Progress last night was some of the really boring stuff.
Half tracks, the metal ones had been primed and so had the half tracks front wheels.
The wheels remained on there Blue Tack™ like little mushrooms, this allowed me to paint the fiddly hubs or rims.
For this I find an old paint brush that has hooked bristle tips actually makes painting the rim much easier, easier than a toilet duck in fact!
Also I painted the track running wheels Dunkelgelb. It took two coats as my paint was very thin.
I had four bottles of DG and held them all and shook them for about ten minutes, opened the tops and found three where empty! What an I diot.
Anyways… must buy more paint today at lunchtime at Toyworld.. the Queenstown shop is pretty poor… didn’t even have model glue but stocked about 300 model kits… at least teh tamya agent keeps thier stand well stocked I noticed.. even large bottles of thinner are available.. the plastic ones that look like miniture jerry cans.
So two coats of paint and there is over brush marks on the tracks. But I will be wet brushing the tracks with rust red/brown and then dry brushing a gunmetal and then a very very light chainmail silber drybrush.
The tyres will get some minor over brush touch ups.. and therest will bea fery light grey drybrush followed by a Tamiya flat earth very light dry brush to the tracks and the tyres and the vehicle wheel bays before glueing them in.
Also I’m looking to some improvosed Shurzen on the half tracks.. subject to historical reserach.
And there is some canvas covers to place on the half tracks too.
