It seems I didn’t pay close attention to the procurement of this next vehicle to be soon added to the arsenal of Canadian army. Delivery of Tactical Armored Patrol Vehicle was originally […]
Canadian TAPV on the horizon
BTR-80: Construction
Here is another model that has recently found spot on my workbench. I was tempted by BTR series for some time already and finally had given up. Kit is a joy to […]
RG-31 – Looks like it’s finished
Hmm, I am looking at this and thinking this might be it. Groundwork – done, vegetation – done, dusting – done, focus point added…unless I spot anything that would need fixing, I […]
KTO Rosomak
One of the recent new model announcement, that I consider to be among those really interesting was made by IBG. They are planning to release model of Polish armored vehicle Rosomak in […]
RG-31 – Weathering
Past weeks I have been playing with oils and pigments. And adding and fixing all the small details. This is the tedious part, where you have to touch up everything, hand paint […]
BRDM-2: Painting & chipping
Here we go… some real fun…some faded Russian green and rust to go with it… See previous part / See next part
BRDM-2
Now I do have special plans for this one…. It was rather quick build, though there are places where kit designers could do better! In any case Trumpeter kit is miles ahead […]
RG-31 – We’re getting there…
So I keep on making progress with the RG-31, though sometime it is painfully slow. But it finally seems coming to a presentable shape – wheels were painted and weathered (though this […]
RG-31 – Base coat
Painting phase continues… I was quite glad to finish the base coat and highlights as I could remove the masking and see the model with its interior. Must say that it starts […]
Modern Russian camo
There’s quite a few modern Russian armor kits coming to market these days so it is nice to see that there are some really attractive camouflage schemes for them. Such as this […]
RG-31 – Preshading
Here comes the painting phase, this time skipping primer and going for some preshading straight away. Now that masking was an interesting exercise… See previous part See next part […]
RG-31 – Construction finished
I think the 80-20 Pareto principle applies to modelling as well – sometimes I feel that the 20% of details take 80% of time to get done, especially as the projects progresses… […]
