Hi I started this on the 3rd April, the KT will be the center piece for a dio that I'm currently building.
This is the second tank I've built for more than 30 yrs, and the 1st that I've painted with an airbrush.
I must say this is a great kit, from what I've read on the interclick people hate the rubber bands that come with kits and much prefer replacing them with metal ones.
Not wanting to spend money its the rubber bands for me.
The detail is pretty good and I didn't have any problems fixing them to the model, or depicting the force of gravity, which I think turned out just fine. The front LHS wheel, just back from the drive sprocket has been slightly raised compared to the others, as this wheel is just coming into contact with a pile of debris.
I had some fine brass mesh in my spares box so decided to replace the fine black plasticy mesh that came with the kit.
The King T is built with some minor damage, so its off to paint.
Tracks painted dark brown for starters, wheels primed and painted.
This is about the forth time I've used an airbrush
On with the primer.
Then red oxide.
I'm going to try something that I haven't read about, and that's recreating scratches etc by using tiny pieces of wet and dry held with tweezers and scratch through the top coats to the under coat of red oxide, which I sprayed with several layers of Matt varnish. Where bare metal is visible I will scratch right through all the paint layers and paint the plastic with rust colour. We will see what happens.
Then German Dark Yellow shade Dunkelgelb.
Started with the camo today all free hand as I wanted to try my hand at spraying free hand. I know the real thing was hard edged but hey why not. A little bit more green then on to the brown.
OK on with the spots.
The weathering begins and my this is scary!!
Need to paint tools exhaust etc, then time to get this kitty dirty.
Your honest opinions please.
Joolz.