Once I put this one some groundwork, it will be fun to come back and do an aged photo too.

Hope you enjoy the idea!

Linc

First off, please see the paints and thinner used. Self Levelling is best for handbrushing.

I like to make the custom mixes in this artist dishes but also do some wet blending on the model. Great care must be taken to not burn through to the under layers and I apply no barrier, so speedy speedy quick painting is the only way!

Here’s the paper palette used for both base coats, the 1/48 Tiger and 1/48 Hetzer. Will take a photo of the palette now after many colors added.

Next is a mixed and mottled under coat. I’m planning the dark yellow at this stage and thinking about how I imagine I want the model to look.

Then the Dark Yellow finished. I love this color and although it’s difficult to achieve this with brushes and lacquer paint, I love the inherent variants and base layer it provides for an interesting looking model.

Lastly, the kind of old school camo as seen on the old box tops by Takani-san.

Hope this is interesting!

Linc

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 to see how my SF3D- Maschinen Krieger hand-painting style would translate to both the scale and genre. It’s probably very “wrong” for an armour model but I really like it!!

I did try harder to be a good armour guy this time, bought 2 reference books and tried to capture the feeling of the photos, studied the wet spots (ahem!), dust accumulation patterns and so on.

Please let me know any ideas for improvements on any aspects at all, I love learning more about this amazing art form and hobby.

Really looking forward to the Hasegawa Model’s Nutcracker in 1/35 now. ^^

Thanks for looking, hope you like it!!

Linc

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 easily fixed, go up to 1/35!

That and I think I should work to damage the tank more to accept more weathering but this one was inspired by a friends straight from box build of the 1/48 kit. Any and and all feedback appreciated, learned from and implemented on this and the next one.

Not sure about background color so tried both!

Thanks!

Linc

Yokoyama-Sensei showcases his now almost 30 year old scratch built original Kröte and it’s amazing that it’s in such great condition. He contrasts this with one he finished the day before the photo shoot using the new release from WAVE that also contains additional parts seen on other walkers in the series such as the Gans.

To demonstrate the original Nitto Kit, Yokoyama-Sensei asked me to show the Kröte from my Sie Kommen diorama from the 2008 Ma.K Modellers Showcase Vol.4. I built it largely from the box to keep the Nitto kit flavour and to better understand the original, as released.

Lastly, the article introduces the upcoming release of the SF3D Chronicles, a beautifully re-printed and boxed package set of various re-printed SF3D articles from the original Hobby Japan days!

If this magazine is available near you, please do check it out and if not, you can order directly from the Hobby Japan site via Amazon Japan here or through Hobby Link Japan here for the Hobby Japan magazine and here for SF3D Chronicles.

Here are a couple of shots inside the magazine and of the diorama featured and you can see the rest of Sie Kommen! here.

Thanks for looking!

Lincoln

Here’s a 1/48 scale Initial Tiger 1 by Tamiya, as seen serving with DAK in Nth. Africa during WWII and built straight from the box with one detail added, a metal barrel from FineMolds. Lovely kit, went together very nicely. Some parts and details are simplified and a little thick but the price here in Japan, it’s such good value to make them as is at ¥1,500.

My aim with this project is to apply my  hand painting style to s smaller scale kit and generally testing it out. I’m also a big fan and very much inspired by the old box top artwork by the master artist, Yoshiyuki Takani who’s works I also use to fuel some of my Maschinen Krieger style of painting. Just as a side note, I do own and use an airbrush as well but enjoy the finish, freedom and challenge of “guy with a brush and some paint” style too.

A base color of Mr. Color Mahogany from the spray can. Misted highlights of Mr. Color Dull Red added over the top. Next a light mist coat of Mr. Color Dark Yellow, again straight from the spray can and applied carefully. I’m not going for coverage, just blocking in some color and to use it as a “ground”.

I sprayed the metal barrel with Tamiya Surfacer as it’s for metal as well as plastic and then gave it an undercoat of Mr. Color German gray, again from a spray can.

Next the hand brush begins with a first coat of RLM Sandy Brown and then working Gaia Notes Dunkelgelb (1 & 2).

Lastly I am highlighting in strategic places to accentuate the shape of the model, adding both Gaia Notes Flat White and Gaia Notes Interior Color and working from a paper palette to keep the mixes random and interesting. I’m using a variety of brushes for different effects and keeping in mind interesting vectors to accentuate the finish. This generally means more stabbing, stippling motions on the horizontal surfaces and downward streaks on the verticals but not always as variation in the finish is my goal.

That finishes the basic color coats, next I can add the decals and begin weathering.

So far I am reasonably happy with this finish, I would like more contrast after reviewing the photos and will keep working on this in subsequent weathering steps.

Thanks for looking!

Lincoln

Yokoyama Sensei has just uploaded his blog with the new figure by Brickworks that will most likely be sold in a set along with the WAVE S.A.F.S just like the Nitto Original.

Please check here for more excellent photos by Sensei and the link at the bottom of the page to see the happy pilot with the Ms. Lopez figure, also a Sensei Original paint job.

Very cool, hope you like the pics and enjoy Sensei’s excellent figure painting!!

Lin.K

1/35 SS-87 F6 Weltraun Jagd P.O.D. “Ferkel”.

Rainbow Egg are releasing another Garage Kit, the 1/35 Ferkel as seen on pages 62 & 63 of the Maschinen Krieger II, Chronicle and Encyclopedia.

Rainbow Egg’s kit will be in 1/35 Scale as per the original made by Kow Yokoyama-Sensei. We can expect to enjoy Katoo-san’s famous impeccable attention to detail and quality as always.

The basic price (all in JPY) in Japan is ¥27,600. I then ship to you for the price listed on EMS and we are expecting the boxed kit to come in at very close to 900 g for one Ferkel, 1600 g for 2 Ferkels. Please check shipping to your region here. I’ll need 4% of the total to cover international PayPal transfer, the only way I can accept international payments at this time.

We are expecting to start shipping shortly, please email me to place an order if you haven’t done so already.

To finish up, I added a little more color to the base with acrylics and pigments, added more flat and gloss areas with acrylic varnishes from Vallejo and painted some details like the windows and sensors and added it all together.

Really enjoy this piece now that it’s done and would like to do more vignettes like this.

Hope you like it!!!

Lin.K

The Strahl Techs were in a little hurry on this one, they forgot the fuel cap cover and seem to have spilled a little.

Just on a month of little snippets of “free time’ here and there to do this one and perhaps not a bad target. Very much impressed with the genius of the Melusine design. Of course I’ve always liked how they look but it wasn’t until making one that I feel I can understand the shapes and geometry more and it certainly doesn’t hurt that it seems to be the biggest of the suit models, very cool.

Full custom build from the box, with all joints replaced and hand sculpted with Tamiya Putty -Quick type and fixed in pose. I replaced the hand with one from another kit, both to have one with a little more of a natural pose and because I wanted something bigger. Much bigger! I’ll make another with the standard hand but for this one, I wanted to try one with Gorilla Grip!

Usual routines for the finish, Mr. Color and Gaia Notes lacquer paints in custom mixes over a dark gray from a rattle can for the base. Weathering with enamels, oils, acrylics and some pigments.

Groundwork is made up of plaster and the contents from the shake and heat bags that my wife loves as hand-warmers in her coats in the winter. Painted and weathered with acrylics again.

Hope you like this one!

Lin.K