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M1A1 AIM Abrams – Part 7: Ready for painting
M26 Pershing – Part 12: Dark chips
Yesterday I have added dark chips to the Pershing. This was actually preceded by the light overspray of all the decals with heavily thinned Khaki Drab. This step itself contributed a lot to the look of […]
M26 Pershing – Part 11: Decals, washes, highlighting and chipping
Few days ago the decals for the Pershing have arrived and I have spent past 3 evenings playing with them. It was a bit tricky, because the vehicles for which the specific marking options […]
M1A1 AIM Abrams – Part 6: Side skirts
I am always looking to mounting side skirts. Usually it means that the stage of never-ending alternating between the airbrush and X-acto knife is over and what is left to do is the joy of painting […]
M1A1 AIM Abrams – Part 5: Running gear
During the break while I am waiting for the decals for Pershing to arrive I went back to other kits sitting on my shelf to get them bit closer to the finish. […]
News from Nuremberg
As every year at this time, eyes (and ears) of the modellers from around the world are waiting for the news from Nuremberg, place of the annual Toy show, which traditionally is […]
Kudos to Mirror and Meng!
For the past few years that I have been building models, I haven’t encountered a kit that would be perfect, there is always something to be found. Though the accuracy and fit […]
M26 Pershing – Part 10: Base coat and highlights
I apologize for a slower posting pace in the recent weeks, the year’s been quite busy so far and over the last few days I was applying my skills to the remodeling of my […]
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 170,000 times in 2012. […]
Flying T-34/76
This is another contribution to the gallery of my finished models. Again, I have built the model few years ago, so I can’t really go into any details regarding the build or […]
M26 Pershing – Part 9: Back to the beginning
Happy New Year everyone. I know it’s bit too late, but since this is my first post this year, I hope you won’t mind. I’ve been absent over the past few days, […]
M26 Pershing – Part 8: Base Coat
Now this paint job was real pain. Frankly it was my mistake, as I haven’t tested the colour to be applied, which could have saved me a lot of disappointment. Looking for […]
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