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Post by mikeh on Aug 6, 2022 14:47:27 GMT -5
 Muzzle break of a Tiger1. Trying out the Macro on my new phone. |
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Post by mikeh on Aug 6, 2022 14:52:54 GMT -5
 Going for a mid spring look with the snow camo almost worn off. In reality it was just a whitewash that the crews brushed on in the field and wasn't really made to last. |
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Post by mikeh on Aug 6, 2022 14:55:37 GMT -5
 No I don't smoke, I was stretching sprue. 🙂 |
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Post by mikeh on Aug 6, 2022 15:01:39 GMT -5
 I thought this old Italeri kit would be a good one to try snow camo on and I think I am right! I am very pleased with the way it is coming along. An old war weary Tiger1 of the 505th Heavy Panzer Battalion has made it through a rough winter in the east. |
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Post by mikeh on Aug 7, 2022 1:37:27 GMT -5
 Soon it will be dirt and mud time. |
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Post by mikeh on Aug 7, 2022 1:41:42 GMT -5
 Rear deck. I like to make up my own washes which I put into resealable jars. |
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Post by Whiterook on Aug 9, 2022 9:56:34 GMT -5
Geezuz, Mike… you got skills! This is my favorite build of yours, mate! The zimmerit is amazing… looks molded on the kit mold? It looks like the Zim you apply yourself (I remember Urban and Geek44’s phenomwork on said). Yiu whitewash is brilliant, and the weathering is superb. You should enter this in an IPMS show!!!
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Post by mikeh on Aug 9, 2022 14:52:15 GMT -5
Thanks Em! This is the old Italeri kit that came with Zimmerit panels you glued on. Some didn't care for it but I give Italeri credit for trying something to give folks a tank with zim they didn't have to create themselves. This was well before any company was doing molded Zimmerit. This release came with p/e fenders, exhaust shrouds and grills for the rear deck. I didn't use the p/e shrouds because I, try as I might could not get them to fit right so I stuck with the plastic ones.
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Post by Whiterook on Aug 9, 2022 17:16:11 GMT -5
Nice! Thanks for that explanation. The tow cables are also, amazing… did they come molded in those positions or did you do something? I was also wondering about your “washes” mentioned…they are superb! …what do you use?
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Post by mikeh on Aug 11, 2022 11:00:25 GMT -5
The tow cables and track repair cable came with the kit, they are just glued on. My washes are for the most part just acrylics with water but for darker washes I use a good portion of my brush cleaning water which is just a grotesque looking slop of all the colors I have used on past projects, everything from black to yellow and everything in between. My heaviest wash I use over the whole tank is a mixture of dark yellow, and brush cleaning slop. My rust wash is kind of unusual in that I use rust from a chunk of iron ore that was pulled out of the local river, it became encased in quartz over God knows how many centuries and then became cracked and holes developed in it and the ore inside has rusted and as I discovered can be scraped off as a powder. I also use different rust tone paints with it. Kind of a cool and unusual mix. All my washes I keep in small glass orange marmalade jars as you get in better restaurants for breakfast, or at restaurant supply stores where my wife got them from. They are all resealable and when they start to get low I just start remixing.
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Post by mikeh on Aug 11, 2022 11:28:50 GMT -5
 My rust rock, pulled from the Menominee River. |
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Post by mikeh on Aug 11, 2022 11:32:13 GMT -5
 Slop water for mixing washes and marmalade jars for storing my washes. |
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Post by Whiterook on Aug 16, 2022 11:44:13 GMT -5
My rust rock, pulled from the Menominee River. …well, Damn, that has to be the most inventive and clever source of rust pigment I’ve ever heard! Brilliant! Slop water for mixing washes and marmalade jars for storing my washes. …OMG, how many of those little jars have I thrown away over time and never thought about using them For this!!! Ugh! I’ll be keeping these little gems in the future! I Love the term “brush slop”… perfect title! Thanks for the inspiration, Mike! |
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Post by mikeh on Aug 16, 2022 15:12:34 GMT -5
I use the jars for custom mixed paint also, as you know you can never mix the same custom color twice and get it exactly right.
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Post by Whiterook on Aug 17, 2022 11:08:35 GMT -5
I use the jars for custom mixed paint also, as you know you can never mix the same custom color twice and get it exactly right. Why yes indeedy, truer words are hard to find! If it gives you a chuckle, back when I started out in my first year of art school in college, I tried to scrounge and skimp on paint applications to my palette, trying to conserve and maximize my limited college funds per materials bought. Nope! Learned your lesson quick! Now I make my stingy New Englander step to the background and make more mixtures/quantities than ultimately needed. |
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