Hello guys,

I bought a small kit that I could take and build at my local modelling club and picked up this revell kit of a T-80u. It was planned to be a 'practice' kit but im so happy with the results I wanted to share it. Ive only done the base coat so far using paint brush and bluetack to mask the patten. It does need touching up and ive learnt that I need to make sure I push the bluetack down more next time but I guess this is how we learn! All comments welcome as always!



Bronzey

Hi Alex,
Very nice for your first camo attempt & specially with using a paint brush!!
I do agree with you in a couple of spots about paint creep under the blue tack, I also had that the first time I tried it, so your not alone!!
Not sure if it is the light but it looks like their may be a tiny of turret colour showing right at the bottom of the turret ring??
Thanks for sharing!!
Cheers Mike

Mike,

Thank you for your comments, the paint job is Vallejo 50/50 with plain water, takes about 3 coats to do a even cover but well worth it. Yes you are right I completely missed under the turret, will be dealt with when I do the touch up on the rest, also the wheels are meant to be the dark green not the brown, guess I got abit carried away!

Bronzey

Erm just noticed I've named this a T-80u, its not, its a T-80B, whoops! Lol

Looking really good. I am out of practice, with brush painting camo. You pulled it off very well. Please post some updates, as you progress.

Thank you matt, im working on it now as we speak, well I say I, I mean my wife has highjacked it and she's repainting the wheels, getting all the camo lines cleaned up and covering the missed parts etc, want to get some colour on the tracks tonight but slow progress with the camo. Just have to wait and see what gets done!

Bronzey

Wish I had a wife to do all of the tedious parts.

Ok guys,

So made some headway tonight, still not happy but I think its the best im going to get it with what I have. Please do add any comments guys and matt, my wife only interested in the painting side of things, did try to get her onboard for cuting out 160+ track links but she didn't like the sound of that lol





Bronzey

The tracks look brilliant!

Thank you matt, the tracks still need a second coat, followed by a dry brushing of steel to give it a metal used look, the paint I use is from lifecolours set for tracks, comes with paint and pigments, very useful I find.

Bronzey

I've considered picking up the Lifecolor set, before. From the sound of it, I need to. I look forward to how the tracks turn out.

Well im calling this one pretty much done much now. Wash etc done and tracks finished.



Matt, the life colour set comes with a 'reflective agent' pigment, at the time I got it there was no details on how to use it anywhere but now learnt that your to mix it with one of the track colours and brush with a stiff brush when dry, the result is a worn looking track, taken a picture of the tracks to show you, its very easy to use with good results.



Bronzey

Alex: Thank you for the info and the photo. Could you post a few more photos of the finished build?

Looks nice so far!

I´ve built and painted 4 of Revell´s T-80 (standard) and painted them with the camouflage of a computer-game. (Novalogic´s Comanche 3)

Also I have one "BV"-kit in progress.
One was completed years ago... another one is in progress.

greetings and thanks for sharing...
Soeren

Gorizont,

Thank you for you comments, this is only my 4th completed kit I've done, its strange as when I started modelling last year I came into it with a strong interest in UK/USA modern armor yet I look at my stash (all be it a massive five kits...) and I look at what I have built and I have collected more Russian/soviet armor than anything else! I find them so interesting and such beasts, got a T90 in 1/35 im itching to start!

Matt,

Of course I can post more pictures, I will take some later once I have slept as I've just finished my night shift, and sharing information is what makes this site so good, I have learnt every skill of my modelling tool box from here, so its a pleasure to give back!

Bronzey

Ok so the more this beauty sat inbmy cabinet the more she bugged me, dont get me wrong she looks good, just not great.......

This lead me to do some more work on her and here is some pictures!













As always all comments are welcome!

Bronzey

I think all builders suffer from this problem.

Its a hard place to be, because I look at them and want to improve them but I fear that I may 'cock it up' and ruin the look it does have, want to add paint chips to this but haven't yet as don't 100% know how to go about it, never done it before

Bronzey

There are several methods, for chipping the paint. I, however, am a 1:35 scale builder and don't know the methods for 1:72. Just remember, you practice on every build. Eventually, you will have the techniques down.

Matt,

I prefer 1/35 scale, picked up this kit for £2.50 so I couldn't say no, tend to use 1/72 scale for quick fun builds and use 1/35 for my more impressive subjects. Will weather it at some point, going to do some research and come back to it.

Bronzey