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Showcase & Gallery / Re: WIP StuG III
« on: January 31, 2016, 06:32:32 pm »
The added texture looks really nice, how did you do it?

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: Sherman Calliope
« on: January 31, 2016, 06:30:59 pm »
Thank you Ripley and Pinky for your comments and praise :) I'll reply to each of you individually if that's ok?

Ripley: I can see your point about the sandbags now that you mention it. Unfortunately, it's a problem with the S&S kit and the Rubicon Sherman. There's a chance that the bags don't obscure the periscopes on the Warlord Sherman kit as the sandbags were designed with that kit in mind. For the future I would recommend using a dremmel to remove the left hand side bags from the top and then re-sculpting them to be lower and flatter. Sounds like a lot of work!!

I didn't realise the storage box opened the other way, woops! I built it using a scale modellers forum post as a reference here: http://www.network54.com/Forum/110741/thread/1378568484/M4A3+Sherman+Calliope+WIP

I didn't check any real photos. Damn it, oh well, it's done now! With regards to the lift rings, I can add those on with wire easily, I'll just need to check where they go. The Rubicon kit doesn't seem to come with them.

Pinky: Thanks very much. I've got a steel ruler and I always use a very sharp Stanley blade but I can never get perfect right angles. It's very annoying. I think I'll have to slash out on a whole repertior of different plasti-cards soon as I can certainly see the benefits of having different strips.

Ahh that's very interesting and I hadn't thought about the back blast from the rockets incinerating everything! Makes total sense now that you mention it :) In that case, I think I'll hold off adding the stowage then, I can use it for my other vehicles instead.

Both: Sadly I don't own an air brush yet some all my vehicles are hand painted. First I base coated it black (GW) then I based it with army painter's army green. Using a large brush, I painted 3+ thin coats of Vallejo brown violet to get a consistent even cover. Next I apply a wash of GW's camoshade to areas that include detail such as the engine block and hatches etc... Then I lightly dry brush some areas with increasingly lighter shades by mixing in German beige to brown violet. I also applied a sharp highlight around the hull lines and the turret curves using brown violet and German beige. After that I apply any transfers, paint any lettering and weather as appropriate. I hope that helps. I'll try and produce a blog post with pictures when I get round to the Jumbo. 

Edit: Thank you ultravanillasmurf for the plasticard tips. Do you have any photos of your Shermans?

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: Winter Panzer IV
« on: January 31, 2016, 01:36:27 am »
This is great, well done.

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Showcase & Gallery / Sherman Calliope
« on: January 31, 2016, 12:59:26 am »
Hi everyone, I thought some of you might be interested in taking a look at my Sherman Calliope build. I used the Rubicon Sherman as the base and added the Warlord Game rocket launcher and S&S models sandbag armour set. I'll leave some picture here for your pleasure but I'd also really appreciate you looking at my blog for all the extra details!











Enjoy them!

Blog post for painting here: http://musingsofasmurf.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/painting-sherman-calliope.html
Blog post for building here: http://musingsofasmurf.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/building-sherman-calliope-for-boltaction.html

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: M8 Scott with Westwind Crew
« on: December 19, 2015, 08:03:47 pm »
Ahh I see what you mean there. Ok great, I don't feel so bad now. I did check out some images before I built the thing but there always the possibility that I was looking at British tanks by mistake. Thanks for clearing it up for me. I think I'll copy your sandshields for my M5 when I come to put that together, I really like the aesthetics of the track design.

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: Rubicon M5A1 WIP
« on: December 19, 2015, 08:01:39 pm »
I can second the joy of assembling this kit, although I'm yet to assemble my M5. I too needed to apply greenstuff to the hatch areas to fill in gaps though so do beware. Otherwise, it's a fantastic kit with bags of modelling potential!

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: M8 Scott with Westwind Crew
« on: December 19, 2015, 12:38:07 am »
Ah nuts! Does that mean that I should have removed the sand shields from the American Scott? Was it just us Brits that added them?

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: M8 Scott with Westwind Crew
« on: December 17, 2015, 06:48:24 am »
Sand shields, are they the do hickies on the side of the turret? I was curious as to what they were. How do they work?

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Showcase & Gallery / M8 Scott with Westwind Crew
« on: December 12, 2015, 10:17:24 pm »
Hi All,

I thought it might be nice to show off the beautiful new M8 Scott kit to y'all. Unfortunately, the only downside with Rubicon kits is the lack of crew (which it seems they're taking steps to remedy) so I've  used the Westwind half-track crew to fill in the turret. I would not recommend using the Westwind crew for their actual job since they're ridiculously small and look like children! Fortunately, they fit quite nicely inside cramped turrets! Huzzar, a use for them at last! Any who, I hope you enjoy the pics.







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Showcase & Gallery / Re: my sherman and panzer 3 conversions
« on: February 17, 2015, 09:36:31 pm »
Hi, could you post up some links to the conversion bits because I wasn't able to find them on your site.

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A bit late but I got round to finishing off the last of the three in the end! Enjoy 'Temptation'!






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Showcase & Gallery / Re: my sherman and panzer 3 conversions
« on: February 14, 2015, 08:40:07 pm »
Very nice! Is the sandbag armour from Company B?

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Thank's very much. I know they're not that authentic but it's a bit of fun :)

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Showcase & Gallery / The beginnings of my Sherman platoon the "Warbirds"
« on: December 21, 2014, 03:09:09 am »
Hi All,

I bought 3 of the Sherman kits recently and here's what I've done with 2 of them :) The other has been assembled with the 76mm gun but hasn't been painted yet. Enjoy!

75mm Sherman "Sally Forth" I sculpted the additional sandbags :)







105mm Sherman "Saucy Sue" I've added wooden aplique armour from plati-card.








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Work In Progress / Re: 1/56 (28mm) Modular Buildings
« on: November 17, 2014, 04:24:37 pm »
wow, that looks really great. It's certainly a project that will sell well :) Might I also request looking into a European church kit. Even resin kits in 28mm are hard to come by

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