Pauls 1/35 Academy M-18 Hellcat

[Paul]

So this is what I'm building



With this lot added to








Started this on Friday night, took about 13 hours work to get to this stage. Ive got no build pictures due to the speed of the build Nice little kit it's no dragon but it's built up ok. Still friul tracks, black dog stowage and figures to sort out

[Goose]

Holy crap you build so fast!! Where do you put all your finished stuffs? Cause with all the thing you build you must have a real museum now....

[Homerlovesbeer]

Yep lightning fast. Looks great Paul. Any vids coming up on it at all?

[Paul]

Yep lightning fast. Looks great Paul. Any vids coming up on it at all?

No videos no sorry

Holy crap you build so fast!! Where do you put all your finished stuffs? Cause with all the thing you build you must have a real museum now....

I have a display case in the cave

[Nige99]

Yes and your running out of space quick mate! At this rate you'll have your armour builds hanging from the ceiling

[Paul]

Yes and your running out of space quick mate! At this rate you'll have your armour builds hanging from the ceiling

Ha ha

[Paul]

So the hellcat was primed then given some colour modulation. Used the Mig ammo paints shown the effect will tone down with the weathering smile emoticon Not bad going considering i only started this late friday night

[Hillbilly]

I'm not a big fan of modulation(most examples I see are over-done) But this looks great,just enough tonal variation without being over done...Well played!

[KalebBeard]

looking good, cant to see the final product

[Paul]

Got the hellcats metal Friulmodel tracks treated with the new ultimate modelling products track burnishing fluid. I left the tracks in for an hour and this was the effect. There's a review in this months news show on using them and soon after a "how to" video on assembling the tracks and burnishing them.
Leaving the tracks in the fluid for longer or shorter times you can adjust how dark they go, the last 2 pictures below shows from left to right 7 mins, 1 hour, 12 hours and 24 hours.
Ps i know one side is on back to front











Got it decaled too

[alextheblue]

Ultimate burnishing liquid.......what the.......how the.....where the..........!!!!!

Gotta get me some of that - now what was Ultimate's URL again!

Oh, the Hellcat looks the biz by the way!

[JohnP]

Wow... you're really plowing through this one
The modulation looks great and the burnishing liquid seems to have turned out very nicely.
Looking forward for more progress!

[Ozzie21]

Looking good Paul

[Paul]

Wildcat pin washed chipped and Matt coated ready for a filter. Tracks have had a few coats of wash and a sander run over them to show fresh metal.

[EasyEight96]

That's migh fast Paul I haven't even started mine yet

[Paul]

Nearly finished now few more bits to do, rust streaks dust effects and the figures and a base (maybe). Today I got the tracks sorted and fitted and all the excellent black dog stowage.

[Filmman586]

As usually Paul, brilliant!

[Paul]

Dio base was started



A plaster of paris base was added and a pair of track grooves added, then primed in tamiya grey primer




Then painted brown




A mix of static grass colours were glued in place



Then using some tamiya texture paint for mud and some different around coverings it was done


Final reveal can be found here http://www.intscalemodeller.com/viewtop ... 61&t=11601