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Attention All Small Scale People
woltersk
Utah, United States
Joined: May 27, 2003
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Joined: May 27, 2003
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Posted: Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 10:43 PM UTC
I'll jump on this bandwagon. My gallery has some HO scale, modern German stuff from ROCO. I know, I know, they are not really 'kits' since there is not much to assemble, but airbrushing camo in that scale is still fun!
Posted: Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 10:59 PM UTC
Dave - Nice. I'm building the heller churchill. Picked up while visiting normandy last year. Its been on and off with it.
Ross
Ross
Red4
California, United States
Joined: April 01, 2002
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Posted: Monday, March 29, 2004 - 01:59 PM UTC
Cactus, the Challenger I did was painted entirely with an airbrush. No washes, just a very fine thin spray. I got a couple of more pics of my small scale stuff I'll get posted here for you. Just need to find the disc that they are on. Seems like my 1/72 pile is gaining ground on my 35th scale stuff! "Q"
Red4
California, United States
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Posted: Friday, April 09, 2004 - 03:52 PM UTC
Another one of my small scale pieces. Italeri Merkava with some extensive work on the tracks and roadwheels. The wheels were of the "superswamper variety", that is cast as one wheel and not two. the track had no detail on the inside of them so I added the guide teeth from "T" channel cut on end. I still need to add the weapons and additional stowage. Let me know what you guys think. "Q"
airwarrior
New Jersey, United States
Joined: November 21, 2002
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Joined: November 21, 2002
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Posted: Friday, April 09, 2004 - 04:27 PM UTC
some of my latest braile-scale stuff.... OLE'!
sorry had to do it!
DaveCox
England - South East, United Kingdom
Joined: January 11, 2003
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Joined: January 11, 2003
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Posted: Friday, April 09, 2004 - 07:28 PM UTC
Somua S35 from the Heller kit, straight out of the box.
Cactus911
North Carolina, United States
Joined: October 14, 2002
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Joined: October 14, 2002
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Posted: Saturday, April 10, 2004 - 03:35 AM UTC
Nice feathering of the camouflage on your paintjob, Red. I just ordered a Badger 200 SG; should be here early next week. I'm looking forward to attempting some true control at TinySpace dimensions to get some nice effects like you have there. My Iwata BCS simply does not have enough control with acrylics at low pressure to work right.
Stephen
Stephen
Red4
California, United States
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Posted: Saturday, April 10, 2004 - 03:11 PM UTC
I gave up on acrylics years ago. Couldnt seem to find a happy medium between the air pressure and the paint thickness. I shoot enamels thinned with laquer thinner and can lay down some hair thin lines with my Badger 150. I was thinking of getting into an Iwata Micron, but that is some serious $$$ to invest in an airbrush. I'm currently finishing up an ASU-85 in 72nd scale. I'll throw it up on the page when its done. If you have ever worked with any of the ACE kits, this one makes them actually pleasant to work with. Lots of work and scratchbuiling. "Q"
Red4
California, United States
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Posted: Sunday, April 11, 2004 - 02:52 PM UTC
Well, here it is. An ASU-85 Russian Airborne Assault gun. Mucho Mucho headscratching on this one. The tracks were sscavenged from an ACE BMP2 as the kit tracks were about as useful as popsicle sticks and just about as stiff. Its a nice looking 2 footer. Get any closer though and it gets kinda ugly. Hope you guys like it. "Q"
Red4
California, United States
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Posted: Monday, April 12, 2004 - 02:21 PM UTC
I was going to post somemore pics, but realized I already had, oh well more to follow later. "Q"
Cactus911
North Carolina, United States
Joined: October 14, 2002
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Posted: Friday, April 16, 2004 - 03:29 AM UTC
That's a nice job you did on that assault gun. I am starting to get to the point where if the model has major flaws in it, especially with something like tracks, I am more inclined to ditch it. I only have some much time, and I don't like to waste it working with bad kit parts!
The Badger 200 is a vast improvement on the Iwata BCS. I still had some clogging problems with both MM Acryl and PollyScale straight from the bottle, but I think a drop or two of acryl thinner per batch will do the job. I managed to get both a subtle mottling pattern on a 1:72 wing and the tiny squiggle lines on the other wing! That's what I bought the damn airbrush for in the first place! I'm looking forward to finishing my 1:35 Tamiya PzIIIL with it before tackling some 1:72 armor with it. So much easier to mix up paint that with the bottom feed, too.
Stephen
The Badger 200 is a vast improvement on the Iwata BCS. I still had some clogging problems with both MM Acryl and PollyScale straight from the bottle, but I think a drop or two of acryl thinner per batch will do the job. I managed to get both a subtle mottling pattern on a 1:72 wing and the tiny squiggle lines on the other wing! That's what I bought the damn airbrush for in the first place! I'm looking forward to finishing my 1:35 Tamiya PzIIIL with it before tackling some 1:72 armor with it. So much easier to mix up paint that with the bottom feed, too.
Stephen