Hello there beautiful people.

This is my first finished kit to greet the new year with. I will be greeting the new year with a newly finished Type 10, one of the recent offering from Tamiya. Released in September 2013, this kit is very beautifully moulded with moulded-on antislips, clear plastic sheets ( as usual from Tamiya ) and rubber tracks.

I painted this gal in Tamiya JGSDF Dark Green and a mix of JGSDF Brown and normal Brown. A lot of references seemed to show hard edge patterns, I did the green first and masked it off and applied the brown. I just followed the pattern from the instructions. I wanted to exercise artistic license and went for a what-if winter scheme but since I have already made the Type90 in that way, I just decided to keep it factory scheme.

I debated on how to weather it, mainly snows and mud but I realize I have to build more dusty builds as practice so I decided to keep the weathering to a dusty appearance. I didn't do it all dusty ( like my Leclerc) just a moderate amount of dust. The dust was applied first with two layer of oil wash and brushing pigments on top after that.

Here's some photos -
















Well, that's about as much I can sum up about the build. More informations and more photos ( many more) can be found on my blog -
http://modeller-innovation.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/tamiya-135-jgsdf-type10.html
Please do have a look and thank you so much in advance for any feedback you guys may have.

Until the next launch .

Gary - The pictures look a little bright so it's hard to tell, but it looks like you might benefit from a dark pin wash of the panel lines. It would help bring put some of the details and add dimension to the tank.

Hi Bob... I actually did pin was but you are right.. They have become nearly invisible. I went a little bit overboard with the oils and pigment when doing the dust and it just went away



as you can see here. I'm still quite weak at panel lines and controlling my habit to go habit with subsequent layers of washes and stuffs ..

Thanks for your comment... I definitely have to improve my skills on the pin wash

Gary, just saw your second post of the tank before you let rip with the oils and pastels and there does seem to be a lot more definition to the panel lines and details. I am certainly no expert at painting but perhaps when doing the oil and pastels it could be an idea to go gently and build the effect up slowly. do a wee bit and walk away for half an hour and then come back to it and reappraise what you've done. It's great fun doing the weathering and also very easy to get carried away with it. I'm sure we've all done it and learned. The rubber skirts look good, very convincing.

Oh, I so know that trick all too well! I still sometimes find myself having to go back and carefully redo panel lines after weathering. Like Paul said, it's so easy to overdo it.