Miniature Painting
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Aazrael
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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This kit is crazy detailed. A thousand small details like hooks and pins and everything else to glue, half of the stuff I break loose when handling it. 
The turret isn't even halfway done in this picture.
I've made a few mistakes when assembling it. Its not quite as good a fit as tamiyas stuff which falls into place effortlessly. More bending and forcing with this one.
The turret isn't even halfway done in this picture.
I've made a few mistakes when assembling it. Its not quite as good a fit as tamiyas stuff which falls into place effortlessly. More bending and forcing with this one.
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Erronius
Macho Ma'am
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I only have one, and I bought it back when they first came out and you could still indirect fire with them.
It was kind of a waste of points, and since then they've always seemed overcosted to me. Huge target and they just get focused down so fucking fast.
If I ever manage to get back into 40K, I'd really like to kitbash some of these. This is one of those models that looks 100 times better when kitbashed (and kitbashed well...not just gluing random bits onto it)
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Attog
Blackwing Lair Raider
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This is totally professional work, looks like it came straight out of an advertisement! I wish I had skills like this.
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Gankak
Vyemm Raider
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Aazrael
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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Apache ah64 from Italieri. Worst build yet. Really bad instructions and the fit when building was not good at all. Got kinda pissed by that so I powered through and built it during the weekend. It was a rush job but ended up pretty nice, got lots of mistakes and shortcuts.
Getting another Israeli tank by Meng that's been newly released and got great details. It should be coming this week and I wanted to spend my time building that instead.
Getting another Israeli tank by Meng that's been newly released and got great details. It should be coming this week and I wanted to spend my time building that instead.
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Gankak
Vyemm Raider
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A lot of older kits have fit problems. And even 'newer' ones are just reboxings of older kits using those same tired old molds. This is true of all manufacturers, and most of them buy molds from each other so you can potentially buy a tamiya kit that is being manufactured with a mold from Italeri or Revell etc.
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Aazrael
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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Yep for sure, thought it was a new kit due to the box art but that was false. I learned scalemates.com is what you need. There you can follow all the kits and what they've done and where they are from.
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Kuro
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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The question is, was this 9 year old me, or current day me. Gotta pimp that bright yellow bolter. Priming my Deathguard in the winter was probably a bad choice. Upside, they're deathguard, so I can slap some nurgle's rot on the spots where the paint didn't turn out quite right.
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Hateyou
Not Great, Not Terrible
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I tried to find an old modeling post I saw on Instagram where a guy gave a weighted look to a model with rubber tires. He basically ran a wire through the bottom of each tire, ran the wire through the base then tightened so it pulled down and made the tires bulge at the bottom. Have seen similar stuff for other models that have working shocks that basically make the model ride high, Like your tank probably will.
While looking for that I did come cross an old airplane one o saved. You model guys might be interested in trying this technique some time, looks pretty cool. Covered it in foil then sanded it.
While looking for that I did come cross an old airplane one o saved. You model guys might be interested in trying this technique some time, looks pretty cool. Covered it in foil then sanded it.
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