Read Time: 2 minutes Spring | Summer | Fall | Winter | Decaying Having Fun with Colour Here is a fantastic way to add more interest to your builds, vignettes or dioramas. Tools Technique Check out the article on Damp Effects and Pine Needles. Pro-tip Punches come in different scales. Leaf punches are available from:
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Read Time: < 1 minute Wet Coniferous Needles In Scale Using AK GLOSS VARNISH & Abteilung 502 Oils In addition to the leaf post using coffee filters seasonally coloured with acrylics and leaf punches for deciduous tree species, here is a coniferous effect. Static Grass 2 mm in length will work. Longer static grass needs to be cut to scale
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Read Time: 5 minutes Schienen-Spähpanzer 204 (f) (Rail Scout Car) The French Panhard Voiture Spéciale Type 178 – Panhard 178 Railway Armoured Car in German Service WWII by ICM Kit 35376 Review Military Train and Armoured Train Service Panhard 178 Armoured Car in Railway Operations ICM offers the Panhard 178 designated as the Panzerspähwagen P 204(f) under German Service
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Read Time: 4 minutes TIGER I № 231 ofSchwere Panzer Abteilung 503 After Action Report of 252 hits from various calibres by Red Army anti-tank action. Submitted by TIGER I Tank Commander, Lieutenant Zabel, 1943 This is the account of the experiences of TIGER 231 of the 503th Heavy Tank Battalion, 13rd Armored Regiment Company, part of a German
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Read Time: 9 minutes KING TIGER TANK SGP Sla 1616 Cylinder Air-cooled Diesel Engine (Porsche Type 203) In 1943, Simmering-Graz-Pauker (SGP) in Vienna, Austria was tasked by the Heereswaffenamt (HWA, German Army Weapons Agency) to develop a new main tank engine for the Heer (German Army). The requested engine was an air-cooled diesel that would only require minor modifications
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Read Time: 2 minutes What every plastic scale modeller needs to know. Styrene Modelling Fundamentals That’s what I do… I build models and know things that most people don’t. Scale model kits are typically made from injection-moulded polystyrene and/or resin castings. Styrene hardness varies between kit manufacturers. Many aftermarket parts are made from brass photo-etched parts (PE), machined metal
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Read Time: 5 minutes Explaining Scale Model Filters The purpose of a filter is not to necessarily change the base colour, rather give it a more realistic look. Think of that sparkling clean, not a speck of dust on it, brand new, black or white car in the automotive showroom you are about to buy. After driving it home,
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Read Time: 12 minutes Understanding Oil Paint Rendering and the Oil Dot Process Oil Paint Rendering Taking Your Builds To The Next Level An Introduction by Michael Rinaldi Backstory In the past few years, as I produce more and more modelling articles, I came to realize there was always one step that I felt I was never fully explaining
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Read Time: 2 minutes Reinventing the Wheel? Building on Other’s Experience and Skillsets Collective Knowledge and Learning Wet Palette Use № 2 From time to time we come across reference pictures of subject matter we want to recreate. Because they are very well done, we want to be able to emulate them in our own work. If we are
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Read Time: 3 minutes TANKART 4 German Armour | WWII Late WarMichael Rinaldi Rinaldi Studio Press Editor Info TANKART 4 GERMAN ARMOR (2ND ED)ISBN 978-0-9883363-4-6 PRE-ORDER ONLYLIMITED TO 500 COPIES WORLDWIDE ESTIMATED RELEASE AUGUST 2020 TANKART 4 German Armor is the second TANKART book covering this very popular subject, WWII German Late Armor. This 2nd Edition printing expands by 64-pages
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