Cheers Dave , the reason behind it was to make the barrel look shorter as the Germans new that long barrelled Sherman’s were a threat to German tanks and started to specifically target them
Weather it worked or not is another story lol
Cheers John, if I had more room on the base I was going to put another sign up saying ‘ could all patrons please refrain form climbing on the exhibits ‘ :smiling3:
Cheers bob , I find that a cap full of X20a into tamiya paint makes it the best I’ve every brushed with at this rate I’ll be selling my AB and going back 100% brush painted
This is an old kit but a great one so I painted it old school completely brush painted , with home made washes and dry brushing for the raised detail
I’ve set it up as a museum piece
Cheers Ian , it’s the first time of done wet blending on something this big I have done it on a few figures with mixed results , I think practice is needed
This is done and I think the base looks better than the model lol
I’m quite pleased with the wet blending on the word war it came out quite well
Anyway here it is
Sure you could this is just washes and dry brushing , the mottling effect is just a wash over the base colour then a dry brush of desert tan to create some stripes , I based this one on the colour of the puppet they made for the movie but you could use darker browns so it looked like it did on...
Steve the kit largely goes together well for a half and half figure kit it’s just the head that is the biggest problem , I had tape and clamps on it to get it together and it didn’t work and the opaque cover was really difficult to line up , if I had sat and thought about it more i could have...
Cheers Steve , the top of the head was opaque but it was part of the head , it was a difficult piece to get on so it looked like it was part of the head so I painted it to look a bit more natural but that in itself didn’t really work but it was the best I could do
The head was a nightmare to...
Halcyon 1/9 scale Alien 3
This is the dog or bull Alien depending on which movie you prefer designed by H R Giger the serialist artist
Brush painted in humbrol and revell Acrylic
Not a bad kit apart from the head I really struggled with that as you can see