Progress has progressed, but slowly, & I'm currently stalled waiting for a spare moment to prime most of the sub-assemblies I've built, & various loose parts, & colour some bits before I can continue construction.

I may take some photo's, if I get time, if it's not long enough to do the painting.

 

Tease   

Frustrated is more like it!  

I have been working on this, just not in any significant amount (RWS getting in the way) or to any great effect (indecision & AMS slowing me down).

Take your time mate. Pointless rushing things 

First actual images of the build:











My apologies for that last photo, it seems the camera thought the instructions & paint brushes in the background were more important than the foreground object.


The green paint is SMS Premium "Dark Green G4 - British WWII AFV". It's covering the undersides of the tank, the gap between the armour over the suspension units & the track guards, & the undersides of the track guards - I've also used it inside any open spaces, like air-filter boxes, etc., with what was left in the airbrush going down as a bit of pre-shading.


I'll be moving on to the return rollers & indy-link tracks (non-functional) next, while I further contemplate how I'm going to paint the camouflage.


Thanks for looking!

Looking good    Always liked these inter-war years AFV's

Quote from: Old Wombat on June 23, 2024, 12:48:43 AMMy apologies for that last photo, it seems the camera thought the instructions & paint brushes in the background were more important than the foreground object.

Both my camera and phone do that, but in their case they are simply trying to distract the viewers eye from the odd bodge or two    Early form of AI ? 

Quote from: Old Wombat on June 23, 2024, 12:48:43 AMMy apologies for that last photo, it seems the camera thought the instructions & paint brushes in the background were more important than the foreground object.

Taken with a phone or a tablet? Then if you notice it doing this, just tap on the screen where you want it to focus.

Quote from: Jakko on June 23, 2024, 02:34:54 AM

Quote from: Old Wombat on June 23, 2024, 12:48:43 AMMy apologies for that last photo, it seems the camera thought the instructions & paint brushes in the background were more important than the foreground object.

Taken with a phone or a tablet? Then if you notice it doing this, just tap on the screen where you want it to focus.

With a camera (Nikon Coolpix P510).

It usually shows boxes over where it's focussing & I usually adjust where I'm pointing to get the focus on the right area, but it looks like I forgot to do that this time.

It's a great model for shading ..lots of sharp angles 👌
It's looking great so far mate 👍 

My camera likes to have a mind of its own now and then ..sometimes in auto mode it will select portrait mode and when ya take a pic it'll say blink detected 😆
It's funny as I know I didn't blink and it's a model I'm taking a pic of and they don't blink... ever 🤪 🙃

Quote from: Old Wombat on June 23, 2024, 12:48:43 AM....... while I further contemplate how I'm going to paint the camouflage.

Guy if you are still going for something like this Mk1 I did

Then freehand is the go. Getting the black lines as uniform as possible was arguably the tricky bit, but considering it was hand painted anyway, a bit wobbly is fine.

Quote from: buzzbomb on June 23, 2024, 11:09:26 PMGetting the black lines as uniform as possible was arguably the tricky bit, but considering it was hand painted anyway, a bit wobbly is fine.

Of course, on a full-size tank it's much easier to get those lines a pretty much constant width: just use the full width of the brush. On a model this is a little tricker. Some people use marker pens for it, but if you ask me, that's going to be difficult to do in recessed details and around the edges of raised bits, but if you then touch that up with paint it will probably look different.

Thanks, guys!  


That's one of the pattern types I'm pondering, BT, but there are more "wavy", more "blobby" & more "splintery" options floating around.  


Return rollers are built (but need painting) & I'm working on the tracks slowly & carefully.

There are only two pieces per track but one of those pieces is small, & I've been a bit bumble-fingered lately, & the vinyl monster is playing games with me!

A week ago (+/-) I actually watched the foot-plate piece (from under the rear door, 11mm x 8mm) fall from my fingers onto the floor & under a box ... Cool! ... I pick up the box ... Nothing there, not even a dead bug! Search the rest of the floor ... Nothing!

Three days later, after I've scratch-built a replacement. I see it sitting in the middle of the floor on the other side of the room, nowhere near the box & I'd searched the floor again for another scratch-built part that I had dropped the following day (I found part of that ON the damned workbench but the other bits have gone completely AWOL).

   


Anyway, "careful" is The Word, right now.

Quote from: Wardukw on June 23, 2024, 11:52:20 AMMy camera likes to have a mind of its own now and then ..sometimes in auto mode it will select portrait mode  😆

And did the magistrate believe you ? 

Quote from: NARSES2 on June 24, 2024, 05:41:24 AM

Quote from: Wardukw on June 23, 2024, 11:52:20 AMMy camera likes to have a mind of its own now and then ..sometimes in auto mode it will select portrait mode  😆

And did the magistrate believe you ? 

Yep..I had photo evidence