Posts made by panzerpainter

WINTER TROOPS (pic 1,2,&3)
  For the winter troops, I made a plaster-putty-paint mixture. This was not applied with brush strokes, but dabbed on in thick patches. Each dob had to be prefect, because any use of a brush r any wiping would make a white paint smear, and I wanted the snow to only be on the tops of the logs and such.
Footprints were added where they should be.
MAXIMS (pic 4)
  Brit MGs used, with scratch built wheels and carriages and ammo belts.
CAVALRY (pic 5)
  What can I say? I am an animal lover, so these horses got the finest wet-damp-dry highlighting I could do.

Not something I have done before, as I have never wanted to cover up all those details. These ones were sprayed with a texture, which I dry-brushed with brown. It stuck to the texture and made it look dirty. But it wasnt enough. Today I mixed some wood putty, brown paint, and fine sand. I then dabbed it on. It is caked n the treads and at the rear, where the treads would be flinging it around.
  I even added mud where it would have been flung up by other vehicles or nearby explosions. The mud was inked with brown afterwards and sprayed with clear.

A normal KV-I turret, with the round hatch cut off (and yes, saved) with a razor blade. Wood added underneath, hatch relocated, rear hatch made, rear MG with round mantlet made and added. New barrel and mantlet. Metal flanges around mantlet simulated with paper, soaked in superglue. Rear tow hooks added (plastic and brass) , side turret hooks added (brass).
–-
2 pics. The second pics shows different stages of construction.

Me thinks these are Hungarian  :?

4 Turan tanks, with turrets (posted below) removed and reworked with balsa and paper. New 75mm medium length guns made from Round aluminum tubing inserted into square brass tubing. Brass rod anchors them to the turrets. Turrets have steel washers sanded and glued to the bottom. small holes drilled into turrets, and normal turret screws used. Washers hold turrets at proper height, and make great visable turret rings (which turan had). Primed grey, inked in black, dampbrushed with med grey, then dry-brushed with light grey. Rust details added, and on insignia too (original insignia masked over and saved). Track teeth silvered, better rust and wear added onto tracks.

1/285 is what I use for wargaming too. But I dont have any early war stuff. Come to think of it, I have nothing from pre-1941.

CHASSIS:
Hood reangled, windshield puttied and reangled, hull rear beveled, running boards removed, sdies ground down, side and front vision ports added.
TURRET (Tetrarch turrets used) Chopped in back, beveled, puttied and sanded on top, mantlet trimmed down, copula added, barrels shortened.

Heres what I use to cut hexes. Its wood, carefully cut into a precise hex shape. Small nails were driven into tiny pre-drilled holes, and then another layer of wodd added over the nail heads. Only a very tiny bit of the nail point is exposed on the bottom, and make sure the stencil does not shift while cutting. I screwed a coupl ewooden checkers onto the top layer as a handle. I use this, and trace around it with a razor balde to make my hexes from styrofoam and I use a lot of foamboard too.
You can save some cutting time if you first cut a long strip the exact width of the hex. Then when you are cutting out each hex, you only need cut 4 of 6 sides.

@Imperious:

Im getting entire armies of all nations painted . I will be releasing the pictures in like 2-3 weeks. It numbers in the hundreds of pieces.

I was still waiting to hear from you on this. I assume then you found someone else to do it. I really dont even know how many pieces were involved, what they looked like, or how much detail was on them. Did I scare you off when I estimated price? That was a rather “blind” estimate. I might have been able to do better with a bit of info.

Just prior to final assembly

Crew are unpainted in this step, and still had some resculpting and weapon removal yet to be done.
@panzerpainter: