Leighbo
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Hi All
Just got started on my latest project so thought I would share my progress.
This is going to be the Academy M3A1 Stuart pretty much straight from the box carrying some Verlinden tank riders figures passing through a French village. I'm scratch building the building etc... and want to try and add plenty of interest to the dio if I can.
Here's the kit, one that I've had on my list for a long time
And here's the start of the building, the basic design was worked out (over many hours!) and drawn on to foam board and then I cut strips to fit balsa strips into and scored the brickwork in.
Then hand painted in cheap acrylic as a base coat which helps to stiffen the design on the front as well as create the mortar layer.
Then after painting up and fixing the basic building together with the tank hull for scale
There will be stone steps leading up to the front door and the bottom floor will be a rock wall and I'm trying to get my bravery levels up so I can make a thatched roof, but we'll see how that goes yet.
Thanks for looking
Just got started on my latest project so thought I would share my progress.
This is going to be the Academy M3A1 Stuart pretty much straight from the box carrying some Verlinden tank riders figures passing through a French village. I'm scratch building the building etc... and want to try and add plenty of interest to the dio if I can.
Here's the kit, one that I've had on my list for a long time
And here's the start of the building, the basic design was worked out (over many hours!) and drawn on to foam board and then I cut strips to fit balsa strips into and scored the brickwork in.
Then hand painted in cheap acrylic as a base coat which helps to stiffen the design on the front as well as create the mortar layer.
Then after painting up and fixing the basic building together with the tank hull for scale
There will be stone steps leading up to the front door and the bottom floor will be a rock wall and I'm trying to get my bravery levels up so I can make a thatched roof, but we'll see how that goes yet.
Thanks for looking