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Really chuffed with this, it’s my first diorama/vignette

Built with ResKit's amazingly detailed cockpit/escape capsule and fuel tanks, Eduard B61 bombs and Phase Hanger AGM-69 SRAM.

The kit decals have the "Walkway" and "No Step" labels reversed. Tried to fix it on the port wing and sabilators by painting the lines and printing the label decals. Only partly successful.

The camo was done by scanning the paint scheme and using a Silhouette cutter to make the masks.

repaint of an older tamiya kit cause i want to make eduards JV-44 airfield defense Fw-190D-9 and thought they might make a nice diorama someday, the bottom is the original so it’s not really up to my standards but the rest is new

Not overly concerned with it being "perfect", some of my re-scrbed panel lines are too deep, some of my filler has gouges or bits missing, but im super happy with the progress so far, given the quality of Amodel.

The sexiest plane ever in a special scheme for the 75 years of Normandie Niémen's comeback from Russia !

Very happy with the outcome, especially how did I broke down the grey's uniformity

Any recommendations for the weathering or advice in general would be appreciated :)

Finally I completed this full NBC 1:35 figure! It is inspired by some videogames like stalker, dayz and metro. It is printed in 3D with resin and the quality was really good!

Juste finished it. Good kit but documentation has some error. Small parts not easy to put. I hadded a crew.

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What if. 1946 tank. the number 323 of the Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 501).

Very proud of it tried some oils effect and mud effect to. Zimmerit. And foliage. /Tri color camo//

A great kit from trumpeter good fiting/ build and very easy.

Have a good day.😁

ICM FMC 36. It’s a relaxing build; no PE and not over engineered. I did deviate from the colors in the instructions that showed a light tan and green after consulting with my color expert (Mrs)

Based on what the instructions had I’d initially airbrushed the base a Tamiya tan and started adding the green using MIG paint but after showing my wife the FMC 36 profiles in the ‘Encyclopedia of French Tanks and Armoured Vehicles 1914-1940’ she stated the base color had a light green and not the tan I thought I saw. So I stripped off the tan down to the bare plastic and sprayed a light green. I’m not a fan of brush painting but there was no way I was going to try and mask the pale green and earth brown colors. For these I used MIG French tank colors and found the paint to be very thin, requiring two coats, but leaving almost no visible brush marks. My only criticism of the model is I wish there would have been a few more decal choices. The rubber band tracks aren’t bad but I did remove two links from each side to make them tighter. It’s amazing how small these vehicles were.

Final product of the A-4 Skyhawk I asked about a few days ago.

The kit, at least for the Diamondbacks scheme, doesn't come with decals made for when you have the engine bay doors, nose or airbrakes open. Using the advice given to me by some friendly members of the subreddit, here is my conclusion:

The nose and engine bay doors need to be held in place, I used some bluetac to do so. The airbrakes can be friction fit however. Once the decals have set and dried, use a new hobby blade (I use a #11 exacto) to cut along the seams and then use the blade to pop the doors out.

Also, and this may be user error, if you're having difficulty putting the intakes on, try sanding down the tops and bottoms of the interior. I did that and it went from barely fitting to sitting (mostly) flush.

Here's an 'old school' model from Corazzati in 1/35th scale. Found this at a local model railroad shop for $20. Contents were missing a resin fender, all the metal tracks and decals. Steve Zagola had built this same kit but used a Italeri M13/40 running gears and fenders so I thought I had a chance on saving this kit. I found a built up Tamiya M13/40 on ebay for $10 with Model Kasten's plastic tracks. Also for a nice sets of decals for several Italian tanks - including two M11/39s.

The resin rivets left a lot to be desired and I started to replace those on the turret with a set of Tichy .030 rivets. They looked great but I just couldn't see all that much difference between the cast on ones and the replacements so gave up on that idea. Finish is Tamiya Dark Yellow lightened with white and Vallejo Gray Green German uniform color. Read that some of the M13/40 arrived North Africa in Gray Green so assumed the M11/39 could have also and the Italians added the tan color to break up the image. ICM just brought out a set of Eritrean Colonial Army in 1/35 that I'll add with the tank on a base.

Lots of machined aluminium, metal frames, cast resin handles and other various resin printed components. Nearly finished before sending off to their new homes!

I tried and it looks a bit shit, very smooth and not great texture. Do I need rougher brushes? For reference I used his tutorial and Mr modeling putty.

Title basically, is it a special paint or combination of products/colors ?

1/48 Polikarpov i24 (Academy) and 1/48 Polikarpov i153 (ICM) - a pair I recently completed, who also make nice adversaries!

Т-72 б (1985) in scale 1:72