Colin W Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Looking good now Ed. The machine guns are excellent. Happy Christmas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stef N. Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Brilliant work Ed. Have a great Christmas too and enjoy your festive break.👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartH Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Fabulous work with the photoetch and really taking shape now. Great work and look forward to seeing it painted 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 4 hours ago, Colin W said: Looking good now Ed. The machine guns are excellent. Happy Christmas 3 hours ago, Stef N. said: Brilliant work Ed. Have a great Christmas too and enjoy your festive break.👍 1 hour ago, StuartH said: Fabulous work with the photoetch and really taking shape now. Great work and look forward to seeing it painted 👍 Thanks for the kind comments guy's, it's really appreciated... Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 As always Ed, great work. The MG's and the turrets look very good. See you once the old man with the white beard has been and gone. John. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 4 hours ago, Bullbasket said: As always Ed, great work. The MG's and the turrets look very good. See you once the old man with the white beard has been and gone. John. That's much appreciated John, many thanks, hope you have a good one...👍 Ed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted December 30, 2022 Author Share Posted December 30, 2022 Hello all, hope everyone had a good Christmas, I managed to do some priming to the body work this afternoon. I masked everything off and held doors on with masking tape from the inside so I can easily detach later on... I primed both the turrets and painted the inside white. I just need to pin wash the inside and weather to match the inside of the body... The turret tops, I will have detachable on the finished model so that you can have a sneaky peak on the insides... I also primed and painted white the two machine gun stands, just need to pin wash and add a bit of weathering to them later on... That's it for now, just a quick update to keep things rolling along. Next up I will start at adding the base coat to the body and turret, see you then... all the best Ed 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 55 minutes ago, edjbartos said: Next up I will start at adding the base coat to the body and turret, see you then... That's the bit that I'm waiting for. It takes on a character all of it's own and starts to come to life. Nice work Ed. John. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo1966 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Looking good Ed. What paint do you use for your primer? George 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 17 hours ago, Bullbasket said: That's the bit that I'm waiting for. It takes on a character all of it's own and starts to come to life. Nice work Ed. John. Thanks John, yes I'm looking forward to getting the base coat on at last and I'll do that in the next couple of days, then I can get on with the weathering all the best Ed 1 hour ago, Geo1966 said: Looking good Ed. What paint do you use for your primer? George Thank you George. I used this primer/thinner... It's the first time I've used it, my brother in law recommended it to me. I mixed 50/50 in a mixing cup then added to the airbrush. Sprays very nicely and leaves a nice smooth finish.. all the best Ed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo1966 Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 Thanks Ed, I have heard bad things about the 3rd gen paint, but have tried brush painting some and found it pretty good. Might have to give the primer a go. George 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted January 3, 2023 Author Share Posted January 3, 2023 Hello everyone, at last I have managed to get some paint down on the body of my car... I applied the base coat, then added a little bit of Beige paint to the green to lighten up a bit and then sprayed onto the tops of panels. I added some more Beige to the green and brushed on highlight's to all the rivets to bring them out a bit. I repeated the process for all the other hatches... Next up is to add satin varnish to seal everything which will darken the colours, then add some decals and start on doing some pin washes to the panels and the rivets... See you when I have more to show... all the best Ed 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo1966 Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Looks lovely in the green Ed. What green have you used out of interest? George 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted January 4, 2023 Author Share Posted January 4, 2023 2 hours ago, Geo1966 said: Looks lovely in the green Ed. What green have you used out of interest? George Thanks George, I had a number of greens to choose from, Miniart call for Moss Green for the bodywork. The green I used was Vallejo 71.010 Interior Green. This was a slightly lighter shade than the others that I have, I knew that after varnishing the colour would darken up a bit and the colours a bit more of a moss green than the others that I had. thanks for commenting Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muchmirth Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Looking good here Ed! Nice touch with the highlights. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted January 9, 2023 Author Share Posted January 9, 2023 Hello all, since last update I started to paint and assemble the two machine guns. These are really fiddly to put together, could have done with an octopus to help, but got there in the end. They are nicely detailed and look quite nice... So I mounted them into their locations inside the turrets... Another view of the turrets with the machine guns in place... I then started to work on the body. I first applied a satin varnish and then added the decals. I did a pin wash on all the rivets and then finally applied a matt varnish to seal everything in. The matt will give me a good surface to start applying the oil paints. A photo showing the body with hatches all pin washed and ready for weathering... So that now forms a good base to start adding all the weathering that I need to add to the model and will start on that soon... I think I will also try and do a simple base for this, I think it would be nice to do one for a change, so will also start on that soon as well... I'll be back in a while when I have more to show, All the best and thanks for looking in Ed 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKrypton Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 Your Austin is coming together nicely. I really like the level detail in this kit. I like the subject and I recently finished one in 72nd scale; seeing yours is tempting me to get one of the larger 35th scale kits too. cheers, Graham 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor L Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 Nice pin washing, and the guns look great - such a shame they will be hidden away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted January 9, 2023 Author Share Posted January 9, 2023 3 hours ago, ColonelKrypton said: Your Austin is coming together nicely. I really like the level detail in this kit. I like the subject and I recently finished one in 72nd scale; seeing yours is tempting me to get one of the larger 35th scale kits too. cheers, Graham Thanks Graham for your comments, much appreciated, these are lovely kits to make you'll enjoy them I'm sure. The level of detail is superb on all their kits, It's also nice to see that Miniart are back in production. all the best Ed 1 hour ago, Trevor L said: Nice pin washing, and the guns look great - such a shame they will be hidden away. Thank you Trevor for your kind comments, I'm going to have the tops of the turrets removable so that you will see the inside, In fact a lot of item's will be removable to show everything off... all the best Ed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Excellent work with those Vickers Ed, and you've done a superb job on the weathering. Nice one. John. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted January 10, 2023 Author Share Posted January 10, 2023 7 hours ago, Bullbasket said: Excellent work with those Vickers Ed, and you've done a superb job on the weathering. Nice one. John. Cheers John, that's very much appreciated... Ed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 I've missed a great deal of this over Christmas. It's really progressed well. Going to be a showstopper! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted January 14, 2023 Author Share Posted January 14, 2023 3 hours ago, Bertie McBoatface said: I've missed a great deal of this over Christmas. It's really progressed well. Going to be a showstopper! Many thanks Bertie, I hope so. I'm now at the finishing stages to the model so won't update again until I've finished. I'm just starting to do a simple base for this at the moment, so will post when all that is completed... all the best Ed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted January 19, 2023 Author Share Posted January 19, 2023 Hello everyone, I have finally finished my Austin armoured car. What a model to make, I really enjoyed doing this. I will apologize in advance, as there are quite a few photo's coming up. There is so much detail that Miniart have packed into their models, it would be a shame not to show them off. So to begin with, a quick view around the finished model.... As with most of my Interior builds, I like to show as much inside detail as possible, so to start off, the turret tops are detachable to show off both the Vickers guns... The turrets can be removed to show a little of the interior, other photo's later will show off more of the interior... I decided to make a simple base for this. I just used a picture frame and built it up with wood on the sides and added some Styrofoam packing that I had. After adding some Das clay to shape the ground work I primed everything then added static grass. The grass I had from ages ago and was a very bright green colour, so I sprayed in situ with a bit of Desert yellow to tone it down a bit... A few photo's with the car in place.... I also made the model so that the engine covers can be removed and I have used some glue dots which were cut thinly and applied to the inside of the hinges of the doors and hatches so that they can be opened or closed at will... The great thing about this model is that the whole body can be removed from the chassis to show off the interior.... Finally some photo's of the interior.... The engine is really nice to make and to detail... That's it, I hope you like it. A wonderful model to make, I will definitely do another one in the future, now that I have found a few pitfalls, but have managed to do a few work arounds. I just need to add a few photo's to the gallery and then my entry is complete. Thanks to all those who have looked in and and added likes and especially to all those who have made comments and given encouragement, it's been much appreciated... all the best Ed 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stef N. Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 Bravo Ed. A very well made and painted model that. Excellent display too.👏👏👏 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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