I have added few touches to KaMi some day before my last week’s trip, mostly dealing l with the details. First I painted the barrels of the two machine guns. For this […]
Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 6: Barrels, exhausts & decals
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) […]
Dorchester – Build continues
I have been also looking at the Dorchester sitting on my desk over the past days. One thing that I have decided is that I will not paint it in the camouflage […]
Voroshilovets Artillery tractor – Part 2
Having been working mostly on other things, I made some small progress on the Voroshilovets. Since I am not using the canvas provided in the kit, I had to fill the gap […]
El Alamein Sherman
I consider North Africa one of the most interesting theaters of War in WWII. It is unique due to the nature of the environment, which provided backdrop to some of the most […]
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