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Picked up this little zvezda (what is that, russian?) kit the other day It's a BMW with side cart I'd never heard of this brand before but it looked like a cool kit, and if it is new, it may be good Turns out there is some nice detail on the kit, but also quite a bit of flashing This was especially hard to deal with on the cooling fins on the cylinders So far, I've pretty much got the engine put together

Thanks guys I'm quite pleased with the progress so far Really happy with the camo job on the uniforms I painted two soldiers in what should be the proper green/Grey foe the whermacht and I am not loving it I also picked up some raw umber (I believe) paint for the belts and straps, it looks way better now

Still waiting on that primer so I tried some old fashioned brush painting (Pictures are no good, but im happy with the camo)

those are pretty cool i will be starting out with the regular field grey, so pretty "boring" color i would love to figure out how to paint the different oak leaf camo, but that is still a long way off

that is exactly where im at i put the figures together yesterday and im waiting on an order of primer so i can get them painted most of the videos i watched started with black primer, the way you would normally primer them then hit it with a layer of white from the top, leaving the black in the part where you would see shades then use a glazing method to get the actual colour on and let the shade shine through excited to try that out

thanks Bob i actually bought this one online, it was the best deal i could find im finding the vallejo has a bit of a learning curve, and what bothers me the most about it is that there isnt a cap you can "draw" from like the old testors bottles have im really excited to get into the figure painting as well,since that was something i never really tried when i was younger, but its got to really help make it pop

Hello gents About 5 years ago i completely got out of the hobby We moved into a different house and i simply didnt have the room or the time for the hobby About a month ago, I got the itch again and decided to buy a kit i have build 2 decades ago when I was a kid This is the progress so far A few things to note, I used vallejo paint for this, which is new to me, and went terrible (especially the base coat) I am also not very skilled at weathering in general and Armour in specific so any help is appreciated (And before anyone asks, I am aware the interior would have been painted body color, but I decided I wanted it to pop a little more, so I went with a cream color instead)

thanks if I get some time I intend to do some weathering on her (and final assembly, of course)

does this kit come with a crew of 300 Spartans?

one of our members makes a nice set, chucky or chubby or fuzzy or something its been a few years since he send me some

thanks Jim I am not sure if I actually came up with this idea myself, or if I saw it online somewhere. I tried googling it by different keywords but all that came up was a millennium falcon in DOH livery.

still a work in progress...but I always wondered how cool it would be if they painted the X wing fighter to look like a real rebel vehicle (the kit is an older snapkit, empire strikes back, I think) I still have quite a bit to do, mostly detail painting and final assembly, but she is close enough to tell really the only big change that needed to be made was the opening up of the motors, to fit the turbine wheels (stock on the right, modified on the left) about 30 minutes with the dremel did the trick the turbine wheel came from a 69 buick Riviera, and will be stripped and repainted steel the only other modification I made was cut out a bunch of clutter from the body to allow the flag decal to sit flush on second though, I should have cut a LOT more and put a whole new panel on the back, but I think it worked out

shoot, just make a dio with only the latter part of the tail then (like that part was blown off and fell down) you did detail the tailgunners turret no?

11, 12 jaar nu al maar al mijn familie woont nog in Nederland, dus ik kom nog ieder jaar terug

would look real if it wasn't for the palm trees in the background

funny, I hadnt noticed your Dutch (never do pay a whole lot of attention to the avatars) Waar kom je ergens vandaan? ik ben zelf Jaren geleden uit de Brabantse klei getrokken

why not make it a crash site diorama? rip the wings of (to preserve room) and rip sections of the fuselage of so you can show the interior or at least poke a few .50 cal. peekholes in there

cant go wrong with a mopar...but way two clean for a day two car maybe its a dealer special with Cragars included?

the dash I need looks like this I need it for an AMT 71 duster but the one that is in there is a rally version, the only kit I know of that has the dash I need is the pro street cuda your redoing I'm sure I could modify the rallye dash, but swapping is so much easier

mine is pretty well preserved she does have the see through trunk and a few little bubbles on the fender, but not bad for a 45 year old car the biggest issue I'm having is getting power to the ground

any chance I can talk you into trading out the dash for a rallye unit? I need a non rallye dash for a model of my 1:1 I'm building

I like it somewhat of a change from the "buick V6 swap" that's so common

those are all the parts I have lined up to build a model of ginger, only she is running a 408 LA now

so, are you ready to pull the 440 and drop a helkitty in there? and whats even cooler, now you get to build a duster to put that 440 in

what I like about them is the way you modify them with what you got to work with some of us have been in the hobby for so long, we have boxes and boxes of parts, and so we would never think to build side view mirrors out of spruce (if you were to touch up the chrome with some silver paint I might not have even been able to tell that's what it is) the paint on the Baldwin looks way better then the paint on the GTO, looks like your getting the hang of that too