Waltzin' Matilda
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I decided to try something new (for me, anyway). I thought I'd try a sort of screened spray painting effect on Matilda. I found some rubber net/mat stuff that my wife had used to line the kitchen shelves. She's now changed over to shelf paper, because the dishes 'stuck' to the rubber, and you couldn't slide anything on the mat.
This mat isn't just a flat mesh - it's got blobs (I don't know how else to describe it). I thought it'd be interesting to drape some of this over Matilda and spray through it, and see what kind of pattern I got, especially if I repositioned the veil for each new colour.
Pic 1 & Pic 2 - veil draping trials
Pic 3 & Pic 4 - first colour, a dark green, with veil.
As you can see from
Pic 5,
Pic 6, and
Pic 7 - results were mixed, mostly, I think, because my paint was very 'spitty'. Since these paints all came from very old rattle-cans I got a Wally-World many yonks ago, I don't think there's much that can be done about the quality of the paint, except perhaps to not move the can quite so fast.
So I tried again. Two shades of green, some version of blue, and a metallic gold later, I got
Pic 8 - with veil;
Pic 9 and
Pic 10 post-veil.
So, ladies and gentlemens, I ask you - what do you think? Should I keep it or try something else?
This mat isn't just a flat mesh - it's got blobs (I don't know how else to describe it). I thought it'd be interesting to drape some of this over Matilda and spray through it, and see what kind of pattern I got, especially if I repositioned the veil for each new colour.
Pic 1 & Pic 2 - veil draping trials
Pic 3 & Pic 4 - first colour, a dark green, with veil.
As you can see from
Pic 5,
Pic 6, and
Pic 7 - results were mixed, mostly, I think, because my paint was very 'spitty'. Since these paints all came from very old rattle-cans I got a Wally-World many yonks ago, I don't think there's much that can be done about the quality of the paint, except perhaps to not move the can quite so fast.
So I tried again. Two shades of green, some version of blue, and a metallic gold later, I got
Pic 8 - with veil;
Pic 9 and
Pic 10 post-veil.
So, ladies and gentlemens, I ask you - what do you think? Should I keep it or try something else?
"Is Russian artillery. Is mostly on target."
Dimitry
Dimitry
Today I worked on the cupola, the TC's weapon, and finally 'set' the scale. It's 1/35 - the One True Scale for Armor - or so I was raised to believe. ![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Cupola raw material Yup - a 2" bobber from WallyWorld.
Cupola View 1
Cupola View 2
Cupola View 3 The TC figure is from a 1/35 Centurion.
Cupola View 4
Cupola View 5
Now to find and attach the impedimenta that all active fighting vehicles accumulate - equipment, crew's gear, add-ons, anntenae, and so on and so forth.![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Thanks for looking - any suggestions will be carefully weighed.![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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Cupola raw material Yup - a 2" bobber from WallyWorld.
Cupola View 1
Cupola View 2
Cupola View 3 The TC figure is from a 1/35 Centurion.
Cupola View 4
Cupola View 5
Now to find and attach the impedimenta that all active fighting vehicles accumulate - equipment, crew's gear, add-ons, anntenae, and so on and so forth.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Thanks for looking - any suggestions will be carefully weighed.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
"Is Russian artillery. Is mostly on target."
Dimitry
Dimitry
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Thanks, RM. I was trying for the Hammer's Slammers cupola-mounted 2cm tri-barrel, but ended up with a quad-barrel instead. I justified the height of it by saying it needs a good field of fire ... that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.rallymodeller wrote:Hey, you got a Dalek head mounted on there!![]()
The tank is lookin' good...
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The turret ring is a large toothed wheel I got in my Box O' Stuff two years ago ... I'm slowly using up those hi-quality greeblies - by the time I'm done I'll be ready for a new BOS challenge!
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Chris-jon, Thanks! As to the P1 - sorry, I either got that at a model show hereabouts, or . I have no idea where there might be more. I know nothing of the show, or even more than the "P1-0" - everything else on the box and directions is in Japanese, of which I am completely ignorant. I've got that mostly done - with some modifications of my own - or I'd send it to you. All I've got left to do is paint, put the heads on the people inside, add the glass, and decal. I've put the 'glass' bits somewhere safe - I'll have to find them. Do you want it?
"Is Russian artillery. Is mostly on target."
Dimitry
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A little more cupola work - adding the TC's hatch, greeblizing the interior - stuff like that.
Pic 1 - from a distance
Pic 2
Pic 3 - grab rail and targeting module
Pic 4 - hatch lid detail
Pic 5 - down the hatch (port)
Pic 6 - down the hatch (starboard)
Pic 1 - from a distance
Pic 2
Pic 3 - grab rail and targeting module
Pic 4 - hatch lid detail
Pic 5 - down the hatch (port)
Pic 6 - down the hatch (starboard)
"Is Russian artillery. Is mostly on target."
Dimitry
Dimitry
Well, I do get ahead of myself, sometimes. Ok, often.Dr. Yo wrote:Very neat detail on the interior of the sub-turret. Glad to see I'm not the
only person who sometimes paints ahead of the details.
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So I reckoned I'd get some base-spray-coats down, and then all the added stuff will be brushed with whatever bottle of paint I happen to have handy - much like in the army, although they do have the 'correct' colours (usually).
"Is Russian artillery. Is mostly on target."
Dimitry
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Thanks! Pics 8-11 show the max elevation and depression of the main gun - 8 & 9 over the aft deck; 10 & 11 over the bow. It's the same amount of travel, of course, but because of the differing lengths of decking under the barrel it seems different ...
Anyway, onward and upward!![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Anyway, onward and upward!
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"Is Russian artillery. Is mostly on target."
Dimitry
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