tank is ready for priming, it's very toy like in the proportions and feelIt has the same problem with the Grizzly tank where the kit designer just felt it needed additional greeblies so it has an Apache style nose sight and radar dish obscured by a grab handle
painted this thing twice, first time I wasn't happy with the colors I used, and this time I tried to mix my own green. again I'm not happy with it, but I see the photos next to each other and realize they're almost the same fucking shade anyways.i dont really want to repaint this thing for the 3rd time so I'll probably just carry on I guess. totally wrong colors but I dont have what it calls for (rlm74 and 75) and I've got a feeling my local shops won't have it either
>>11755708what color scheme are you going to go with? box art or something custom? honestly would look pretty cool in 4bo with a winter white wash
>>11755730The green and tan scheme with red highlights from RotRWish the hammer and sickle weren't applied to a corrugated surface
>>11755726Is it the light or does it really look like you bleached the whole thing?
>>11755726Very nice. Is that grey violet and RLM 02?
>>11754976>too much unchecked, unpunished evilYou find the armoured bulldozer of ethnic cleansing in bad taste? Antisemitic.
>>11755820Where was the kit that was promised to me 3000 years ago?
>>11755768lighting>>11755818specifically its BS381c dark seagray and FS36321 with too many drops of rlm71 dark green added, enough to make it essentially the same fucking thing I used last time but a bit lighter of a shade. this is what it looked like beforeI should have just used something like dark and light gull grays because that would have been "close enough" without needing to buy more paint.oh well it'll probably look a little less shitty when its got the decals
some oil weathering, a couple beers, and the final assembly of the luna. probably got some touchups to do
>>11755708If you have a M42 Duster or a M41 Walker Bulldog, please put the turret on either of them. I'd like to see someone recreate the RA2 renders that used a backwards M42 hull.
>>11756624For years, I thought it was a completely made up vehicle, because I couldn't recognize the wheel configuration Now I can't unsee it But mating the turret to the M41/42 hull will require a lot of surgery, the turret base is very wide
no real touchups needed, just penciled along the hard edges of armor. The thing just fits into the photo booth, and didnt realize how low the lighting was until I put the pics onto the computer. is what it is, not setting up the booth again
>>11756489>>11756796nice! the white on the missiles looks really good.
>>11756796great job, it really looks the part. i'd love to see more photos if you have any!
>>11757129>>11757152ty, here's the other side. I had a couple full shots, but the camera did some fucky stuff to the coloring on some. Basically only got 3 usable pics out of it
>>11756796what kind of pencil
>>11758410regular ol no. 2
>>11758434>he doesn't even use AK modelling pencilsyeah, it shows.
>>11758473Is this a meme or is a set of artist pencils good enough?
FRESHLY BAKED:>>11758522>>11758522>>11758522
>>11757195excellent work o7
>>11758513Of course it's a meme. Pencil of a certain grade is pencil. No matter what "brand".
>>11754976lmao faggot. I'm doing an Israeli Air Force Phantom II right now.
>>11760003Good for you that you can stomach them. Like I said, I unfortunately no longer can, when their evil is fucking bad capeshit villain level.
