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Monday 23 April 2012

Newbuild...

and 'look what I've got'. Having decided that I rather enjoyed the Grant armour refurb, I thought I might try my hand at armour newbuild, something that I haven't done for a good while as I tend to go for resin vehicles from the likes of Minimi and Frontline. Also, the weathering part of the refurb spurred me on to buy some:


I have read of these magic powders in aircraft, train and military modelling magazines, but never used them. When I have wanted to add mud and dust I have scraped off dust from artists' pastels and stuck it to vehicles with thinners, as below on a White Army Whippet:


But there are two problems with this method, firstly it is a fiddly nuisance, and, secondly, most of the dust still ends up on one's hands. So, for wargames models I have tended just not to have bothered, as here:

Three Frontline T34s. But, even given they are for games, they still look a bit bare - I certainly don't like the tracks in this view! So, the task is (as 'Mike the Knight' says), build:


and use the Mig pigments.

6 comments:

  1. Let me know how you get on - I have some, but I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to attach them to the vehicle.

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    1. Yes, this is the problem I suspect for vehicles intended for wargames. I can see that the Mig stuff would work well on a display model, but for models taken in and out of boxes, frequently in use... Well, I'll see.

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  2. I have tried to stay away from these for the same reasons as you mentioned with the handling.

    Add some "Logs" to the sides of the T34's for anti ditching purposes. This will break them up a tad.

    Lovely looking Whippet.

    Regards Paul

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    1. I wonder if basing the vehicles would help ? I don't really like based vehicles, but it might be necessary. Thanks for the unditching logs idea - excellent. But now I'm beginning to think of Finnish armour with crude log armour (surely that wouldn't of worked - doesn't there need to be space between?). Anyway, I cannot afford to start another front!

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  3. I have to admit I am a fan of the clean look but do post the results to see how you found them

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    1. I'm torn myself, but often it comes down to the question 'what do I have in the bits box'? Usually nothing useful!

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