During a break at The Office, my brother and I were doing some B&W versions of artwork, to check for light values and contrasts, illusion of depth and so on. We had the interesting idea to change some of the Hetzer photos to black and white to see how they compare with the old photos [...]

Thanks again for all the great comments and feedback on the Hetzer, sincerely appreciated! I’ve had many questions on the “how to?” and the best I can do is share a couple of photos I took along the way. It’s not really much of a “technique” so much as really just painting a model with [...]

My first 1/35 scale model, and 1/35 tank finished! Must dig my 1/35 LunaDiver out and finish it… Learned so much over the past 2 weeks making this, so much fun and I can understand why Armour Modelling is so popular. This one is 100% hand painted, I do own an airbrush but I wanted [...]

90% finished and looking for feedback please!Figure and simple base/groundwork coming. ^^ A little outside my usual comfort zone of SF modelling, I wanted to get some more experience with real world subjects. The main thing I think could be improved is that it could be a little too heavy handed with the weathering. That’s [...]

For a slight break from SF I decided to try something different, Scale Armour! With the 1/35 Nutcracker release from Hasegawa on the horizon, it’s not a bad idea to have a little more smaller scale experience under my belt too.
Here’s a 1/48 scale Initial Tiger 1 by Tamiya, as seen serving with DAK [...]