Small Scale Military Headquarters

This has been a couple of firsts for me. The first time I've ever used acrylics (Wow! They're so nice to use), the first time I used an airbrush, and the first time I ever used the wet brush technique.

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WOW! Nice job!!! Are you sure you haven't done this before?? What kind of airbrush set up are you using? What ever the set up, your Tiger looks superb.

-Rob

Great job on those Kitties!!!!

Man!< Those are excellent, especially for a first time! (I havent built up the nerve to try yet

Let us know your setup because it sure seems to work!

very nice job! I just bought an airbrush and an old tamiya kit to practice on., hope I can do as good a job as you did when I get around to my first "real" model. What is the wetbrush technique?

Thank you for the kind words. Yeah, it's kinda scary painting a $500 model. I've been practicing painting with XD armor for a while, and I finally got up the nerve to build my dream model, the 1/16 full option Tiger.

Actually these aren't my first model. My first model was the old Tamiya 1/35 Tiger kit. Then I stopped when I did such a horrible job on it. I vowed to not waste money of models I can't build and paint properly.

For the airbrush, I purchased a $5.00 cheap Chinese knock-off airbrush that has flooded E-bay (I used up all my fund on the models). It has a wide stroke, but the models were so big, it didn't matter much.

Wet brush technique is a way of highlighting the recess and cracks on your model. You take a big wide brush, a mix of 90/10 of thinner/paint, then brush the entire model liberally, letting the paint run inside the cracks and recess of the model. Websites like missing-lynx, and aircraft resorce center are great helps for amateur modellers like myself.

Zowee! Beautiful work.

I'm tempted to pay you to paint one for me (as I've gotten older and lazier)!!

Again, top-notch work.

Mike

GooglyDoogly, Nice work. (better than my first try) Is the King Tiger full option? I too have a few Tamiyas. Stop over at Texas Armor Association. http://www.texasarmor.com/Texas_Armor_A ... index.html They are a good group of guys into R/C armor. Their web site opened in August. For grins you can check out some of my work under RC armor/Product reviews and Scratch Builder's corner. We are always looking for more members.

Patrick

Those are sweet looking armor, I especially like that mid-production Tiger I. I would like to do one, but zimmerit application is beyond me at this time.

Sadly, the King Tiger is the static version only. After purchasing the full option Tiger I, I learned my lesson. When I painted and wheathered the tracks, I couldn't make myself run the tank and ruin the paint job.

Those turned out very well. I was surprised to hear it was your first set of tries with the airbrush. Looks like you've got a latent talent that's finally seeing the light of day.

I found the same thing with the RC stuff. I never ran it. I only buy static kits now (and their cheaper that way besides). I keep hoping Tamiya releases a static version of their M26 Pershing. I'm not ready to drop $450 for a shelf warmer I have to assemble and paint. Who knows, maybe bbi will come out with one.