What's on my desk? Part 105.

Welcome on this snowy morning, and a Happy New Year!

I hope your 2026 will be healthy and successful.

As for me, I had a nice New Year's Eve with friends, food and fire (and drinks!). I hope to achieve a stable and sustainable business this year and expand my range of products and services. 

Tomorrow we're restarting the Wednesday build meets. I'm thinking about getting an extra table and expanding the thrice-monthly build meets into every-week combined wargaming/build meetings. What do you think?

On to the models!

The Ford Focus sprues were primed with reverse colours (black primer on white plastic, white on black) and then the body received a coat of Satin White. It seems a little weird to me to use this colour. I'd think black would be more appropriate, but this is what the instructions say...

The engine and the recess in the middle need other colours, so my white coat doesn't cover these areas.

 

On the Bergepanther I started on the lighter, dry dust effects and grass. I have a pot of flock from AK I can use for this purpose:

I mixed it in with some Kursk Soil nature effect, expecting this to fix the grass fibers, but that didn't turn out to be the case. The grass just comes off with a slight touch...
So out came the white (wood) glue, mixed with some water. I liberally applied the glue and rubbed tufts of grass into it (sprinkling it with my fingers didn't work very well).
I expect that most of the grass will come off, but an essential amount will remain glued to the tracks and hull. That's the reason why it looks kind of overdone right now:
On the hull I used the same glue mixture and tried to push it into the hull/sponson corner and randomly on the sides:
You can see some of the crane parts underneath the tank in this picture, and the big wood block. I still need to paint some of these, plus the whole range of tools that go on the sides of the tank. 

To be continued...

See you next week!
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