edit, double post

Chock

Aah, that's no excuse! They don't have to be huge, here's one I made in 1/72nd scale:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...pantherdio.jpg

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...herdiorama.jpg

The entire thing is only about twelve inches by seven inches square.

:D Chock

1/72?:o

Chock, that's gorgeous!:rock:

You obviously have too much spare time!!

This coming from a guy who was applying for a job as a warden in addition to flying airliners!

You can never have too much spare time, that's why I work freelance:rotfl:

:D Chock

http://www.tamiya.com/english/produc...cort/index.htm

Check this out! I'd love to build this!:yep: note to santa claus:oops: :cool:

Would love them + the carriers :p

Used to collect some of those during my school days....they had nothing like the numbers/selection that are available now.

Update 18/11 ''Wings''
 

I gave it wings now,

was a bit of a sweaty moment, had to use a bit of force to get the fuselage attached to the wings.


here are the pics :

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/6...1072220wj2.jpg

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8...1072222kb1.jpg

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4...1072223qa1.jpg


Next part is the Gears and other small stuff.

:cool:

HunterICX

Are there any sites with hints and tips? I have only built NASCAR cars when I was a kid, and they were ricidulously simple and easy to do. Actually, after receiving a pre-built and painted (US themed) WW2 Jeep model as a gift, I purchased an Allied soldier set to go with it, but the only trouble with those is painting.

I'd like to build ships, but the task seems daunting. Where can I read about previous experiences so that I don't waste piece after piece or set after set commiting newbie mistakes?

there are plenty of websites that offer tutorials and forums, probably the most famous is www.armorama.com although you may also find www.subpirates.com of interest too. A quick search for 'scale model tutorial' in google nets quite a few results. also you could ask in this forum, there do seem to be quite a few modelers here. Check out the links page at www.modelaces.com too, lots of good links to stuff there, and the site has some tutorials itself.

Painting figures is tricky although not as tricky as you might think once you know the tricks. The main thing is that light does not fall on model figures in a realistically scaled fashion, so you have to emulate it. To do that, you have to approach things a little differently, if the figure is of a reasonable size, you need to paint it in a manner similar to producing an oil painting in the style of the old masters, if you've never done this, here's how that goes: you build up the skin almost in a 'skeletal fashion' so that the skin has a translucent appearance as though there is blood under the skin, as opposed to trying to create the skin with just a flesh-toned paint, which will never look right.

Some tricks which work when you do this are similar to techniques women use with make-up. You might have seen the green foundation that some women use before they put normal foundation over it. This reduces the red of the skin underneath to give a pale complexion. To adopt these tricks in modelling terms, what you have to do is accentuate the features with light and dark paint, and then overlay it with a thin flesh tone so that some depth is created. A classic example of this is painting eye sockets and the shadow areas of the face with a dark ochre colour, and highlighted areas such as the cheekbones with white, so that this faintly shows through your flesh tone and adds definition.

Carrying this on with the rest of the figure, you actually need to paint darker areas of cloth under the arms and lighter areas on the shoulders, tops of hats etc so that it takes on the appearance of light and shade viewed at a distance, also noting that colours usually have a 'scale look' - generally a bit paler than the full sized thing - as you are emulating viewing an object at some distance when you produce a model. You can just about make this out on the figures in this 1/72nd scale diaroma of mine, notice that the officer's arms appear paler on the upper surfaces to emulate light hitting that part of the uniform more than the underarms, similarly, I have not relied on natural lighting to do all the work with the jackets, the shadows where they overhang the trousers are actually painted a little darker to provide better definition than normal lighting can do at that scale. Much of the toplighting is done simply by drybrushing a thinned matt white onto upper surfaces, although in this case I had to also consider the fact that a lot of light bounces up off the snow and underlights things a little too:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...pantherdio.jpg

:D Chock

Any pics of the gears?

How do you plan to paint fuselage and wings now that other pieces have been assembled? :hmm: Must be a lot of work hiding with tape them for airbrushing :88)

He mentions pencils on the first post, so I think he goes with them. ;)

Aye, you are right...I thought at first they were only for the details. Since I have only done naval models and those are bigger, I never considered that for modelling. Instead, I have always done the large part with aribrushes and then painted details with fine pencil. :hmm:

Taking into account his intellectual capabilities I reckon he would be better off using crayons :p

:rotfl:

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