DC Comics 1/72 - The Haunted Tank (M3 Stuart)

[zenrat]

Revell provide a jar of glow in the dark paint with the Ghost Pirate Ship kit.
I was planning to use some on the Prototype GB Victomic (engine intakes and exhaust) but testing showed I would have needed a rather large number of coats to get the radioactive glow I desired.

[Flyer]

There is a small pot of glow paint included in the Airfix Human skeleton kit too, I brought a second hand one at a garage sale a few year's back, taped firmly shut and marked "complete" but it wasn't, but that was hardly surprising, the let down was the paint that i actually brought it because of is a solid mass inside the pot

[Dizzyfugu]

Alternatively, you should be able to get some glow-in-the-dark paint in the rattle can in a local hobby shop. This way it is easy to apply (it is rather a varnish than an opaque paint, just like Revell's stuff) onto a "ghosted" model.

[strobez]

Haven't quite gotten to the glow-in-the-dark paint bit yet... I've done a couple of tests, but haven't seen much in the way of results, so I'm a bit worried, but haven't really focused on it just yet.

In the meantime, I've focused on the ghost figure and added some cotton "mist", both to add a bit of a "ghostly feel" and cover up some of the painting issues.

I'm also trying to figure out how to get "The Haunted Tank" written in white lettering on the side of the tank itself.  Normally I'd just use a homemade decal, but the white is really a problem.  I don't trust my own free hand penmanship... so I'm a bit stuck.







I've also decided that I'm likely to want to expand this project to include both the Jigsaw tank (T-34/M-41) and the Sherman... but I'm not re-doing the ghost each time. So the ghost of JEB Stuart is going to become more of a standalone "modular" component of all three tank builds. That's what the 3 wooden bases are for, but I'm not quite sold on how to fit it all together yet.

[PR19_Kit]

I'm also trying to figure out how to get "The Haunted Tank" written in white lettering on the side of the tank itself.  Normally I'd just use a homemade decal, but the white is really a problem.  I don't trust my own free hand penmanship... so I'm a bit stuck.

How about doing a decal for the entire side of the tank, with the background the same colour as the tank itself. And then print it on white decal paper with the script showing through in white? Matching the colours can be a pain sometimes but it's worked for me now and then.

[Rick Lowe]

I like the cotton 'mist' effect.   

Yeah, The Haunted Tank. I got the collected issues as a present once, and was amazed at how the M3 was so viable, so late in the war - and that the 37mm was so useful for taking out Tigers, aircraft, buildings, all sorts.
Makes you wonder why they ever needed anything bigger... 

[frank2056]

Can you try writing the text with a white ink pen on decal paper and just cut out the best looking text?

If the glow in the dark paint works, try some on the cotton as well.

[Rick Lowe]

Can you try writing the text with a white ink pen on decal paper and just cut out the best looking text?

If the glow in the dark paint works, try some on the cotton as well.

Good ideas, both.

If you can source some of the old Correction papers - sort of a layer of twink on paper, used dry-decal style - you could write it on with that?
I've seen someone use that for chalked-on graffiti on a model and it worked quite well.

[philp]

Another option for your ghost is doing a box dio and having the ghost reflected in.  Shep Paine did this this on a couple of his dios.

http://www.boxdioramas.com/sheperd-paine

[zenrat]

The B-2

Another option for your ghost is doing a box dio and having the ghost reflected in.  Shep Paine did this this on a couple of his dios.

http://www.boxdioramas.com/sheperd-paine

The B-26 Production line - inspirational.

[tigercat]

https://culturehustle.com/products/lit-the-worlds-glowiest-glow-pigment-100-pure-lit-powder-by-stuart-semple?pr_prod_strat=copurchase&pr_rec_pid=564552335388&pr_ref_pid=5465393430686&pr_seq=uniform

Just stumbled across this

[PR19_Kit]

About as glowy as a glowy thing can be!