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AFVFan
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Posted: Sunday, May 04, 2014 - 03:40 PM UTC
Here's my latest work. It's the old Tamiya kit built for a guy who wanted an ambush scheme with very little weathering. The only addition was an RB metal barrel. I think he'll be happy with it.











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Posted: Monday, May 05, 2014 - 12:05 AM UTC
looks good, any chance of bigger pictures? want to see more of it.
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Posted: Monday, May 05, 2014 - 02:34 AM UTC
Thanks for the comment Paul. I'll see if I can't post a couple larger ones in the next day or two.
210cav
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Posted: Monday, May 05, 2014 - 03:00 AM UTC
Bob-- looks great. Can you tell us what type paint (MM, Tamiya, etc.) and colors you applied and your application procedures?
thanks
DJ
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Posted: Monday, May 05, 2014 - 05:11 AM UTC
The colors are Tamiya(acrylic)XF-60 dark yellow, MM(enamel)2100 signal brown, and an unknown MM(enamel) - sorry, the label faded, but it's some kind of German green. They were sprayed over a grey MM primer.

The paints were thinned somewhere between 50 or 60 percent and built up in layers to give some variation to the colors. I used a Badger 150 set up with a fine needle on low pressure. The camo pattern was free-handed without masks. Finally the ambush dots were added by hand brush (again very thinned paint so they'd flatten out).

The pin washes and streaking are oil paints. The final dirt and dust coating is an AK pigment (some applied with fixer, other spots not) after a dull coat. To get the decals something to grab on to I used Future in those areas.

That covers everything used, though not in the exact order it was all laid out in. Hope that helps.
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Posted: Monday, May 05, 2014 - 07:40 PM UTC
Incredible package of stealth…this looks classic.
AFVFan
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Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 - 06:34 AM UTC
Thanks Rick.

Now, as per Paul's request a few larger images (these are actually a bit closer to the true color):





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Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 - 08:11 AM UTC
Nice job Bob looks great
That was of the 1st kits that I build when I got back into the hobby
tankglasgow
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Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 - 09:07 AM UTC
Aye that's better now I can see all the dirt properly, nice to see the return of the paint brush on the camo dots. I haven't done anything German for ages, got me thinking.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 - 10:58 AM UTC
real nice job on that ambush camo scheme
AFVFan
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Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 - 01:03 PM UTC
Sal - Thanks Sal. This is a great kit to cut your teeth on. I built it for the first time many years ago, when I first got into the hobby.

Paul - Yeah, the first set of pics can be chalked up to a failed experiment. I normally resize my pics to 800 pixels on the long side (as done with the new ones). The originals were sized to 600 pixels and came out a bit smaller than I wanted.

Anthony - Thanks friend. Glad you like it.
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