Schwarz-Brot
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I think your best bet is getting sheet metal of the desired thickness and cut into strips yourself. Should be able to do so with a sharp knive or even good scissors.
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Same here. Did it with sticks for a long time. Sponges I never tried. Though I rarely use them.
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Thank you @Mitch K. I am just sick of seeing green goblins and orks (orruks
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Thank you, @georgeusa. In many parts it is just trial and error, rinse and repeat. No other way to get things like this tidy. Though the smallest details tend to get easier: there's no shadows or stuff needed to get them right. Your brain adds the missing parts there. Good example is the gauge on the fire extinguisher. I got it right the first time. Other things like the writing on the bomb needed several attempts.
This one was a labor of love. I would have trashed any other miniature with so many moldlines. But the mini is very rare and very special and appealing to me, so I fought my way through.
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Wow, this is going to be interesting. I am especially following what you think about the Fujimi kit in direct comparison to the MFH. Did I say this is going to be interesting?
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I'll contact you by the time, if you don't mind. 1:24 is really my scale. While I am more into Rally stuff some of the historic cars are just too beautiful and interesting to be ignored. Sometime around next summer I'll have a little workshop at hand. Possibly with a lathe and if all works out well a little benchtop milling machine. These are my plans at least. Not exactly for model building, but if it's there - the more uses I find the better!
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Roy, I am really tempted by your kind offering, though I'll have to put it back for a while. I am working on my master thesis right now, which leaves not much room for hobbies. Also I changed my job recently which adds a bit of uncertainty. What do you think, is it realistic to go at it at about 1:24 or 1:16? There's really no point in building something that huge if I cannot display it anywhere.
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Hi there,
another one from my collection. Another favorite sculpt of mine, though the quality is pretty low. It just captures my sense of humor perfectly. Sculpted by Stefan Niehues. Was given for free when buying a ticket for "Mini-Art-Con" in 2009 - a local miniature painters event. Only painted this one this year after several years without touching a brush. I am really proud of this rare little miniature and how it came out. A piece that will stay in my personal collection for sure.
28mm and lots of moldlines - too many to get them all.
Coolminiornot, if you want to vote: http://www.coolminiornot.com/396737
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Please no carbon. Looks so cheap on roadcars as it most times isn't real, just foil. Though on this car it might look believable.
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21 hours ago, giemme said:
Not my kind of figures, but this is impressive!
What kind of paints have you been using?
Thank you for your kind words Giorgio.
I mainly use Vallejo Game Color for opaque work as I have the whole set (wouldn't buy them again - would go for model airs this time). Metals are Vallejo Model Air. Ontop of that lots and lots of washes made from Vallejo Game Color or Schmincke Aero Color.
So all around acrylic colors.
Did I say it is true 28mm in scale?
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I came to britmodeller mainly for the vehicle boards, but my main hobby is still painting miniatures. Lately I am more into painting the stuff my boardgames come with quickly but every now and then I do a piece simply for my collection. The last one was from the infamy one shot #1 kickstarter. I instantly fell in love with the model and everything fell together quite nicely, though it was really hard to paint. So many insanely small details. Many spikes and teeth are only a fraction of a millimeter in size. Just insane. And a brilliant sculpt. Still not perfectly happy with the pictures. Overexposed in the bright areas of the miniature and not really getting the hues of the metals.
Feel free to comment and criticize (though I won't touch this finished model again). If you don't mind, leave a vote on coolminiornot.com: http://www.coolminiornot.com/399990
For the model I immediately had a desert-like environment in mind. I like "natural" colored goblins and it was clear this was what I aim for. To get some optical interest I decided the mount could be colorful like many real-life saurians are. For the base I did not have any ideas for a very long time. Then I found this left over piece of oiled plum wood. It was a natural fit. I only added hints of sand, slightly drybrushed and some very subtle pieces of real dried flowers, completely unpainted.
The base is asymmetric, supporting the very dynamic look of the miniature. Else it is still subtle enough to not distract from the model, though it is quite large.
There was a related painting competition. Never reached anything anywhere else, but this time it was enough for third place: http://www.infamyminiatures.com/one-shot-challenge/
Quite happy!
I hope you guys don't mind seeing stuff like this around here? How about boardgame miniatures?
Jan
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This is absolutely awesome. Only came to britmodeller while you were doing the last steps but followed every single post with excitement. Being invited for a factory tour AND being allowed to take photographs at will - priceless. Working that long on a build to bring it to perfection- true dedication. I am glad I found your thread and be assured I will follow all your next ones as well. Thank you for showing. Always inspires me to work on my own stuff.
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ouh, I'm jealous!
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For the Revell bottles just a lighter is enough.
I have a piece of a guitar string for pushing through. It's a used high "E" string for electrical guitars. If you know someone who plays e-guitar, just let them know you need a used string. They change strings pretty regularly.
I clipped the string to size and bent one side circular and put it on a keyring with my airbrush cleaning bristles. Works a treat, costs nothing.
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Far from beautiful, but a rare sight: A recent silver Rolls Royce Phantom. Did you ever realize the hilarious centers of the hubcaps with the RR-Logo? They wiggle back and forth when driving, but don't rotate, held in place by gravity. LOOKIN'. SO. STUPID.
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This is going to be beautiful. Will follow.
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This is a beauty and even as a model pure engineering porn. Very well done, thank you for showing!
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Don't really understand the bashing. It is built to a price and functionality is given. What else would one expect for one of the cheapest cars available? *Right now looking if I could find one to see for myself how bad or cool they really are
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There are several sites out there like this. The problem is the connection to a database of modelcolours (and any other hobby colours...)
13 hours ago, square said:Might even be possible to calculate a mix of Humbrol paints to make a desired color.
I don't think this would work out. Paints don't behave in a linear manner. If a database existed one could add own mixes and give the ratio, but I doubt this would be a really useful feature. How should the true colour values be determined? I guess few of us have the tools to do so.
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2 hours ago, roymattblack said:
I completely agree with much of what you say, but you're very wrong regarding the bit 'they cannot handle round a race track'...
The latest hyper-cars are utterly insane as a practical daily driver, but by hell, are they quick on the track!
The new Aston Martin Vulcan recently lapped the Nurburgring 9 SECONDS faster than the McLaren P1...!
It was reckoned to be the fastest track car EVER built.
Alright, I have to admit I was well over the top with that comment. Then again, what is a car worth, that I couldn't even ride to show off every saturday night because it is not street legal. What is it more than a proof of concept, if it is not even track legal? That's just hilarious. Like speaking about a rocket powered salt lake world record car. Yes, it is fast. By these terms it is a supercar. It is still meaningless. I am way more impressed by a street legal GTR biting away a few seconds at green hell. THAT is a supercar to me.
... I have to admit - the vulcan is a nice looking car ... Am I schizophrenic?
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1 hour ago, Alan R said:
My all time favourite classic sports car is the original 3.8 litre E-Type Jaguar. If Enzo Ferrari called it the worlds most beautiful car, then who am I to argue.
I do absolutely agree with Enzo. Very, very beautiful car. The Miura is beautiful to me as well, but not outstanding.
In terms of design I do love those historic cars. Super smooth curves. Long bonnets and short backs. Distinguishable engine sounds. For sportscars and daily drivers I am very much a child of the 1990s and 2000s.
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If you buy from electronic shops they give you the diameter before shrinking and a shrink-ratio which typically is 2:1 or 3:1 for the better stuff. Take care, theres shrink tube with heat-reactive glue out there in the electronics world. That's a real mess.
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I am not a fan of "supercars" as to me they only look like something aimed at some poorly made sci-fi movie without any matter to the real world. They are mostly too luxurious and heavy to be real racecars, too tasteless and too impractical to be used as a daily driver even if you're super rich. It doesn't matter to me if they can reach 100km/h in under 3 seconds. Why would I be impressed if they cannot handle going fast round a racetrack other than a dragstrip or a nascar-bowl. Are you kidding me? 100 litres on 100km if you use your whole engine on a bugatti?... Combined with the poor design of these I have no reason to like them. Recent Lambos are very high up in my ranking of ugliness with all their randomly placed edges. Ferrari Design doesn't matter to me since the F40. What once were stylistic icons have become meaningless names to me. The new Honda NSX is pretty close to being that kind of super-car ugly in my book, but I am very much drawn to the Honda brand, so this is why I don't really know what to think of it.
But I could go on and on how all the recent cars do look alike, no matter who made them. I guess I am simply getting old and living (and loving) by yesteryears standards.
Of course, design is like art always something personal. So don't take me too serious.
Motorcycle kits are a problem to me. Haven't found any of a Honda Transalp (pre '99) or an africa twin (new or old)...
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That golden colour is just brilliant. Perfect model!
) all around. Glad you like 'em that way, too. Got me some negative criticism when I started doing them this way in the old days.
What kind of paints have you been using?
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I am going to follow this. Impressive in real live, I am interested how this translates into a model.