Another one bites the dust - Maschinen Krieger Friedrich - 1/20

[DocRob]

1 hour ago, Peterpools said:

Right with you and the guys and even at my tender old age, I starting to look, learn and hoping to mix in a wider venue of new subjects and kits over the next few years. I had a ball when I built my HO Scale Railroad Yard Office and just might build another structure this year but in O scale: Bar Mills Jimmy's Small Engine Repair Shop:

That seems to be a nice kit and something different for sure, Peter. I remember the fun you had with your last railroad building project.
One of these days, I have to build something like this too. 
My father had a huge HO train diorama in the cellar of our house. It was about 150 square meters and he was building it forever, but never finished it. I never liked his approach of sparse details and huge amounts of trains and always asked him, if I could high detail only one square meter of it to my standards, but that never materialized.

Cheers Rob

[belugawhaleman]

20 minutes ago, DocRob said:

Thank you Paul, I´m sure the dabbling technique can be used on tractors, etc. The scale shouldn´t be too small, but 1/24 must be perfect.
The MaK kits from Hasegawa and Wave are cheap in Japan, that´s where I ordered most.
The apron, well, I actually never missed it .

Cheers Rob

Thanks I'll have a look on the Plaza Japan site for those kits. I have 2 of

the Miniart 1/24 Bulldogs and I was wondering what to do with them as to

weathering. I was thinking how to do faded paint, rust and chips. Well, experiment anyway.

 

[DocRob]

55 minutes ago, belugawhaleman said:

I have 2 of

the Miniart 1/24 Bulldogs and I was wondering what to do with them as to

weathering.

Sounds to me like a perfect canvas to don one in dabbing and the other in hairspray or multi layer hairspray technique, Paul.

Cheers Rob

[Peterpools]

HI Rob

Now that's awesome, your Dad having a large model railroad and you were hopefully able to enjoy operating it with him. 

Yup, model railroaders seem to fall into a few groups:

Those with loads of track and operation as the primary focus, those who love to detail scenes and structures and those down the middle. When I was a model railroader, I was in the detail camp and just like to watch trains run through scenes. My brother is still a model railroader and operations are his favorite part of the hobby. The Yard Office I built, is in place on his railroad now. When I feel the urge to build Jimmy's Small Motor Repair Shop, it's O scale and will be done as a diorama - but that's down thew road a good way.

 

[DocRob]

On 10/11/2024 at 1:47 PM, Peterpools said:

Now that's awesome, your Dad having a large model railroad and you were hopefully able to enjoy operating it with him. 

Unfortunately, it wasn´t like that. The huge model railroad was kind of refugee for my father and I was only allowed there on rare occasions, but hey, that might inspired me to do better in modelling than him which was easy and in every other aspect as well. Subtext, we had not the easiest of relations .

Cheers Rob

[DocRob]

I didn´t had much time recently and made only small progress, but achieves some small steps.
The deceased pilot got built and painted up. I used a guitar string for the spine, but the head is not fixed into position yet.
I normally don´t like to show death and suffering in my builds, but this one should be a bit different, like black humor and so, I decided to give the figure a bit of a comic look through the paintjob, using heavily thinned acrylics and various shades of inks on top.


 

The Kampfanzug (battle suit) was primed black, then the insides were sprayed with Extreme Metals duraluminum. I wanted to go titanium, but liked the shade of the duraluminum better. After that, the insides received a heavy dose of hairspray.

 

Cheers Rob

[BlrwestSiR]

I'm just catching up on your build Rob. Mostly conversation with everyone but your pilot looks great. The only suggestion I might have is that to me, his shirt is a bit too clean.  You mentioned you're going for a slightly cartoon effect though in which case it looks fine. 

 

[Peterpools]

Rob

Looking mighty good and your entry is just so different from everything else we're doing. The pilot's skull painting looks spot on and so convincing.

 

[DocRob]

5 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

I'm just catching up on your build Rob. Mostly conversation with everyone but your pilot looks great. The only suggestion I might have is that to me, his shirt is a bit too clean.  You mentioned you're going for a slightly cartoon effect though in which case it looks fine. 

Rub it in Carl, I haven´t done much modelling and more blabbing with the GB . The shirt is not finished yet, I will do weathering and blending on a later stage, to get a fitting appearance. I wanted a comic like harsh contrast base with the ex pilot as a canvas.

Cheers Rob

[DocRob]

5 hours ago, Peterpools said:

Looking mighty good and your entry is just so different from everything else we're doing. The pilot's skull painting looks spot on and so convincing.

This GB entry was a spontaneous idea, while grudgingly breeding over the firstly unloved sandbox theme. I hope, I can get my idea out believable with the painting stage of the Kampfanzug coming.

Cheers Rob

[Peterpools]

Rob

No doubt in my mind, the end result will be a stellar build. 

[DocRob]

After two days of bodyboarding in nice waves, three hours in the water each day, I´m broke, muscles ache, but hey, it was a lot of fun. Why am I telling this here, because it brought me to a decision for the interior color of my Kampfanzug. What looks so beautiful, when you start surfing a wave, looking down in the direction of the ground, right, bright turquoise and then it hit me, why not painting the interior like a Russian jet with that strange shade of turquoise.



Cheers Rob

[KevinM]

Rub it in the water the waves let's see what happens next here you peeking in Rob not much into most SciFi.

[DocRob]

12 hours ago, KevinM said:

Rub it in the water the waves let's see what happens next here you peeking in Rob not much into most SciFi.

Surfing is not to everybody´s liking Kevin. It´s often cold and obviously wet and you get bashed a lot. On the other hand, it´s rewarding and a great workout, but I start to feel my age after these kind of long sessions.
I sometimes move to Sci Fi or steampunk projects for a change, because they are a great canvas to test new techniques and go freestyling with my ideas. You should give it a try, if only there is the slightest interest.

Cheers Rob

[FullArmor]

19 hours ago, DocRob said:

After two days of bodyboarding in nice waves, three hours in the water each day, I´m broke, muscles ache, but hey, it was a lot of fun. Why am I telling this here, because it brought me to a decision for the interior color of my Kampfanzug. What looks so beautiful, when you start surfing a wave, looking down in the direction of the ground, right, bright turquoise and then it hit me, why not painting the interior like a Russian jet with that strange shade of turquoise.



Cheers Rob

Good color choice. This will be excellent when darkwash applied.👍

[Peterpools]

Rob

Looking mighty good and inspiration comes sometimes from the strangest places. Great choice for the color and you will always remember the how and where on deciding what t interior color should be. 

[DocRob]

On 10/23/2024 at 2:19 PM, Peterpools said:

Looking mighty good and inspiration comes sometimes from the strangest places. Great choice for the color and you will always remember the how and where on deciding what t interior color should be. 

Indeed Peter, I had checked an array of different colors for the interior beforehand, ranging from duck egg, sky blue, sand tones, RLM 02 and others, but after surfing, it was clear, I need some contrast for the sand heavy finish planned.

Cheers Rob

[DocRob]

Meanwhile, I managed to close the body of the Kampfanzug. Which sounds like a simple task, but wasn´t. A huge amount of pegs have to intersect and they had really tight tolerances. I had to use pliers at some points, always hoping, the side windows don´t pop out. Most of the kit could be build without glue, that´s why there are so many pegs.

I masked the cockpit front window with kabuki tape and sawed off the huge mounting part, because it disturbed the view to the inside. 
The interior of the suit got water dampened to activate the hairspray and then chipped with various tools. This was followed be DAK sand effect, a kind of wash with pigments in it. I liked the effect a lot and applied it onto the poor pilot as well, before I buried him in his steel grave.
I will leave the weathering for now, but I´m pretty sure, I will add more later.





Cheers Rob

[DocRob]

After burying the fellow in his steel grave, I masked the front window and inserted it temporary with some diluted PVA glue. I added the missing bits and pieces to the Kampfanzug and sprayed it with Mr. Surfacer 1000 black as a solid base.



Next was a coat of AK Extreme Metallics steel as the base coat.



Cheers Rob

 

[DocRob]

I spare you the smelly pics, the next two layers on the Kampfanzug were hairspray for my planned heavy sandblast chipping. I use the stuff directly from the can.

For those, who don´t know the technique. I made a steel base layer, then hairspray and on top I apply the two tone camo. When everything is dried, I dampen the surfaces, where I want to chip, which activates the hairspray and loosens the adhesion of the two tone camo layers. With different tools, I can now scratch the top layers away.

Next was the base layer of my planned camouflage, using Tamiya XF-64 red brown as the darker tone. It´s a bit bring to show all the layers here, but I did, to describe the process.



Cheers Rob

[HubertB]

That’s a technique I would not use … Nothing makes me run faster away from the threat than Patricia using hairspray 😱

Hubert

[DocRob]

3 hours ago, HubertB said:

That’s a technique I would not use … Nothing makes me run faster away from the threat than Patricia using hairspray 😱

I have to leave my workshop for some hours afterwards Hubert, I hate the smell. Luckily my wife has long blonde hair and never uses hairspray, other ways I would be solo .

Cheers Rob 

[DocRob]

On to the camo. It´s the FU-52 disruptive desert scheme, I planned for the Kampfanzug. Not that such a thing exists, I made it up, because I wanted to achieve something different, but desert related. The idea is to build a camo from 3 mm wide Kabuki strips added with some 10 mm squares. The angles should be from about 75 to 90 percent, not less. I tried to get an even uneven pattern as a result. The masking took some hours obviously and I made sure to, there is no chance of color bleeding, rubbing all strips in and using a toothpick for the corners.

Funky isn´t it?





Now on with the paint, in this case Tamiya XF desert yellow. I sprayed it a bit less diluted than usual, to hinder bleeding under the masks. Masks were removed only minutes after application. I prefer to get rid of the masks fast, when the color isn´t completely cured, but dry to the touch.
The camo has a kind of razzle dazzle look to it, but this will fade with weathering and all the abuse, I will put onto it.







Cheers Rob

[PanzerWomble]

Looking good Rob, will the hairspray keep a few days ?

I've always hairsprayed painted and chipped within a few hours, don;t trust it to reactivate after fully curing TBH. 

 

"Tresemme Firm Hold 3" my weapon of choice,  Personally don't mind the smell either. 

 

EDIT one of these MKs might look good in Oak Leaf or Plane Tree cammo ....hmmm

 

[BlrwestSiR]

Great camo there Rob. A nice disruptive scheme. 

I've never tried hair spray for chipping yet. I've used chipping fluids with mixed results.