Zenrat's Flying Circus

[Old Wombat]

Thanks Chris.

Womby - that is Vallejo 71401 UK BSC 28 Silver Grey Matt.   It's one of the recommended colours in some variations of the Caunter scheme.
It's one of those colours which changes a lot depending on the light.  Under my bench lighting it looks green.  It's an ugly colour but i think it suits the MiG.

I have the SMS colour, which I haven't used, yet, & was wondering because it looks like it might be a fairly close match.

[zenrat]

Thanks Chris.

Womby - that is Vallejo 71401 UK BSC 28 Silver Grey Matt.   It's one of the recommended colours in some variations of the Caunter scheme.
It's one of those colours which changes a lot depending on the light.  Under my bench lighting it looks green.  It's an ugly colour but i think it suits the MiG.

I have the SMS colour, which I haven't used, yet, & was wondering because it looks like it might be a fairly close match.

Oh i'm not saying it's not an accurate colour.  It's just not what i was expecting under the name "silver grey".

[Old Wombat]

I was saying a match for the Vallejo. No clue about the real colour & no real care, either.

However, it looked like an oddly ugly colour, given its name, but I wasn't sure because, as we all know, sometimes paints don't look the same or even similar when they dry.

Your MiG 23 has proven to me that it is NOT a colour I want to use in any sizable blocks but should be suitable for use in various camouflage schemes.

[zenrat]

It's so ugly it's the sort of colour you'd expect to see 70's japanese cars painted in.
It's perfect for the MiG 23 given it's not an aircraft i particularly like the look of.  I was going to add some contrasting camo on the topside but as that might improve things I'm not going to.  I'm sticking with ugly for this one.

[Old Wombat]

 

[zenrat]

I've put some transfers on the MiG 23.  I've kept it plain (so as not to risk prettying it up) with grey Low Viz PDRV roundels and grey bort numbers.  Back story will be it is a test scheme undergoing inservice trials.
Its still ugly.

Me 410 & BV 213 have now been satin cleared over the transfers and await the fiddly bits.

Red Rattler (ex Goatsucker) body is ready for masking so I can satin clear the woodwork and roof.

I've started a '57 Chevy Gasser/Street Freak to be christened Brainstorm (I've been listening to Hawkwind while I work).  Power will be a supercharged 421 ci Super Duty Pontiac V8 (Revell Parts Pack) driving through a B&M Hydro Stick transmission.  I've dug out some Micky Thompson cheater slicks and a Parts Box resin straight axle.

And because having finished Milhouse there is a place for weird and ugly on the bench I have started one of these.

I read somewhere that a few were fitted with Soviet T-28 turrets and I just happened to have put an example (ex Hobby Boss BA-3) in the box.

[PR19_Kit]

What the HELL is that? 

It's not much like a BA-3 (I had to read it up on Wiki...) as it's got too many wheels, and the body is nowhere near the same shape.

[zenrat]

Steyr ADGZ heavy armoured car.
Looks just as weird and ugly coming as going...

[PR19_Kit]

How can you tell which IS the front or the back? 

[zenrat]

Front has the cooling louvres (open in the picture).  But it can be driven from either end.

[NARSES2]

But it can be driven from either end.

As could most armoured cars of the period and a fair few had a driver permanently stationed at both positions as well. I've always had a soft spot for between the Wars Austrian kit for some reason ?

[zenrat]

Steyr ADGZ (M35 Mittlere Panzerwagen) with Soviet T-26 turret (45mm anti tank gun).
Hobby Boss, Hobby Boss, and Panzer Art barrel.
As it stands, this is currently a RW build...

Steyr ADGZ WIP 24-06-2022 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[ericr]

How can you tell which IS the front or the back? 

makes me think of the "bicéphale" 2cv

[Rheged]

Then of course there was the two headed/ double engined Mini Moke.  I understand that originally it had two gear levers, and if the driver got it wrong it tried to set off in diametrically opposed directions..............and ended up going nowhere (and possibly producing a smell of burning clutch-plate)

[scooter]

Then there's the 1909 Studebaker Electric car

(More here, or if the image link doesn't work)

1953 Chevy Bel Air, with an appropriate tag of "YBLEGAL"