Panther G, Early - Tamiya - 35170 - Finished

Greetings everyone

My Panther Project is now finished, atleast I'm probably not going to add anything else to it or do more work on it, it has taken enough time as it is :-D 

I think it turned out pretty well considering how few 1:35 scale vehicles I have painted for a long time now. The tank and figure is painted and weathered with a combination of Ammo, AK and Vallejo paints and products. The tank it self is build basically out of the box with few additions of after market stuff (The Barrel, Engine grills and Zimmerit). The only thing I can say about the kit is that Tamiya is such a joy to build, sure it might not be as detailed as the newer Dragon kits, but considering that this kit is more than 20 years old I still think it's quite nice, and most importantly it fits together so well and takes no time to build (Think I did it in a few hours, applying the zimmerit took longer than building the entire tank :-p).

Anyway not much else to say except for I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Also here's a few close ups of the commander before he was inserted into the turret. It's a SS Panzer Commander from Alpine Miniatures :)

Hope you liked it, I sure enjoyed building and painting it, even though it took a lot of time... 

Until next time

Chris

Deathstroke - Knight Models - K35BAO006 - Finished

Hello everyone

Not a FoW related update today, sadly, but I can say that I have started painting my AA trucks that I showed in an earlier post :)

I basically finished my Deathstroke figure from Knights Models, only missing some varnish (Will probably take some better pictures when he's totally finished). I still felt like showing him to the blog now, because I think it did turn out pretty good :) I really noticed it had been quite some time since I last painted a figure larger than 15mm, so it was a fun project and an awesome model! probably not the last time I buy something from Knight Models that's for sure.

Anyway here's a few more pictures :)

Until next time

Chris

 Pictures taken with my phone, so not the best quality, even though it isn't that bad.

Deathstroke - Knight Models - K35BAO006

I wish I could paint figures like this....

Hello everyone

I'm not really sure this this update should be on this blog or my other (probably the other), but since this is the one that people actually visit, I'll just throw the first post here.

I recently purchased this awesome figure from Knight Models because I'm a huge comic book lover, and after having watched season 2 of Arrow, my love of Deathstroke just increased so I had to get this figure when I saw it.

Assembly

The Box!

The figure is beautifully sculpted and had very little flash that needed to be removed. There's a choice of two heads, the iconic Deathstoke mask and one without the mask with an eyepatch.

I decided to spice up the base slightly, so I tried to sculpt something very simple and city'ish looking. Think I did alright.

Painting

I primed the model black and started painting the armor first. I did initially consider if I could paint some of it with airbrush, but decided against it. So brush only paintjob.

In the game Deathstroke hasa sort of blu'ish grey color on his armor, but I didn't want it to be too blue and just look like my space marines....sadly I might have overdone it with the blue and too little grey :-p so it will look a bit more cartoony than intended.

 After the blue was done I started with the orange and afterwards I did a black wash to create a bit more shadow and tone down the blue slightly. I still need to do some wear and tear, I really like the worn look of the box art figure, so might try something similar (just more blue...)

I have slowly started doing all the accessories, but don't have more time to paint today, so might do a bit more this weekend, really want to get this done so I can start work on my next FoW build.

Hope you enjoy (and sorry for the 'fantasy' build on this blog)

Chris

*Sorry for the shitty pictures! will try to take some better ones next time*

US Army Modern Soldier 1 - Live Resin - LRM-35001 - Update!

Greetings!

So I just decided I really had to get this figure finished....and well here it is. I'm still not quite happy with the weapon, it just looks off some how, probably to bright etc. But this figure was a blast to paint and I can't wait till I get the time to do the other two of them I stored away somewhere :-p

Hope you liked it!

PS. I'm sorry for the halfway out of focus pictures...I really need a new camera :p