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Armor/AFV: Braille Scale
1/72 and 1/76 Scale Armor and AFVs.
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Braille Scale Booklet
mgdsign
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Posted: Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 07:57 PM UTC
I just made this ready for a free download. If you would like it please click here to get it:

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?pl5gly40nwdbd50


It's a booklet consisting of some tricks and tips for doing small scale vehicles. Aimed at the beginners who wants to take a step into some more advanced painting and weathering.



Cheers

Sven-Åke
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Posted: Monday, May 14, 2012 - 02:20 AM UTC
Hi Sven,

Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with the community.

I beleive that besides the fact that you create very colorful and detailed dioramas most important, it's the themes that are unique and make the difference.

P.A.
mgdsign
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Posted: Monday, May 14, 2012 - 07:09 AM UTC
Thanks!

Glad you appreciate my efforts

Cheers

Sven-Åke
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Posted: Monday, May 14, 2012 - 07:13 AM UTC
Sven,

It's a very generous gift that you've offered to the small scale community and I must say, extremely professionally produced. Thank you.

Cheers,
Jan
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Posted: Monday, May 14, 2012 - 10:38 AM UTC
Sven, your modeling abilities in this scale are only eclipsed by your generosity to give back to this community!Tack så mycket och kan du fortsätta att bygga för många år framöver!
exer
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Posted: Monday, May 14, 2012 - 10:49 AM UTC
Thank you Sven. Great piece of work -thank you for sharing
rf1964
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Posted: Monday, May 14, 2012 - 12:32 PM UTC
Thank You so much for share thsi book.

Kind Regards

Rui
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Posted: Monday, May 14, 2012 - 12:45 PM UTC
BTW Sven, I used some of these techniques on my 1/72 Merkava III with mine roller. I used your article on painting your Merkava III to get the same forced contrast look.

Thanks again!
panzerIV
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Posted: Monday, May 14, 2012 - 01:58 PM UTC
sven thank you for this little booklet will help me and guide me alot am still a novice cant wait to have alook at this tomorow after work
mgdsign
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Posted: Monday, May 14, 2012 - 11:40 PM UTC
Thanks guys, glad you enjoy it

Cheers

Sven-Åke
erhntly
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Posted: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 06:19 AM UTC
Hi Sven-Åke

Really an excellent resource. Thank you.
I would like to publish my blog (miniafv). (English and Turkish) Can you give permission ?
cheers

Erhan
mgdsign
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Posted: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 08:19 AM UTC

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Hi Sven-Åke

Really an excellent resource. Thank you.
I would like to publish my blog (miniafv). (English and Turkish) Can you give permission ?
cheers

Erhan


Sure Erhan, no problem!

All the best!

Sven-Åke
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Posted: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 10:06 AM UTC
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!
erhntly
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Posted: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 07:15 AM UTC

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Hi Sven-Åke

Really an excellent resource. Thank you.
I would like to publish my blog (miniafv). (English and Turkish) Can you give permission ?
cheers

Erhan


Sure Erhan, no problem!

All the best!

Sven-Åke


Thank you
MacTrucks
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Posted: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 03:12 PM UTC
Sven-Åke,

That is a nice professional job. Short, sweet and to the point. I need to experiment with camo effects since it seems I have so many NATO camo projects in process. I probably have too many project queued up waiting painting, so this might give me some motivation to get them done.

Kent
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Posted: Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 09:18 AM UTC
Hi Sven
Thank you for this very useful link to all
sampiero
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Posted: Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 02:42 PM UTC
Sven, this is great! I've been having a hard time trying to adapt techniques that I've just been learning in 1/35 to smaller scales, and now I feel a lot more comfortable just looking through this.

Thanks for making this available to us!

Jeremy H.
mgdsign
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Posted: Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 05:38 PM UTC
Thanks! You are all very welcome and I hope you'll have good use of it.

Cheers

Sven-Åke
erhntly
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Posted: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 - 10:03 AM UTC

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Hi Sven-Åke

Really an excellent resource. Thank you.
I would like to publish my blog (miniafv). (English and Turkish) Can you give permission ?
cheers

Erhan


Sure Erhan, no problem!

All the best!

Sven-Åke
erhntly
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Posted: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 - 10:07 AM UTC

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Hi Sven-Åke

Really an excellent resource. Thank you.
I would like to publish my blog (miniafv). (English and Turkish) Can you give permission ?
cheers

Erhan


Sure Erhan, no problem!

All the best!

Sven-Åke


Hi Sven-Åke, I published my blog "miniafv". Thank you again..

http://miniafv.blogspot.com/p/braille-scale-modelling.html
arkhunter
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Posted: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 - 04:25 PM UTC
This is awesome.

My only question is why don't you use a gloss coat before you add decals?

Thanks,
Austin
mgdsign
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Posted: Thursday, June 07, 2012 - 09:34 AM UTC

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This is awesome.

My only question is why don't you use a gloss coat before you add decals?

Thanks,
Austin

Never had any problems with decals applied without a gloss coat so I guess it's because I'm used to work that way. I'm not saying that my way is better, it only works better for me and saves me one step in the process...

Cheers

Sven-Åke
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Posted: Saturday, June 09, 2012 - 02:22 PM UTC
Sven, do you have a problem with silvering when applying decals on flat paint?
Charlie
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Posted: Saturday, June 09, 2012 - 02:34 PM UTC
Thanks very much Sven! I enjoyed the booklet very much.
mgdsign
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Posted: Sunday, June 17, 2012 - 06:41 AM UTC

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Sven, do you have a problem with silvering when applying decals on flat paint?
Charlie


Hi Charlie!

No I haven't unless it's very bad quality decals but I usually replace them with something better.

Cheers

Sven-Åke
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