Don’t sit under the apple tree…

with anyone but me….

Hey… I have been a busy little bee (as Nero once said)..

I have spray painted the tigers… the king and the IE… the king was painted too wet and I will need to respray it as much or the exposed edges are still grey.

I also spray painted all the Sherman tanks… that’s 2 command tanks plus a 105mm Sherman and six 75mm Sherman’s.

And I have laid base putty on the rifle platoons that hadn’t been based… still have the Airborne troops to base tonight.

so I have some 18 bases done last night to add to about 32 odd already done.. just need to paint the bases and flock them and they will be done.

The Shermans buy the way look excellent… I think I will stick to a olive drab green finish over all… I was thinking of doing the brown colour??? but I’m not so sure.

Things learnt:
Don’t mix spackle to vigorously or it will become aerated and shrink when drying.

Liquefying medium is terrific as a way of making your paint spray paintable and go further. A very thin coverage of this stuff mixed 50/50 with paint colour over two coats is excellent.

However I always add.. paint retardant (1 drop) and alcohol 5-7 drops to the 5 fl oz cup on the badger.

Always add a little more paint to the dry wall plaster that you think you will need as it whitens down a lot after drying.

King Tiger

Getting the king tiger ready for operation Market Garden.

I have assembled the tank except the mud flaps and side skirts… because I want to be able to spray paint this monster.

Any ways.. as per usual.. some pictures.

Oh.. I had alot of trouble determining how the drivers hatch opens..

The battlefront pages didn’t have any photos of the configuration with hatches open… but I did find a good photo

hatch photo

Operation “Get Cracking!” pt 5

Dear Diary,
this weekend has been a real blast… I set out knowing I was going to succeed.. but the realities of all this painting work has just blown my mind.

Yup the “wonder wash” lived up to it’s reputation.
However I must make a note that if i am to use it again I shall use a tone lighter than the required. Because it can make thinks a little darker than expected.

Anyways… I did a brown was.. followed by a black wash.. which I used Vellajo paint with not Tamiya black. Because it makes that awful watermark thing… but the floor polish does go a long way to remove that problem when mixed 50/50 with the water.

Anyways the final layer was some pink wash on the faces and hands.. over did it on some but most look remarkably better with some flushed tone.

So here is some pics.. any ways..

Here is a shot of the whole lot. This is one full platoon. But i have made two platoon command stands. Which lets me make two 3/4 size platoons or enough command to drop an air mission.