Another milestone (or at least what I consider to be a milestone when building a model) today – I have mounted tracks on the vehicle. This time even without making any damage to […]

After having “painted” the tracks, (see post nr. 12) they of course needed some weathering before they were to be mounted on the model. This involved few steps: I have laid the tracks with […]

I have continued the weathering phase of the build with adding streaks on the walls of the superstructure and dust effects to the horizontal surfaces. Streaking effects were added using two techniques. […]

Yesterday I have decided to make some progress on the tracks, which were sitting in my desk assembled and ready for painting for already some time (not sure if I did mention that […]

JSU saga continues. Over the past days I have added chipping using my usual method of localized drybrushing of mix of Black and Burnt umber from the Winsor & Newton line. I […]

After I have applied decals two days ago, I added few steps to the model: 1. Gloss coat over the decals – this is to protect the decal from the subsequent painting […]

When I was looking at the JSU after a week’s break, I felt that the base colour is little too cool (too much of blue in the green shade). Intent on making […]

Now starts the real fun… Yesterday and today I have applied 3 coats of highlights. As a base I have used the base coat colour, but lightened it as follows: Highlight: XF-13 (J.A. Green): […]

Writing this blog has quite a few advantages. One of them is that while before, when I have built a model, after few weeks I might have had no clue how did I paint this or […]

Next step in my standard painting process is preshading. I use dark color for this, as in this case mix of Tamiya Flat Black and Flat Brown in the ratio of 3:1. […]

I always considered priming the model a bit of a milestone. Building phase is mostly finished and I can move on the real fun – painting, weathering,… The same goes for the […]

JSU Reborn On Saturday I paid visit to Dave’s Hornet Hobbies as he was celebrating 10 years of the store by having a BBQ for his clients. Offering some great deals on […]