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This thread is for the discussion of scale plastic (and resin, PE, wood, etc) models kit
-Post photos of your builds in progress and your finished builds
-Have your builds critiqued or critique others
-Discuss tips and techniques
-Ask for advice or give advice to others

Always remember:
>No manufacturer is purely perfect or awful (except Academy). ALWAYS research your kits before buying.

Some helpful guides to get started:
https://www.scalemates.com/
http://www.mediafire.com/view/1vf1aw7v91pz5pa/Airfix%20Model%20World%20Specia%20%28Scale%20Modelling%20Step-By-Step%29.pdf
http://www.scalemodelguide.com/
http://www.modelersite.com/en/area/98/scale-models-techniques
http://fichtenfoo.net/blog/model-tutorials-and-in-progs
http://ipmsstockholm.org/
https://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/
http://www.primeportal.net/home.htm
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156268995@N04/albums

Plus there are tons of people on YouTube with pretty good videos on techniques etc.

Some sites to purchase models, extras, and supplies:
>ebay
https://www.dersockelshop.de/ (GER)
https://www.scalehobbyist.com/index.php (US)
https://www.alfahobby.se/ (SWE)
http://spruebrothers.com/ (US)
https://freetimehobbies.com/ (US)
http://www.hobbyeasy.com/ (HK)
http://www.luckymodel.com/ (HK)
http://www.hlj.com/ (JP)
https://www.modellbau-koenig.de/en (GER)
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/m/ (JP)
https://www.hannants.co.uk/ (UK)
https://www.jadarhobby.pl/index.php?language=en (PL)
https://www.bnamodelworld.com/ (AUS)
http://volksusastore.com/webstores/scale/ (US) (Carry Mr. Color and GaiaNotes paint)
https://www.emodels.co.uk/ (UK)
https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/
https://www.super-hobby.com (EU/UK/RU/US/PL)
https://plastmodel.pl/ (PL/EU)
https://agtom.eu/en/(PL/EU)
https://exito.site/en_GB/index(PL/EU)
https://m-zone.pl (PL only)

>>11443546 (OP)
Why are you not using the fucking images from the last thread?
What even is that shit you used for the thread image?
Nigger.

>yet another thread with yet another external picture
fucking hell anon

How ugly is Tamiya's ancient Leopard 1?

I'm house sitting at my parent's house for a week, and I need something I can assemble with just a handful of tools in a week while I'm there so I don't go insane with boredom.

leave academy alone

>>11443558
>>11443561
Nta but I prefer it that way. If nobody wins, nobody loses.

>>11443648
>If nobody wins, nobody loses
ironic because you just won the 'biggest faggot in all of 4chan' award

>>11443717
Just learned how to swear? How cute.

>>11443570
Read a book.

>>11443791
Eat shit.

Thread's off to a horrible start as usual.

>>11443798
Sorry.

Everyone is a retarded snapshitter. This thread needs to be replaced ASAP.

How do you guys handle custom decals when you don't have that much to print? Do you just toss most of the sheet?

>>11443831
I once snapped an action figure to a base so I'm basically a full blown builder already.

Thinning is a scam promoted by Big Water

Why are there so many grays that appear blue and blues that look more gray to me

heres my dogshit super silhouette I just finished. got an ae 86 and a lancia 037 on the workbench now.

>>11444044
I always wanted to pick up an 037
let me know how miserable the kit is

>>11444044
this is the hachi so far. the yellow body is painted with AK acrylic markers.
>>11444082
the 037 is a hasegawa kit and assembly has been fun so far, no fitment issues. really nice actually

>>11444044
Nice high quality sandpaper finish just like the real thing

>>11443570
scalemates is your friend

1969 btw

>>11443866
I print a red box around the area and cut out the inside of it with a margin, then leave just the box in the word document, deleting the contents.
But I can't imagine it's going to work forever.

>>11444139
>the yellow body is painted with AK acrylic markers.
The whole body is painted with markers?

>>11444277
yes, a quick spray of white primer then 2 coats with the yellow AK marker.

>>11443866
First print the design on regular paper, then cut a piece of the decal paper to size, tape it over the area the print is on on the paper and run it through the printer again.

>>11444346
NTA but does it not get caught up in the printer?

The apoc is ready for priming and since I am an inherently uncreative person, I again will replace the plough with a log, I have removed the ugly RCWS as I found no way to rework it into something less anachronistic and will rotate the fuel drums to run parallel to the hull instead of perpendicular, I may add fuel lines
Trumpeter T-80 wheels fit just fine on the running gear for some reason

>>11444365
Works on my printer.

>visit nipland
>visit Hikone Castle, buy model kit
>friend asembles and paints it
>he dies less than a fucking month later
Goodbye Milo, I bought the plastic case as promised so it never gets dust

>>11444398
>>friend asembles and paints it
>>he dies less than a fucking month later
Sorry for your loss, but that sounds a bit ominous.

>>11444276
>>11444346
Thanks for the tips. If I can cut smaller chunks that will help me a lot with not wasting decal paper.

>>11443648
>If nobody wins, nobody loses.
Except the dead.
Under the sun they rot together, in absolute biological equality.

>>11444591
He used laquers without PPE

>>11444369
Man this model is cool. I wonder if EA will authorize mainline C&C kits too.

>>11444369
What's your technique for braiding those cables?

>>11444753
specifically here, the technique is having a bunch of already braided cables from other kits, but I found that a rotary tool and a clothing button make for acceptable tow cables as long as you have thin wires

>>11444769
nice

bought the 72nd scale a-7a corsair 2 from hasegawa because it was $11
what am I in for?

>>11445198
I dunno but I just finished a 1:72 Hasegawa A-6R Intruder and found it pleasant enough to build, but the lack of details, raised panel lines and seam gaps betrays its price

I haven't been on heer in 9 months and youre all still a shit.

With Disdain
Miguel 'ProPaintrPussyslayer' Jiminez

>>11445723
I'm sorry about your wife, life is cruel.

>>11445731
it's okay i have many new models ;) because i am the one and only Mig, do you have a line of paints named after you? No, because i no see the 'fucking shit modeller retard' range on the shelf yet.
Do better.

Love
Mig

>>11445748
I was about to say that the real Mig would encourage people to become better, but this technically is also that, so...

>>11445198
absolutely fucking savaged

https://modelingmadness.com/scott/viet/us/usn/a7a.htm

>>11445930
Ooof, I did the Italeri/ESCI rebox as well. That was miserable.

>>11444717
But...I do that?!

>>11446103
I'm sorry bro. Will you leave me your stash?

>>11446103
Anon....

>>11446130
If you have space for it. How long do I have?

>>11446338
Until the eighth of June 00:00 UTC.

who /shitkits/ here

I've had this revell p-40 in the stash for a while. 2020 release but 1964 tooling and it shows. I got it for super cheap sealed at a thrift store. I doubled down on the masochism and found some 30 some year old resin cast aftermarket parts for it and an eduard pe sheet (but its for the airfix kit lol)
this kit is actually pretty neat for its age. unfortunately its all raised detail but the panel and rivet lines look pretty nice still. like my other 60s revell/monogram kit it has a moving parts gimmick which I think is really neat. On this one you can half the flaps lowered. the other one is an f6f with foldable wings.
unfortunately the fuckers didn't add any detail to the top half of the wings, including the gear bay, but the resin parts will solve the landing gear bays at least.

>>11446649
I had to curb my addiction to trash because I kept getting burned at contests

Protip: if a guy is giving you BOGO discounts on old slop, there's an overwhelming chance the kit is either warped or missing something critical

>>11446649
I've got these ugly bastards to do soon. Would have got the blue one, too, but they were out. I guess I'll have to indulge my tism and get that one later.

>>11443546 (OP)
I finally glazed this thing in satin and the decals look natural now. How's the critique looking boys? Im starting to experiment with using more colors in simple camo. This is an old ass kit so I'm pretty satisfied how it turned out

>>11444398
rip milo

>>11446872
Gear legs are backwards and the wrong color.

>>11446603
It's way north of 300 kits though. And you'll have to pick them up from Goymoney.

>>11446649
>>11446848
I am shitkits. I have a ton of modern, very good kits. But I'd much rather crack open a shitkit than anything good. Idk why. I recently started a Mach2.

>>11446872
Don't spray clearcoat over the canopy. Either leave it off till the end or leave the masking on till the end.

>>11446649
That color plastic is always a dead giveaway you're about to make a terrible model kit lmao why are so many shit ones molded in olive green? I think at least 80% of the bad experiences I've had came from that

Airfix 1/72 zero, done.
Okay kit, bit chunky on the panel lines
Vallejo paints, W&N oils

>>11447055
>why are so many shit ones molded in olive green?
So you can play with them right away and don't need to paint them.

>>11447170
Man even as a 6 year old I painted my shit before I played with it

>>11447210
Smearing shit on them doesn't count.

>>11447034
>And you'll have to pick them up from Goymoney.
Wunderbar, passt mir gut.

>>11447210
sure you did

>>11447272
>>11447280
Just because you two faggots couldn't grip a pencil without those rubber triangles doesn't mean every kid was inhibited every kid I made models with did so

>>11447210
>the shit in question

>>11447311
Sure they looked like crap compared to what I make now obviously but my builds as a 6-8 year old would give twitterbro a run for his money, lemme look through my old pics when I get home and I'll show them

>>11447334
Your models must have been pretty good, if you actually bothered to scan the photographs.

leave twitterbro alone

>>11447418
Bro might be like 16, all digital babyyy

>>11447418
No it's shitty early smart phone digital. Trying to find some better pics than pic related right now but theres 80 gorillion images to look through. Pics are taken much later, I kept them in a storage box somewhere and cleaned them out when my parents sold the house some years back. The Hawk and the Hurricane in this pic are certainly pre 1999.

>>11447485
Twice that

>>11447496
Is that a Storch? And a ship in a bottle? Jeez anon, did you ever get diagnosed?

>>11447498
Not on the spectrum just a plane nerd (although I understand why you ask). Yes it's a Storch. My dad bought me my kits, so the choice is a little random. I didn't build the bottled shit it's some kinda souvenir, I'm the anon making Ace Combat replicas now here

>>11447006
Gear isn't just oily steel?

>>11447038
I didn't, its a brush on varnish. The inside is murky because of some splash from the primer and I didn't want to risk breaking the canopy with cleaning

>>11447084
Holy shit those are some good looking panel lines. How did you do it?

Some iwata airbrush parts on sale. Is iwata a good airbrush for a beginner?

>>11447556
They should be RLM02 on a 109E.
You also missed painting the cowling guns, and painted the area around the exhaust that should be camouflage color with the exhaust color.

>>11447647
Rlm02 is Grey? Steel color isn't too terribly off, but ill keep that in mind for my next bf109. Guilty as charged on the fuisillage guns, they were way too small to paint effectively well. Since this is the tropical version I figured the dust filter would be the same color as the camo, light sand

>>11447634
A quality airbrush is not more difficult for a beginner than a shit one (probably easier). Working with chinkshit airbrushes is really a budget matter, dealing with the bullshit to save on some cash. If you can afford an Iwata then you'll have an airbrush that will serve a long time without replacement, IF you take care of it. That said, I have a very nice airbrush (Reaper Vex, basically a Patriot in fancy dress) but still my chinkshit cheapo gets much more use because I'm a lot less precious about using it for donkey work without much maintenance. So if you don't mind giving your AB proper TLC, get the Iwata, and if you're an absolute fucking troglodyte like me who can't be arsed most of the time, get a cheapo.

New haul for me: Tamiya Challenger 1.

Base sprues are from 1983, Desert Storm version sprues are from 1992. A fine vintage.

Also Tamiya M151 with TOW launcher. Base version released in 1982, TOW version in 1983. Excellent years.

Also the reason I got the Chally 1 is that I'm almost finished with the Chieftain and I've read they have a high parts commonality (I've heard as high as 70%), so I'll build both and compare them.

ancient resin stuff arrived. looks pretty fucking cool I'd say.
for the cockpit sidewall stuff it requires me to sand the kit cockpit walls smooth. how do I do that effectively? I've never had to do anything like this before. that seems like I'd have to sand for 1900 hours if I'm gonna do it by hand. I dont have a rotary tool but I do have the dspiae electric sander. its kinda shit though

>>11447762
RLM02 is a pale greenish-grey, yes. The trop filter is the correct color, see picture for what I meant about the exhaust.

>>11448304
Ohhhh I gotcha. Still getting to know the anatomy of planes

Thinking of getting into this, no experience with DeAgostini before, what’s the likelihood that they stop production given that they’re 22 issues in at the moment?

>>11447279
I'll post on here when they put me on the machines.

>>11448382
I know deagostini from their crappy die-cast models that come with magazines

>>11448619
>>11448382
Man, I miss the old die-cast Bburago cars that you had to assemble yourself, it was pretty much my first step into modeling.

Does Bburago still make these, or only pre-assembled kiddy-slop?

>>11448626
I don't know, but I had a 1/24 Porsche 911 rally version that was incredible
Like Volvo, Bburago got taken over by the chinese and are wearing the brand as a skinsuit

>>11443546 (OP)
Hey what do you anons do with the box afterwards when you are done with the model? do you keep it or toss it?

>>11448619
Thanks for the help, fag

>>11448833
you are welcome, homo

>Today we are revealing the next issue of Scale aviation featuring the new UMA 1/48 harrier built by the legendary builder Shuichi Hayashi
Damn those panel lines are almost airfix tier, i think i'll stick to the hasegawa kit

>>11448830
Keep them but they're starting to take up a fuck load of space so I'll probably cut out the front box arts and toss the rest

Anyone buy these kits?
How are they?
I like the idea of creating miniature seascape dioramas

What are some at least semi-decent chink air compressors and airbrushes I can just get off amazon?

After about 3 years of hand-painting everything I think I'm ready for a fucking airbrush cause this shit is getting tedious

>>11449418
>semi-decent chink airbrushes
any of them

>semi-decent chink air compressors
none of them

>>11449444
Did you mix that up? Fengda is a chink compressor

>>11449445
Chink always means "all the ones i don't like and don't want to know were actually made in china" to most of these fucks

>>11449418
I have been using some haosheng brand chinky 0.3 airbrush for almost a decade until my hobby shop stopped supplying them and switched to another chinky airbrush brand, bida
I assume both are made in the same factory along with a dozen other brands
I'm happy with them they are very good for base coating and close to nothing else if you aren't good at masking
A steal for €10-€15

>>11449445
fengda compressors fucking suck

>>11449457
Works on my machine :^)

>>11449268
>keep them
Based hoarder suffocating in his garbage.

>>11449357
Just the other day I asked a ship modeller in my boomer model club about these kits. her#s the breakdown:
"Very good" were Starling Models, Kombrig, Seed Hobby and Hellenic Ship Models.
"Extremely good" were EV Model, Youfeng and YG Model.
That's what the boomers say. So I guess you can take the chance on that kit.

Where would one start if they wanted to make their own water slide decals? I have a project I want to do that would involve a lot of them

Thoughts on 3d printed kits or accessories?

>>11449636
GRRRR I HATE THEM

- Jerry

revell p-40b + medallion models resin stuff and another kit's PE set
looks pretty ok I think, just need to flat clear it and maybe give it a bit of weathering

>>11449596
The tricky part is honestly the design bit. You gotta spend quite a few hours with Illustrator or something like that to get them exactly right. You can get inkjet or laserjet waterslides, white or clear background with the obvious drawback on clear that you cannot have anything that requires white ink unless you have a special printer. Just search for waterslide decal paper for whatever kind of printer you have and you're on your way.

>>11449636
I fucking hate posts like this. What's the point, ask about something in particular. Just google it you lazy fuck. It's just resin.

>>11449648
Did you leave it in your attic for a few weeks before painting or what?

>>11449652
I had to do some touchup sanding

>>11449643
I lurk armorama and the boomers there seem to be pretty accepting of 3d printed parts

Need some input about colors for British armor. Specifically, I have the Italiari Crusader III AA Mk. III in progress and the instructions only call for the main hull being an Olive Drab. I have Vallejo Primer (I know, I know) USA Olive Drab on it but I'm debating if that shade is suitable to leave on it (since WWII colors are so all over the place) or if I should put in the effort to try to match something closer to what would have been on a British tank in 1944.

>>11449786
The UK used slightly different pigments for their olive, not quite as brown as US olive drab. When I had to paint a mess of British 1944 vehicles (mostly cromwells and fireflies) for Bolt Action, I used Vallejo 70.924 Russian Uniform. That's the easy solution and a reasonable match, and presumably a paint you can get since you were able to get vallejo primer.

>>11449786
>>11449810

Here, I found an old pic of the crommies in progress so you can judge the colour for yourself

>>11449810
>>11449815

Thanks, I'll keep that color in mind next time I go paint shopping, but the nearest hobby shop is 30 minutes away and since I'm currently between jobs I'd rather not burn more money unless absolutely necessary.

Looking at the paints I have, I know I have maybe half a pot of Tamiya Olive Green, as well as full bottles of Vallejo Air 71.022 Light Green RLM 82 and 71.015 Dark Green RLM 71(meant for a Ju87 I still haven't touched). The funny thing is that your cromwells look both brighter than the Olive Drab I currently have on the Crusader's parts, but looking online the Dark Green RLM71 looks close to the shade sample provided for that Russian Uniform color you suggested. I might do the Dark Green and see how that turns out.

>>11449786
tamiya recommend xf-61, but it's just really dark

Hello guys, I've never been on /toy/ before but I came here hoping you would have a scale model general, and thankfully you did!
I'm a wargamer and trying to make an epic game for a convention next year.
No wargaming company makes Mi-17s in 1/48 so I decided to start looking at scale models, and after some research I came across these two models which both seem perfect. Trouble is, I don't know which one to buy. It seems like scale model sellers are bad at posting actual pics of the model, they just show some cartoon box art.

Which of these two brands is more likely to be a better quality model, Trumpeter or AMK?? I know nothing about scale models apart from wargaming models. Thanks lads!

>>11449916
Isn't 1:48 kinda big for wargaming?

So, I went and bothered to look up the shade of Olive Drab the Crusader box was asking for. Turns out the Model Masters color looks almost a perfect match for RLM 71 so I just went with that. Given the primer undercoat, the final hue should be within acceptable range for some form of Olive Drab, especially after I throw some weathering on it later.

>>11449916
Scalemates usually is the best source for looking at models - and on a related note the brand of the second one isn't AWK, it's Annetra.

Regardless, which one is the 'better' model is entirely subjective here since you want this for wargaming, so the more complex one may not necessarily be what you want.

Looking over their instructions, they're about the same parts count from a rough look, but the Annetra one has a considerable amount of photo etch parts for tiny details. However, the Trumpeter also has photo etch. These are not going to be something big and chunky like, say, a Bolt Action mini-tank or whatever WH40K vehicle you can think of, they will be fragile even after building.

However, are you sure 1/48 is the scale you really want? From what I can find, it would suggest that these would be oversized for a 28mm game, which makes them look like WH40K Space Marine vehicles.

>>11449953
>>11449959
No 1/48 is the right size. I don't know where the 1/56 meme came from but 1/48 models seem to be the right size for 28mm miniatures. Pic related, a 1/48 black hawk and a 1/60 black hawk ~ the 1/48 is true to size and 1/60 is much too miniature.
I'm just using the helicopter to sit down on the table, unload troops, and then it will be off the table the next turn.
I appreciate the answers but it doesn't help me decide which one to be honest. Is too much photo etch (idk what that means) not ideal for wargaming? I probably won't be painting it to the same standard as a scale modeler

>>11449978
photo etch is just small brass parts that are usually pretty fragile.
me personally I would just get the trumpeter one but this is an entirely uninformed choice

here comes the best part of all shitty kits, putting on the pound of putty required to fill in the seams
I wish I hadn't glued in the seat before I could fix the seams on the rear bulkhead but I'm retarded so oh well. at least the head rest thing should be easy enough to get smooth. tape is an attempt to preserve some of the raised details.... I can fix the panel lines but the rivets not so much and I'd really rather not rescribe this entire plane.

>>11449996
Hmm, I also just found this Mi-8 using the scales mates site you guys suggested. How is Zvezda compared to Trumpeter?

>>11449916
I found some sprue shots, looks about the same for build complexity. For your purposes, you can just choose whichever is cheaper at the time.
>>11449978
Photoetch probably isn't anything to worry about. It doesn't look like it stands in for major components. You can leave it off and it'd make no difference. A lot of modern kits are built to cater for people who want realism or something to take as a show entry. You can cut considerable corners and it'd still be the best-looking game piece you've got. Best think of it as buying the basic assembly, and it comes with a lot of details you can put on if you want to. To serve as an attractive game piece you could simplify the construction quite a lot without really losing anything since a wargame kit would be simplified anyway. This may also help make it less fragile.

>>11450014
It's a lot cheaper, for one thing. You can see some of the parts here:

https://mkns-ipmssrbija.com/2023/01/28/mil-mi-8-mt-1-48-zvezda-inbox-review-srb-eng/

The thing is, you're asking for "good" kits where the value of good from a scale model point of view may not be the same as good from a wargame piece point of view. The Zvesda will serve your needs just fine and be like half the price. Paying extra for the others might be worth it for a modeler looking to build a good replica, but for you it might just be paying double for stuff you don't need in order to craft a good-looking piece fit for purpose.

>>11450032
>>11450036
Thanks for the insight guys. You're right after looking through a lot of the pictures you've shown me,.the scale models do seem like they have a lot more detail than I need. So I'll go with whatever is cheapest!

>>11450036
Where do you find it cheaper? I looked on scalemate and the Zvezda and Trumpeter one seem to be the exact same price ($65)

>>11450052
>Where do you find it cheaper? I looked on scalemate and the Zvezda and Trumpeter one seem to be the exact same price ($65)

Oh, my bad. I only did a cursory look and probably fucked up the currency conversion somewhere. Trying to find sprue shots sent me all over so I was working in euro, USD, CAD, AUD, Zloty, probably even fucking seashells. For same price, I'd probably go Trumpeter unless the Zvezda has decal marking options you'd rather have. That'd save you having to buy aftermarket decals.

So, got the Crusader body sprayed up with RLM 71, looking pretty good. One of the side compartments fell off from insuficent glue, so I took the oportunity to show the contrast between the original USA Olive Drab and the new, darker main color.

Also, what color were radial antennas? I've seen some people paint them the body color and others as black. I know the ones I've installed are a bit thick (though they match the unused original ones on the sprues) and I intend to replace them once I get thinner wire for another kit, but for the time being they match the deco layout depiction in length and position. And they do block where the AA points but that's actually prototypical for the Mk. III.

Mane, is there a worse fate than actually having to work from your home office instead of pretending to work to make your models?

>>11450364
No idea, must suck living in a country where Pentecost is not a federal holiday.

>>11449916
1/48 Mi-8 seems pretty large and unwieldy for tabletop.

>>11449978
>Mi-8 1/48
>Length built: 525.5 mm. Rotor diameter: 443.7 mm.

>tfw finally entered the 3D print master race
I still have to get some resin and some ideas what to print. The latter one shouldn't be that hard, I am already eyeing some obscure ships. And I seriously need to learn CAD.

>>11449649
That kind of stinks because a lot of the ones I had in mind are black and white

This thread has made me aware that there is now a 1/48 Mi-4 kit to be had. It's been a long time since I did any helicopters, maybe it's time to start a new crop of them..

Apoc is now base coated, I will probably do it like the previous one with light grey and black camouflage stripes

>>11450634
What do you normally build?

If I had a 3D printer I'd print endless jerry cans, ammo boxes, tank gun shell casings, figures, terrain elements and whatnot. Maybe ground support equipment if I build a plane.

>>11450734
>I'd print endless jerry cans, ammo boxes, tank gun shell casings, figures, terrain elements and whatnot.
I am not big into dioramas, but accessories are definitely on my list, but that's small stuff I don't really consider worth thinking about because it's such a no-brainer.

I actually don't have a real topic, or scale. I just see something I like and built it. Currently it's a biplane, last was a tank and before that a cannon.

>>11450704
How about late-soviet MERDC ripoff?

>>11450704
Or late-soviet "forest" (more Berlin Brigade urban camo ripoff) camo from East-Germany?

>>11450734
I would also add tow cable eyes and various searchlights
>>11450754
I already did this on my prior tank, a 48 scale T-90
>>11450758
already done by another guy
https://youtu.be/due3L9-S1Gs?si=57LWJrwnllVlFxOG

Can anyone redpill on those cheap Trumpeter 1/144 kits? I want to build some, but I want to order a large lot of them and was uncertain whether they are decent kits or not.

So I'm house sitting my parent's place, and I asked my sailbote pops to make some space on his workbench so I have something to do.

I bought this old Tamiya shitter to assemble here, and then I'll paint it when I get back home where my compressor and airbrush is. I only started it yesterday. It was supposed to hold me out till Sunday. Fuck.

Guess I'll just shave off all the molded on handles and replace them with wire. That should last till maybe Wednesday.

Also while I'm here, should I dig up my old hobby show medals?

Also like I said, my pops scrathbuilds botes from wood and brass, using schematics he gets from who knows where.

Pic is the Visegrád, built in Britain in 1913.

>>11450926
Fugg that's nice. How long does he work on such a boat?

>>11450926
Hard to say, like me he can't seem to help himself and do like three projects on an off at the same time.

But let's say a year. It used to be longer, but he got the process streamlined down by now.

>>11450926
Faggot OP better make this the pic for next thread.

>>11450934
Meant for >>11450930

>>11450941
There's other ships in the house (others were commissions for maritime museums, so they're there), but I can't really make proper pics of them, considering they're huge 1:50 scale three-four mast sailboats.

>>11450950
I see, could you perhaps get a picture of the back of a sailboat, for us, or is that still too big.

1/50 is massive for ships.

>>11450654
The only real way to get around it is designing it for white paper and then manually cutting them out. The limitation and pain is why I started doing the airbrushed stencils for squadron logos etc., less limited but more effort

>>11450956
Last one for now, since it's already 11PM here:
1/50 Cutty Sark. The wood box around it it its transport case. I remember bringing these big fucks to hobby shows was an ordeal.

>>11450976
Jesus, that is beautiful. Have a good night.

>>11450926
>>11450976
Gorgeous

>>11450941
now now, we can't do that, otherwise his father will win and we'll all lose

>fill gap with putty
>sand for 5 hours
>gap still visible
>add more putty
>sand for 5 hours
>seam still visible
>add more putty
>sand for 10 hours
>seam still visible
>add more putty

im going to actually blow my brains out if this STUPID FUCKING SEAM LINE DOESNT FUCK OF ALREADY THERES LIKE 5 LAYERS OF PUTTY ON THIS BITCH GOD FUCKING DAMN DUDE
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>11451413
If you're using white putty, stop it and use two part epoxy instead. It's not going away because white putty shrinks and sinks into the gap as it dries. Also remember to try gluing some plastic card under the gap as backing/support for your filler.

>>11450895
>cheap Trumpeter 1/144 kits
What kind? The blue box kits have a toy-like assembly but they're pretty good quality so I can recommend them.
The white box kits (pic related) on the other hand are fucking garbage so avoid these unless you're making a shot down diorama.

>>11451413
are you pressing it in?
I have a bunch of business cards specifically to use as a form fitting trowel

>>11451413
>Fill with putty
>Cover with super glue

>>11451740
Do you happen to run a Vietnamese life hack youtube channel?

>>11451495
Su-30, Su-34, Su-47, J-7, J-8, J-20, your picrel, F-117 and the YF-22. Looks like all except for the J-20 and Su-30 are white box kits. Thanks for helping me dodge a bullet.

I think I might just get the new Zvezda 1/144 Su-30 instead of the Trumpeter one, as the details look finer and is only about $0.20 more.

>>11450916
yes

>>11451976
I guess I should also ask if the Revell 1/144 Su-47 is any better? The 1/144 F-117 is also hot garbage from them, I know that.

>>11452019
The Su-47 is a 2000 tooling, so it's at least not terribly ancient.

I found a review with some finished pics, maybe that;ll help you figure out what you can do with it.

https://www.internetmodeler.com/scalemodels/aviation/Revell-1-144-Su-47-S-37-Berkut.php

>>11451978
This is all I could find. After like 2012-13 I got burned out and didn't touch modeling again till like 2019, I don't think I'll compete again though, probably that's what burnt me out the first time.

Also with everything on the internet now, with guys like Nighshift doing tutorials and giving away all their knowledge for free, the landscape has changed, before I could win medals as an early 20's dumbfuck bumbling around with blu-tack and pigments, now everyone has everything at their fingertips to make masterpieces. Nowadays everyone is crushing it, and of course that's for the better. Everyone wins.

>>11452019
I had the 1/144 Su-47 from Revell and it's a good kit, you should totally get it.

>>11452378
>>11452463
Thank you both.

Post your most based box arts.

I got the seams close enough to good enough but now dry fitting the front nose part its obvious I've got even more sanding and putty and sanding and putty and sanding and putty and sanding and

it aint easy being 89 years old and only buying shitty revell kits from my childhood

>>11452656
looks like AI generated faces with the instructions being, combine anime ayys and beavis & butthead

>>11452672
That was made before the AI slopocalypse, just soulful weird art.
You want AI generated? Here's AI generated.

>>11452656
Love me Airfix. Love me Roy Cross. Simple as.

>>11452677
Linear-A is based for having the Jesus kits, though.

>>11452681
aye, modelers don't give the european wargaming mini scene enough credit

>>11452687
This looks like the title screen of a Napoleonic grand strategy video game from the 90's.

Also very early Trumpeter box-art definitely has an "omg how do I draw" vibe.

Why won't BNA Model World get any flyhawk kits in?

>>11452910
it looks like they have a bunch

>>11452910
>name your company Flyhawk
>make 95% of your catalogue ships

>>11453046
SIKE!

>>11452656
>>11452865
AHEM

This thread does not feature enough of the word "nigger". So, niggers, how easy would it be to make decals for the C-46, Big Nigger, and the P-47, Nigger II.

>inb4 nigger, niggers

>>11453328
nobody cares, kys

>>11453328
With a decal sheet of letters which may or may not be arranged into the word "nigger"

Next question.

>>11453405
nigger ii was stylised, nose art or something

>>11453428
Same way I did all my other planes with custom markings then, it's not hard

>>11453438
How did you make the masks? I remember you posting about it, but I cannot recall what process it was.

>>11453488
Crafty mom machine vinyl cutter and a little bit of photo editing. It cuts PNGs so you can just make the contour of whatever you wanna cut (no it doesn't like vectors, weirdly). You can find them on marketplace for a couple hundred dollars because people buy them and forget about them

>>11453490
Nice, thanks.

went to local hobby shop and got some of this. I was gonna get another tube of tamiya putty but wanted to try this stuff instead. was told its similar to vallejo putty and I would agree, however unlike vallejo it actually sticks to the fucking plastic and doesn't just immediately peel off if you look at it wrong

>>11452656

>>11452679
Based, even the modern digital art is kino

I finally finished my first model, It was going good until it came time to glue everything together, next Mini I'm going to have to pay extra attention to what glues where because I just airbrushed both sides of virtually every part not knowing how much it would fuck the paint up and not stick.

>>11452656

>>11453920
You should still to that just sand/scrape the paint off the gluing areas. I scrape with a scalpel (sideways, so not cutting) and it shaves the paint of easily for good glue adhesion. Far less painful than masking it off on tricky parts and less risk of unpainted faces showing if you're looking at the car if you only paint what might be the visible side

What kind of primer/paint types should I use for pontos's 1/700 yamato?
I use vallejos surface primer and acrylic paints for plastic kits and minor PE but for this thing I want something that's sturdier

>>11454107
Vallejo primer, when used properly, provides mad adhesion somehow, probably some Spanish fascist blood magic. If you are really worried and are able to, use some lacquer primer like Mr.Surfacer or some shit.

>>11454099
I'll definitely do it next build but I'm wondering how you scrape paint off in tiny recessed circle areas like where the indicators and mirrors sit, I tried to do that today and the scalpel blade can barely move around in there. Sewing pin perhaps?

>>11452656
For me, it's Roden's, made by great artists who were taken away from us too soon. Fuck Russia.

>>11454131
Spin the scalpel blade and buy a variety of them. Excel hobby tools makes a gazillion blades and with about of them you can cover everything. Generally though holes are less filled by paint so it's not as much of a problem

>>11454137
Sweet, noted.

>>11454132
Ziggers blew them up? :(

>>11454168
Fucking bastards shot him.

>>11453901
Lol at the little kebablet.

I can't build Merkavas anymore though. It's the one thing I can't. The Gaza genocide is the one thing I can't stomach.

>>11454180
Fucking subhuman uralniggers.

Miniart used to be based in the Crimea, they packed up and moved operations to Kiev after 2014.

Is a Tokiwa 1/144 Area for $15 plus $10 shipping a good deal? I might be able to pick it up since it is near my grandmother's place, but only if I find the time to go.

>>11454351
>Area
Ares

Color corrections needed after I figured out what the valve under the nozzle does on an airbrush

>>11454527
The valve under the nozzle? Do you have a siphon airbrush?

>>11454545
gravity, but this thing

>>11454598
I don't have an airbrush that has that kind of valve, but by the placement I would guess that it's 99% regulating the air flow.
Read your user manual, dummy.

But from the way it looks on your tank I'd say thin your paint more and do several light passes. You can't really get both coverage and smoothness in one. You already have the coverage part covered, now smooth out the edges. You might need to tune down the pressure as you thin out the paint more.

>>11454598
I used to like these but i'm finding now that it's just better to put the compressor air regulator in easy reach and run it there since the micro valves get gunked up very easily unless you're extra diligent about cleaning the entire airbrush every session.

>>11454598
>>11454696
I also leave my airbrush completely open and let the compressor do the work. It's much easier to adjust on the big knob anyway.

I am building a Tamiya Type 74 and I want to paint it in a scheme inspired by the Micro Machines Terror Troops, where could I find a 1/35 skull symbol transfer similar to this?

>>11454773
Just paint it

>>11454773
go ask /tg/

>>11454773
Warhammer kits have similar decals.

>>11455611
Warhammer kits are extremely overpriced, he will be better off with PE stencils

>>11454773
I guess google is unknown technology. Good on you for not asking Chat GPT like a braindead facebook boomer tho.

https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/water-transfer-decals/1260-waterslide-decals-undead-zombies-fantasy.html
https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/water-transfer-decals/957-waterslide-decals-tactical-numerals-and-pinups.html

>>11455624
There are warhammer decals sheets sold individually. There he has tons of skulls and weird emblems if he doesn't build only one vehicle in this style.

Anyone here used to live in a former warsaw bloc/soviet union? How was scale modelling viewed during this period?
Also how is it viewed in China compared to the West?

>>11456054
It's militarism, so highly encouraged as a hobby, especially for youth.

Except you could only get dogshit combloc kits, and only of combloc subjects. My dad said he was done with plastic kits in like the mid 70's, when he assembled some shitter airliner in half an hour.

Sometime later he scratchbuilt a bigass Kynda-class.

>>11445748
>'fucking shit modeller retard' range
He doesn't know about Revell Aqua Color.

Still waiting on FedEx to sort my shit out, but I have a second order lined up for after the order. I plan on getting an F-RSIN kit as part of this purchase. What should my expectations be? (Other than filler, filler and more filler.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zlm7TgYkRU
Night Shift mentions attachment issues many times in this video. Problems with his new girlfriend maybe?

>>11457095
>new girlfriend
cringe.

>>11457095
>Girlfriend
Fucking normie REEE.

In all seriousness, the more I watch Night Shift, the less I think that he is a great modeller. Do not get me wrong, he is very good, but I think he needs to improve his techniques even more, possibly even exchange his horizon and do ships or aircraft. Then again, I an comparing him to Tom's Modeling in Motion, who is now doing my wooden ships.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c8CTibD1gU

Then again, I am a retard and suck at building, but that should change, eventually.

>>11457145
I think night shift is using some odd hyper autistic approaches that could be substituted with easier techniques for similar or better results.
Two things I really don't like with his stuff is how a lot of his vehicles end up looking super light and washed out (I think there was a Tiger I that seemed the worst to me) and then the way he paints figures by glazing seems odd. Makes it look very flat in the end with muted colors.
Now don't get me wrong, he is plenty skilled. I just guess the general way he tends to work with very muted colors is what gets to me, because I like a lot of color in my models instead of the boomer mentality of "uhh light works differently on such a small scale so I uhh don't use colors".

But anyone who is psychopathic enough to spend a weekend brush chipping road wheels is certainly a great modeller.

>>11457433
Yeah, the one thing NightShift is not good for is tutorials. Most of his shit is byzantine twenty step techniques, a lot of time using VMS, or some other magic potion that may not even be available in your country.

>a lot of his vehicles end up looking super light and washed out (I think there was a Tiger I that seemed the worst to me)
I've read somewhere that since Tiger paints were oxides, they didn't fade (since they're "already oxidized"), but at best darken a bit. So faded Tigers are inaccurate.

>and then the way he paints figures by glazing seems odd. Makes it look very flat in the end with muted colors.
Glazing is super hard, and most paints won't work no matter how much you experiment on a wet palette.

Also I wish he'd tackle camouflage uniforms for once, it seems every "professional" model builder avoids them.

>>11457448
>Yeah, the one thing NightShift is not good for is tutorials.
idk, a lot of his early stuff is fairly descriptive and easy to follow.

>Also I wish he'd tackle camouflage uniforms for once, it seems every "professional" model builder avoids them.
Because it's hard to get right. Best way I've figured out is to do a base coat, wash that to get shadows, then build either highlights or even the base color back up depending on how the wash went to get a "shaded" base and then use 2-3 different tones for each of the camo colors on top of that. Then it will look decent. Also for modern digital or multicam patterns it's better to try and go for the overall feel with larger shapes instead of trying to mimic the actual tiny square patterns. Depending on the scale of course. The older splinter, dot and amoeba patterns can be done pretty much 1:1, just takes a lot of patience.

>>11457095
>tiger
>1/35
dropped

>>11457448
>it seems every "professional" model builder avoids them.
Because painting figures imo is an entirely different terrain than making a tank like NightShift. Requires a bit different skillset and years of practice as well.

Watching Night Shift has greatly helped me expand my skills which I've used across subjects. A lot of techniques he uses can be applied broadly. (Pre-post shading, pinwashes, color theory, etc)

That being said it would be nice to see him work on something like ships. I think he's said something like "I don't know enough about them" before which is silly imo. Unless it's his autism that it won't be 100% accurate or realistic.

Picrel mfw waiting for my new VMS order to arrive.

ok wow I know this might be common knowledge but Im new and Im happy about watching that video that explained that you dont have to be super precise when painting clear parts like the cockpit windows of a plane because you can just scrub off the paint with a toothpick after the paint has dryed.

>>11458676
You can scratch the transparencies, though, so you really should try not painting outside of the frames.

>>11458301
>I don't know enough about them
that's gay and retarded. something like a 1/72 pt boat should be simple enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E78toHa8EQ&t=8m33s

why does she keep shaking the paint for a few minutes and then at 12:00 why does she color that part of the sheet

I've never had any gundams

>>11459285
gundam is gay

>>11459288
fuck wrong board, my fault for having many open at once

>>11459293
Wrong turn, buddy, gppg is across the hall.

>Captcha Jan 20 (Wonder what will happen then).

>>11459285
We wouldn't know because we're not building gundams.

>>11459285
It's panel wash, which is a thin solution and some of those can have the pigment separate and fall out of solution easily. Frequent shaking keeps it consistent so you don't slowly wind up with less and less pigment per application as it settles out.

She's also using the raised letterhead on the sprue to test the washes for hue, opacity, and flow.

I wan to be a retard and build a flightline of 20 models of the same type, probably in 1/144 or 1/72. What country and type should I do? I am leaning towards Soviet Mi-24s or German Ju-87s, but I am open to anything really, so long as it is relatively cheap ($25 or less per kit).

>>11459435
Bf109s. Eduard(F/G/K) or Tamiya(E/G) 1/72 kit are both about 20€ a piece.

>>11459435
do you mean 20 that would plausibly be seen together? or just every possible scheme and variant for a type?

>>11459435
How about a wild card suggestion and do since Kawasaki T-4s, Platz and Doyusha sell six kit sets, but I am not certain on price figures. F-Toys has a number of other types too.

>>11459553
I should have clarified this, same variant, same nationality. Schemes can differ, if that is realistic (my local air base has C-130s with two different schemes, for example).
>>11459493
>>11459623
Good ideas, though the T-4s might be hard to get. The Hasegawa 1/72 kit is very fiddly and not a super pleasant build, if you ask me (I built two of them a while ago).

>>11459285
if you've touched gundam shit, you shouldn't be allowed to post here

>>11459435
Dubs for Trumpeter Su-34, trips for Zvezda Su-30. 1/144 for both.

>>11459827
Fail. LMAO
>>11459435
Airfix Wildcat.

What's the best thing you ever built?

>>11460011
Eduard 1/72 Bf110G4

>>11459722
>>>/m/

p.s. post you're models

>>11460042
cool and neat

>>11460011
My builds always suck because I screw up horrifically at some point. So nothing.

Chipping and miscellaneous details and I will be done with this thing

>>11460176
This would look kinda cool in parade painting with white stripes and shiny paint.

Newest finish, Brengun 1/72 Messerspit.
Alright. Some trouble with the decals.

>>11460326
Bf109 and a Spitfire with the engines swapped around.

might be a dumb question but I have the Vallejo Steel blue paint but I need Navy Blue. what do I mix to it to get this result?

>>11460645
Id add a drop or 2 of white and see what happens

revell p-40 still coming along. I dont know why I do this to myself. I'm not sure I'm even gonna bother doing anything to the wing root gaps desu. just getting the fuselage halves and the nose looking adequate has been enough of a pain in the ass.

In the process of moving in and setting up my fancy new paint booth I lost one of the pieces that would have been for the nose guns, so I just opted to snip the ends off and just have it be like one of the later variants that didn't have them. unfortunately now my cockpit has 2 M2s by instrument panel that no longer need to exist, but whatever.

>>11460666
isnt navy blue darker than steel blue so I need to add black??

>>11460329
Neat kits, how was the fit?

>>11459435
Apache of some sort.

>>11461036
Reasonable for short-run.

>>11459435
I made a poll from all of your suggestions, I will tally it at noon tomorrow. https://fast-poll.com/poll/49ac0853

>>11449357
i have a couple. mostly five star, couple s models, seed and a north korean frigate from black dog ode doggy whatever. here's the qrd:

what they all have in common is that they very much live off the pe. the hulls come with little to no detail printed on, basicly the other end of the spectrum from resin casts.

s-models: interesting obscure subjects. meh print quality. all hulls were warped.

five star: great print quality. least amount of detail in the hull piece itself but comes with fucktons of pe. no hull warp

seed: only have one, print quality great. very comparable to five star. no hull warp.

black dog: looks good, haven't built it yet but seems similar to the fivestar in terms of print quality. no hull warp

good to have brass rods on hand with these.

there is a lot of resin cast waterline stuff floating around too like niko, triumph makes flower class etc. these come usually wit most of the detail molded directly into the hull

>>11460745
It may be an ancient dog's breakfast of a kit, but you've gone this far with it. Fill the roots. No pain, no gain. Suffer for your art.

>>11461140
>Other
F-5, the Academy/Revell kit is pretty good.

>>11461140
I would suggest the Mi-24, like you originally mentioned.

>>11461140
Five way tie with two new suggestions. I will create a new modified poll after lunch.

>>11462108
https://fast-poll.com/poll/7a5c9652
Ends tomorrow at two.

>removing carrier film from stencil transfers on the underside of a 1/72 plane
is this a good use of my time

>>11462344
In this thread? Yes. We're all a little Rain Man about something in here. You can be Stencil Boy, sidekick of Rivet Man, fighting the noble fight against the Undetaillers.

Brush chipping is so tedious
On the up side, the paint started behaving like in one of those big boy modelers and not sticking to the brush

How do I sand in a tight space? Pic related.

>>11463031
can't see shit

>>11463043
Might be better for me to just describe it. I bored the engine cooler a bit, but I need to do some fine sanding to make the surface unified.

>>11463047
Watchmaker files, fine grain sandpaper rolled to sticks, maybe those pedicure filing pens, though they might be too coarse for what you want to do.

>>11463051
Thank you. I will probably pick some up later today.

>>11463031
Super glue some sandpaper to toothpicks

>>11463129
Why not superglue some sand directly to the toothpick?

>>11463136
why not sand some superglue directly?

Another tie between the Su-30 and the Wildcat. I am not making a new poll, just whoever is the first to respond gets to determine what is built.

Ricejews are positively shameless. Combo kit of paki J-10 and poo Rafale already out.

>>11463327
Wait, is something going on there now too?

>>11463339
There was apparently a massive BVR battle last month, that was the most boring shit ever. Hundreds of Fox-3's fired, with maybe a few shootdowns.

>>11463327
smart, I wouldn't consider getting the HB Rafale otherwise because it's inaccurate dogshit

>>11461247
one of these days, we're gonna find a replacement for cotton balls as smoke or clouds

ali airbrush recommendations anyone?

>we need 1000 of you to give us $1 so we can make this kit
bros

>>11463938
That's very cool, modelcollect
Where is that T-62 you promised a decade ago?

>>11463938
Their B-52 is a royal fuck-up of a kit with a lot of incorrect details especially around the nose and tail section. Not worth funding because of this, in my opinion, assuming that it will retail for about $100.

>>11463938
The 1$ pledge thing is some new marketing bullshit that they try and pull to rope you into shit. I mean if it's for something you really are interested in like KS/Gamefound campaigns, then the 1$ pledge to access pledge manager later makes sense. But the newest sensation is pretty much selling a newsletter to people for 1$ and then hoping that X% will feel so committed that they will buy the product as well. I have not witnessed a place where the latter type has not majorly backfired. I mean people are braindead, but "let us sell you advertisements" might be crossing the line even for the sheeple masses.

>unironically considering buying chinaslop
ashamed honestly

>>11463938
>ChatGPT emoticons
I can see that Modelcollect are putting a ton of effort into this one.

>>11463297
Su-30.

>>11463938
this sort of begging reminds me of the AMK Tomcat debacle that was crowdfunded too, anyway these kinds of schemes are just what you'd expect from China's risk-averse dog-eat-dog get-rich-quick business culture

>>11463825
If you get the ultracheap $2 ones, you risk getting something absolutely useless
The ultracheap ones are allegedly constant airflow airbrushes
I got a bunch of them some months ago and I still can't fit any adapter or air hoses to test them out
I assume all $20-$100 airbrushes on ali to be made in the same facory and produce the same ok results

>>11464592
I don't think a thousand dollars with regard to a scale model mould can be called "crowdfunding"

First round of basecoats. Still haven't decided on the camo pattern for the hull.

The idea I had for this papershit is that they pulled an active duty Tiger-I and rebuilt it with a red-oxide prototype turret, so if anyone knows an example of a nice yellow/green/brown camo pattern, let's see it.

>>11464510
Su-30 it is, then.

>>11463938
While it crosses my mind, any expectations for their B-21?

>>11464499
>chinaslop
but only the chinese are capable of this level of cringe

What are some good materials to simulate chicken wire in 48 scale?

>>11466003
The smallest gauge jewelry wire that you can find.

Do you guys want to do a group build? Maybe make it start on August 1st and end on December 31.

I think I will make a Google poll or something similar. I remember there was the modified suggestion by the one anon, but I do not know any of the others.

The poll will be made when the next thread is created, so we have about a week or two for suggestions.

>>11466403
not really, unless it's pretty low effort or something I was already going to make

>>11466403
Last time we had a successful groupbuild was maybe the Zvezda groupbuild in 2022.

>>11466403
Like the other two above me said, but I would like to suggest a Revell group build, because "No Revell is purely Revell or Revell (except Revell). ALWAYS research your Revell before buying."

>>11465280

>>11466616
Too late, also not a real pattern.

Intentionally made the camo kinda shitty with clouding and overspray, as these were all field-applied. I took the pattern from some other kits instruction.

>>11466667
>also not a real pattern.
the germans of ww1 would disagree with you

>>11466667
I would add a bit of buff to the base coat and to the camo colors. it looks field applied which is nice but the contrast seems a little bit much, although it could also be the lighting. not bad though I really like the oxide.

>>11466715
Never authorized for WW2 panzers though, numbnuts.

>>11466719
I think washes and filters will tone it down later, to look more like the Saumur King Tiger (which I assume is autistically accurate to the actual RAL colors, just like Bovington's 131).

>I really like the oxide.
I used the highlighting method from this WH40K video, reversing the gradient and making the bottom the lighter color.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShNRW82j3nE

Gonna do another round of highlighting with the red oxide mixed with just a little bit of orange, this first pass is just the base color over black primer.

after a couple of months finally back into masking and painting. something to look forwards to besides drinkin

I saw this in a youtube video and wanted to try it. I don't know how it will turn out but only one way to find out

is this just military model or can we talk about garage kits?

>>11466403
Do either 1:72 or 1:700, anything big, expensive or elaborate will never get more than two anons building it due to the dedication necessary for a 5-month-build being unable to be summoned by a pollwinner

Does anyone here build 1/700? PE?

>>11467148
what's your question

>>11467121
What about an eyestrain gb? So it would be 1/72 for tanks, 1/144 and 1/200 for planes and 1/2000 for ships.

>>11466416
The "Stuff Anon wanted to build anyways groupbuild".

>>11466733
>Never authorized for WW2 panzers though, numbnuts.
La-dee-da, look at Herr "Ich have to adhere to strict Wehrmacht patterns even though I already have a cobbled-together piece of shit but Gott beware if I deviate from der painting Anleitung"

>>11467273
the subjects should be related somehow, otherwise it's gay

>>11467432
What about "go to your nearest brick & mortar store and by the cheapest [SCALE] kit you can find" and see what anons can dig up?

>>11467462
Alright that sounds like fun. it should be a common scale though.

Speaking of scale, what about a "box scale" group build?

>>11467462
Sounds like fun. I'd add letting each participant choose their genre(armor, aircraft, etc.) and buy the cheapest kit of that type.

>>11467004
What about them? You don't just post out of context then dip.
And no, we won't help you find these Zeiram kits, look for them yourself.

Are there any good colour conversion charts for testors to tamyia or vallejo
I'm fucking stupid and can't find shit

>testors

>>11468229
You just paint some on a card and take it to a hobby stores, then note whatever is the closest.

This faggot was placed in a sealed container, I left for the weekend and he lost his head in the meantime
Fucking hell
I'm not schizophrenic

>>11468708
I had a small piece of trash on the floor next to my bench's leg. I picked it up to throw it away and realized it was a piece of a model. I have no idea how it got there and if there are any other pieces scattered around.
The worst thing is that there is an open trashcan next to it, but it's filled with cum tissues, so I won't go and dig just on a slight suspicion.
If something is missing I will scratchbuild.

>>11466403
My vote is for a civil war group build, doesn't matter what country's civil war, but most civil wars have interesting subjects and less commonly seen schemes.

>>11468640
I doubt they let you take paint samples in the store

>>11468895
The store usually has samples swatches on the paint rack, plus you can always compare the swatch from the Testors paint at home with the contents of the shop paint shaken up. It works best with paints in glass jars, though.

Is there a 1/48 M1 TUSK conversion kit?
scalemates doesn't yield results

>>11467974
it just seems like this gen is focused on historical vehicles, I tried posting here before and I was told to "go back to /m/" it was a maschinen krieger kit. and the other occasion I was trying to talk about some kits based off of the guyver and dirty pair and was told to "go back to /a/". honestly it would be nice to have a dedicated hobby board.

>>11468971
We have GPPG and that is the anime side of us model builders. MK is fine, though, we have a couple of MK guys.

GKs are either buyfag on /a/, GPPG or possibly Bussy Shinki & Friends.

The things required for the sake of a few millimeters of accuracy...

(Eduard Photoetch upgrade set for the Tamiya 1/35 Panther Ausf. A)

>>11469062
that's the issue I'm not interested in gundam and everything that isn't gets ignored, especially non mecha

>>11469226
Some /a/ buyfag guys might be able to help, but I understand your trouble. My apologies for turning you away to another board, but there are not a lot of GK guys. At least not since e2046 changed their style of operations.

In light of the 20 of a single kit anon... What if I did something funny and bought 40 Trumpeter 1/144 Chengdu F-7s? I know that they are shitkits, but it would be hilarious coming to a model show and flooding the contest with little Chinese fighters.

>>11466667
No real self respecting German crewman would have sprayed that jizz. Looks like those fucking "3 year old with finger paints" camo patterns that the soviets had.

Finished some ziggers for my MT-LB build, will pick like 2 or so to stick on the diorama (once it exists).

FRESHLY BAKED:
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>>11469963
I see the second to left has already met a hohol drone.

>>11469983
Tank commander not need legs comrade. That makes also for smaller target. 50% less soldier mean 50% less target. Questions is, why you still have legs, comrade?

>>11469987
https://voca.ro/159fQkdI5fVD

>>11470000
Sounds like Plasmo