srkirad Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 Good evening mates, after few months of having completely lost my modeling mojo (whish resulted in not finishing none of 2022 started GBs so far), I think I am finally on my way back. This GB challenged me to do something relaxing, although it may not seem so relaxing when you see all those tiny bits but so far it's going well and easy... My competitor here will be one of UM BA-x series cars - BA-3 to be more precise. I have some aftermarket too - PE set from OKB Grigorov and RB Model metal gun barrel, which should significantly upgrade the final look... So far I've assembled some subassemblies of chassis and wheels, and finished the turret with all PE bits on it... On car body there are many doors and windows that are given as PE parts, with all of those bolted hatches, and that is next step after smoothing out some joins... I mostly tend to glue wheels to their place in this phase of assembling, but there is a catch with this one - tires are given as rubber parts, and they "click" on the wheels very well, but they would be impossible to place after wheels are glued to the axles (inner wheels), so I'll leave them for the end of painting process... See you soon, S. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 Great start! That turret is huge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stef N. Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 A very nice start. Good to see you get the mojo back. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Masters Posted November 26, 2022 Share Posted November 26, 2022 This is a very fun build. Yours is looking fine indeed. There is something about this Russian vehicles...basically just trucks and cars with armour and guns. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted December 12, 2022 Author Share Posted December 12, 2022 It slowly starts to look like armored vehicle However, there are more tiny PE parts to be assembled together and glued to its place, so it will take a bit more time... Cheers, S. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 The PE definitely adds to the vehicle, I think it would be a little bland without it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 9 hours ago, JeroenS said: The PE definitely adds to the vehicle, I think it would be a little bland without it. You're right Jeroen, doors actually are given as plastic parts, but way too "empty" in comparison with these PE ones. I'm slowly adding PE parts, they're so tiny so I am going step by step - few parts per day only. I'll make photo update when I add most of the parts to the vehicle body, hopefully for the weekend. Cheers, S. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted January 8, 2023 Author Share Posted January 8, 2023 Most of the PE parts are now glued on their place, there are few of them left, but I will first glue rest of the kit parts (parts of suspension, exhaust and some small bits). Hopefully primer stage is not so far away now! Cheers, S. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKrypton Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 All of that photo etch is really bringing the model to life. It should look even better once you get some primer and paint on. cheers, Graham 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted January 12, 2023 Author Share Posted January 12, 2023 All parts are finally assembled and glued, so next step is finally primering! Headlights were drilled a bit in order to give them some depth - they will be painted into chrome silver in the end, and glass will be made from Kristal Klear Cabin machine gun broke in two pieces when detaching from sprue, and unfortunately rear (more complex) part pinged away in unknown direction, so I had to scratchbuild it from stretched sprue and some thin styrene sheet - not great but not terrible either.... PE side stairs are waaaaay too thinner than ones from the box, so looking much more realistic... Rear stairs are also PE part, and much much better looking than one from the box... Exhaust pipe is also drilled out (it can be seen in second photo). I am pretty satisfied with how it turned out with all these PE bits, so hopefully won't break them during painting and weathering phase... Cheers, and see you soon with new photos ("back in black") S. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 Good to see you back, I'm looking forward to the completion. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted January 15, 2023 Author Share Posted January 15, 2023 As I promised... back in black (surfacer) Few days of rest, while I choose definite shade of Green for camo, and then paintshop again... Cheers, S. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted January 21, 2023 Author Share Posted January 21, 2023 Paint is on! (Gunze C136) I'll wait few days for paint to cure, and then I'll apply gloss coat as a preparation for decals. UM decals are generally pretty tricky - they are "brittle", so they tend to break over panel lines or sharp edges, so I'll see what will happen when I try to apply them... if it doesn't work I may leave vehicle as it is - without decals... So far I am satisfied as it went, having on my mind I made a really long break from hobby.... Cheers, S. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 And gloss it is.... Cheers, S. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted January 29, 2023 Author Share Posted January 29, 2023 As I expected UM decals are very bad for applying - I've started with dotted line that goes around the top part of the turret, and as soon as they touched water, they disintegrated into multiple pieces I've decided to apply only red unit markings, but I've coated them with Decal Liquid Film first. As silvering is very expected to occur, I decided to apply decals on wet coat of Future, and immediately to overcoat them with another layer of Future. Here is the result, although we won't know about silvering until after final semigloss coat...soon... Cheers, S. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted February 12, 2023 Author Share Posted February 12, 2023 Finally one finished from me within deadline! Since last update, I've done the dot filtering and wash, sprayed semigloss coat, made headlights from Microscale Kristal Klear, and finished weathering with MIG pigments. I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out in the end, so thanks to organizers of this GB for lifting up my mojo that was lost for half a year! Cheers and see you in other GBs, Srđan 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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