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Miniatures Adventure => Back of Beyond => Topic started by: Westfalia Chris on April 26, 2007, 11:45:38 AM
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Privjet, Towarischni!
Weeell, yesterday, my Pardulon Tank arrived in the mail, and I am very, VERY happy with it - it´s a lovely, high-quality kit, with very little flash which was easily removed. Highly recommended. I plan to use it as a centrepiece for a "Bolshevik Russian Army" for Back of Beyond Games - in first attempts, I never got far beyond sixteen Sikhs and a batch of Brits.
I replaced the cannon because I didn´t like the proportions and style, but the original pieces are well-cast; just a personal preference. The new "field howitzer"-type guns are a bit on the large side, but look pleasingly "russian" to me.
The paint scheme is rather unimaginative, but what else to use for 1920s/early 1930s Bolsheviks than olive or Russian green? I chose a brownish-olive, and added some red stars in a deep "gory red", so that they are visible, but don´t act as "shoot-me-posters".
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1177583156327.jpg)
Finally, I added a semaphore apparatus from plastic scraps. This will be a command vehicle (I´ll paint one of my British Light tanks as one of the 20 or so Russian-bought ones), so it shows, and is more practical than an 8-inch pole for wireless telegraphy. Although that would be nice, too.
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1177583299497.jpg)
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Awesome, Chris! Like the shading!
just a correction to the russian name of the tank - Октябрьская революция :)
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Man, you are quick! When did you get it, yesterday?
I really like the semaphore thingie. I hope you don't mind if I steal the idea for one of the "optional parts" sets 8)
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Awesome, Chris! Like the shading!
just a correction to the russian name of the tank - Октябрьская революция :)
Thanks for the correction. I used the transliterator found here: http://www.woron.de/translator.html
Of course, I wouldn´t have a possibility to check it out. But I won´t bother much about it. Maybe I´ll correct it, otherwise, it´s "Pulp Cyrillic".
Man, you are quick! When did you get it, yesterday?
I really like the semaphore thingie. I hope you don't mind if I steal the idea for one of the "optional parts" sets 8)
Yup, yesterday at noon, my lovely letter lady dropped the parcel by my place... with some models, I just HAVE to do it NOW. But the painting is rather easy, just a darker olive-brown for a base over white spraycoat; then, wetbrushed using mid olive-brown, and a final coat with a hint of skin and white added. Then I painted the tracks dark brown and used the paint, watered down, to wash some areas. Final metal drybrush, and hey presto.
As for the semaphore, go ahead! If you wish, I can send you some images to act as guides, as the actual item looks a tad bit different from my rendition.
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Yup, yesterday at noon, my lovely letter lady dropped the parcel by my place... with some models, I just HAVE to do it NOW.
TEUTONIC EFFICIENCY :o
I love the tank. I love that you picked a simple paint scheme and let the tank stand out by itself. Your choice to change the gun barrels also worked out really well.
I'm in awe. :love:
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That is awesome Chris. And I love that you made it a Russian tank instead of German. EVERYONE makes thiers German. :)
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Looking excellent!
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What a fabulous creation of colour symbolising the purest essence of Bolshevism in this juggernaut. :)
Well Done too you.
Now a neat tank commander to compliment the tank.
God Bless
Helen
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EVERYONE makes thiers German. :)
No they don't. Vikotnik's was in Hatay* colours.
Top stuff, Chris. Looks fantastic.
*The fictional one run by Alexei Sayle in a fez, rather than the real one.
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EVERYONE makes thiers German. :)
No they don't. Vikotnik's was in Hatay* colours.
(...)
*The fictional one run by Alexei Sayle in a fez, rather than the real one.
Working for the Germans, all for the price of a few baubles and a "Chrolls Chroyce Phantom Thrrree"... :D :lol:
I had actually pondered painting it in German WW1 three-tone Splinter camouflage, but the model just didn´t look "German" to me. Either a Brit or a Soviet. As well as that; just as Helen and Pete pointed out, the "monotone" scheme doesn´t detract too much from the "bulkyness" (Wuchtigkeit, for the Germanophones, as I´m not too sure "bulky" fully conveys what I´m thinking about) of the beastie.
On the tank commander, that´s why I left the hatch open - now to find a suitable mini in a suitable pose. Maybe I´ll have to sculpt one...
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That was fast Chris ! Excellent work.
Time for a tank battle very soon !
Björn
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As for the semaphore, go ahead! If you wish, I can send you some images to act as guides, as the actual item looks a tad bit different from my rendition.
Images would be great! The semaphore apparatus would be just the thing for my own command tank:
(http://pardulon.com/img/galerie/w002/w002_2.jpg)
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I like the battleship grey look you've got going there, Zafarelli. Makes it seem very much the "Land Ironclad."
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Excellent work. The Pardulon stuff looks awesome.
Chuck
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I like the battleship grey look you've got going there, Zafarelli. Makes it seem very much the "Land Ironclad."
Now you have me sitting here, looking for naval camo patterns instead of mowing the lawn. Tells a lot about my attitude towards gardening, I guess.
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Now you have me sitting here, looking for naval camo patterns instead of mowing the lawn. Tells a lot about my attitude towards gardening, I guess.
Lawns are filthy and unnatural. If dandelions and crabgrass weren't the Will of God, they wouldn't grow with such Teutonic Efficiency.
Also, ivy. I recommend ivy.
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Lawns are filthy and unnatural. If dandelions and crabgrass weren't the Will of God, they wouldn't grow with such Teutonic Efficiency.
Also, ivy. I recommend ivy.
I spent a whole afternoon with this green dirt and kept on having visions of bulldozers and cement mixers. If it wasn't for the child, I'd have the garden levelled and tarred. Or to quote a good friend of mine when I asked him if we wanted to sit outside: "Now, let's not start with this suspicious hippie stuff."
Sorry to have derailed the thread about your superb October Revolution tank, Chris, I did not mean to. No, really.
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Super work! I finally managed to find a bottle of "Erdal Bodenglänzer" the German equivalent of Future's floor polish, so I'll have to start work on my Pardulon tank too!
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Sorry to have derailed the thread about your superb October Revolution tank, Chris, I did not mean to. No, really.
:lol:
No offense! I know the "joys" of gardening from my parents´ big backyard, which awaits serious reconstruction this year - voles have undermined the lawn, and the stairs leading down from the conservatory to the pasture have dropped by some four inches... and cutting back the bushes, mowing the lawn etc. is quite the bitch, IMHO. For once, I´m happy to live in a flat next to a green "promenade", so I won´t have to keep the green myself.
Sometimes, you just want to drive some tanks through it, don´t you?
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Very nice job, Chris, and the new barrels do look better.
Zaffarelli, the grey scheme makes it even more imperative that You read Moorcock's 'Nomad of the Time Streams'.
...now I'm off to work and, right after that, I have to mow the #+&%$%& lawn! :x :x
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Lawn conspiracies everywhere! :lol:
Anyway, back2topic!
Over the weekend, I painted up two "German Mercenaries" by Copplestone Castings (or rather, re-painted them, since I had bought them years ago for my WW1 collection). They do look better now, although the varnish makes them look rather thick and featureless on the pic, though...
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1177875476504.jpg)
The small inset shows the miniatures at original size (at 1024x768 pixels screen resolution).
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First revolutionaries, courtesy of the esteemed Prof. Witchheimer!
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1178210750857.jpg)
Next: Bolshevik Cavalry, hopefully done tomorrow.
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The Gardening Counterrevolutionaries seem to have broken your images!
Denounce bad images! Graphical Progress is a Historical Imperative!
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Damn those Imperialist oppressors! :lol:
Well, I see them, so I certainly hope the pic is back up?
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Yup, I see it!
Man, that's cool, really. Glad, you got the figs :)
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Yup, and the other parcel arrived today, too. I´ve already started work on three of the sailors, and they don´t look too wrong, IMHO. Oh, and the cavalry is almost done. :D
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Oh, and the cavalry is almost done. :D
Of course, we all have expected that. I assume, all the 34 figs from the second parcel will be finished until next week :lol:
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ROFLMAO! :lol: :lol: :lol: Stachanow´s Brush strikes again!
Sadly enough, I´m totally oppressed by counterrevolutionary Bretonnian Knights and worker-devouring Tyranids, and since the lion´s (or would that be bear´s?) share of the sailors is still in the blister pack, I´ll first try the scheme on two of the sailors and get your feedback, guys.
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Man, I am so going to have to get some Reds sometime soon. I've got Turks, I've got Asien Korps, I've got gangsters. A few Reds would let me do Silk Road stuff like the nuts.
Great job Chris. Did you and the Prof. have some sort of swap? Suddenly he has all this stuff from you, and now you've got his stuff.
Prof., if you're into trades, I can trade you some Genuine American Humor for some Teutonic Efficiency. :)
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Man, I am so going to have to get some Reds sometime soon. I've got Turks, I've got Asien Korps, I've got gangsters. A few Reds would let me do Silk Road stuff like the nuts.
*in his finest oriental luring tone*
Do it, Pete... do it... you know you want to... succumb to the lure!
Great job Chris. Did you and the Prof. have some sort of swap? Suddenly he has all this stuff from you, and now you've got his stuff.
Yup, I swapped him the resin houses and Putilov for the Bolshevik Minis, and got a load of more minis for something which I shall not reveal at this time but will surely prove popular if it works out O.K. ...
Prof., if you're into trades, I can trade you some Genuine American Humor for some Teutonic Efficiency. :)
:lol:
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Prof., if you're into trades, I can trade you some Genuine American Humor for some Teutonic Efficiency. :)
Sorry, Pete, I prefer to stay efficient :lol:
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Yup, I swapped him the resin houses and Putilov for the Bolshevik Minis, and got a load of more minis for something which I shall not reveal at this time but will surely prove popular if it works out O.K. ...
Ooooh. A mystery! :o
Well, if anyone wants to trade some efficiency for humor (or lies and deceit, I have a lot of that, too), I'll be here. Painting inefficiently. :cry:
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(or lies and deceit, I have a lot of that, too)
We discussed this yesterday, NO ONE should take Pete up on his offer for lies. He's as inefficient at that as he is at painting. It's also why contract negotiations with him are so easy. :lol:
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Just noticed that I hadn´t yet uploaded the pics of my 1:50th Nieuport Bébé, a Smêr model kit which I bought back in 2004 for the steal price of 2,50€. It´s a rather simple kit, with rather thick parts, but for the wargamer, this is actually a boon (IMHO), since it makes the model far more stable than is the case with more modern model kits.
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1178625010120.jpg)
The decals came with the kit. I cannot comment on the historical authenticity of the LePrieur antiballoon rockets for Soviet Bébés, but they looked too cool to leave them off - and the instructions insisted on using them, so who cares. It´s Pulp BoB, after all.
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A cool plane! I love it!
And the rockets!! How pulpy can you get? Lovely!!
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SMER rule. Sturdy and robust, and easy to build for chaps with little modelling skill like me. And £3.99 a plane for 1/48. You'd be crazy not to buy them.
I spit on those fancy-ass, fiddly, fragile Eduard £25 monstrosities!
(Just got two SMER Albatrosses in the post this morning.)
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This is a brilliant model Chris !!!!
Björn
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I have an Edouard IL-2 and that sucker is made of styrene thinner than the dreams of children. I'm going to have to look for some Smer kits, but with my luck they won't be in stock, or they'll be just as expensive as Hasegawa.
Great model, Chris! And the rockets on the wings are gravy.
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Bolshevik Cavalry, by Copplestone:
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1178719307767.jpg)
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thumbs up, Chris!
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Ahoy! Let me present a revolutionary Sailor committee landing party from the light cruiser "Aurora".
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1179172496546.jpg)
Actually, British Sailors from Copplestone, a bit russified by adding cap bands and painting in the most fitting Russian Sailor Scheme I could find. The Lewis gun is a conversion, too (plastic tube et al), and I may add some bayonets later.
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Superb! Again, I like the blue :D
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It's a very convincing paint job! Great work!
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missed that yesterday, great work Chris, they look really "russian"!
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What can a girl say, but excellent :)
God Bless
Helen
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Reinforcements arrived on tuesday!
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1181853554593.jpg)
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1181853422916.jpg)
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1181853485513.jpg)
Please excuse the poor pix.
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I say it again: Great stuff 8)
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nice work, Chris, looks like you've got a handsome force in the meantime!
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Hey here are so manny BOB Gamers from Germany why we don´t meet and make a BOB Weekend with a smal campaign ?
grimm
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Great idea. Would have to plan in advance (some 4-6 weeks, though).
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Hey here are so manny BOB Gamers from Germany why we don´t meet and make a BOB Weekend with a smal campaign ?
That´s really a good idea..BoB Gamers, Unite! 8) 6 Weeks would be better!
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Lined´em up for a "family portrait":
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1182505193771.jpg)
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Oh that looks nice, Chris.
Is the table the one with the railroad ??
Fits perfectly I'd say. Good job :wink:
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Great job, Chris! They look suitably ferverent.
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Oh that looks nice, Chris.
Is the table the one with the railroad ??
Fits perfectly I'd say. Good job :wink:
Da, Tovarish! :mrgreen:
I hope to build two more boards next week, along with the junk for our esteemed Prof... maybe get a game on next weekend, with pix, of course.
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Very nice. Puts my Bolsheviks to shame!
I like the flag. Did you make it yourself or is it from a manufacturer?
I really need to take some photos of my Reds and post them here sometime!
Jim
Aka
Comrade Colonel Igor Tubugerov,
Commander Third Peasants and Workers Shock Brigade
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Very nice. Puts my Bolsheviks to shame!
I like the flag. Did you make it yourself or is it from a manufacturer?
I really need to take some photos of my Reds and post them here sometime!
Jim
Aka
Comrade Colonel Igor Tubugerov,
Commander Third Peasants and Workers Shock Brigade
Thanks, Tovarish! All the flags were done using an old Adobe Photoshop and printed on my Canon MP 510 printer.
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First "Character Model", Fiona McDougal, firebrand author, Scottish suffragette, and socialist sympathiser.
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1182893114530.jpg)
Small pics are about original size.
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Long time, nothing new, but now it´s time for more Russians to throw off the shackles of the Imperialist oppressors!
Which is to say, I shaved off the shoulder tabs and cap insignia of a White Russian HMG team by Copplestone and painted them up for more Revolutionary Firepower:
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1187256818021.jpg)
And I built an Mgebrov-White armoured car, a WW1 design whose "fate after 1916 is unknown", so perfectly fine to include in my Pulp Russian army. :mrgreen:
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1187257010262.jpg)
The Copplestone figure for scale; the car was built from a paper kit in 1/43rd scale found on the web (link available on request, he´s also got a nice Russo-Balt armoured car which I might build as well). The new scale is 1/56th, a little bit small, but that´s just due to the bulk of Copplestone figures - height-wise, it´s okay, judging from period photos.
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On their way to "commandeer" agricultural produce or to "secure" cultural heritage treasures before the cowardly Counterrevolutionaries can grab them, this Bolshevik troop has boarded the latest addition to my force, a White Model 1911 heavy-duty lorry, probably imported previously or captured from a White Russian support column.
(http://www.dminis.com/images/img.1190798647743.jpg)
Using a paper kit found on the internet, this model was made using 300g/sq.mtr cardboard, metal washers and wire, and balsa wood for the flatbed and sides. Paper for the tarpaulin. The driver is a re-painted Chinese Artillerist, who just heard an aircraft and is scanning the skies for a potential threat. May replace him if I find a better-fitting driver (with stretched arms, preferably. But looks ok.
Worked out a bit large-ish, although I scaled-down the kit to 1:56th; however, now it looks like a decent heavy lorry to me, and I can actually fit 8 Bolsheviks on the back, or a machine-gun and four more Reds.
Vroomski vroomski! ;) :lol:
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Absolutely stunning work Chris.
:o
Cheers
Björn
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Well done Chris - great work on your Reds and your lady :)
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Chris, you're amazing. I still can't believe you scratch-built an armored car!
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The truck is terrific. Where did you find a paper kit like that?
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Chris, you're amazing. I still can't believe you scratch-built an armored car!
He kindly sold me his Erhardt armored car and if you didn't know it, you never guess it's mostly card and not plastic.
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Chris, you're amazing. I still can't believe you scratch-built an armored car!
He kindly sold me his Erhardt armored car and if you didn't know it, you never guess it's mostly card and not plastic.
*full blush*
Dears, dears, don´t flatter me too much. Okay, I HAVE to develop some self-esteem, but we better not overdo it. :lol:
The truck is terrific. Where did you find a paper kit like that?
And here: >>>Trucks, cars and buses, and locomotives as well, try the links on the left side (http://bastelbogen-online.de/)
The White Truck is actually not that challenging, just a bit time-consuming if building it all from paper, since you have to make a lot of careful removals to open up the parts. I skipped out on removing them from the chassis since I wanted extra stability. And was plain lazy.
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Some of the best examples of the Copplestone Reds I have found anywhere. Really like the plane and the tank
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Some of the best examples of the Copplestone Reds I have found anywhere. Really like the plane and the tank
Why, thanks! I have to say that the CC Bolsheviks, as most of his other stuff, is absolutely fabulous (and his "ladies" look sufficently bitchy to be "absolutely fabulous"). Of course, the style is not to everybody´s taste, but I think that it makes them a joy to paint.
BTW, you can get the Tank from Pardulon (http://www.pardulon.com). Excellent model, assembled with a minimum of fuss.
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Well, what do you know! Out of a whim (and watching "Lawrence of Arabia" this morning), I decided to print out another of the nice cardboard kits and build it.
So here´s another armoured car to add to the Revolutionary Arsenal, an Mgebrov-Renault, similar to the Mgebrov-White I built last year - however, it only sports the large revolving turret, and eschews the rear cannon turret.
(http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg236/Christian_S_1979/Modelling%20and%20Miniatures/MGEBROV-RENAULT_ARMOURED_CAR.jpg)
Made from 120g cardboard, coated with thin superglue after construction and painted using Revell and Vallejo acrylic colours like Nato Olive [yes!] and Green Grey for the hull, plus VMC Dark Rubber for the tires plus some greys and browns for weathering. I may still add some detail to the base.
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You're a true cardboard warlord, Chris, it's great, just great!
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:o
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that is some hot looking cardboard :o
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hot damn this is one impresave thread. Vary good job on all your reds. kind of makes me want to revive my lost Frikorp project. But I must be strong NWF first