M40 Motor Gun Carriage

[Kevthemodeller]

Great paint and superb tracks mate

[digger303]

Great work. Lovely paintwork on the hull and those tracks look superb

Thanks.. needs fixing a little, but it was hastily applied in the field with no masks so I'm trying to do the same. Hand shaking like a leaf when I was trying to do a smooth edge.

It's all looking great! I really like the tracks! Good luck finding the wheel

Thanks BW , but no luck with the missing bogey so far.....driving me mad. I may have to go pul the vacuum bag apart.

Great paint and superb tracks mate

Thanks Kev. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get any bench time in today.

[LWWales]

Looking great mate!

[Tomcat64]

Yep the guys have already said it but the headless dudes are coming along really nicely, and the paintwork looks great.

Hope you can get that wheel back from the carpet monster's lair mate

[digger303]

Yep the guys have already said it but the headless dudes are coming along really nicely, and the paintwork looks great.

Hope you can get that wheel back from the carpet monster's lair mate

thanks TC.
I keep hoping if I stop looking for it that it will just suddenly appear. Sadly I think I'm going to have to attack the vac bag....always a messy process.

[digger303]

Not a big update, started work on the base another new experience. It is Knauf insulation foam and I'm going to base coat it with this foam armor from Deluxe materials. I'v made provision for the tracks. I'v also attached the gun and started detail painting. The camo is what was field applied in Germany during the last weeks of the war. In the first pic if you look at the gun sheild you will notice that the tolerances are very close. I did in fact cut some away as it was fouling. The Voyager PE wasn't perfect in some cases.


My extra track is still stuck in Perth and my wheel is still lost...
Never mind still plenty to be going on with, but tonight I have to watch Vikings.

[Quax]

really nice job Digger, the paint is bringing this all together nicely for the weathering!

Paul

[Stokesy44]

Looks superb. Cant wait to see what you do with the base

[BigWall]

It's lookin nice! I'm interested in what you do with the base as well.

[Kevthemodeller]

Really coming together now mate

[Tomcat64]

Yep that's looking great and another one here interested to see how you work the base up too

[digger303]

Yep that's looking great and another one here interested to see how you work the base up too

Still working that out myself. I'll be as surprized as you if it ends up ok
Thanks to Kev,BW,Stokesy and Quax for taking a look.

[digger303]

Doing some base prep and I decided I wasn't going to worry about the sides too much and thought the rough texture might add to the scene.
So I laid down a base coat of a texture paste mixed with raw umber and a matte paste. Then followed this up with a product from VMS called smart mud.

The bottles and a small sample I experimented with first.

I accidentally squeezed out 2 large drops of activator instead of the small one I was trying for and as you can see as I mixed it balled up rather quick. BUT never fear this is very forgiving and adding a bit more resin fixed it.

After application it looked like this and not dry yet

A rough mock up without the figures as yet. Sorry about the color being not quite right in actuality the ground work is a reddish clay.

cheers all.

[Stokesy44]

Never seen those materials before, nice work. I know what you mean about colour getting skewed in pictures. I use an iphone for my pics and it continually washes out the colour in the shot.

[digger303]

Never seen those materials before, nice work. I know what you mean about colour getting skewed in pictures. I use an iphone for my pics and it continually washes out the colour in the shot.

Vantage Modeling Solutions.....Chris the owner is a modeler and chemist ( chemical engineer or something like that ) and so is his father. He has the attitude ...."I'll only produce it if it is top quality and we both would use it "
I'v been using the Flexy CA for Pe. I started using it 5th Dec 2019 and still have about 2ml left out of 25ml bottle.....good stuff.
Check it out....https://www.vms-supplies.com/

[BigWall]

It's looking great Digger! I like that mud.

I'm impressed so far with the VMS items I've bought. I haven't tried all of them yet though. It's odd but I can have him ship items from Poland cheaper than I can get it shipped from their supplier here in the states. If you sign up for their newsletter, they give you a discount that covers freight on your first order and around Christmas time they sent me a code for free shipping forever. Their freight rate for shipping around the world was only around $5 USD or something absurdly low like that to begin with. It was like 3 times that from the supplier here.

[Kevthemodeller]

Lovely work there Digger

[digger303]

18 months overdue and resurrecting a old thread.......
Sorry guys I ran out of time and mojo so I put it aside for a bit, but it is finished now










I found it difficult to use some of the figures and they really needed to be reposed, but I didn't have the skill for that. So I turned them and hid them up against the gun shield and the like. The skin tones I also ran into some trouble I can't get my head around the combinations required to do it properly. I can do some wood effects ok, but skin has me beat so far.
Ok time to get another of the shelf and make some progress.
thanks for your patience guys.

[BigWall]

It looks good Digger. If you never try, you're never going to improve.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Oh that is looking GREAT!!!

The base is fantastic, really sets of the gun and the guys well
Nice Work

[Tomcat64]

Well that was worth the wait - that's a cracking result mate!

Really well done for sticking with it

[Garion77]

So that's the one you were talking about that was aside! really amazing and impressive piece of canon. I really know how you feel with the figurines. The few I tried the skin was awful and I have the bad habit of putting to thick paint when brush painting. But you still did a good job with them with the actions going on

[MrBowcat]

Really nice Digger. I built the Tamiya version of this, she's a big old girl.