What's on my desk? Part 96.
Hello and welcome,
First off, for those who've not seen my post on Instagram and Facebook last week, I'm organizing a Warhammer contest in November, with as Grand Prize a Baneblade tank! The Intro set is the second prize. Entering is simple: purchase at least 40€ of Games Workshop products and fill out the contest form, answering two simple questions. One is knowledge based (read the wiki page to prepare), the other is a guessing question, namely: how much does the glass jar with paints and tools weigh?
Contest is only in-store, giving you the opportunity to hold the jar and guesstimate your answer. It's running for the entirety of November; I will officially weigh the jar on December 2nd and notify the winners then.
So, what's on my desk, you ask?
Let's start with the Bergepanther. I've attached all the suspension swing arms and primed the underside. This is what a torsion bar suspension looks like on the outside:
The spade has received a nice coat of Ammo Steel paint:
The chipping paint method I'm using requires that you do the steps one after the other, with some 10 minutes drying time between them. So I need an uninterrupted hour or so to do it. Maybe on Wednesday I can do it during the build meet...
Taking to the air, the T-2 struggle continues.
The air scoops on the bottom consist of a sloped part, combined with a square or round ring to represent the hole. As per usual by now, these do not fit perfectly, and the rear ones had obvious sink marks that needed filling:
After filling and sanding they look okay-ish, although I had to just drill out the small round ones on the bottom, as the first ring I cut from the sprue launched from my tweezers, never to be seen again...
The windscreen, then. Special Hobby provides a resin instrument (the Head-Up Display maybe?) for the Greek version, but this sits way too high and the windscreen does not fit:
I tried grinding it down, but to no avail. In the end I just left it off.
Next problem then presents itself: there's a giant step between the nose and the windscreen:
I tried filling it with my customary Plastic Putty, but soon realized I needed more volume. Out came the Tamiya two-part epoxy putty (comparable to Milliput). I cut two small parts, rolled it into a thin sausage and put it over the gap:
Some pushing and cutting and I've got a more aerodynamic fairing:
Obviously I still need to sand this smooth and refine the shape a bit.
To be continued...
Finally, the McLaren has some colour!
I started with giving the shell a nice smooth white coat:
Letting it dry for a day, I moved on to masking. First the outlines with 6mm tape:
Then fill out the rest with wide 18mm:
I really wanted to eliminate any possibility of overspray, because it would be nearly impossible to correct it.
Now that the masking is in place, I can spray the fluorescent red:
My phone pictures don't really do it justice, but the red is very very bright. I let this dry for another day and removed the masking tape. Meanwhile I put the tire decals on, screwed the wheels on the suspension and assembled the rear wing (it's just loose on the model here):
To do: spray a gloss coat, stick on the decals, final assembly. This one is nearly ready...
That's it.
See you next week!