What happened at your workbench today?
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No the dry brushing will need to come later, all that blue detail will be a long slow delicate steady handed paint job. Still you at the moment do have some time on your hands. Domestic duties allowing of course!
Looks great so far Henri, really looking forward to seeing it finished in that lovely colour scheme. I've been struggling with the issue of paint coverage on corners too. I wondered if it might be something to do with the surface finish of the painted area? If it was too smooth and the paint can't adhere. The other thing I tried was slightly warming the piece being painted before I sprayed it to force the paint to dry quicker when it contacts the surface. At the time I just left the part on top of the radiator for a while. It worked ok, but I was only working in oo so I was dealing with much smaller parts.
Yes, first the blueish grey needs to be applied, then I can start the weathering. I can't wait to start to make those planks a little bit 'sun damaged' and 'smoke greyed'.
Heating up the piece before applying paint is smart, although the conditions were perfect last night: 20+ degrees. The white is spraycan (actually, a white primer) so it is very thin. There are three layers applied in the picture, with an in between time of about 10 minutes.
Heating up the piece before applying paint is smart, although the conditions were perfect last night: 20+ degrees. The white is spraycan (actually, a white primer) so it is very thin. There are three layers applied in the picture, with an in between time of about 10 minutes.
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Looks like you're running out of bog roll David, there's a chap in Australia..........
Bad news and catastrophe have always been used to divert attention from disturbing and unethical events. Some worrying advances have been achieved here on the edge of nowhere over the last couple of days. Like him or loathe him Michael Portillo pops up with increasing frequency on our screens. Now you can have your own effigy as successful cloning has produced a number of duplicates. I am beginning to realise just how much my eyesight is deteriorating and my modelling skills declining - excuse the quality, but you'll get the jist.
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My take on a water tower. Like all my models something to be glanced at, not inspected. The bricks were stolen from one of the kids toys and the "cement" floor grout. The fire devil is two gas tin lids stuck together. Just need a bi of heat shrink to make the water sock thing
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Well as I started to work in the OcRe Tram I got totally fed up with fighting to find the right Swiss file amongst a load of bent and shaped ones that kept getting in the way. The solution was some more compartmentaliastion of the tool draw. Thus the two new bits of wood stuck and nailed in place today has resulted in a happy Dunny.
That meant time to mess up the workbench again.
That meant time to mess up the workbench again.
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By the time you have done some weathering it will look fine, try out your dry brush tech with the metal work.
Something that will make you all laugh.... it made me cry... I have made my first scratch built truck - well it's a people work van - built on the chassis of a Nequida oil tanker. Painstakingly made all the parts on my CNC router, glued and painted it. It has 2 Moving buggies each with 1 axle. So I added a centre set of wheels intending to drive these with motor and gearbox. Took it out to the track for a test push... First time that have the concept of wheels going round R1 curves! It jammed at first curve and I discovered that the centre wheels had to move side to side 15mm! Not possible with the motor fixed inside the carriage... Back to the drawing board...
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