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 Click here for the full 1024x768 image. It's the SdKfz 222 from the Airfix 1:76 Recon Set. Not a particularly detailed kit, but I did the best I could.
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J Bjelke-Postersen posted:howd he paint them tiny letters on there if its so small then smart guy Those are decals. I would certainly not be able to do something that detailed.
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Jun 23, 2010 14:41
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Any advice on how to do faces? Mine mostly look fine, but the eyes don't seem to show up very well, especially if there's a hat casting a shadow on them.
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Jun 24, 2010 01:08
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 Here, I made some army guys (Zvezda Soviet assault squad).
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Oct 22, 2011 21:07
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A light pink also works as desert camouflage (due to the way light reflects off the sand at sunrise), so that's another colour you can try using. Something like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tamiya-British-Panther-Rover-35076/dp/B000LFWEL2
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Nov 13, 2011 01:07
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You could always slap some putty on them and make them look like seaweed.
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Nov 13, 2011 03:56
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Flame effects are really neat. The fire part might use a little more red, maybe.
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Nov 13, 2011 21:25
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I use flat flesh, then wash it with brown, then do highlighting and eyes and stuff with a toothpick. If you get the right concentration of paint to water, it works out pretty well.
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Nov 14, 2011 21:25
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Oh man, another miniatures thread! Seems we have so many. Here's some stuff I painted recently-ish.     
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Dec 8, 2014 18:32
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Yeah, I could never do eyes properly. On small 1:35th figures I usually don't bother to paint them white at all, on larger ones the best I can do is get a slightly cartoony look. serious gaylord posted:I like the snow tank a lot. It was a lot of fun to make! I started a bigger winter diorama after that, but that one is taking forever due to the amount of work it needs with the more complex terrain. Also it's hard to work on since it takes up a significant portion of my table  Megaspam posted:I like these guys. I don't know anything about historicals. What scale are they? These guys are 1:35th. Most of my stuff is, except for a few metal figures (like the guy I posted pointing) in 1:25th and larger plastic ones, like the guy in a poncho (1:16th).
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Dec 8, 2014 19:07
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Just finished this Tamiya armoured car. 
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Dec 11, 2014 02:22
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Yeah, that's Tamiya Desert Yellow. I think it's the auto colour balance on my camera. I tried fiddling with the colour balance to make it look more like it does in real life, but it still didn't look quite right.
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Dec 11, 2014 03:24
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moths posted:I'd been using the Krylon Fusion "Deep Forest Green" spray to prime / paint my Russian armor. It was a pretty great match to stuff like this: That's not really the correct Soviet green colour (7BO), that was more like this.  However, this was the colour applied at the factory (the recipe was the same for every factory). In the field, things were a bit different. If you get paint from the factory on time, that's great, but that was the exception rather than the rule. I have quite a few Soviet tank painting instructions, and one of them offers field-expedient alternatives to getting "good enough" looking paint from brick dust and ground up twigs and stuff like that.
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Dec 14, 2014 19:59
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I've painted over those vinyl tracks before, but I also usually prime the whole model, with few exceptions, such as with the T-26 where you can't really get behind the suspension, but it's still fairly visible and should be painted. As for decals, I usually put them on after washing, but before dry brushing anything.
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Dec 15, 2014 23:56
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Pz 38(t) Second, the 38(t) is baller as hell. Get a Jagdpanzer 38(t) too, those are also cool.
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Dec 18, 2014 14:45
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Yay T-35s, everyone's favourite useless interbellum money sink. How come the one in the back has no antenna? Also, are there no rear facing machineguns in the main turrets in this kit?
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Dec 23, 2014 17:25
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Numlock posted:From what I've read often only the company/battalion command tanks would have the horseshoe antenna, because in the pre-war period they were the only ones with transmitters. I think by the time 1939 rolls around they all had both but they didn't need the huge rear end horseshoe antennas, but I think it looked cool so that's how I modeled them. Only tanks that were supposed to be used in large units (T-26, BT) had radios restricted to platoon commanders and above, tanks that were theoretically subordinate to Stavka and could be used independently all had radios (T-28, T-35). You're correct to assume that late model T-35s didn't have huge antennas, but they still had visible external ones. You can see it in this photo, it's that ball in a cup looking device to the left of the hatch. 
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Dec 23, 2014 22:49
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New addition to my French tank family! 
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Dec 26, 2014 03:11
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NTRabbit posted:I have the ghost tints and they make some pretty fancy effects The only kit of it I've ever seen was the Tamiya one, and it's outrageously expensive.
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Dec 26, 2014 20:33
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Heller also makes a Somua. If I see it, I'll pick it up for sure.
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Dec 27, 2014 05:52
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NTRabbit posted:EE does 1/35 scale hobby kits, rather than wargaming ones. Not sure about anyone else, but when I make hobby kits I like them all to be the same scale because it makes sense when they sit next to each other on the shelf, and 1/35 is the scale of choice for ground vehicles. I also do 1:16th figures, but they're displayed separately. There's also a 1:76th scale SdKfz222 sitting on top of my monitor. I was considering getting a tank company of Zvezda's 1:100th tanks lining the top, but  .
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Dec 27, 2014 22:12
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Very nice snow, I was disappointed when I scrolled down and none of the soldiers had Santa hats. The tank just looks so festive!
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Dec 29, 2014 06:22
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Very nice! That's better facial detain than I can do in 1:35th.
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Jan 12, 2015 06:04
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dr_ether posted:Current WIP I love the handle on that scythe.
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Jan 13, 2015 23:54
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Finished another tank. This one is a 1:35th MiniArt T-70 that came with infantry riders and a ZiS-3 cannon. Here it is with the figures. The three in the back are Zvezda, the others came with the kit. 
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Jan 14, 2015 05:35
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Those are some sweet lightning bolts on that spaceship. How did you paint them?
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Jan 20, 2015 06:19
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I like the guy with the enormous moustache. He looks like he won't take any poo poo from anyone.
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Jan 26, 2015 04:18
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Do a nice thick wash over them, I think it will add a very nice cartoony effect, especially with the skin colour you went with.
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Holy poo poo, that's a lot of guys. Doesn't it get boring painting hundreds of identical soldiers?
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