It has been few days since my last update, which is mostly because I spent the whole last week on a business trip to Versailles (doesn’ sound that bad, eh. Unfortunately it doesn’t […]
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I joined the dark side!
Yes, it’s true, I decided to switch side and build: an airplane. And the reason is very simple – to learn something new. After years building tanks and armored vehicles I realized […]
Voroshilovets Artillery tractor – Part 8: Mud
Voroshilovets has become bit of a guinea pig right now as I was testing some techniques of creating muddy look using a technique I have recently discovered. As can be seen from […]
WellCoME 2012
Modellers from the GTA area as well as from far away (read Ottawa for example) had another field day today. This time the venue was Guelph and the occasion was Wellington County […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 5: Dry-brushing, filters, washes & tracks
I have spent last few evenings adding few touches to the Ka-Mi. To tone down the contrast created by preshading and highlighting I applied oil filter. I used my trusty Winsor & Newton […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 4: Second highlights
The last paint layer that I plan to apply is the second highlight, to increase the contrast and give the model little bit more “depth”. For this layer I needed another shade […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 3: First highlights
Tamiya offers quite a wide range of grey colour paints in their acrylics range, so I had to choose which one to choose for the following painting steps. I decided to use IJN Grey XF-75 […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 2: Base Coat & Preshading
So, having added last few pieces to the vehicle I decided to give it some paint today (or rather yesterday as it is past midnight already). To save time I decided to skip […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 1: Construction
(UPDATED on April 3, 2012 – added some more corrections) Here comes another recent inspiration of mine. Having seen this model built by two of my friends (and both very nice models) […]
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My Workbench – new format Since the number of my build log posts is slowly increasing and I plan to focus on adding more, I have adjusted the layout of my workbench page in […]
El Alamein Sherman
After some time I had also laid my hands on the El Alamein Sherman that is sitting on my desk in the final phases of the construction. One of the last major […]
Ferdinand
Ferdinand is another piece from my shelf queen collection. It is Dragon kit, which is relatively new. When it first came out, I wasn’t very intrigued by this vehicle. Then I saw […]
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