Thread 11576280

Tune-Up Edition

previous thread: >>11548733

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:
A railway modeler is someone who has a one track mind.

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)

Hello /smg/,
first time here and completely new to the hobby. I want to restore and slightly upgrade pic rel with some details. So i've been watching "how to" and "restoration" videos to understand techniques and tools needed. But there are so many doubts and the more i try to clear them the worse it gets...
Before apply new paint (tamiya) i'll have to add the side mirrors (shown in pic) and headrests (handmade with epoxy):
-epoxy putty or clay?
-do i simply press it onto the body till it hardens or does it need glue given the small surfaces it will rest on?

After painting how can i get details like intakes and grills on the purple car?
The yellow one may looks alright at first glance but outlines look a bit sloppy looking closer. I'll help myself with modeling tape but still...
I was thinking of a mix of:
-paint for trunk spoiler, windows borders, skirts;
-markers for taillights + shader to add some deep
-decals for side trims, door handles, hood emblem, plates and headlights
-shader (citadel nuln oil) for panel linings, since i don't want those thick black lines i've seen around. And lights to make them look less flat.
Sounds an acceptable path to take?

Finishing it: i'll clear coat it (mr hobby), sand it and polish (tamiya) to remove the orange peel effect and have the paint shine
What do i do with the plastic windshield?
was thinking about sanding it and simply give it a layer of clear coat. But i've seen some polishing it, some use polywatch, some woodfloor polish...

p.s. sorry for the blogpost and thank you in advance for any hints

>>11576350
Paint the mirrors separately and glue them after painting. You will bump them off otherwise.
>Epoxy Putty or clay?
The one you are more familiar with. Epoxy putty if they are tied. For headrests you are best off drilling a hole in the seat and inserting a peg for strength.
Use an enamel/oil wash instead of nuln oil.

>forgetting the title
YA BLEW IT

>>11576280 (OP)
>No title
An /smg/ worthy of Boxman himself

>>11576801
I lost my fucking mind at all of his paint peeling

>inner part of bat wings seperate piece for some unknown fucking reason
>cant get seam to disappear
>the chrome parts are impervious to bleach stripping again, just like the last one
>painting instructions are shit and I basically just have to figure it the fuck out myself

why do I keep buying AMT kits. am I retarded?

>>11576898
>for some unknown fucking reason
There are several reasons like they can't mold complex details on the inner face or molding in one piece would raise the risk of short shots and sink marks.

>>11576923
would have been much better to just have the entire wings as a seperate piece in that case

>>11576931
Why? then you would have a seam to adress all the way around the fin. So you have the outside smooth and in one piece and the inner sides with the seam. I find that option quite good.

>>11576923
>>11577043
This and this. Do all midwits just surface level everything without trying to understand the reasoning and mechanisms behind the things they use and do?

Any tips on how to create a realistic gun mantlet canvas cover without fucking It up?

>>11577400
Wut scale

>>11577406
1/35

>>11577400
What have you tried already? I just watched a Plasmo video where he made a canvas cover from putty. If you make it thin enough it should work.

>>11576931
>>11577043
I was mistakenly thinking about it from the perspective of an actually good model company that can design and make kits that fit well and precisely. If it were japanese made the gaps would be minimal regardless of it being the entire piece or just the inner half, and filling it would be a walk in the park.

>>11577454
Which one?

>>11576280 (OP)
I'd really like to own a sailing ship in 1/72 or 1/350. In plastic preferably, good detail, and <100$
Does such a kit even exist?

>>11577757
>good detail
almost all existing kits are over 30 years old so don't expect modern quality detail from any of them

>>11577757
Zvezda has a decent selection, my botefag friends don't have any complaints

>>11577400
>>11577669
This one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oHGXkZ-LdA
Make the cover from epoxy putty, it will look bad at first but keep sanding and redoing until it looks good.

>>11577409
In my small experience making mantlet covers, aluminum foil is a fine substitute
Creases scale up with smaller scales

>>11577923
>over 30 years old
Try 60

As soon as airfix got hold of injection plastic they made some sailing ships and they're still using those molds today

>>11577757
Those are tight criteria. Smaller scales are likely to be complete shit. 1/96 is the closest common scale to 1/72 in plastic. This does offer up Cutty Sark and Thermopylae, which are dreadfully ancient molds but contain enough parts and rigging to cover up a great many sins. Both of these can be found on eBay for less than $100 US. For such restrictive criteria, that's about the best you can hope for. You may also find a USS Constitution in 1/96 in the price range from time to time, which needs a LOT of work but can turn into something decent if you put time and effort in. There is also the Lindberg 1/96 Sea Witch, which might have the unique distinction of being the only Lindberg kit that isn't absolute shit. Choose your poison and go from there, because all of these are old as hell molds.

What's the shiniest, most reflective chrome paint you can buy?

>>11578739
damn, it's tough
I said 1/72 and 1/350 because I'm autistic about having everything in the same scale (1/35 for ground vehicles, boats, some choppers, buildings; 1/72 for aircraft and boats; 1/350 for ships)
I guess I'll just 3d print everything when I finally get a 3d printer

>>11578313
Also a good idea.
How does it look painted? I can't conjure an image in my head of metal foil not looking like metal.

>>11578799
Here is how it looks in 72nd scale
Conqueror is on hold until I am finished with my frenchoid tanks

>>11578816
And finished

>>11578816
>>11578819
Hm yes it does indeed look "foil-y", but I guess at that scale that's what you work with.

>>11578819
Looks like someone took one of those whiteout pens to a plastic toy. Do better.

automotive filler primer took care enough of the bat wing seam line well enough that I no longer care enough to keep trying to hide it

>>11579159
>and somehow he does better than me
I should really git gud otherwise I will end up like twitterbro or family lighter anon.

>>11579700
The secret is to do your best, try to improve every time and if you fuck up, retry. And if even then you fail to improve then just face the facts that you must be twitterbro levels of peak boomer retarded, physically unable to better yourself and end it all.

>>11578798
Well, fair enough I guess. If you're determined to satisfy your scale tism but still want to build sailing ships, then probably your best fit would be Imai's series of 1/350 scale tall ships. I have no idea how many of these Imai made, or what they might presently go for. I think the molds were taken over by Aoshima, who may or may not have released all of Imai's line. They are also older molds, mostly from the 1970s, but being Japanese a bit higher quality than most 1970s era molds. The detail on them (they are rather small) is probably about equal to a 1/700 scale ship, maybe a touch better. It's been a long time since I built one, I did the 1/350 Nippon Maru when Desert Storm was live on TV. While relatively nice, for the scale and era, I can tell you these are fiddly as fuck to build and doing the rigging will probably eat your soul.

>>11579795
Thank you so much for the info, I'll definitely look into them

>>11579756
I guess, it also does not help that up until very recently, I was using 20 year old Testors Acryl paints (last I used one was in 2024).

Even with good paints my skills are lacking, but I should build more often.

>>11579620
Quite an impressive vehicle. Will it be semi-gloss black? Or what is the historically correct choice here?

>>11579823
No problem. I would have mentioned them in my previous post but I forgot they existed. When I was thinking about what might be out there in the smaller scales all I could think of were Airfix and Heller ones.

There is also an Academy 1/350 Cutty Sark that scalemates lists as 'new box' and possibly derived from the Imai kit, but it does have different parts so might be 1990s tooling. In any case, I found a youtube build video so you can at least get an idea for what working on tall ships in this scale might be like before you jump in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i645HYUg-ZE

won't plastic sails be ass

>>11579890
yes, semi gloss black. Im building it for my dad's birthday later this month because hes been a big batman fan since the 70s and he told me the tim burton movies were his favorites

>>11575937
I also like the art too much and just store books and stuff in them, depending on the size

black primer - white mottling
white primer - black mottling
Is it the same?

>>11581358
if you want reverse highlights and shadows I suppose?

>>11581366
No, white and black would go in the usual places, white in the middle of panels and black between them, but I suspect the end result would be lighter , compared to starting with black as a base.
Unless I'm missing something

>>11581374
Pre shading is fucking retarded anyways.

>>11576472
plan was:
>to cut the mirrors mounts;
>make a sort of triangular shaped mounts with the epoxy;
>embed the mirrors in;
>install the whole onto the door edge
>start painting the car
pic related, could it work this way?

About putty or clay, this is my first ever job. I've read that clay is more beginner friendly since it takes more to harden so would be easier to model.
I've got tamiya TS acrylics, will enamel/oil wash work with those?
Do i use them before or after the clear coat?

>>11581628
Clay will 100% just break off. Also pin that shit in place with a wire or something, even the putty won't hold just on it's own.

first time I've ever painted a figure. doesn't look too bad if I say so myself. I think once everythings dry I'll hit it with some semi gloss to knock down the shininess a little bit. The finish on the Batmobile itself I like as is, so thats pretty much done.

>>11582345
>No weathering

>>11582345
Did it come out of a cereal box? Looks worse than those knock off army men with shifted molds. The paint job isn't doing it any favors either.

>>11582714
I mean for his first figure it's not bad, even though the actual plastic figure itself is questionable

Tamiya 1/48 38(t)

Tamiya 1/48 Jagdpanther

scalemates -> stash -> manufacturer country
post your statistics.
here's mine:

SU Soviet Union (1922–1991) | SU (10)
IT Italy | IT (5)
FR France | FR (5)
GB United Kingdom | GB (4)
3R Germany (1933–1945 Third Reich) | 3R (3)
US USA | US (1)
CN China | CN (1)
DE Germany | DE (1)
HU Hungary | HU (1)
SE Sweden | SE (1)

>>11582714
>>11582748
I really don't understand why everyone I've shown this figure says it looks like shit. The pose is a bit silly looking but the quality is good. The details are fine and the mold quality is great, I didn't even have to clean anything up before painting which is unheard of on an AMT kit.
>>11582397
What even is there to weather

>>11582788
>having a scalemates account

>>11582788
3R Germany (1933–1945 Third Reich) | 3R (13)
JP Japan | JP (9)
SU Soviet Union (1922–1991) | SU (7)
US USA | US (5)
DR Germany (1871–1918 Deutsches Reich) | DR (3)
Worldwide | * (2)
GB United Kingdom | GB (2)
NL Netherlands | NL (2)
DE Germany | DE (1)
IT Italy | IT (1)
UA Ukraine | UA (1)

>>11582770
The base coated viewports set me off. But otherwise relatively nice job. Fairly clean, I like the Jagdpanther a bit more. Could go a lot more interesting. These look like clean prim and proper museum pieces more or less.

>>11582810
>I really don't understand why everyone I've shown this figure says it looks like shit.
>I really have no idea why my people have been thrown out of 109 states

>>11582945
I dont understand what gods chosen people have anything to do with it but the figure was promised to me 10000 years ago

>>11583169
Nice job anon. Your dad is going to love it.

>>11582769
>"hurr Czech are an inferior race"
>use all their gear because it's better than yours

Revell or Trumpeter Chally 1 in 1/72?

>>11583549
>dogshit or dogshit but slightly more accurate, with more slide molding

>>11582769
>>11582780
Sweet builds

I am just wondering if you guys would like to have a /smg/ Secret Santa apart from the figure and Lego guys.

If you are, then let me know here, so I can begin setting things up in time for the next thread.

>>11583549
Wait 4 one of the newer chinamen brands like Meng or border to release one?

next up on the table is this vintage monogram kit. I'm genuinely surprised how well the fuselage halves fit together. I've built a few vintage tooled but modern production revell kits and the molds are so tired and worn out that they're a real dog to put together. The edges would be folded over and the gap a mile wide, but this one is an 80s release of a 60s mold, so I guess it just hadn't been overworked yet.

This one I'm going old school with, and not using my airbrush at all (except to prime it). I bought it because it was cheap and also the toy gimmicks it has are really cool imo. The wings fold and apparently so do the landing gear.

Quick question, what paint is being used to create this tone of dark yellow? I don't know if it's just my eye but it looks a bit darker than xf-60 and xf-88. It's looks more like an XF-92/XF-59 mixed with xf-60 color. I really want to replcaite it but I'm afraid I'll fuck it up and make it too light or too brown. Any ideas on how to achieve this?

>>11583961
if anything, its probably just got a filter layer on it that you could replicate (and wipe off if its not right) with oil paints

>>11583169
Looks really nice anon, happy birthday to your dad

>>11583549
Neither, 1/72 tanks are a nightmare

>Dragon is making a kit that's just >50% 3D printed parts
how the mighty have fallen, this company used to be quite ahead in plastic molding technology

>>11584407
>airfix making a kit in more than 50% injection molded parts
how the mighty have fallen, this company used to be quite ahead in resin casing

Finally finished the Tamiya 1/35 Kettenkrad.

Focus stacking setup.

Gave Helicon Focus a try and it provides superior out of the box results with fewer artifacts compared to Zerene Stacker.
Compare pic with >>11582784
May be worth picking up black friday. They both run on linux.

>>11584440
>>11584442
>>11584444
Sweet result

>>11584440
Not bad by any metric, but you could probably do much better. I would love to see a diorama of the Kettenkrad driving through that shoe polish factory.

Great photo setup though. Lightbox retard, take notes.

missed armorcon two years in a row because I forgot. aint easy being retarded

>>11576280 (OP)
How do you brush paint non linear camo on the spitfire?

>>11584440
very nice camo stripes.
whats your airbrush setup for this?

my shoki is brown and salty

>>11585700
now the salt is gone and its still brown but with specks but... my shoki doesnt taste like chocolate

>>11585704
Is... this the desired result? I mean I get the salt method, but it looks like someone threw a bunch of acid snowballs at the thing.

>>11585706
first try, i dunno

>>11585706
>>11585762
maybe too little? those jap airfield mechanics shouldnt have sniffed all the paint thinner tho.

the water pearls off the alu layer which is why you get mostly rounded drops which catch the salt. maybe a matte coat would have helped with the water strokes to stay in shapes.

>>11585768
I'd feather some of it out with sponge chipping.
on the Ki44 I used hairspray and a stiff brush, and on the J2M I used a sponge with liquid mask on it for my shitty paint nipmobiles

Do you ever like working on the diorama elements more than the main kit?

>>11585961
those are awesome

would like to see the finished piece

>>11585961
I had a bunch of fun with all the bits on the arctic U-boot diorama. So yeah, I guess. But that might only be from the trauma the 1/350 PE and rigging caused.

>>11585768
>>11585960
So why did jap planes do this?

Was it because of the paper-thin aluminum-alloy skin flexing and deforming and shit? Or was it just bad primer/paint?

>>11587082
I honestly have never seen any pictures of their aircraft doing that, but maybe I just lack research.

>>11587083
Not sure if bait or genuinely retarded. Typing in "japanese fighters paint flaking" will give you hundreds if not thousands of pictures and an answer - they didn't have proper primer, so the same happened as does with metal scale models with no primer.
pic related first google result

>>11587092
This is probably going to be more prominent for IJA planes, that apparently didn't have primer, less so for IJN ones. What I don't see on any chipped IJA planes is any sign of zinc-chromate or exterior aotake, so it's probably true.

Me chipping my Zero was probably inaccurate, but I don't care, it looks nice.

>>11587092
The latter, I will not lie to you. I just thought it was an urban legend.

>read that this ancient monogram kit has folding wings, even if it is simple and toy like
>super excited to build it
>get to the part where I'm ready to attach the wings
>there isn't actually a way to fold them at all and s you just have this gigantic ugly seam instead

I was willing to overlook the mediocrity of this kit but now I'm just super disappointed :(

>>11587420
You only realized that the wings were not going to fold once you got that far into the build, not the instant you looked at the sprues or instructions?

>>11587532
I was being retarded. The instructions in this release of the kit don't mention it at all for whatever reason, but I figured out how to make it work when I found the instructions from an older release on scalemates

obviously still very simple and toy like but that was kinda the whole point in buying this particular one instead of literally anything else

I bought one of these, should I use a matte or gloss topcoat?

>>11588099
The Berkut is many things, glossy isn't one of them

>>11587611
tfw no good folding hellcats

>>11588908
diy the hinge if you can

nothing stirs up the anxiety just like a Nightshift video 2 days before the national scale model competition

a 1/35 modern civilian ambulance with full interior.
Is it really too much to ask for?

I hope the new lot of chinaman companies making scale models shift their focus from making an infinite parade of german shit to something more obscure like France or Italy

>>11590681
>heres your next chinkgod kino kits bro

>>11590911
>snapshit tanks
>tracks made out of fucking PVC
why

>>11590911
>paints free
>cement free
Didn't think of Border as a brand aimed at little kids and redditors
Apparently I was mistaken
Shame

>>11590911
What connection do these guys have with (and may Allah forgive me for uttering their name) Panda Hobby?

Opinions on the Takom Panther-A (no interior)?

It's on sale here.

>>11591135
>1/35 planes
they're aimed at gay niggers

>>11590681
anon, obscure stuff was what they used to do, nowadays they just make the most mainstream shit imaginable

>>11590911
>prepainted
why are they copying american failures from the 90s now?

The Sofia show back again and people are still entering their models
I will post more images later
I wish the hall had better light

I noticed this year, we have 2 (two) Hitlers
More on that later

This year the theme is Mig-29, the president says some of these models are his

You can argue now how paint peels from japanese aircraft some more

I wonder where bomberfags keep their models

>Fulcrum sexo
>Y-Wing sexo
>Betty SEXOOOOOOO

Khazar milkers missing

Benis :D:DDD

anyone also buy RC's? I've wanted a rc buggy ever since i was a kid, i bought and made a tamiya TT-02 a few years ago but i recently went to a rc hobby shop and got interested again, what's a good buggy kit? I want the enjoyment of making it myself, so far its looking like a tamiya BBX but id like to hear someone's opinion here, it will be purely for fucking around with and will mostly be a display piece

72 armor, mine are the ones without bases

48 armor
3rd place guaranteed babey

Fortunately, the guy with the M48 also didn't have a base
I don't understand how he came from Serbia with a bus and the model wasn't minced meat

Hitler 1
Was here last year

Hitler 2 and Stalin in HO scale

Hitler 3 maybe?

Botefags...

I wonder if every show has the obligatory Titanic

I hope the kid with this one gets 1st place

>>11591996
thought this was op

>>11592003
You can only have so much kanonevogels piloted by Hans Ulrich Rudet

So, yea
Where do you keep your bombers

2spoopy4me

Sole entrant in 48 wheels

>>11591990
nobody online seems to give a shit about tanks in soul scale, it's weird

>>11592010
Some of these looking good. Like the fulcrums. Makes me wish my show was split into 35/48/72 tracks and wheels instead of everything in a “military vehicles” basket.
IIRC around 100 (out of 1200) builds were in vehicles last year, plus 50 botes and 200 planes.
I never managed to find a catalog of last year’s entrants, so I’ll bring a camera along to try and get some good shots as well. If they’ll allow me. Will likely post an Imgur album link or something similar (I hear Imgur is no longer accessible in the UK?)
How was the lighting? I paint my builds under a bright light and I’m worried they’ll look like colorless blobs under expo lighting.

>>11592034
Lighting is diffused, so glossy spills are invisible
I was worried about this as well

>>11590916
I like that thing especially because of the three engines. Looks like from a video game. Would add to stash and build 5 years later.

Last year's BRDM-2 was something to behold, wish I didn't lose the photos
Won 1st place and several awards from the international clubs
This one is a bit underwhelming

>>11591993
>standing with arms crossed next to Hitler
doubt.

Unfortunately, the show is smaller than last year

Late new additions, the photo doesn't show it but the uniforms are gloss black
I guess the guy thought the Germans had latex uniforms?

More new additions
This one is really weird, the tank and diorama are overall good, bit the figures are wonky
All of them have derpy eyes and the Tamiya flesh is giving way to the black primer underneath

>>11591959
Very nice idea, but the execution... Why does the whole thing look like it's smeared in crude oil?

>>11591985
IDF flak jacket is the comfiest "armor" I've used. Shit was fire and so versatile. Protect from flak, keep warm, can be used as extra padding under sleeping bag... Though during the winter you had to bend it back on when it was frozen solid. US flak jackets were shit in comparison and the modern full armor vests are so bulky.

>>11592058
found the image from last year
compare and contrast

>>11591981
>Death Star trench is made from various old electronic components

SOVL

>>11592010
Perfect focus, very cool, thanks.

>>11592146
Is it supposed to say "Bosnia"?

>>11592284
you'd be surprised to know that "Bosnia" in their language is "Bosna"

>>11592290
Randomly leaving out letters out of place names is not just a r*ssian thing to do?

>>11591985
Merkavas, Centurions, Tirans and Magachs are cool. But I just can't do Kikerael anymore. I just can't. This Gaza shit is repulsive. Fucking inhuman demons.

Next time I'm building IDF-shit is when I can build a nuke-charred wreck.

>>11592079
>I guess the guy thought the Germans had latex uniforms?
Probably wanted to go for black shiny leather

>>11592390
Do you have any thoughts on r*ssia?

>>11590911
>See the brave PLA fearlessly seize another uninhabited atoll

>>11592577
They're just a bunch of comically evil drunks, peasants, and savages, led by saturday morning cartoon villains.

>>11592390
luckily for you, there aren't any notable Israeli companies in this business but there are some dickriders, notably from Czechia and possibly China

>>11592390
>Fucking inhuman demons.
As opposed to Nazi tanks?

Thank you for posting the show pictures. I really enjoyed them.

>>11592004
very cute probe droid

>>11592099
Photo was bad, it is supposed to be an autumn vignette

>>11592256
Your whalecum

>>11592411
It's just bad execution for the figures

Some things I missed yesterday

More japanese peeling

Vgh... GroBgermanivm wunderwaffe...

Hard R earthmover

People are still entering their models

Really high standard of models at that show, wish my local one was the same. You just don't see the care and effort on most of them like this, it's more like showing off a conveyor belt of eg. every plane the USAF flew but having spent at most a couple of days on each they just look sad

>>11592885
Okay those bigguns are unironically very nice looking. I think pre-shading is moronic, but it really does help with the one on the left.

And yeah, thanks for posting the pics, a lot cooler than hearing some retarded faggot express his moronic wrong opinion for 20 posts straight and then disappear when four different people destroy him with facts and logic.

Some of the models look kind of boomer-tier with those tamiya skin tone figures etc. but at least you can see that some effort was made with like leaves and mud and shit. But a lot of really nice looking ones as well.

>>11592900
In the show itself, 1/72 ground and aircraft overall is where 100% effort is made
The dioramas suffer from obvious mistakes in various parts, but are compensated in their overall presentation

I feel bad for the late entries, looks like the jury has determined the ratings and the certificates have been printed

>>11592870
nice, but don't corsair wings go up and down together?

>>11592922
Idk mane, not a planefag

>>11592940
On one had I hear that tanks in ww2 simply didn't survive long enough to get weathered to shit.

On the other hand this example is pretty banged up, plus I've never seen a frontline IS-2 that didn't have its fenders ripped up. Those few months of service life must have been crazy intense, constantly ramming through obstacles, paint getting peppered by artillery, mortars, and desperate small arms fire, crews wearing down paint constantly working on tanks trying to keep them in action, etc.

>>11592996
After binging all the german wwii archive clips I'm 100% on the heavy chipping is actually realistic camp.

>>11593003
yeah but keep in mind that chipping happens in places that get touched a lot

Welp, my zigger 90 got 2nd place, the jury just ignored my pigger Abrams and gave 3rd place to the messy and glossy t-34 instead
I'm not mad

>>11592866
Hot latex panzer jacket.

>>11592660
Grandpa was a-ok.

>>11592660
>Moshe immediately starting with the whataboutism
I don't do krautshit either, but one:
>that happened getting close to a century ago, not right fucking now
>Germans apologized and changed, as opposed to Jews not acknowledging every single crime they committed since 1947, in fact constantly revving up their inhumanity
>most Germans didn't vote for Hitler, but in Israel even the moderates, liberals and lefties want to keep Arabs as, at best a slave race, at worst got rid of (however they may do that)

>>11593003
That square part looks like either a vehicle number or a unit marking that got overpainted.

Though it could also be something the censor removed for whatever reason.

>>11593009
Did the show not have a maximum 1 award in a category per modeller limit? Most I have been to have been like that.

>>11592876
>>11592878
>>11592885 Vulcan
These got 1st place, don't recall the other aircraft
>>11592864
This didn't get anything due to no competition
>>11593153
This may be the case

>>11592866
Those mold lines are disgusting. At 1/35 you can expect people to remove those.

I wonder how long till AI can generate you a "realistic" fantasy tank, then you ask another AI to generate a 3D model of it, and they print it out on your home resin printer.

>>11594037
That has been possible for a while. There's several image to 3D model AI services out there but they are, as you'd expect, paid services.

>>11593044
After a long, hard day of penetrating deep into the enemy's rear, the special bond between soldiers simply cannot be denied.

hi newfag here. has 3d printing affected this hobby in any meaningful way? the same weekend i bought picrel to figure out of i like the hobby(which i did) a cousin visited and told me about the 3d printer he has at home and i was left wondering if its worth it to buy a printer to get my hands on more obscure or recent vehicles than what the known model kit brands sell

>>11594387
It's still very hard to find kit quality vehicles as prints, but for printing accessories, figurines and diorama elements in the appropriate scale a resin printer is invaluable. You could easily print 100 1/35 people with a $20 bottle of resin.

>>11594387
>buy a printer
why not use your cousin's

>>11594387
Some kits already come with 3D printed extras that would have been resincast before. Also in general resin-cast aftermarket stuff is generally getting replaced by 3D printed resin.

>>11594401
oh i see. yeah seems like most of the focus on printed plastic for hobbies is being sunk into warhammer figurines and the like which do not appear to need the same fine tuned detail as these model kits. maybe one day
>>11594408
he lives far away and i work in architecture so i can write it off as a business expense and use it for my work unrelated to hobbies
>>11594426
interesting. i guess its just a matter of waiting for somebody to start converting already available models into kits i guess.

i spent a bit trawling through the internet and could only find these 1/35 models ready for print although its unclear from reviews if you print the whole thing as a single piece or if you are required to assemble them like a traditional kit

>>11594479
It took hold in wargaming first because wargaming generally needs multiples of an item and a lot of the metal/resin items were pretty shit to start with. A 28mm Napoleonic cannon might run you $40 in metal with shitty mutant-faced crew. Plastic might get you three cannons for $25. Resin printer can be as many as you need on the cheap. Geat for obscure shit, too, if you need something like a swarm of Ho-Has for Glorious Nippon. And they don't need their own printer, as soon as one pops up in a group of wargamers it can serve the lot. Metalfags are still coping about there being a market for tin alloy, but it's mostly dinosaur boomers without any sense.

>>11594387
>if its worth it to buy a printer to get my hands on more obscure or recent vehicles than what the known model kit brands sell

You won't, most of the companies sell physical prints of their files and very few deal in the actual 3D files themselves because of piracy. Most of the stuff you can buy are conversion/detail kits or scatter stuff with some infantry and very few vehicles.

>>11594401
100 1/35 figures with a liter of resin? That's generous. But the point stands.

>>11594726
Yeah, this is the big market as well. If you have Games Workshop selling you one commander figure for like 70 bucks like the jews that they are, then having a friend print a proxy for even 30 is an absolute win. I've had commissions that I've really not wanted to do so I add the "don't wanna" coefficient and still the people go "well it's still cheaper than buying the kits, so okay".

anyone have any experience making flags?
gonna make a good old stars and stripes in 72nd scale and I have access to thicker aluminum foil

>>11594479
Oh lord, I have experience with these. If only I weren’t imagebanned.
These come in full parts. Full 20+cm hull. Full modeled track length with independent wheels. Full turret with hatches, guns and smoke launchers separate. Modifications aside, 80% of assembly is removing the supports.
The thing is, their models are all ripped from games. Not a single doubt about that. And it’s up to you to figure out and buy exclusively models ripped from war thunder, because despite WT’s modeling inaccuracies (see the entire turret of WT’s Vickers mk7), those ones are still leagues better than the ones ripped from Armored warfare, where the devs / 3D artists simply never gave a shit about emulating reality. The detail afforded with 3D printing can be astonishingly good, ironically they are constrained by the effort of video game developers. I cannot overstate how bad some of these models are and how good others are.
They also sell on Chinese eBay for less than half the price western piggies pay for on aliexpress.
That being said, if you can get around the inaccuracies, know how to deal with 3D prints and their brittleness, or just don’t give a shit, some of them are not bad at all. They may even be easier to assemble than plastic kits. Given however that you are new to the hobby, I would really recommend you to stick to plastic kits for a bit while you learn how to paint. Check scalemates for whatever topic you’d like.
Or you can try to design parts yourself. That’s what i do now.

>>11594990
I don't have experience but I think 2-components epoxy putty is the best medium. Realistic folds, easy to shape, stays like that forever once cured, and can be made ultra-thin by using your pasta machine.

>>11595016
The foil from cookie tins seems to retain paint really good
I have bent this flag and no cracks have appeared
The red and blue are painted with AK acrylic markers, the wh*te is Tamiya

And I forgot the image like a retard

>>11595102
post hands

are resin kits fun though

>>11595954
They can be. Depends on the quality. Stick to Anigrand, Miniwing and Brengun for the first few kits.

>>11595954
The same way tying your hands behind your back and running down a hill is. There is potential for majorly fucking up. Possibility of permanent bodily harm if you do not take precautions or know what you are doing, but at the end of the day if you pull it off, then it's something you can tell your friends about and they can go "Cool, I guess, but why?".

Airfix, hornby bros its fucking over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HO9qIH2L0

>>11595954
Platz, Galaxy Hobby Studio (chink recasters), Volks (kinda)?
Yes, especially platz their resin kits are braindead easy.
Collect-Aire, Our treasure, Gamesjewshops forge world?
Dogshit mess that makes revell, shitaleri look like tamiya in comparison.

>>11596429
>leaving america
lmao it's time everybody ditches that market, ameritards don't deserve shit

went on a cross country roadtrip for a week. visited the hobby shops along the way that I found. I really liked scale reproductions in Louisville, KY. Definitely give them a visit if you're in the area
Got back and saw this ancient relic still on my work table so I just threw it together the rest of the way and I'm calling it quits here. The decals are unusable due to age. I might get aftermarket ones for later if I find a cheap set or something. Don't really feel like weathering it or doing anything further. I did this one with only a brush and vallejo paints.
Turned out alright I think. The zinc chromate interiors might be wrong but I could not care less

>>11596782
are those wings just hollow lol

>preshade white
>post shade white with a bit of oil after washing

I can't decide but I feel like if I preshade I'll still have to do the second option anyway.

>>11596882
completely hollow, nothing in the gear bays either. its basically a toy you paint yourself from the 60s rather than a scale model

>tamiyas next kit is the 1/72 f-14
bruh who asked for this

>>11597626
what's the problem

>>11597626
>the definitive tomcat variant
>based on the best 1/72 kit in the market
and this is bad somehow?

>>11597626
I personally asked Tamiya Nobuhiro for this.

I'd rather get the academy one for half the price

>>11597626
I'd like an Iranian 1/72 F-14A. The only one is finemolds which is fine. But they're scarcely available in the UK without importing.

There's always the 1/48 Tamiya one though.

>>11597626
>bruh who asked for this
MUH DIK

>>11597689
>1/72
Tamiya never made one, it's a scaled-down version of their 1/48.

wtf dude you're bending my boxes

>>11598105
>1/72 box is bigger than 1/48s

>>11598284
the wyvern is about as big as some the 1/48 single seater prop planes I've built even in 1/72 too. its a big boy

>>11576280 (OP)
Want to build BF109 G-6. What /smg/ recommend? Tamiya? Hasegawa? Eduard?

>>11598105
only a problem with the flimsy revell side flap boxes

>>11598371
What scale? For 1/72 the Eduard one is best.

>>11598105
I had to part ways with my battle buddy last month
I can't even look at cat food commercials

>>11598862
1/48 scale.
it's either pay the $55 for the Tamiya or get something cheaper at the hobby shop.

Should I just brushpaint this fucker for the authentic experience?

Were the real vehicles given brush-painted or spray-painted camo?

>>11598923
I asked this exact question some 4 or 5 threads ago, the correct response is who fucking cares
Get it to look good and be happy with it

>>11594990
>>11595105
I brush painted regular aluminium foil to make the flag in this one. I needed the flag to lie on the rock as shown so I couldn't use thicker materials and it works very easily. I guess masking on it would be a pain in the ass

>>11598897
sorry for your loss anon. That's a good battle buddy.

Are MPC kits any good/fun to build? I had to drop modeling because of my shakes and bad eye but wal mart has a few $20 kits id like to try.
1980 chexy monte carlo
Star wars tie fighter and tie interceptor are what im looking at. Im just curious what you think of mpc for a fun project.

https://kemopla.com/
Aoshima degeneracy.

>>11597626
https://youtu.be/-MIdhVdSNPQ?t=1084
SEX

https://youtu.be/RYpc35zDAy4?t=1150
Yet to see anyone rust up exhausts like this.

>>11599670
they're fine. I've only built one kit from them at my current age (built several as a child but dont remember how that went) so I can't attest to every kit. The one I did I'd say was above AMT and Revell in quality, in terms of plastic and the instructions.
a good rule of thumb for american company kits is that the tooling for the cars is just about as old as the cars themselves, so keep that in mind.

>>11599943
If you have to buy fabric clothes for them, not like plastic ones like in 30 mintues sisters and such, are they still "plamo" or just diy dolls?

This was supposed to be a quick weekend build, then my tism flared up. Even though I doubt anyone even knows for certain the exact color these were.

Either way I'm thinking it's gonna be the darker brown, the khaki to the left of it, and green in the middle.

Like is the Yasukuni Chi-Ha accurate? Maybe, but who knows. Their Zero is accurate, but aircraft always had tighter standards than ground vehicles, even for autistic Japan.

>>11600360
I used the ak jap tank color combo for this one, the colors are nice, however the color for the manchu racing stripe was missing and was painted with Tamiya yellow green
I will post my Tamiya chi ha, painted with Tamiya colors tomorrow when I have better light

>>11600368
very much accurate, the restoration was supervised by tank autists

>>11600537
Thx m8, but right now I'll just do XF-52 Flat Earth, XF-10 Flat Brown and XF-70 Dark Green 2.

XF-70 probably isn't too accurate, but it has this "Japanese feel" to it. Maybe because it passes as IJA/IJN aircraft green.

crazy how much better these 70s japanese kits are compared to monogram/revell of the same vintage
J2M and Ki43 are Otaki and the Ki84 is Tamiya. The Otaki kits both have recessed panel lines AND rivets. On the Ki43 I'm gonna do the mottled camo so its not just another flaky green one

>>11600773
If I remember correctly the american industry was already struggling in the 70s, explains why the bulk of american car models seem stuck in that period.

>>11600807
feels like american companies just stopped making molds in the 60s and 70s. There's so many cool american cars that would be great to have a decent 1:24 models that just don't exist.

Instead it's just an almost 60 year old lump of warped plastic and flash in 1:25

>>11600596
Here is the Chi-Ha
Base color is khaki+dark yellow in a roughly 4/1 mix, brown is an unholy mix of hull red, nato brown and some gloss red, while the green is plain old XF-61 back when it was lighter
Manchu racing stripe is still yellow green

>>11600807
>>11601083
It's like finding out when an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, pretty grim if you think about it.

>>11601083
>1:24 models
Revell claims it's unnecessary because no one can spot the difference in size with 1/25 scale even though it's very noticeable when you put them together side by side.

>>11601112
Now, how correct is the respective length of these two vehicles compared to the real thing?

>It's very noticeable
>if you put them side to side with a ruler
ok autist, but what about the rest of the time

>>11601173
1/25 ought to be 7.284in and 1/24 ought to be 7.587in so actually looks from the pic to be pretty accurate

>>11600368
>>11600773
How did these fucking goofballs go from cast steel riveted armor tanks and peeling aircraft to making the highest quality precision shit ever?
Simply by not being embargoed by the United States?

>Sit down at the bench to do some painting
>Mix paint up as the instructions list
>Why the hell is it so dark?
Turns out when I first made the paint I doubled the white but not he other colours. Is in my favour though because the colour they say is 10x darker than the picture of the model on the box.

>>11601091
All I have is Gunze H4 for yellow. Eh, it'll do.

>>11601219
>fascist military dictatorship Japan:
>"WE MUST MAKE JAPANU NAMBA WANNO BY KIRRING CHINABUG AND KOREADOG AND CONQURU THE MOSTU RANDU FOR THE EMPURUUUU!"
>capitalist democracy Japan:
>"WE MUST MAKE JAPANNO NUMBA WANNO BY MAKE THE HIGHEST QUARITY PRODUCTU!"

>>11601219
Wartime expediency and privation prevented them from making high quality models out of folded 1,000 times glorious nippon plastic and honorable liquid glue. Not to mention the ritual transfer of shinobi ki into the tiny parts so that they teleport to the floor, nothing personal, kid.

>>11594818
Too high or too low of an estimate?
I printed around 60 roughly 1/35-1/20 sized elements and 2 1/7 scale figures with one bottle. You could get even more if you use transparent resin and hollow all of your parts.

>>11601558
Too high. How in the fuck would using transparent resin increase the print volume? Hollowing figure-sized models in 1/35 scale is just asking for trouble. You do know that you need rinse holes, right? The raw resin will eat itself out of there over time.

>>11592660
yes

>>11601984
Hollow transparent resin cures all the way through with a strong enough UV light, which allows you to make more complex cavities that couldn't be drained or cured if opaque. Unless you're tard handling your minis there's no reason not to hollow torsos.

>>11602393
More like there's no point in rawdoggin those models unless yous a retard.

Okay, I'm finally gonna go with "nobody fucking knows".

I looked at the AK set, the Hataka set, and the old extinct Gunze set (pic) for IJA tanks, and compared the paint instructions on Scalemates from different Tamiya and Fine Molds kits, and the old Dragon and current 2025 Dragon Chi-Ha kits. All gave wildly different color codes.

Nobody fucking knows the exact shade of these colors. They know the official names the paints were given, but as far as the EXACT color: it seems to be mostly guesstimates.

I couldn't get the airbrush to play nice and do what I wanted so the splotches I think are a little too big but whatever. It'll probably look ok once the decals and weathering are on

>>11602522
Why did you post the late war colour set?

>>11582788
thats just one side of the room
there are smaller scales in double rows behind the front row
i dunno, i guess japan wins in my case

how do you count revell where icm and zvezda is inside?

>>11602664
Looks pretty nice

build your models don't just collect them

>>11602817
I puked in my mouth a little bit. Looks like the storage closet of a Bumfuck Nowhere, Idaho hobby store that should have gone out of business 40 years ago, but the owner couldn't be bothered to shut it down. It also has a website from 1996 with animated gif's.

>>11602909
cherish those little stores, anon, you're gonna miss them when they're gone

>>11602894
>have some models
>want more because I'd like to build them in future
>have job now and can afford them
>they might not be available in future if I wait
>gf would get mad if I did cause we're trying to save for a house

I have a 1:72 Horten 229 from Revell in stash, does anyone know good Luftwaffe squadrons or late war camouflage types?

>>11602894
Oooooh, the gatekeeper of hobbyism has spoken, telling people what to do with their time and money. Why don't you build your models instead of posting on 4chan?

I've always liked the look of those sharp air intakes on the bonnet of the GAZ-67.
would it be a dumb idea to try to recreate them 1:1 with styrene sheets, paint them with the proper color, and plop them on the bonnet of my car?
Has any of you attempted something similar?

>>11603154
reference

Does Takom just stop making kits after a while? A lot of their shit I can barely find anywhere.

>>11603357
seems like it
i'm never getting my AML-60

>>11603357
You have to wait for them to reissue it. All model companies operate like that. They do announce what their factories are producing.

Looking good so far, I was right that it looks a lot less shitty with the rest of the visual details. All thats left now is to weather it a little bit and add some of the smaller details, antenna, wires, landing gear, etc

>>11603575
looks great anon. I'm working on my metal gear rex.

>>11603573
>Mk.11 reissue
Fucking finally.

I might be addicted
Got 2 more tanks on impulse before finishing the 3 already prepared for priming

Finally finished the first of the ziggermobiles.

Another one off the table. Here is Otaki/ARII's Ki-43-II in 1/48. Nice kit for its age. Only really had issues with the canopy fitment, the rest is pretty good. Definitely recommend if you can get it cheap, the detail is very sparse so it would great platform to practice some in depth scratch building on. I only did a little bit here, to add the gear down indicators and the little tube on the propeller spinner. I used aftermarket decals from Lifelike Decals because the kit's sheet was heavily yellowed and probably would have disintegrated when they hit water anyways.

Its FAR from perfect but still very happy with it. The next jap plane I do with this kind of paint scheme I'm gonna do with one of those AK markers I think. Airbrushing the splotches was a pain in the ass. My dumbass could never mix the paint right or something. It was always either way too thin and spider webbed even at low PSI or it was too thick and clogged my airbush

>>11602963
Honestly this is how my stash grew to 200+ at the ripe old age of 27; that and cheap as fuck models and aftermarket I find during shows of subjects I want to do
>>11604101
>>11604102
Looks great anon, I really have to finish one of my Jap planes I have on the shelf of doom but I really hate setting up my airbrush. I got a 1/48 George and a Sam that just need paint, and a 1/48 betty I want to do in the white surrender scheme

On to a car next. I've been dreading this one a little bit because I always struggle with decals and this one is obviously chock full of em

I will make a new OP in ~10-12 hours guys. Bear with me.

>>11604052
Great work anon. I’m liking the cold, wet, miserable feel.

>>11604145
good luck, m8. sponsor stickers drive me fookin mental trying to get them in the right spots and lined up

>>11604052
Great job
What did you use for the mirrors?

>>11604499
That is a great question. I think it must have been an AK Real Color marker, aluminium I guess, because I don't remember airbrushing anything on that.

>>11604145
wanna hear your progress anon. I have a lancia delta rally car in my stash with fuck loads of decals too.

>>11604052
The paint job is top notch but it is irritating how the vehicle hovers over the soft ground. It should be sunken in to a degree. That distracts a lot from the your effort I think.

>>11585700
That could be a cool sunken wreck with some work

>>11604313
Still on Page 9, so I will wait. Sorry folks, thought that we would be on 10 by now.

>>11604590
I never planned for it to sit very deep in the pile of shit and had to shift the positioning slightly. It's more noticeable on the back side. But the ground is frozen, there - doesn't sink. An MT-LB is light as shit.

I hate masking
I hate masking
I hate masking

>>11604052
>Amfiibne soomustransportöör
E/b/in spörölö päräläää :-DDDDDDDDDD

FRESHLY BAKED:
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>>11604871
>>11604871