|
|
Post by Dukemaddog on Apr 6, 2018 12:07:32 GMT -6
I love to storm watch. Too bad I don't have any storms to watch here.
Nico work on the tracks. Well done!
|
|
|
|
Post by BUCKY on Apr 6, 2018 12:14:43 GMT -6
Nothing quite like sitting up on a cliff in your car watching a storm roll in from the Pacific with the clouds, wind, rain and massive surf!!! Loved doing that at Shell Beach in central California back in the early eighties!!! Sitting there with my favorite girl was the best... Joe, back in the late seventies, I sold a 1972 Dodge Demon to a young lad. Soon, thereafter, he took his girlfriend a courtin' one Saturday night up on a bluff in Nashville. It seems he got a bit too close too the edge. They got out of the car to sit on the ground, and a few minutes later, the bluff gave way, and there went the Demon, over the edge!!!! It made me sick, as there was absolutely NOTHING wrong with that car when I sold it to him!! |
|
|
|
Post by Dukemaddog on Apr 6, 2018 12:24:00 GMT -6
My brother had a similar situation with a Gran Torino he sold. He sold it to a guy as is. Three weeks later the guy went to a store, parking the car in a distant part of a parking lot to keep anyone from parking near him and damaging the finish. The guy went inside, got what he wanted and then came out. He started the car, then remembered he needed something else. He left the car running and went back to the store. On his way out, the car suddenly exploded, sending engine parts high into the sky. The guy wasn't hurt; nor was there anyone else in the vicinity so fortunately nothing bad happened, except the loss of the car.
The car was fine when my brother sold it. There was nothing wrong with it so I have no idea why that car went up.
|
|
|
|
Post by JCON on Apr 6, 2018 12:36:02 GMT -6
I sold a very nice well maintained Honda 350 to my boss when I was in my early 20's... his son went racing it and blew one of the pistons right through the head!!! A week after he bought it from me... needless to say he blamed me for getting rid of it when I supposedly knew it had issues... NOT!!! I took him the complete record of maintenance and the last bill I had for the diagnostics I had run right before I sold it... he shut up quick...  |
|
|
|
Post by Beekster on Apr 12, 2018 10:38:09 GMT -6
First base coat is on the ARV; straight Model Master RLM 81 Braunviolett. Yes, it is much too dark and too green but will do nicely for shadowed areas. And there are a LOT of those on this model. So many in fact that I will have to do a second round with this color on some areas because the primer can still be seen. That will happen early next week, after this coat has cured over the weekend. The track runs have been base coated with Model Master Track Brown  I've avoided getting much of the color on the resin plank stacks on the sponsons. Since those are wood, I will try to paint them in colors that mimic the big stack of planks, with a chip coat of the final tank color over the top. Yeah, I probably could have made the racks myself using the resin as a pattern and used real wood like I did with the big stack, but at the time I thought I had enough scratch work on my hands already. |
|
|
|
Post by BUCKY on Apr 12, 2018 10:47:30 GMT -6
It's coming along nicely, chief!!
|
|
|
|
Post by Dukemaddog on Apr 12, 2018 13:49:17 GMT -6
Most impressive, I'm looking forward to seeing this with the lighter color on it.
|
|
|
|
Post by JCON on Apr 13, 2018 8:10:14 GMT -6
Nice base coat...
|
|
|
|
Post by ARMORGUY on Apr 13, 2018 8:58:40 GMT -6
Beeksterman that looks good !
|
|
|
|
Post by Beekster on Jun 3, 2019 14:54:15 GMT -6
If you were thinking I had forgotten about this one, you wouldn't be far wrong. Truth is, I ran out of steam creatively on this one. I got a base color on the resin timber blocks on the sponsons, and set the thing aside since I wasn't happy with how they looked. After a considerable period of time I tweaked them by drybrushing another shade to bring out the wood look a bit more. Better, but they still didn't measure up to the wooden planks. I left them alone for months, and took the model back to the bench from time to time to start painting details like road wheel tires and the like. With the D-Day anniversary approaching this week I've started toying with this again.     With some OD sponged on the planks & blocks to represent worn paint, I like the looks of those areas much better. I may yet do more with a different shade of OD. I also sponged the top surfaces of the tank since the OD shade is different from the base color, just to get some variation in the finish. It ought to blend nicely once the model has a solid coat of flat lacquer on it. You can see the rather sloppily painted vehicle number on the rear stowage bin. These weren't stenciled on, and mine isn't either. The number is plausible for an A Squadron tank retriever. The South Alberta Regiment assigned their ARVs to the three fighting squadrons, one each, rather than holding them at regimental headquarters. By the time many of you read this, I will have sprayed Glosscote in select areas in preparation for decals. The model will get the usual AoS, formation, and squadron symbols along with a serial number.  The tracks have been drybrushed with steel to highlight the wear surfaces; that ancient technique still has its uses. I've started coloring & painting the tow cables, too. The black ship rigging thread is colored with a silver Sharpie, and the ends are painted black. The wire rope sections of the ends will get drybrushed with steel, and when all the cables are installed a watercolor pin-wash in black will both unify the colors and stiffen the cables so that they stay where I put them. Not shown are the brass tow shackles which will hold the cables in place, but they are getting painted, too. |
|
|
|
Post by JCON on Jun 3, 2019 16:25:02 GMT -6
Glad you're back on it!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by JED on Jun 4, 2019 7:35:20 GMT -6
At least having a day off and not able to get modelling I can catch up, this is great Beekster and surely on its way to a winner in a MOM
|
|
|
|
Post by ogrejohn on Jun 4, 2019 15:54:57 GMT -6
Woodwork and tracks looking great!
|
|
|
|
Post by BUCKY on Jun 4, 2019 17:21:19 GMT -6
I like what I see!!
|
|
|
|
Post by Dukemaddog on Jun 5, 2019 18:30:21 GMT -6
Impressive Beekster! Glad to see this moving again. You got this man!
|
|
|
|
Post by Beekster on Jun 6, 2019 8:45:20 GMT -6
Impressive Beekster! Glad to see this moving again. You got this man! I'm not so sure. The left jib boom broke off again yesterday, though I did get it back on. A fender mount broke off the right rear, and I noticed that one of the brackets for the jib boom on the right side had broken before primer & paint and had never gotten fixed! And the skate rail for the vise at the front had come loose too and had to be glued back down. All those items have been repaired now, and another coat of paint brushed on as touch-up will get them squared away. But I noticed something else that mortified me: I never drilled the four holes in the front of the bogie frames! Now, that is simply standard procedure for a VVSS Sherman build. So if I didn't do it, what did I have in mind? I don't really remember, but the logical choice would be a light layer of mud & dirt on the lower hull and suspension. That can be accomplished with acrylic texture gels, colored with pigments and stippled on. Follow up with a light overall airbrush with a similar shade, and the usual watercolor washes. OK, I've got a direction now. The tracks will get the airbrushing and washes, but not the encrusted dirt; it doesn't take much running on hard surfaces (or even gravel) for the tracks to shed most of their embedded mud. All this will eventually happen; today it gets a splash of Glosscote one the transmission cover in preparation for decals. A check of dimensions for those means they have to sit higher than planned, so I need to spot-gloss a couple of new areas. Getting this one across the line will be real work; all that stuff festooned on the sides is terribly fragile and I have to be extremely careful about where I pick up the model to handle it while working on it. At least the tracks are on now, and will probably stay. They too have a tendency to separate, but when that happens I put them back together with a tiny bit of white glue to help hold them in place while retaining a bit of flexibility. The watercolor washes yet to come have white glue as a binder, so as that soaks into the track runs and dries it will tend to glue them together more securely. Eventually... |
|
|
|
Post by JCON on Jun 6, 2019 9:41:10 GMT -6
Lots of modeling setbacks and recoveries!!! Keep going forward, you will beat it into submission yet fella!!!  |
|
|
|
Post by Beekster on Jun 6, 2019 14:39:34 GMT -6
Minor progress and mulling things over. The tracks are on, and that tow cable around the turret ring is on there to stay as well, secured by a beefy shackle to the lug which secures the A-frame support cable when that is erected. It's not quite the official stowage method, but close. The cable itself is sized to fit, more or less. It could be longer so that the loops would be further out toward the perimeter of the turret ring plate, but I'm not going to alter it now. One of the real cables was a hundred feet long; this one scales somewhat shorter.    The camo net and rolled tarp are where the stowage diagram says they ought to be, and I will probably glue these down in the locations seen here. The rest is just mock-up for stuff that might or might not be added. All this comes from a stash of stowage items, some painted for possible use on other projects and some yet unpainted. For stuff at the back, if I do anything I probably ought to make a base layer tarp out of epoxy putty and press items into it as it dries. This would cover up some of the pioneer tools, so I'm undecided on that. Plus, as fragile as this thing is any work more involved than just tacking something down risks more damage. I may just toss some chain back there, and a snatch block or two if I can rob them from somewhere. I wish someone made an accessory set of recovery gear like that. |
|
|
|
Post by JCON on Jun 6, 2019 20:41:22 GMT -6
Wow that looks great!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by BUCKY on Jun 7, 2019 17:55:22 GMT -6
Looks like it would have a busy crew, with all the equipment on there.
|
|
