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| Subject: | [Chapter] Initial Painting, Track Assembly and Disaster |  |
| Date: | Feb 2, 2008 |
| From: | Bruce Probst | |
Initial Painting, Track Assembly and Disaster
With this all done it's now time to begin painting in earnest. The scheme I have chosen is dunkelgrau ("panzer grey") overall with camouflage patches of "desert sand" over the hull. In this case I am using Lifecolor UA207 Dunkelgrau. In the past I have used Humbrol Acrylic #67 "tank grey" which I find to be perfectly satisfactory, but I want to try the Lifecolor paints and see how well they brush on. The sand colour will be UA202 Sandgrau.
At first the Lifecolor seemed a little "streaky", but I quickly worked out that it's because I initially added a little too much thinner. Using a brush it almost needs no thinning at all. Unlike the Tamiya acrylics it's almost odourless and flows very well. It dries *fast* ... although perhaps too fast. I'll get hold of some acrylic retarder for use with this, I think. I think I'll like using these paints a *lot*.
Except ... d'oh!! The very convenient "panzer colour packs" that feature these paints don't include anything to vary the base colours ... I need to get some generic colours (white, black) in LifeColor as well. (I know that LifeColor and Tamiya paints can't be mixed, and I don't have a flat white -- or even a gloss white -- in any other acrylic medium to even experiment with. Oh well, it's these small stumbling steps that will lead me to being eventually prepared for anything, right? Right??)
However, what I *can* do in the meantime is use the Tamiya XF-63 "German Grey", mixed with XF-2 "Flat White" as needed, to go *over* the Lifecolor base coat. The Tamiya grey is not as dark as the Lifecolor to begin with, and doesn't need much lightening to provide a nice contrasting shade.
The tracks and some other miscellaneous details (tools, etc.) are painted Tamiya X-10 "Gun Metal" and initially shaded with some XF-1 "Flat Black" and then some Gunze H344 "Rust". More work will be done on these later as part of overall weathering. Some Humbrol #11 "Silver" brings out the lamp lenses. The rubber tyres on the road wheels and return rollers are painted black. (Turns out that attaching the wheels first doesn't make painting them unusually difficult after all.)
The gun and gunshield are attached. The gun fitting is very tight and doesn't require cement; as a consequence the gun is "workable".
Attaching the tracks turns out to be an unexpected nightmare. They are "rubber band" type, of course, but I wasn't expecting any particular difficulties with these. The previous two kits I assembled were exactly the same and gave me no special trouble. Alas not so here. The fit was very tight; so tight that I ended up having to separate the upper and lower hulls to get them on. (Yet another reason to leave the hull assembly until last.) Fortunately the glue bond was weak enough to allow me to make the separation with no damage of note; I *hope* that when I rejoin them it won't be too obvious. Of course my troubles didn't stop there; the port-side track broke in two places while I was trying to gently stretch them to get an easier fit. Replacement tracks are not an option (no after-market stuff in this scale, of course, and I'm not going to buy another whole kit just for one track), so I superglued the track onto the wheels, trying to locate the breaks where they'll be not *too* obvious (I hope, again). Sigh. Oh well, it was never going to be submitted into any competition any way. (And of course all this futzing around with the tracks caused most of the paint to flake off them! The final paint job is going to have to cover up a multitude of sins ....) |
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 | [BLOG] Panzer Jaeger I - Bruce Probst - Dec 17, 2007 |
| . . . [Chapter] Lower Hull and Interior - Bruce Probst - Dec 17, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Lower Hull and Interior [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Dec 17, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Lower Hull and Interior [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Dec 17, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Painted interior [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Dec 17, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Painted interior [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Dec 17, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Painted interior [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Dec 17, 2007 |
| . . . Re: [BLOG] Panzer Jaeger I - Darryl - Dec 17, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: [BLOG] Panzer Jaeger I - Bruce Probst - Dec 18, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [BLOG] Panzer Jaeger I - Darryl - Dec 23, 2007 |
| . . . Excellent! A small scale blog! - Saul Garcia - Dec 24, 2007 |
| . . . [Chapter] Upper Hull - Bruce Probst - Jan 1, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Upper Hull - view #2 [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Jan 1, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Upper Hull - view #3 [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Jan 1, 2008 |
| . . . [Chapter] The Gun - Bruce Probst - Jan 1, 2008 |
| . . . . . . The Gun - photo #2 [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Jan 1, 2008 |
| . . . . . . The Gun - photo #3 [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Jan 1, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: The Gun - photo #3 - charles ortegon - Feb 16, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: The Gun - photo #3 - Bruce Probst - Feb 17, 2008 |
| . . . [Chapter] Assembled Hull - Bruce Probst - Jan 6, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Assembled Hull - Port side [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Jan 6, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Assembled Hull - Starboard side [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Jan 6, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Assembled Hull - Rear view [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Jan 6, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Detailing the Upper Hull - Bruce Probst - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . [Chapter] The Rear Deck Rack - Bruce Probst - Jan 19, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] The Rear Deck Rack [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Jan 20, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] The Rear Deck Rack [IMG] - Bruce Probst - Jan 20, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] The Rear Deck Rack - Darryl - Jan 30, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] The Rear Deck Rack - Bruce Probst - Jan 30, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] The Rear Deck Rack - Darryl Palmer - Feb 11, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] The Rear Deck Rack - Bruce Probst - Feb 12, 2008 |
| . . . [Chapter] Initial Painting, Track Assembly and Disaster - Bruce Probst - Feb 2, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Initial Painting, Track Assembly and Disaster - charles ortegon - Feb 8, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: [Chapter] Initial Painting, Track Assembly and Disaster - Bruce Probst - Feb 8, 2008 |
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