This is the first diorama I made in 2012, my computer was broken just before I wanna make the video, I finally upload the video yesterday and I hope you will like it.
These are classic kits of Tamiya, although I wanna buy them since I was a kid, this is the first time I build them.
This is the second plane I select to repaint, I built it 3 years ago and last week I mainly did the overall weathering, I masked the surfaces into small areas and applied darker/ lighter weathering. I found silver paint is easy to get dull (especally acrylic paint) , so I took these photos right the way.
I reently take a look of my old completed models and I try to repaint some of them, this is the first one. Hayabusa (Oscar), a classic war plane of Japanese Army.
The diorama shows a Panther Ausführung G tank in Northern France 1944. The Panther is supported by some Panzergrenadiers. I used Dragon´s Zimmerit Panther G (Kit NO.6384), the figures are made out of several left over bits i found in my storage. The rails are from Trumpeter. I painted the model with acrylic paints from Revell. MIG pigments and oil paints were used for weathering.
Warfare in Scale is a Spanish production company, whom specializes in modelling videos. They are new to the profession but the videos look very professional. Elegant layout/design and excellent editing. The videos are in Spanish but, unlike Japanese Plamo Tsukurou, WiS have English subtitles. They may need to improve their story telling to become as popular but the Warfare in Scale show is still very entertainer.
This episode is about the new 1/35 Technical from Meng Model. I don't know the modeler's name because WiS forgot to mention it in the video but he really makes a fantastic job of the little pickup truck. Anyway, it's a great show. Enjoy fellows.
I finished this tank from Cyberhobby last week. It shows a StuG III (Sturmgeschütz) C/D with a 7.5cm L48. First I painted a normal camouflage than I sprayed a light coat of white. For the weathering I used this time MIG Dark Wash and some pigments. It was the first time that I used this stuff from MIG production and I'm satisfied.
This time i built the StuG III G of Bodo Spranz, a famous tank commander of WW2.
Dragon offers a special kit which allows to build a very detailed model.
I painted the model with acrylic paints from Revell. For weathering i used oil paints and MIG pigments.
I painted these 3 figures within the last weeks, all were white metal figures in 54mm scale (1/32).
The first one shows a Roman infantry officer of the 4th century A.D. The figure is from Soldiers.
The second one depicts a dismounted Byzantine knight of the 13th century. It was my first kit from the korean manufacturer Seil models
The last one shows a Japanese Samurai of the Momoyama period (1574-1602) from the well known manufacturer Pegaso Models.
Models:
Academy Stug IV
Tamiya T-34/85
ESCI figures
Happy New Year to everyone!
During Christmas day, I built up this diorama. Without a heater at home, the recent cold weather of 8-10c in Hong Kong. (It is already COLD temp. here.) it brings me the mood to make a winter snow diorama. I try to call back my feeling of snow which was 2009, december. I was in Rovaniemi, Finland.
Start with layers and layers of toilet paper to create the slopes on a base board, I poured a layer of gesso paste (I brought it at art material shop), after it dry out I sprinkled alot of gypsum power and spreaded it smooth by a tiny tea spoon. Finally I place the tanks and figures there.
I try not to sneeze or I will blow my snow away! Please let me know if you have better way to make it! And I am sure you guys have it!
Beside, I this is my first time to use the Tamiya zimmerit coating applicator, my feeling of it is fine, but I guess a pack of handsaw blades may work the same but cheaper than the Tamiya, and this time I try not to use the epoxy putty to make the zimmerit but using a very common office stationary of "Blu tack" or "Bostik ". They are soft enough for me to apply the texture and it gets harden after I painted on it. Although it wont as hard as putty but it is still OK.
