Hy Guido!

Awsome job, dude! I especially loke your rust. Amazing job.

Best regards,

Andreas T.

Hi Guido,
I've liked reading the various posts about your excellent conversion. Thanks for having given us those moments of pure pleasure.

One point though, unless the tankers has subscribed to the US version, the Playboy magazine should be in cyrillic

I suggest you gather all your posts in a feature article that would be for sure a winner.
Congrats

Olivier

Thank you Olivier.
Maybe did you speak about this version?


or is a off topic

Hi,
you got it
and it is a nice model too, (it just depends on the definition !!) so IMHO it is not

wow, that is some fantastic work! I love the attention to detail and all the scratches, rust, etc. Very nice work.
Im impressed, inspired, and learned a few things too!

are you going to add any mud effects? Ive seen pictures of the T-72 with lots of splattered mud and stuff.

Andy

Of course we have to be able to read it, we only buy it for the articles!!
Andy

Obviously: the culture first of all. Mud of course, just a little wait please.

Oh well done, Guido. First you choke me to death then I have to explain to associate SHMO why I'm viewing iffy pictures when she's out of the room I think it would be make your model stand out even more if you made photocopy of partially folded out centerfold instead of plain cover.

Sure like a truck luxury cabin

Some pics more. I worked on wheels, adding a muddy mix made with pigments and resin from MIG, acrylic and sieved sand. I took care not to cover the whole wheels, but adding the mix at random. When everything was dried I added a thin layer of pigments (at random too), fixing them with Tamyia thinner and finally a drop of Future (here and there) to add a wet appearance

This is a great photographic build log Guido!! Thank you very much for taking the time to post it.

The -72 looks great! I got one of these in my stash. Might have to dig it out.

Oh, got any more shots of the "other" model? Ha ha!

Fantastic. Thank you so much for taking the time to post this with so many pictures. A great painting reference.

Hi men, here I'm again with my tank. I made dust effect using Mig pigments with different techniques


sometimes a whole mix of them


they were applied as a powder only and then fixed with Tamiya thinner airbrushed over, or diluited with the same thinner and used as a lining or applied directly with a large brush simulating clods on the lower surfaces then fixed with a drop of thinner running up for capillarity.
Her you can see these effects obtained with those techniques I wrote about.
First


then with dust effect


as a lining


with a large brush simulating clods of earth






Then I added dirty drainings made with raw umber oil, large as a spot or thin





"games" with Maskol


and then the same with dust over


muddy soles




Splashes of mud


again



That's all folks, thank you. Next time....tracks.



Guido

WOW. She has definately been rode hard and put away wet.

Fantastic work.

cheers

Are there special stamps for the boot marks or is that just the tread from the boot of a figure?

John

Stamps of course John. Have a look here.
http://www.calibre35.cz/FPcatalogue.htm

Yes it's a macabre pic, but I like it. it was taken in Chechnya


And this is my rendition



What do you think about?

Very nice job. Just wish you spent more time discussing your work. Thanks for sharing.

Hallo guys, here I'm once again with my pics.
I completed the tracks: I use to add a black tone on the inner surface of them to simulate the continuous rubbing from the rubber wheels.
So, the first step is to paint them black.


then tape
















and then I applied a thinned mix of the same pigments used to simulate earth on the wheels, here with a large brush










And so finally my T72 finished







































.......and this is really the end my friends. I'd like to add a crew from the TANK range and then maybe an ambientation.
I hope to not bore you. Thanks to all of you.
Cheers and to the next kit.

Cogratulations man...

You made a great job....you T-72 looks great......And he AK, the helmet, the skull and the playboy magazine, were wonderfull details .....

Hope to see your new kit around here

Cheers

Erick

really good, hope my T-90 looks somewhere close to as good when its finished

Thank you men to all of you. For me it was a pleasure to build my model "with you". Thank you.
Now I'd like to submit it for the monthly model contest, but I've some problems with NRC registration, 'cause it tells me they already have my mail. Impossible. So I tried to write to forget my password (but I hadn't one), but I'm still waiting for the automatic answer. I don't know.
Is there another way to submit my model?
Thanks in advance to all of you men.

i am speechless. im sitting here watching fox soccer report and totally forgot about it... you are a true master.. i truely hope this is ur job, because you would be rolling in the bucks. ive seen alot of the true greats work but personally i think you are way better... that weathering is truly astounding. if u put that in a back drop i would think it was real... i will try ur weathering techniques pronto, and one day ill hope to be as good as you are.. bravo my friend bravo. you are truly amazing. im still speechelss. i will be telling my friends about you... and ur tank...
preston

Hi Guido. I really enjoyed reading through your thread so far. Great pictures describing your weathering methods. Love that mucus-green colour for the chips. Worked really well. Hopefully you´ll enter this for a display model for the site. Will be one to check back on for ideas and tips. Nice one.

Thank you men for your nice words: they really touched me.
Yes I'll try to post some pics for display model contest, even if I now have some problems with NRC, but I don't surrender.
Have a nice modelling.
Cheers.


Guido