Huge scale-, insane-, won't be done by 11th/11th-, timeline-dio
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Re: Huge scale-, insane-, won't be done by 11th/11th-, timeline-dio
Thanks Steve!
Yeah, green stuff would be an option, generally building them myself, thought I'm thinking of a mixture of options, say a multi-media like approach to the sandbags, because they where on the parapet yes, but also MASSIVELY on the parados, especially in German trenches, so I would prefer more erratically arranged individual units for the Entente trenches while I could arguably go with finished segments for the German ones with only minor individual units. I think my main problem with making them myself would be the sheer amount that I need. I would very much prefer to work with pre fabricated or proto-finished units because I'll have to build something in the vicinity of more than over a meter of zigzagging entrenched positions....
Anyway - I did some basic colour, minor shadings and all that on the MkIV ♂. Of course I heretically used OD with some light sand brown mixed in instead of procuring or mixing a WW1 era khaki drab...
It will be utterly dirty anyway... In the setup that I envision this tank will be breaking onto a forward trench (as if even I'd be insane enough to actually build a trench system...that would be more of an exercise in NATO-scale... ) ... so... yea... mud and all that...
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Yeah, green stuff would be an option, generally building them myself, thought I'm thinking of a mixture of options, say a multi-media like approach to the sandbags, because they where on the parapet yes, but also MASSIVELY on the parados, especially in German trenches, so I would prefer more erratically arranged individual units for the Entente trenches while I could arguably go with finished segments for the German ones with only minor individual units. I think my main problem with making them myself would be the sheer amount that I need. I would very much prefer to work with pre fabricated or proto-finished units because I'll have to build something in the vicinity of more than over a meter of zigzagging entrenched positions....
Anyway - I did some basic colour, minor shadings and all that on the MkIV ♂. Of course I heretically used OD with some light sand brown mixed in instead of procuring or mixing a WW1 era khaki drab...
It will be utterly dirty anyway... In the setup that I envision this tank will be breaking onto a forward trench (as if even I'd be insane enough to actually build a trench system...that would be more of an exercise in NATO-scale... ) ... so... yea... mud and all that...
=>
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Re: Huge scale-, insane-, won't be done by 11th/11th-, timeline-dio
Damnation!
I found several sources claiming a khaki tinged green for the single colour British tanks but then about as many sources also say it's just a solid khaki... as in brown...
Anyone here with an authoritative source?
I suppose this tank might very well have to be re-painted...
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Raoul G. Kunz
I found several sources claiming a khaki tinged green for the single colour British tanks but then about as many sources also say it's just a solid khaki... as in brown...
Anyone here with an authoritative source?
I suppose this tank might very well have to be re-painted...
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Re: Huge scale-, insane-, won't be done by 11th/11th-, timeline-dio
No need to repaint it if you drown it in mud
I'll check my resources on the Mark IV.
Philipp
I'll check my resources on the Mark IV.
Philipp
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Re: Huge scale-, insane-, won't be done by 11th/11th-, timeline-dio
Thanks! So it's brown after all...
Here's a bit of context why these mistakes happen to me, not really a matter of references, they just made it worse .
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Raoul G. Kunz
Here's a bit of context why these mistakes happen to me, not really a matter of references, they just made it worse .
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Re: Huge scale-, insane-, won't be done by 11th/11th-, timeline-dio
That's fantastic Raoul.
Michael
Michael
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Re: Huge scale-, insane-, won't be done by 11th/11th-, timeline-dio
Thanks Michael!
...wait, did you mean my red-green blindness?
I know you don't, don't meant to sound like an a**hole
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...wait, did you mean my red-green blindness?
I know you don't, don't meant to sound like an a**hole
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Re: Huge scale-, insane-, won't be done by 11th/11th-, timeline-dio
Raoul, of course I was refering to your re-green blindness and you do sound like a bottom-cavity.Raoul Kunz wrote: ↑23 Jul 2018, 22:02 Thanks Michael!
...wait, did you mean my red-green blindness?
I know you don't, don't meant to sound like an a**hole
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Only kidding.....
If I could give all my AFV shelf queens a paint job like that, they wouldn't be shelf queens.
It's a great paint job, I like it a lot.
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Re: Huge scale-, insane-, won't be done by 11th/11th-, timeline-dio
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Re: Huge scale-, insane-, won't be done by 11th/11th-, timeline-dio
Thanks Michael!
And thanks for not being indignant .
And thanks Steve for finding this site - I've seen the trench "slices" sometimes but never found out where they're from - so I now have the details and source, already compared to my photo archive (it's already filled tons of trench photos ) and I suppose it's nice for someone to have done all the "compare and filtering" research as to what is typical .
I also re-painted the MkIV, I think it still looks decent - and brown!
Now I'm thinking about weather or not to make this a specific tank with a name or something generic (more appropriate).
Maybe I'll try to dig up a list of named MkIVs and then give it a generic sounding unused name... something of this kind .
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And thanks for not being indignant .
And thanks Steve for finding this site - I've seen the trench "slices" sometimes but never found out where they're from - so I now have the details and source, already compared to my photo archive (it's already filled tons of trench photos ) and I suppose it's nice for someone to have done all the "compare and filtering" research as to what is typical .
I also re-painted the MkIV, I think it still looks decent - and brown!
Now I'm thinking about weather or not to make this a specific tank with a name or something generic (more appropriate).
Maybe I'll try to dig up a list of named MkIVs and then give it a generic sounding unused name... something of this kind .
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
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Re: Huge scale-, insane-, won't be done by 11th/11th-, timeline-dio
So, after a week of way-too-hot horrible days in commuter hell (mope, whine, complain) I actually managed to get some minor progress done for the MkIV.
Now with 4 digit number sourced from a potentially (of course now no longer) Danish Staghound by cutting a single digit off... I hope 2156 isn't taken, but oh well...
It won't have a name since the MkIV was already enough of a mass produced piece of hardware instead of a wonder weapon landship that not every single unit got a name.
This makes our landship here hopefully generic enough .
Now with some initial ageing and scratching =>
Too warm still!
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Raoul G. Kunz
Now with 4 digit number sourced from a potentially (of course now no longer) Danish Staghound by cutting a single digit off... I hope 2156 isn't taken, but oh well...
It won't have a name since the MkIV was already enough of a mass produced piece of hardware instead of a wonder weapon landship that not every single unit got a name.
This makes our landship here hopefully generic enough .
Now with some initial ageing and scratching =>
Too warm still!
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
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