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Posts Tagged ‘502 Abteilung’ »

In Progress » Panzerkampfwandern 38t(x) » Sample Painting pt. 3 Plus Base »

Posted on Sunday, May 2, 2010, 3:39 pm, by Michael Fichtenmayer.
Filed under Modeling, Models In-Progress.

I skipped over a few steps with the photography, but I can describe them here. When I left off it was time for additional modulation, but this time with oils. Using 502 Abteilung oil paint I highlighted and darkened areas to give them more depth. The colors I used for this were Buff, Light Mud, Dark Mud and Starship Filth. I basically just hand-painted and blended the colors into the surface to lighten and darken it. I added some very faint rust-colored areas in a discoloration technique as well then set it in a hotbox for a few days to dry.

The “hotbox” is just an old paint of speaker-boxes made from wood with one side open enough to put a lightbulb in and raise the temp to speed up oil paint’s dry time. I have a 1/35 DAK fig in it now drying to go with this vignette.

After the modulation/discoloration had dried I wen back and added darker and more defined rust areas with the 502 oil’s Dark Rust and Shadow Brown colors. Then I used thinned Shadow Brown to do light pin washes on the rivets and panel lines. Then once more into the hotbox for some drying. After that it was all hit with a flat coat of FFA. Next up is pre-dusting with the airbrush and then pigment dusting.

I also started on a small display base for this build just for my own uses as I doubt it’ll make it to the box art. I started with a leftover wood box lid from a jewelery box who’s “box” had been used elsewhere for another dio… maybe the “Taco”. Anyway, I then built up some 3/16″ basswood walls and stained it. After the stain dried I sawed off some edges to create a few levels then filled the box with green floral foam for bulk. Plaster rocks were added then it was all filled in with a gravel, ballast, tallus, sand, white glue, and Celluclay mixture. This was worked in with a wet stiff brush and then more tallus/ballast was added to simulate rockfall fixed with white glue.

I wanted to simulate a Moroccan desert scene so with the help of some reference started choosing colors to paint the groundwork. After the Celluclay dried, I hand-brushed on several coats of cheap tan/chocolate mixed acrylics with a very slight hint of red based on my refs. I added several coats until all the rocks and groundwork was a uniform color. Next I darkened the base color with a darker tan/chocolate/red mix. Once that dried I applied a wash of Mig Productions “Dark Wash and let it dry as well. When dry I drybrushed the whole base with light tan to make the rocks pop more. Once done the whole thing was dusted with African Earth, Gulf War Sand, and Dry Mud pigments and doused with Pigment Fixer.

Plants are bundles of dark shaded jute fiber, drybrushed with white glue and dipped in earth colored fine turf.

Tags: 1/35 Scale, 502 Abteilung, AFV, Celluclay, Chipped Paint, Commission, Desert, Fine Turf, Germany, Hairspray, Jute, Mecha, Mig Productions, Modulation, Oil Paint, Oil Paint Discoloration, Panzerkampfwandern 38(x), Plaster Rock Molds, PzKpfw 38(x) Ausf. G, Resin, Rust, Scratchbuild, X-Series Walkers
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In Progress » HH-1N ‘Abandon Chute’ » Interior Nearly Complete »

Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010, 12:13 pm, by Michael Fichtenmayer.
Filed under Modeling, Models In-Progress.

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Here’s the near-completed interior. All I’ve left to do is to dirty-up the floor a bit with a little dust in the corners via a thin oil-paint wash.Seatbelts and consoles were the pre-painted PE that came with the kit. I just had to paint the backs of the seatbelts as some parts of those were visible. The ‘cloth’ gear and seats were painted with 502 Abteilung oil-paints.

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Tags: 1/35 Scale, 3540, 502 Abteilung, Abandon Chute, Academy, Decals, DML, Dragon, Eduard, Fireball Models, Gunship, Helicopter, Hoist, Huey, Iroquois, MH-60G, MRC, Orange, Panda, Photoetch, Prepainted Photoetch, Reference, Rotary Wing, Stowage, UH-1N, White
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In Progress » BergeLuther » Discoloration and Burned Out Modern Car »

Posted on Sunday, January 24, 2010, 6:39 pm, by Michael Fichtenmayer.
Filed under For Sale, Tips & Techniques.

Progress continues on the BergeLuther. I’ve applied the oil discoloration using the 502 Abteilung oils paints. This time I used the colors German Gray Highlight + Faded Navy Blue, Light Rust, Dark Mud and UN Faded White. These were dabbed on as usual then blended in with clean odorless turpenoid. Before this I attached a fuel barrel/mount, tools and extinguisher to the main body. The rust of the barrel mount was done with a rusty base coat followed up by sponging on lighter and darker rust tones. More pics below…

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I also began work on the Mig Productions Burned Out Modern Car kit which arrived a few days ago. After cleaning the resin and constructing the wire seats using the supplied jig and a soldering iron, cleaning up the kit and painting has been a fun and relatively quick process. I used an SBS at the Mig forum by vsuarez666 seen here. It was a great tool for getting great results quickly. I’ve still a bit to go on it, but here’s where I’m at so far.

After priming the kit with self-etching primer I followed up with a coat of flat black spraypaint. Over that I sprayed a dark overall rust tone using the black base as shadows to show through, followed up by two lighter rust coats mottled on with my airbrush.

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Over this base coat I used cheapie acrylics and stippled on yellow, brown, gray, blue and red with a damp sponge. This adds more color and variety to the rust and will add more depth in the next steps.

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Over this stippled coat I sprayed a flat layer of FFA to seal the base coats. I let that cure overnight and the next day I sprayed the kit down with hairspray and generously sprinkled kosher and table salt over it.

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After the hairspray dried I sprayed on some neutral gray, white, then a light mint color for that “classic” car feel.

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I removed the salt by rubbing and with water and a brush removing some of the hairspray layer as well to re-expose the rust. Rubbing the salt off took some of the base coat with it resulting in some dark spots, but those actually add to the overall rustiness and look great IMO.

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Then I took some rust-colored oils, some dark brown and some ocher and blended them into the surface to enhance the color. I then took some white and Faded German Gray which is a very light bluish color and enhanced the leftover paint spots of the vehicle.

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Once this layer of oils dry I plan to go back with some grays and whites and dirty the car up as it’ll be sitting in a pile of building debris.

And speaking of debris, here’s the start of my base for the Berge. The Berge will be plowing some debris off a road and into an open crater. There will be corrugated steel, barrels, building rubble, the car, a fridge, chair and vacuum, girders, pipes, bricks and more.  The base is foam and thin plywood for now, but all that will be covered. The exterior in basswood and the foam in Bondo, Celluclay, and a Sculpey road surface (made, but not pictured)

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Tags: 1/35 Scale, 502 Abteilung, BergeLuther, Burned Out Car, Diorama, Dust Game, Mig Productions, Models In-Progress, Oil Paint Discoloration, Paolo Parente, Resin
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In Progress » Hoth Diorama » Snowspeeders » Weathering »

Posted on Sunday, January 10, 2010, 5:34 pm, by Michael Fichtenmayer.
Filed under Commissions, Modeling, Models In-Progress.

Here’s the latest on the build-up of the four Snowspeeders. First I airbrushed some German Gray onto the rear engine parts to darken them up as per the reference. Then I applied a clearcoat of Future and the decals. Those went on quite smoothly except that since I wasn’t using the kit-supplied stripe decals I needed to carefully cut out the orange boxes on the gray speeder on the sides of the air-breaks to remove the gray.Once the decals were done I applied a thin flat coat for the next steps.

I applied the paint chips using neutral gray with a very fine brush then afterwards added more with some sponge to get the finer masses of chips and scrapes.

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After the chips I added an warm buff colored filter in order to warm up the cool gray of the initial painting. After that I applied the discoloration with oil paints. This is done by adding small dabs of oil paint (I use and love the 502 Abteilung brand… very fine and smooth!) then blending them and streaking them with clean odorless turpenoid. For this I used Dark Mud, Navy Blue, Buff, and Dark Rust colors. Below you can see the difference between the discolored speeder (left) and the one with just a filter applied (right). Notice that it gives you subtle variations in the surface color making it appear more worn.

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Once that dried overnight I went back and added more Dark Mud oils to the gun crevasses and engine parts. I also applied slightly thicker filters of either Dark Rust or Snow White 502 oils to further accentuate panels.

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Next I’ll use some thinned 502 oils and apply a thin wash to just the panel lines. No need to get sloppy with a thick wash covering all the color variations. After that I’ll apply another flat coat and then do the soot-streaks, rust, and grime with Mig pigment powders.

Tags: 1/48 Scale, 502 Abteilung, Airspeeder, Empire Strikes Back, Fine Molds, Hoth, Hoth Diorama, Luke Skywalker, Snowspeeder, Star Wars, T-47, Weathering, Wedge Antilles
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Reference » ESB Snowspeeder Screen Shots »

Posted on Sunday, January 10, 2010, 5:18 pm, by Michael Fichtenmayer.
Filed under Reference.

Someone had asked about there actually being a gray Snowspeeder in the Empire Strikes Back. Frankly I wasn’t 100% sure either so I loaded up the DVD and took some screen shots. Indeed there is a gray speeder and from what I could tell, the only one I saw flying about was Lukes. Here’s some shots of that and of the 1:1 set pieces:

Here you can see Luke’s speeder in gray and the standard orange model.

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Look close and only one is gray. (hint: largest in foreground)

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This I found interesting… looks like they used the same model a LOT. Were there more than one model used for the filming?

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Here’s a shot of the large set pieces. Man these things were dirty!

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And here’s more shots:

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Tags: 502 Abteilung, Airspeeder, Empire Strikes Back, Hoth, Hoth Diorama, Luke Skywalker, Snowspeeder, Star Wars, T-47, Wedge Antilles
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