Foxbat Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 Placeholder. Description, waffle and pics to follow in good time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 Any chance of the pictures yet, and some of the kit would be OK as well ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxbat Posted September 1, 2016 Author Share Posted September 1, 2016 As requested. Background The CMP 15cwt truck should need no introduction. Canada produced 850,000 of them in various guises and they were used just about everywhere by just about everybody in WW2. The Breda Model 35 (20/65) was one of two 20mm guns produced by Italy in the late 30s. It saw service with both the army and navy as both an AA gun and light anti-vehicle weapon, it's armour piercing shell being capable of penetrating 30mm of armour at 500m. In North Africa, Commonwealth forces captured a large number of Breda Model 35s, enabling the Australian 2/3 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, parts of the 4th Anti-Aircraft Brigade and one battery of 106th Regiment, RHA to be equipped with them. The Kit There are 4 marking options in the kit. I'll be doing the box top one, which although the least interesting in terms of markings, is the MTO one with the Breda. Interestingly, wikipedia tells me the gun carriage was notoriously weak, and was limited to 20kph, so it was usually abandoned and the gun mounted on a truck bed. Here's the box: And the sprues. Lot's of 1/35 loveliness in there, I feel quite spoilt after my recent run of 1/100 armour And the colour scheme and decals. Going to take a little research on shades of sand as I assume the gun would be in the original Italian colour which would be different to the British shade. Should add a little interest anyway Andy 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxbat Posted September 7, 2016 Author Share Posted September 7, 2016 I'll get a proper start on this over the next few days. I've sorted paint and found a set of masks going for buttons so the only excuses I have now is having to turn my man cave into my office now I work from home, and still having 7 builds on the bench for the the Great Patriotic War GB (but that finishes in 3 weeks). Some inspiring builds here already, I'm going to enjoy this one Andy Spread a little thin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxbat Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 Right, the GPW finished yesterday so time to get my finger out with this. The good news (for me) is I found an Australian scheme on the back of the instructions. Still sand over sand with sand highlights, but one or two more decals, and it does fit the history in post 3 better. She'll be right, innit? Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxbat Posted October 13, 2016 Author Share Posted October 13, 2016 Progress. Embarrassingly slow, but I have actually done something. My old man cave is now my home office, so my modelling room is now a corner of the conservatory, and with the nights drawing in I don't get the hours of natural light I used to. Still, I will persevere and it will be done. Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Great choice Andy But it look like a blooming lot of parts ol mate. Great work so far. Move a lamp into the mancave / conservatory and resume building please, and let's not be having any excuses. A good man would eat carrots and get on with it If you are planning all this weathering type stuff, can you show me how to do it please cheers Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxbat Posted October 14, 2016 Author Share Posted October 14, 2016 I'll try and do a photo montage of my weathering technique, but with acrylics I basically use the same technique as I do on Warhammer figures: base coat of the desired colour, ink wash a darker shade to give shadows and depth, add another thinned coat of the base colour to make it less cartoonish then a final dry brush in a complimentary shade. You can see it in a action here They Also Served Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxbat Posted October 29, 2016 Author Share Posted October 29, 2016 OK, a step by step guide to how I do things. All pictures except the last one were taken in low light using flash to make them as stark as possible.First glue the parts: Then slap on a base coat of the main colour, in this case Vallejo Model Colour 819 Iraqi Sand Use an appropriate ink or watered down paint to give shade. I used Games Workshop Gryphonne Sepia ink: Add a dry brushed highlight. This is Vallejo Game Colour Skull White Then add a thinned wash of the original base colour to blend and stop everything looking cartoonish: Then add a few spots of the ink to taste to pop some of the detail: The gun itself was done the same way but with black and brown ink over a gunmetal base. With acrylics you could do this in an afternoon if you have a dedicated work space and your job doesn't keep you away from home for a week in the middle of painting. Andy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxbat Posted November 13, 2016 Author Share Posted November 13, 2016 This morning's progress. Doesn't look much, but 22 parts and typical Italeri vague fit and misleading instructions kept the entertainment factor high. Slap some paint on, add the wheels and introduce the gun to the carriage and this part will be about complete. Then the complicated build starts. I may have to take a refresher in digit extraction any day now. Andy, Plugging away 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxbat Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 More paint. The gun is just placed on the trailer, and the wheels are held on with grace and a following wind rather than glue so I can get into them to paint the tyres, but I can see the finishing line from here. Hope the Chevy falls together, I can hear the clock ticking now. Andy Procrastinator 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Great stuff.....This looks a really nicely detailed kit and it's a very cool subject too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxbat Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 Thank you. The pillar I used in some of the pictures looks like the mount used in the Sahariana kit. I'd love to do one of them. There's a kit out there too of a captured Chevy with the gun mounted on the cargo bed, as used by the Italians. It has a huge Tricolore across the bonnet for air recognition, and looks a very cool model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 I believe that the 1:35 Sahariana is a particularly good kit....l have the 1:72 kits and they are very nice indeed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxbat Posted November 25, 2016 Author Share Posted November 25, 2016 Progress continues to be glacially slow, but for now I'm calling the Breda done. There are a couple of things I would change based on pictures I found after I'd applied glue, but nothing too bad. Onward and Chevyward. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxbat Posted December 25, 2016 Author Share Posted December 25, 2016 The Chevy remains a pile of parts in the box. Would it be cheating to add the Breda to the gallery on its own? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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