GazzaS
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1 hour ago, DocRob said:
Wow, your interior work looks really good. Love the colours and attention to detail. At least the Panzer III has some decent openings in the turret to peak in.
Cheers Rob
Thanks. Rob!
A few years ago I built this Dragon PZIII G Orange Box kit. Except for the gun breech, there was no interior. So, I filled the open hatches with crew members.
You wonder what they're looking at?
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Earlier today I wondered if I actually had a build thread on this kit... forgetful old me....
So, what I have been up to:
I'm not an interior guy. I figure if you can't see it, why build it if not structurally significant. But on this occasion, because this kit is so nice and an expensive gift, I'd go all out.
Contrary to being all cream white and rotbrun inside, you can find a fair bit of gray inside most panzers. Oh... BTW I have weathered the suspension with a pin wash and some streaking though I imagine these areas will become dominated by dust and the Schurzen.
I have a bad habit of being miserly when mixing colors... so when I needed some touch up paint... I failed to that the correct mix on hand.
Despite the rest of the interior, there are significant things missing... like the Coaxial MG receiver and mounting system. I've painted all of the parts that will be polished by track wear a light metal color.
I had a lot of trouble trying to discover the color of the shell catching bag. The only one I could get a good look at online was the one on Tiger 131 in the UK. To me it looked like rubberized canvas, so I tried to emulate the look here.
The cupola interior needed cushions between the vision blacks. I made them with sprue filed, cut, and sanded to shape... then painted hoping to resemble black leather. The vision blocks were cast in solid gray plastic, so I painted them with a white metal paint, then stained them with a very thin mix of Tamiya clear green and levelling thinner. Unintentionally, the levelling thinner attacked the metal color and gave the blocks an imperfect look... but, I think it worked because armor vision blocks always look like crap. Then I coated them with Future.
Now... with the oils drying, I'm not sure what to attack next.
Thanks for looking!
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Love the paint modulation, and the ordinance looks nicely detailed.
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Rob,
Tamiya gloss white mixed with Mr Color Levelling thinner is my go-to primer. That being said... Any place I'm going to use masks, I hit with a little sandpaper for that extra bite.
Keep up the good work.
Gaz
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Floats look great, Rob!
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Looks good, Martin. Might wanna work on that seam in the muzzle. though.
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Although I'm certainly over all of the troubles... I certainly don't want anyone in my family catching it. My wife, daughter, and now grand daughter are not paragons of healthy vitality. Even at 54 and overweight, I'm the healthiest of our little clan.
I'm not bothered by masks or confinement. I'll take having a family any day.
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That's awesome! My bench is on casters, but it's becoming more and more crowded. I think I should make a second roll-away like yours for more stuff. And I've been thinking about something like this to hand on one end:
.... for holding sprues. I'm now building a Dragon kit and it has a few... ahem... sprues.
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The engine looks great, Rob!
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That's a great story, Jeff. I'm glad to see it. I've have benefited from the generosity of the modelling community and endeavoured to pay it forward, myself.
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That paint job looks sweet!
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Nice detail work, Rob. Your springs look good.
Gaz
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Good luck, Harv!
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That intake masking is da-bomb!
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I grew up with baseball and have watched a bit of cricket her in Aus. Here is my unsolicited opinion:
Pro baseball... sux...takes too long, too much BS.
Kids and teens baseball... Fantastic!
Test Cricket: Can really suck if the batsman is playing defensively. I don't have three whole days to waste on one thing.
20/20.... great fun!
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I thought it was a mechanical pencil! I'd love a file that fine!
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I'm tempted by the camel-LVG duellist set. But I can't afford to blow $400 right now. I know I could try to get some money back for the Camel... I just have no desire to try double-rigging.
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5 hours ago, ScottsGT said:
Umbrellas provide soft lighting. Direct flash creates hard lighting. Best way to explained this is go out side on a sunny day. Look at your shadow. See the hard outline? Hard lighting.
Go out on a cloudy day. Notice how it’s hard to define the shadow and see an edge? Soft lighting.
Now I won’t go into main, fill, background and hair lighting. Or color temp.....
I was in Vegas one time and two couples asked me to take their pic with their cell phone camera. I took the photo they wanted, then I had them step over about 15’ to a shadow area with a huge white wall (but out of the frame) next to them. Positioned them just right and took the pic. They were blown away and asked me if I was a pro. Nope, just a hobbyist that has made a few bucks off of it.
Great info! I might be able to work something out!
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11 hours ago, DocRob said:
If your camera has spot metering and an AE lock, you can experiment with metering the correct light balance of the parts of the picture, which should be pronounced.
If that fails, you have to do something about the lightning, because mostly, the difference between light and dark parts of the setting is too harsh then.
If all this doesn't work out, you may be able to make a good pic of the foreground, a good pic of the background and melt them in a photo software.Cheers Rob
Thank you for the sggestions. I'm a camera dummy. I've always used the auto settings. And I haven;t had much experience with good photo editing software.
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That's some nice work, Martin! I'm impressed that you even painted it red. I've never done much suspension work. Was proud of myself the day I replaced the rear shocks on my 1981 Caprice.
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Maybe I didn;t really know what I wanted. Here is my issue:
Outdoor lighting is too bright or too dark 99% of the day. Flash is always too bright. My bench lights are too bright as well.
Plus! Plus... I'm on a new background thing. I can use images from the internet on my large screen TV for backgrounds instead of printing images and wasting paper.
Here are two attempts from today:
With flash:
Without Flash:
So...maybe I need a solution for lighting behind me?
Gaz
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Thank you!
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Hi everyone,
YOu remember when you had professional photos whether it was school photos or privately... behind the cameraman was a thing that added more light? It looked like a big umbrella.... sort of.
Anyone know?
Gaz
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Wow! That looks great!
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Dragon Pz IIIM Neo Kursk
in LSM 1/35 and Larger Work In Progress
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Thanks mate! I have a few Marder's to build, and the one I have built so far, was a Dragon Marder III H. Great kit... Lots of PE...but not overly exciting when it came to painting.
Thank you! ...for both.