nightshiftmodeller

Early video!

https://youtu.be/6ffPkOLX2Z0

And we're ready for painting!

Good evening, or early morning my friends (3 AM here 😆) the base is ready for some paints! I'll paint everything with an airbrush first and then hit it all again with enamels and stuff like that, matching the road with mud tones on the Sherman. Basically the same way like on the Syrian base. 

You'll find another...

Who would've thought...

that a stupid fence is gonna take so long! 

I should've known better, because texturing every single plank is not a 5 minute ordeal...

Yeah, well, I found good use for The Chopper once again 😁 And the woodgrain texture was done with a razor saw. I made the fence 2 cm tall (roughly 1m in real life, which is...

Finally, a base!

Hey friends, FINALLY back at the workbench and I managed to create the basic layout of the terrain.

But before we get to that, today I also filmed the 100K special video, which will go up tomorrow, because it was twice as big as the usual videos so it finished uploading just now. 

So back to the base, again a...

Sorry for the weekend blackout

Hey friends,

I apologize for being quiet over the weekend. I didn't get the chance to even get to my computer on Saturday and took the Sunday off for riding, because the weather was just beautiful. It was nice and refreshing and I finished the final Sherman video today. 

Tomorrow I'll go shopping for that air...

Finally a load of HD pictures

Hey friends,

I'm sorry this took a few days longer than I wanted, but I pretty much didn't get a chance to do any work over the weekend (it was nice having a free weekend for a change 😁), so I completed the whole video today. 

If everything goes well, there will be new progress tomorrow, this time on the s...

Oh and a quick heads-up

I spoke with Adam about Aqualine and Textured Earth. He's not taking any orders because of the Covid situation and he mentioned some issues with the postal office. That's unfortunate but I can understand that. 

However, and this is the good news, he's expecting a fresh shipment of products arriving in the upcoming ...

And I think we're done here...

Well friends, I feel like the Sherman is finally done, and normally I would feel excited to crack open a new box, but now I'm actually more stoked for another vignette 😊

My workbench is a total mess as you'll see in the last photo, but this has to be expected when finishing a model. 

I'm glad the polished ...

Early video

Olive Drab distressing!

https://youtu.be/ll1gjWDOM0A

Almost done!

Hey friends, well the Sherman is almost done. Almost because I feel surprisingly sleepy and it's only midnight! Basically the last stuff left to add are polished metal effects on the hull (the turret is done) and the antenna. And that will be pretty much it... I'll just do it tomorrow and then edit the video. 

And ...

Mud tones done!

Hey friends, sorry for the lack of update last day, I didn't do much. I just didn't feel it in me somehow, and I didn't want to force myself because dust and mud isn't a no-brainer technique like, let's say, a pinwash. And it was nice to have a break... 

But today I finished the earth tones on the upper hull.  ...

Lower hull = done

Alright friends, the tank is finally able to stand on its own legs! 

I did polish the tracks with graphite after all, the weathered silver paint was just so unnatural looking...

The running gear and lower hull sides were weathered the same way as the tracks. One interesting thing is how the roadwheel hubs did...

That moment when

you spend several hours weathering tracks only to make them look the same as they did before you even started 🤣

But more seriously, this is the result of todays afternoon. I kinda wanted to start with tracks for no reason (maybe the initial pre-dusting + textured mud combo was too ugly to look at), so the first step ...

uh oh

When your regular 1/48 tank meets a 1/35 super heavy monster 🙃

More Sherman progress later! 

HD pictures

Lock & load my friends! 

Tomorrow we're back at the workbench! 😋

And we're ready to get filthy!

Alright, I think there's nothing more to add and the model is now totally ready for dust and mud. 😊

So the remaining stuff I did today was painting the last wooden crate (here I actually swapped the paint order, so I started with Iraqui sand, then Old wood and finished it with dark brown oil paint), and damn, even th...

Early video

Chonky boyo

https://youtu.be/SIvFbO3fD-U

I'm gonna learn how to do this properly

Alright friends, shit just got real. I decided to paint those tarps with acrylics, not with oils like I did on previous occasions. This was mainly because adding lights and shadows with oils feels less controlled, although it is easier and faster, but I wasn't  able to imagine painting something more complex like a backp...

Oil can is finally blue 🥶

Hey friends, yesterday was another busy day when I only had time to be at the workbench in the evening, so I only painted the machine guns, periscopes and the oil can, BUT it seems like the week-long busy day spree is finally over and today I'll be again able to work the whole day uninterrupted. 

That means I'll st...

Tools + more chips

Hey friends, back at the workbench again! 

Today I added some chips on the concrete armor, and besides adding them on the edges and where crew would walk around, I also picked most of the protrusions on the surface to bring out the texture a bit. 

Painting the tools was a ton of fun as always, and I agai...

When cheeps get out of hand

So this is the T-34/122 I mentioned in the previous post 😁 It's a 5 year old model! God, time flies like crazy... and this was actually my first attempt at brush-painted chips after a VERY LONG hiatus when I was hyped up on hairspray chips... I painted the entire model following Adam Wilder's KV-1 video series on Youtube, ...

HD photos

Hey friends, so I managed to wrap this video up rather quickly 😊 Tomorrow we'll be continuing with chipping on the concrete. 

But before we get there I'd like to talk about one thing, because it's important to be self-critical. Looking at those photos, I must say that I'm not very happy with the chipping on the ...

Sheeps done

Well, even if it takes significantly longer than on a 1/72 tank, it still can be done in a relatively short amount of time! Of course I need to add more chips on the concrete armor, but I'll keep that for the next video. 

Some parts might look like they're too rusty, but these are often around corners and details a...

More cheeps

Hey friends, sorry for another late post from yesterday!

Well, I tried chipping the hull, but I failed! There are still a few spots left untouched, but I decided to not push it because I was already starting to lose focus, so it'll be better to finish them today. I'll also try adding the rust tones to get this stage don...

Early video

Enjoy some cast armor texture! 

https://youtu.be/M2R_6b4g4cI

Cheeping

Hey friends, sorry for the late (or early?) update, yesterday I didn't have enough in me to even finish the rust tones on the gun barrel 😅 

But anyway, I did some chipping! At least on the turret for now, the hull shouldn't be much worse because most of it is covered with concrete... 

So the way I pro...

Oils!

Hey friends! I wasn't sure if I wanted to use oil paints on this model, since the T-90 didn't really need them at all, but I decided to do it just for the sake of changing things a little. Of course, it was important to not cover up the distressing texture, so I avoided blending any oil dots over the entire surface and instea...

The ugly part

Raw unpainted Textured Earth is never pretty 😁 This time I decided to use the dark tone just to make the model look more interesting at this stage, and also to give a rough idea about how it's gonna look when the mud is finished. 

I also did some pre-dusting, mainly on the lower hull of course, but also on the u...

Oh, I almost forgot...

I've been looking at online stores every now and then, checking if a photoetched Voyager set for the 2A3 Kondensator is available somewhere... because it's been out of stock EVERYWHERE.

I pretty much accepted the fact that one day I'll have to build it pretty much "out of the box" (with some 3D printed details of course...

Wash done

Hey friends, finally back at the workbench!
This time, I decided to start with a wash to outline every detail and get the model ready for weathering. I want to see what difference will it make switching the pre-dusting and washes. Tomorrow I'll apply some textured earth and the already mentioned predusting, hopefully some...