Posts made by panzerpainter

Version 1 scale, with resin cast turrets. Hand grabs are brass, barrel is aluminum.

I want to hank everyone who contributed. It really helped at a critical time. The pieces, and effort, was awesome!

Heres a Pershing that is beyond fine. Its as extra fine as I can get without putting myself into a shrink machine to paint smaller. I used a mag glass to check the paint. You know what? … AAM guys’ faces are not really faces. They are gross, hideous, malformations. They look like some horrific sci-fi gene-spliced creature.
  This Pershing has a hundred hand made parts in it, at least. The muzzle is cross-drilled like Baron likes. Man, its a pain to drill sideways at the tip and pray you dont ruin the barrel.
  The basket on the turret is remade so it actually is a basket that holds stuff.
  All the details on the turret were stripped bare, turret reshaped at the back, edges rounded, and resculpted. All the attachments are on the back of the turret, as well as all other turret details remade. Some got covered by the final details.
  The side vent hatch is open, for ejecting spent shells. Driver is peering out his hatch, but staying very low. Commander and gunner are busy thwarting some pesky nazi aircraft.
  Other additions include tow hooks and grab hooks remade, tailights, light covers, fender braces, hollow exhaust, rear cable hooks with cable, extra cable stretched front to back, radio ant’, 50 cal on scratchbuilt pintle mount & ammo box with lid and latch. Also shovels, a jack, tarps, bedrolls, tentrolls, and spare fuel can.
  Most interesting, I hope, are the following: Black-market wine, in wooden cases, and 2 brand-new fresh cases of K-ration -  platoon size. These guys have just drove through france, have collected a few goods, and are just now entering the battle zone. The tank is weathered, but no damage yet.
  The Pershing sports all serial numbers, unit numbers, us army, and stars. It is triple-brush-coated with clear matte varnish, and 2 thin coats of spray matte.
  It sits in a display case, pictured with the lid off.

@Carnage:

I intend to buy more units anyway eventually, is there a place I can view your works and prices?

Send me an e-mail directly (links here dont always work) at timdrocks@mchsi.com
  I dont have a set “gallery” but I can send a few samples if you specify what kinda stuff. Prices are hard to explain, but I have a rough quoting “guide” I can e-mail you. I am running about 2 to 3 months behind still. Life has not stopped being crazy yet, but it has to come winter.
  I tend to not get to these boards very often, so e-mails are best.
Thanks. Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving.

@Viracocha:

Ahhhh - greetings Panzerpainter.  I slap some paint around myself - I like your work.  So, it appears that you base your work on size rather than time involved? In regard to the micro, the $1.50 to $2 each, what defines this disparity if you don’t mind me asking? Just curious…

Combination of size and level of detail. The cheaper stuff being painted to gaming standards (simple, normal, or fine detail) or whether it is painted for collecting/display purpouse, in simple, normal, …… blah blah blah. The very small micro-armor would have no real details; just over-all coloration, inking, highlights. I try to estimate something that gets me slightly above minimum wage per hour actual time involved. If I can do many of the same things at one time, I can make better per hour, or if I screw around I can make a buck an hour, lol.

Stuart is to normal detail, and Zis truck is done to fine detail. Truck has a manned AA Gun, ammo belt boxes, ammo cans, camo netting (enough to cover entire vehicle) rolled up with poles, dented fenders and door, fuel can, shovel with straps, and spent ammo in the rear deck.

Paper was used to alter the thickness of every other panel, to make them misaligned from wear. Uses either 75mm barrel, or 105mm barrel. I could not get them to sit on the pin correct while scanning them, so the barrels were left out of the pic.

Its just whatever people have, and will ship to me to be painted. I wont go out and buy any, then paint them and try to sell them. That always backfires. Someone will want to buy the finished product for less than what I paid just to get the pieces. I just never had a sample of this kind of work where quality was more important than fine quality. I am not too concearned about people sending anymore sets of these to be painted. Unless they really want them really simple (simpler than these) these things take a long time, and I still cant offer them as cheap as people want. I tried $0.50 per man, and that was too low. Its drudgery to paint these. It takes a good days work just to put the flesh tones on 300 men.
I am charging 0.60 per (simple), 0.95 per (normal), and 1.75 per (fine). These guys really are not that much easier to paint than the AAM collectables guys, and I charge up to $3,4,5 for some of them. I know thesew guys are all the same pose, so they are easier, but its easy to see why I am not eager to get orders for these board men before i get caught up on all my tanks.

I dont know what to tell you, other than what I do. I use Image shack, and I copy paste the image URL once I have downloaded it, and paste it into the posts with the HTML.