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Modeller Build Logs
Building the Tristar Pz. I Ausf. A (new tool) |
| By Glenn Bartolotti | | Started: | Apr 27, 2007 | | Updated: | May 8, 2008 |
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Following on from their earlier Panzer IA kits (#35003 and #35008 now discontinued) and the recent Panzer I ohne Aufbau (kit#35025) comes this new revised kit of the German Panzer I Ausf.A which can be built as an early 3.series/La.S or later 4.series/La.S vehicle. Also released is a limited edition kit #38028S that has three sprues B, G and I included in clear plastic to show off the full interior and this review will look at both the kits together as the parts are identical apart from the limited clear parts.
The kit consists of 335 parts in light beige plastic with another 192 individual track links and 6 in clear plastic with Sprues A, B, C and D from the earlier Panzer IA kits and revised sprue E and T from the Flakpanzer I (kit #35019), sprue I for the engine parts from the ohne Aufbau (kit #35025) and new sprue J with the hull interior parts and sprue K with new enhanced road wheels as well as a revised sprue G for the later hull parts. |
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| Weathering | May 2, 2008 |
| I use pastels and oil paint to do my final weathering and detail painting. The pastels are $1.00 a stick at the art store and I use a file to grind them into powder. I mix them with odorless turpentine and apply them as a filter were needed but NOT ON THE ENTIRE MODEL. The rust shades are applied wet to the muffler and darker for shovel blades in glazes but some shade I apply more. The light desert shade is mixed with white oil and apply very thin to high-light areas. The raw umber is applied as a controlled wash. I first wet the area I will be working on with clean turp. then with a small brush thin some oil paint and apply around recesses and make streaks etc. with it. I NEVER DRY-BRUSH MY MODELS! When you dry brush it looks ok sitting on a table most of the time looking at it with your eyes but put a camera macro lens on it and it looks like cake frosting coating the parts. I may get some heat from some modelers on my statement but this is my take looking at those who still dry-brush and those who do not. I use to dry-brush and hate the way my older models look. If you can dry-brush so well that it is not seen by a macro lens then you are good! I see no reason to when you can get very nice effects and it is so much easier and takes less time just using your airbrush to darken and lighten your model, then let your washed and high-lights do the rest. |
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