Gekko_1 Posted May 15, 2017 Author Share Posted May 15, 2017 5 hours ago, Bugle07 said: That looks so good! Great work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_1 Posted May 15, 2017 Author Share Posted May 15, 2017 (edited) OK, on with the rest of the camo paint. Not too sure of the pattern at the moment, so lightly brush painting a pattern outline to try and figure out how I want it, then mask with blu-tack and fill with airbrush I know it looks a bit rough at the moment, but having finished the engine section? (seen top right in photos) I have a pretty good idea of what the finished product will look like. I will now brush paint to finish off the dark drown, then work out where I'm going to put the caramel colour. Edited July 23, 2017 by Gekko_1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazB Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 That is some top-notch work, Gekko ^-^ I've had my own AT-ST since Christmas, and cracked open the box last night. The entire thing is more or less assembled into its main components (amazingly about 5 hours of work in total, maybe not even that) and ready for painting, just need my replacement airbrush to arrive first (whenever that may be ><). Been mulling over paintjobs for it and kept considering a Special Forces one with the red stripe, but seeing this camo one has me wondering about a forest scheme now, lol Gaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_1 Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 15 hours ago, GazB said: That is some top-notch work, Gekko ^-^ I've had my own AT-ST since Christmas, and cracked open the box last night. The entire thing is more or less assembled into its main components (amazingly about 5 hours of work in total, maybe not even that) and ready for painting, just need my replacement airbrush to arrive first (whenever that may be ><). Been mulling over paintjobs for it and kept considering a Special Forces one with the red stripe, but seeing this camo one has me wondering about a forest scheme now, lol Gaz Thanks Gaz, yeah I'm big on camo schemes and camouflage in general and got to put it to good use when I was in Infantry. I'm really against the all grey schemes in the Star Wars universe. I think George Lucas started things off in grey, based on early Nazi tank grey schemes of WWII. But for reasons I guess of simplicity never followed history to the use of camouflage as perfected by the Germans in WWII. The ambush scheme on late war German tanks is I think still to this day one of the most effective schemes ever worn on a tank, only eclipsed by the new Chinese army digital schemes. And the uniform schemes designed by art students are in my opinion the best ever designed. I don't know weather you're aware or not, but I have a page dedicated to my camouflage experiments for AT-AT and AT-ST's here: You may find it interesting? Cheers Richard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazB Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 1 hour ago, Gekko_1 said: Thanks Gaz, yeah I'm big on camo schemes and camouflage in general and got to put it to good use when I was in Infantry. I'm really against the all grey schemes in the Star Wars universe. I think George Lucas started things off in grey, based on early Nazi tank grey schemes of WWII. But for reasons I guess of simplicity never followed history to the use of camouflage as perfected by the Germans in WWII. The ambush scheme on late war German tanks is I think still to this day one of the most effective schemes ever worn on a tank, only eclipsed by the new Chinese army digital schemes. And the uniform schemes designed by art students are in my opinion the best ever designed. I don't know weather you're aware or not, but I have a page dedicated to my camouflage experiments for AT-AT and AT-ST's here: You may find it interesting? Cheers Richard. I have indeed, Richard, thanks ^-^ I'm mulling over doing this one, or some variation of it Or this one But possibly with a grey substituting the sand There was a colour-scheme on some military Micro Machines I had as a kid that was green and black, and it always looked awesome, so I've started experimenting with colour combinations Gaz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 The brown camo looks very cool, great job with that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_1 Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 Decided to mask out the next bit of the caramel colour with Silly Putty. Colour airbrushed on. What I like about Silly Putty is that once done you can simply peel it off very easily. Although difficult to see in this photo, the top section of the caramel colour was brush painted on. It took ages and isn't as dense in colour saturation as the airbrushed section. Airbrushed section touched-up with a paint brush using the some spare paint from the airbrush mix. Slowly, slowly, but its coming along. Can't wait to get to my favourite bit....... the weathering! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_1 Posted June 14, 2017 Author Share Posted June 14, 2017 (edited) Getting there. Finished the paintbrush touch-ups. Here's the pivot joint thing. I've painted it grey then covered it in Retarder Medium then brushed on various Vallejo Model Wash colours to give it a used oily grungy look. Once dry I may knock the effect back a little with a dusty wash? Next is to detail the little bits and pieces. Cheers Richard. Edited July 23, 2017 by Gekko_1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpopandchips Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 This is looking great, really like the colour choice. . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugle07 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 I'd go with a dusty wash, in that kind of environment it would gravitate to an oily surface and alter the look, wouldn't it? Or at least bits of it. Love the way this is coming along. Watching avidly. Geoff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_1 Posted June 16, 2017 Author Share Posted June 16, 2017 On 16/06/2017 at 5:55 AM, Bugle07 said: I'd go with a dusty wash, in that kind of environment it would gravitate to an oily surface and alter the look, wouldn't it? Or at least bits of it. Love the way this is coming along. Watching avidly. Geoff Thanks Geoff, yeah definitely going to have to tone it down with some type of dusty wash. Going to have to experiment a bit as I can't use any enamel based product as it eats the Bandai plastic away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_1 Posted June 25, 2017 Author Share Posted June 25, 2017 (edited) OK, a bit of progress. Here is the top of the hatch. Because of the sensitivity of Bandai plastic to enamel thinners/washes etc a new way had to be found to do things like pin washes, shadowing etc. The easiest and most effective way I have found is the combination of Vallejo Retarder Medium 70.597 and a mixture of this product and the Vallejo Model Washes. The method I use is to paint a thin layer of slightly watered down Retarder Medium over the entire surface of the part you are about to weather, then a mixture of Retarder Medium and which ever colour from the Vallejo Model Washes you have chosen. The thickness of this mix will depend on what you are going to use it for. Here I used 76.513 Brown. Next I applied a wash using the same colour on all the sides of the turret. So, first I painted the side to be done with a mixture of water and Retarder Medium, then painted the wash over that. Because it dries slowly it gives you time to adjust the look with a brush and the original water/Retarder mix. Hopefully you'll be able to see, where the arrows are, notable areas where this wash was effective. Here you can see I've painted NATO black in the, what I'm calling, window seals. Because I'm stupid I forgot to seal in the previous layer on the pivot joint with varnish before applying the dusty wash! So I ended up 'painting' all the previous work off as I was applying the new layer! Luckily, because everything is acrylic I can wash it off with isopropyl alcohol and start again. So if you can imagine the top looking like the bottom you'll get some idea of what this thing is going to look like once finished. Still have to do a wash on the top and bottom, seal that in and coat it in varnish then apply decals, then chip it, then seal all that in before giving it an all over dusty wash which should unite the top and bottom nicely. Also have to re-paint the pivot joint and finish chipping one of the legs. ...................and finish the packs, jerry cans etc and I'm thinking of modding the Verlinden USN deck crew in some way as crew figures on the top? Edited July 1, 2017 by Gekko_1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard E Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 38 minutes ago, Gekko_1 said: .and finish the packs, jerry cans etc and I'm thinking of modding the Verlinden USN deck crew in some way as crew figures on the top? Making good progress and it's starting to look quite psychedelic, as an possible alternative to the Verlinden figures Aerobonus produce three resin crew members for Airfix's 1/48 British Army Warrior: Aerobonus Figures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 Simply splendid. Figures? rope ladder down the side? How do the crew entry & exit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_1 Posted June 25, 2017 Author Share Posted June 25, 2017 7 hours ago, Richard E said: Making good progress and it's starting to look quite psychedelic, as an possible alternative to the Verlinden figures Aerobonus produce three resin crew members for Airfix's 1/48 British Army Warrior: Aerobonus Figures Thanks for that Richard, I didn't even know they existed. They look quite useable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_1 Posted June 25, 2017 Author Share Posted June 25, 2017 3 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said: Simply splendid. Figures? rope ladder down the side? How do the crew entry & exit? Yes exactly Pete! How do they get in/out/up/down on this thing! I know some have suggested that the AT-ST crouches down and the crew mount it from that position. Its "Star Wars" best not over think it, I think? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_1 Posted June 28, 2017 Author Share Posted June 28, 2017 (edited) Today I wanted to get some idea of how its going to look once finished. So I loosely placed the external stowage and popped the legs on. Edited July 1, 2017 by Gekko_1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Oh cool, great seeing it together. I really love that camo pattern 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Rather wicked, is what I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_1 Posted July 4, 2017 Author Share Posted July 4, 2017 (edited) I will be going through the laborious and time consuming process of updating my photos on this thread in due coarse. <pic removed - understand the sentiment, but this is a family friendly forum> Cheers Richard. Edited October 11, 2018 by Mike removing offensive meme 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Moore Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Bad luck being caught up in the whole pb thing mate, but the chicken walker is looking amazing. Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Air-to-Air Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 It is looking very good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko_1 Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 (edited) Thanks guys. Managed to move on to the decals. I wasn't 100% sure exactly what I was going to do and basically made it up as I went. I ended up using some Imperial logos from the kit, some decals from a couple of generic Gundam sets and the chevrons and triangles from two different Verlinden rub down Israeli vehicle sets. The rub down decals scratched up very well. Next is to seal the decals in with semi gloss varnish. Then an acrylic pin wash. Edited July 19, 2017 by Gekko_1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockpopandchips Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 That is looking very nice,the added details really bring it to life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Moore Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Nice work with the decals. They really bring it to life. Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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