1:72 M3A1 Lee- Fort Knox, Armored Force School 1942
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S MAnother masterpiece coming up 🙂 What is that brown stuff used or texturizing?
Simon NagorsnikThx S M🙂
For the texture I used a mixture of Mr.Hobby aqueous surfacer 500 and dry pigments.
The texture can be adjusted with the degree of dilution or after a short drying time, treated with a bristle brush.
JvAnother butiful build so much perfect detail on a tiny tank
I zoomed in on the pics its impressive
James CLooking good Simon. The cast texture looks great which wouldn't have been easy in 1/72. I also like that shade of olive drab. 👍
Djordje NikolicHow did you get cake icing to stay so flat on the edges? 😉 I really look forward to the completed base, I think the model will "pop" knowing your work
Simon NagorsnikThanks Neil, Djordje and Oleg for your comments!
@Djordje: This is still the basic layer of air-drying modelling clay.
After curing, I glued on plastic side panels and smoothed the edges.
I don't know how this works in the patisserie, but in my case it worked for me 😁
Tom B.Very nice progress so far! Currently building up a base with air drying clay also, but unfortunately, mine has somewhat gone bad and I always have to reinforce using pva... anyway, those plastic sides do look slick 👍
Simon Nagorsnik@TOM: Thanks!
I only use thin layers of the clay.
First I adjust the base (rigid foam) roughly by cutting and sanding and then the clay comes over it and the exactly shape gets sculpted.
For the finish i use acrylic paste or fine sands etc.
@Marius: Tanks too!
At the beginning it still looks a bit rough but that gets better with the following layers of paint.
However, most of the shading disappears under the weathering...;)
Daniel KlinkWithout knowing the authors name immediately knew it by regarding the pic.
A real Simon.... Fabulous 👍
Simon NagorsnikCheers Rui, Zsolt, Daniel and James!
Thank you for stopping by and watching 😁
And also thanks to everyone who gave me a thumb up!
@Daniel: I'm watching your Wellington too!
Bas TonnI really like the M3, as it's the missing link between WW1 tank-like machines and the first modern-ish tanks from WW2.
Nice build !!
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M3A1- The right choice if you like cast armor 😉
The quality of the Mirage kit (72803) was better than I had feared.
The lower structure was traditionally multi-part to assemble, but the parts fit together without problems.
Only on the upper structure some effort was necessary.
The two side hatches were extra for gutting, which resulted in some filling and sanding, as the fit had some tolerances here.
Putting the two halves together also required some caution.
Everything else fit together quite well and the surface details are also ok (except the casting structure).
Nevertheless, I have added a few small things.
Now to the decals - that was the second time I processed some of Mirage.
And had the same problems again.
These are very fragile and tend to break and they seemed a bit stiff to me despite the use of softer.
The included rubber tracks also look quite good, but were a bit too long.
As a replacement I used resin tracks from MR Modellbau (MR-72060).
And, of course, a new armament of RB Model (72B60) and Master (GM-72- 001) was used too.
The badge is 3D printed.
