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.
Further problem… local toyworld has none of the colurs I currently need.
At least the paint traveller will bring more next week.
Of course if you wanted red blue or orange .. you could get those.
But all the WWII colours are gone.. except the japanese ones.
It’s always the way. it can be tricky enough in Dunedin, if anything I’m surprised it’s not worse in Queenstown
I use the cheap superglue.. the 4 pack for 10 dollars stuff.
I use it because it is cheap…. I superglue usually not very often (except at present) and sometimes the tubes go hard before i reuse them.
Apparently it is common knowledge that once a tube is opened it really does not last much longer than a few weeks.
I can vouch for that… however this recent buch of cheapies is keeping it’s potency very well.. although I do only depress a very small in prick hle in the metal seal..
Yeah it’s cheap, but it does a shit job and you waste most of it because it goes hard in the tube. Paying a bit more and getting a decent method of application, will mean better results and not so much wastage. Whatsmore I’d be very surprised if it doesn’t work out cheaper in the long run. It’s one of those times I just don’t think it pays to be cheap (and that from a person who prides himself on being cheap bastard)