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HMSDiomede · Post by **HMSDiomede** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:59 pm

pushbike wrote:Hey Guys
Hope I am not boring you too much with this stuff,
But you know new camera new models ETC,

JSIIs with Airial regocniction marks on crop hex:

I dunno Pushbike, I think I could stand just a little more boredom..........

David

Ritter · Post by **Ritter** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:13 pm

pmskaar wrote:Hi Pushbike

Once again a really excellent job judging by the photos. I actually have some Vallejo Russian Green which I might try sometime. I have fairly happy with Humbrols even though they are enamel.
Which British army are you contemplating. I did a Sherman squadron recently for France/northwest Europe. I used Humbrol #159 Khaki Drab as the base and used #34 White and #187 Sand to lighten. The sand helps keep it drab. I used a blackwash of turpentine mixed with black and then highlighted with same mixture as above but with more white and sand. I was able to get a first place win in the small unit category at Historicon this year although Jim Moffet's Japanese fleet was really nice.
You have a great touch with the drybrush effect. Light enough to highlight the details but not overdone.

Pete

Oh the dreaded Russian Green. There is really nothing like it for 1/285th scale. I use Humbrol #86 over a white undercoat. Its ok but I think it should really be a bit more yellow. Also, this shade was used on UK armor.

Troy

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:35 am

Good evening folks,

having watched this topic several times now... I have to say my "standard words" (they became standard using this forum):
Very good work - excellent stuff!!
Oh dear - meine Fresse mÃ¼sst ihr mich so demÃ¼tigen, da vergeht mir ja die Lust meine Fahrzeuge zu bemalen!

Best greetings from Germany,
Ben

miffster · Post by **miffster** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:39 am

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I dunno Pushbike, I think I could stand just a little more boredom.......... [/quote]

I agree. My life could use more boredom!! Bring it on!

Matt

jb · Post by jb » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:39 am

Ben wrote:Good evening folks,

Oh dear - meine Fresse mÃ¼sst ihr mich so demÃ¼tigen, da vergeht mir ja die Lust meine Fahrzeuge zu bemalen!

Best greetings from Germany,
Ben

Ben,Just keep at it,it will come.

pmskaar · Post by **pmskaar** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:55 am

Hi everyone

Great job again Pushbike on the JS II's. Troy great work also as always and thanks for the post on "Russian" Green. I have actually used #86 mixed with a bit of #34 white and a bit of #187 sand for my Russian Green for my last couple of projects. This is because #86 is very close to #114 which was the old Humbrol Russian Green. Also the recommended Humbrol color by some of the Russian model companies is #86 as well which is listed as German Light Olive. Some have also recommended #117 which is U.S. Light Green. Comparing the 2 colors in my Humbrol directory which uses actual paint chips they are very close to each other and to #114, varying by just a tiny bit at least to my almost 53 year old eyes. Personally, I am one that believes that close is good enough and to allow for effects of scale, weathering etc. I have seen lots of variations by large scale modelers as well as us wargamers and micro modelers on Russian Green, Panzer Gray, Olive Drab, German Dark Yellow etc. to mention a few.

Pete - Binpicker, Out!

Hetzen · Post by **Hetzen** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:35 pm

A few from an under strength PzIVH company. They were salvaged from a job lot of badly stripped models, so some of the edges are a bit knackered. I'm not sure I'll do the bases the same way again, they were made with clay and magnetic strip.

This picture shows how they were sold on e-bay, they actually arrived loose in a jiffy bag, it was a cheap lot, but in future I'll spend the extra in getting crisper models.

Mickel · Post by **Mickel** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:33 am

So going by that pile we can expect more pictures of your artwork?

It's a good thing you posted... this thread was getting down the page a little.

tstockton · Post by **tstockton** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:53 am

I guess it further illustrates that treasures can often be found in what appears to be a pile of trash...

Nice work, hetzen!

Regards,
Tom Stockton

jb · Post by jb » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:12 am

Hetzen, nice recovery. Great job on those vehicle!

Hetzen · Post by **Hetzen** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:52 pm

Thanks for the comments guys, I've had all my GHQ stuff for about a year now. My wife bought me a load of figures for Christmas last year, which raised a few eyebrows from the extended family, and I've only recently got my teath stuck into the project. Plenty of time thinking, cleaning, practicing, researching in the meantime. There's so much to paint, but next on the list will be the Stugs, Hanomags, Panthers then Tigers before I concentrate on 70+ Shermans, M3's, Chaffees, Hellcats, Honeys and US infantry. Then I'll need to get some more antitank weapons. Then some more infantry. Then some aircraft. Then more terrain hexes. Then make my "foldable terrain board". I doubt I'll get to game with them before this Christmas, but it will be fun trying.

I don't know what the previous owner of that pile of models used to clean them, it had no problems eating into the pewter of some making them useless, but left the enamel paint intact!!! He also based them on steel squares which had transfered it's rust, with several baths of Pine Sol, brush cleaner and a product called Cillit Bang strangely, I managed to salvage about 70% of them. To be fair, he did sell them as 'roughly treated', so I did have some idea of what I was getting into. Although cheap, it took a lot of effort over the kitchen sink with an electric tough brush. With hindsight it would have made sense investing in an agitation tank.

ACWBill · Post by **ACWBill** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:54 pm

From a club game we played recently at the South Florida Gamers. Here is a shot of some Stukas diving on a BEF position near a French Coastal Ville.

Enjoy

(Next post will be guess the Civil War Battle) using my 10mm and some of the various battlefields I have created over the years. I will post a separate thread.

See who can guess whats what!

Bill Moreno

HMSDiomede · Post by **HMSDiomede** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:52 pm

Really nice looking game setup, ACWBill. Just curious, but what rules system was used?

David

ACWBill · Post by **ACWBill** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:09 pm

We used Spearhead for that game. It was a rather large game but we finished in around 5 hours. If I recall correctly we had full brigades plus on each side along with air support.

tstockton · Post by **tstockton** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:05 am

Bill,

Looking forward to more posts from you! But if I may offer a suggestion -- you might want to post them in this thread, since it seems to have some "longevity", whereas other threads seem to disappear more quickly!

Regards,
Tom Stockton

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