Everyone hates you.

>>11728656
What did I fuck up this time? I can hand it over to someone else, if you guys want.

>>11728660
Ebony and ivory. You glow like the sun.

Glorp Athena Ken Paul it’s all the same shit.
>huh

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what do you guys recommend for JIA khaki? it kinda has an almost green gray tone

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>>11728697
Ak11905, 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 coats
What am I doing wrong?

>>11729075
don't mind me, I'm retarded, it turned out, you can just spray it out of the bottle just fine

>>11728865
hmmm kinda, it seems to lack that gray green tone.

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>>11728697
Revell 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.

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>>11728697

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>>11728697
The late war set has the greenish khaki.

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>>11727432
not 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
>>11729228
these look nice but i can't spray lacquers inside.

>>11729312
nice MiG 31

>>11729358
thanks! 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

>>11729368
You should replace those tiny stars if possible. That's not what it looks like.

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I think he came out pretty good, definitely messed up the masking but I'm happy with him.

>>11729554
The hull looks okay, but the grey tracks and rubber wheels don't look like anything they are supposed to.

>>11729583
unfortunately I couldn't assemble the tracks and wheels separately so I kinda just went for that red soil color you see in nam.

>>11728697
i 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

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4chin downtime was good for me, I actually made progress on the kit

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First time trying to paint

Should i use more than 4 colors?

>>11730121
That’s a really cool in focus monster can

>>11730182
Thanks

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>>11730065
Have I ever shown the finished Pantsir? Zvezda, 1/35.

>>11730763
nice

>>11730763
Where do people get the shelfspace for these modern volumebeasts in 1:35

>>11730848
nta, 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

>>11730763
is this in the aftermath of a salt water rain?

>>11730763
Those premium chinese tires look mighty inflated, not very historically accurate.

>>11730856
NTA, 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.

>>11730848
I have it in a regular Detolf atm.

>>11730856
This is more beige/sand coloured irl, appears whiter due to lighting.

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things i hate: painting wheels.
things i hate more: NO STENCIL FITS.
nigger

and where are the group builds?

>>11730917
you can hold the wheels in ultra-thin tweezers by the axle and brush paint the rubber part
if 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.

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>>11730941
who 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.

>>11731207
samurai 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.

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>>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

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I'm finally done with this one
Now onto the ha-go, semovente and all backlog kits that have been sitting there since 2020

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and speaking of the ha-go, I lost the fucking decal sheet
That'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 lines
Still the US flag boggles the mind the most. What? Why?

>>11731676
>They took the Tiger II transmission and complicated it further.
Gott im Himmel

>>11731737
cute flag

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>>11731892
the 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.

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>>11731893
when you look at the arisaka rifle
and realize its based on a mauser 98
then you understand what horrors unfold
when the japanese start to "improve" things

>>11731737
pretty gays ass writings on this tank
checkout this one, same crude finish but waaaay cooooler logo. 'eil

>>11728651
any 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

>>11732098
AK ones have been great for models. Their ultra matte is fucking ultra matte though. Like "will catch all dust particles matte". So yeah.

>>11732098
xf-86 for me

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>>11732098
vallejo mecha matte varnish is pretty good.

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>>11732088
I can assure you there is no Ю anywhere on the tank

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>every BLUFOR builder is okay to good
>every REDFOR builder is toddler-tier with fingerpainted bullshit
Really gets the noggin joggin.

>>11732101
>>11732108
>>11732111
>>11732147
ty anons, ordered ak and tamiya to try out. i'm still too traumatised from the vallejo gloss to consider another vallejo varnish

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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.

>>11732310
Not what you are asking for but there are 1/35 figures of the baddies from mgsv
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/kotobukiya-kp-321-metal-gear-solid-v-ground-zeroes-set--1001069

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so just build tamiya tanks in the last time
now 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?

>>11732476
trumpeter 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

>>11732317
yeah I already know about that, not what I'm after

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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

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Bought this kid for the fun of it

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it seems i forgot to add nose weights. on the plus side i made this little display base to glue it down on

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>>11732310
They'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.

>>11732655
I want it for the robit dogs

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>>11732693
reminds me more of this compared to that dragon kit

>>11732603
If 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?

>>11732754
Well you're wrong.

>>11732962
cunt

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>>11732603
glasses
small brush
are the tools
a spliff
eases the mind for the task

>>11733003
I 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?

>>11733351
what kinda weirdo scale is that?

>>11732603
looks like a pretty quick drybrush job
just don't glue the running gear to the model until you're done

>>11733415
Meant 1:72. Fat fingered the keyboard

>>11733193
NTA, 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?

>>11733768
because you deserve it

>>11733768
depends
does it look ugly?

>>11733768
what 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 update
suicide may be the only option here

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>>11734040
i wanted to make su-57 in ta-154 camo

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>>11734527
>build on hold for lack of sandpaper

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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.

>>11734696
Forgot 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.

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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

>>11730917
i usually don't post builds until it's done
i'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.

>>11734965
never worked on train stuff but ca glue might be what you're looking for
you should also grab debonder just in case

>>11734984
So just super glue?

>>11734990
super glue is a ca glue but certain dedicated brands have different types like thin, rubber, quick dry, etc

>>11734984
Debonder attacks PS plastic, use with care

>>11734965
>>11735073
I 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.

>>11735180
some 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

>>11735216
That'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'

>>11735223
Yeah I think you're right, I'd go nuts trying to paint this my usual way

>>11733768
It's fine if you do it on modernslop
>>11734273
Me

>>11734965
Don't put 'glue' for scalemodeling on it since it will melt the plastic

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I may have gone too far in a few places...

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>>11735581

>>11735581
SEX 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

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I wonder if I (ever) finish my Type-59 should I paint the base with red lacquer?

>>11735857
then you'd be doing the modeling equivalent of chinese restaurant font

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>this is a 1/48 part
count your days eduard
>did you pixelate your fingerpr-
yes

>>11735955
>yes
lmao why

>>11735969
Identity theft protection.

>>11736023
If you are online, your private data was already stolen thanks to extreme mismanagement from all services

>>11735851
I 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

>>11732476
Work 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.

>>11735969
Unhealthy 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?

>>11734623
I 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.

>>11735581
Oh... 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.

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>>11728651
work 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.

>>11736656
heavily 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.

>>11736585
I'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
>>11736656
I haven't built anything in less than a month in years, usually 3-4 months

>>11736870
thanks 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.

>>11736023
No one's going to hack your shit based off a picture of your finger, sweaty.

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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.

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>>11737210
YES

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>>11728651
group build?
ALL GLORY TO THE DAIMYŌ
WHEELS MUST BE PAINTED FOR THE DAIMYŌ

seems like I'm gonna finish the first chi ha of the chi ha tank rush coming out of this build

if we can make a chi ha division from the group build?

>>11735581
why is your tank covered in dog hair?

>>11737332
how come you paint them on the sprue? just stick a cocktail stick through the centre and hold them on that while you paint

>>11737374
The 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 properly
am i gonna regret it?

>>11737436
worst thing she could say is "no", bro

>>11737436
>>11718355

>>11737436
>no idea how to mix paints properly
what is there to know

>>11734527
the 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 today
gonna 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

>>11737436
If 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.

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>>11736186
I 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

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>>11732693
Why 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.

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made by a 9 year old girl

>>11737584
Very 1990s colors.

>>11737584
cute and wholesome

so if i buy a diorama or lets say a scale statue of a building
do i stay in this thread or go where?

>>11737637
you'll be fine as long as you won't build it and just bitch about stuff a most of the people do here.

>>11737641
i mean buying something like this
does this count as a statue or something else?
https://www.wetanz.com/us/minas-tirith
and lets say i put mini people on it

>>11737637
>>11737643
nta, 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.

>>11737436
Bro use a brush bri

>>11737436
drybrush
that's what i did before i got an air brush
it takes longer, but it looks about the same

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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.

>>11737511
The 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.

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>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

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>>11737937
FORGOT MY PIC OF THE MURDER

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>>11737936
>once chance at being a complete autist
>doesnt pick my WWI austro hungarian armored train
DEAD TO ME

>>11737939
jfc print at 45s my man. the extra print time is worth less cleanup.

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>>11737948
Shiiiiiii nigga where's the sauce for that?
>>11737949
Lol 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 print
Lesson learned.

>>11737971
landshipsmodeling.com bb
I 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

>>11737949
Do you mean 45 degrees? Because that has no bearing on the supports being fuckhueg.

>>11735955
This guy knows game.

>>11728651
aircraft anons, do you install landing gears before or after painting?

>>11738059
do it after if you can

>>11738059
Depends 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
>>11737601
Reminds 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.

>>11738154
Revell Robotech?

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>>11738315
I 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

>>11738480
revell is littorally shit

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>>11738480
If 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.

>>11738620
Basically 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

>>11738468
MASK Switchblade?

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>>11738867
Oh yeah, that's the vehicle I was thinking of. This line was what I was trying to remember.

>>11738874
Oh, ok. And your memory merged the two? Looks very 90s with comic like writing.

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Done with the Cappuccino. I'll take nicer pictures tomorrow when the sun is up.

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>>11739087
But before that, a nice fresh cuppa

>>11739087
nice
>>11739089
looks yummy

>>11737813
the luna looks really cool anon, what colour scheme are you going to do for it?

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>>11737509
Yep this is turning into another schizo tier hobby fad. Why am I like this

>>11739349
probably 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

>>11739362
tanks are cool, that's why
i recommend starting with the tamiya kit first, those are pretty beginner friendly

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>>11739362
>dragon T-72

>>11739426
The T-72 goes together decently. It's the T-80 that's the write off.

>>11739652
It doesn't, the kit is doodoo feces

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i sure wish I could post my progress instead of constantly being ip range banned for no reason

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>>11739744
haven't been able to post all week so might as well get in while I still can

working 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 ago
the 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 way

anyways 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
>>11739426
I 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

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>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 more
happen iyc?

>>11740179
yes, 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.

>>11740179
I 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

>>11740179
i 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 one
i probably shouldn't buy any new kits for a very long time

>>11740229
>border models Tesla tank
I'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.

>>11740249
Their 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 tank
It'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

>>11740253
it's really weird how companies can be so inconsistent with the engineering

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>>11740179
>he isnt stashmaxxing

>>11740648
i don't have a shed im an apartmentcuck

>>11740179
im sitting on 2-3 cubic metres of kits
if build that till i die im good.
i went crazy on some prime days and hobby store sales

not enough time to build
but enough time to buy crap online while on the shitter
impulse control? me?

i dislike chipping

>>11739723
Skill issue.

>>11740907
use sponge

>>11740943
I dislike the effect itself

>>11740648
I love that setup.

>crack cockpit glass in half
God damn nooooooo

>>11741117
Tarp 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 off
I'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

>>11740648
damn that's sexy

>>11740179
finish what you started

>>11740669
you can fix that by buying a house. then you can do whatever you want without answering to a landlord.

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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

>>11741408
nice, 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

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started work on this seiran while the oils on gato&swift are drying.
>>11741408
what's the body color for this livery? i have a 1/72 tamiya zero i want to do in a pearl harbour livery

>>11741762
I 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

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Registered my models for the show this weekend in Sarajevo, only 600 kms and 2 countries away

>>11741975
good luck dude! please post some pictures here if you can

>>11741975
Remember to zigzag

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detail painting now. I truly hate spraying white paint.

>>11742158
looks 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?

>>11742164
ty 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.

>>11742101
sniper 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.

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>>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.

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>>11742656
maybe, 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

>>11742493
I'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.

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>>11742685
I guess good reference for those stripes would be Prague Spring. I don't think soviets used them anywhere else.

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>>11742642
looking good, but the tracks are a bit too flat?
>>11742738
white stripes are used in training exercises to mark opfor formations

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my contribution to the group build, tamiya's type 1 spg
this 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

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ni hao, min na sans
is 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!!!

>>11743301
The paint looks so tasty it's unreal mmmmmmm
The 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

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>>11728651
rip swift. was almost finished but the fucking super thin ca was a stupid decision to try out. on both sides. fuck

>>11743702
the fucking what?

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>>11743495
arigatou 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

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decals and dry fitting the launcher with the rocket.

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>>11743702
Bird strike diorama
>>11743809
Ye, 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

>>11743702
Thin CA has only caused me problems, what is it actually useful for

>>11743894
nice!
dude you should take some pics of your collection some time

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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

>>11743894
great job, it looks really cool! looking forward to seeing it with the wheels and tracks on

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>>11744172
Something looks wrong about your ERA layout. Also I don't think that plate on top of the mantlet was used at all.

>>11744182
It'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.

>>11744182
No way, anon
How could a ~40 year old kit have inaccuracies?

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>>11743989
the basement display. I'm gonna build pretty much an exact copy of this for another open wall down there

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>>11743989
the office display, probably shouldve closed the blinds but oh well.

>>11744176
it's getting there. Gotta give everything a satin coat and then I can run with the weathering.

>>11743939
interesting info
>I don't ever account for how scale affects the appearance of colours but looks right anyway
I 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 hassle

btw we can all see inside betty's intimate area

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>>11742642
ok 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.

>>11744316
Looks good, did the figure come with the kit?

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>friend offered me tamiya tirpitz 1/350 with eduard PE, metal barrels and wooden deck addons for 35$
... should i?

>>11744392
Why not? unless it's waterline.

>>11744572
What's the point of waterline? It looks disgusting

>>11744344
thank you, yeah he came with the kit. the sculpt is really nice I kinda want to pick up some more figures from border.

>>11744316
Very nice. Can you explain in detail what you did with the main painted areas on the tank?