Author Archives: Håkan

Kingdom of Bretonnia – Warhammer the old world

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So far I’ve mostly built WH40k stuff, but when TOW arrived, it intrigued me a bit, and I just had to get a box and try it out. I thought the Bretonnians looked more fun and since Ivanhoe and other films like that I’ve always liked that genre.

I started with the knights. All horses was made with two halves and a head. I figured out that by combining the halves I could get four different poses.

I had to check with a friend i the other two poses was valid, which they was, so I continued.

There was a few things I needed to sort when working with the knights as they could be built as either knights of the realm or knight errants. Both are showed in the instructions but the army list only speaks of knights of the realm. So I decided to go with that.

Each unit consists of one champion, one standard bearer, one musician and three knights.
I had a hard time trying to figure which head should go on which one. The only simple one was the musicians as I think it would be hard to blow the horn with a helmet on.

I also built the three pegasus knights.

As can be seen I’ve also started on the archers.

P-47D Thunderbolt – Part 15

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Time for some weathering. First I used Flory’s grime wash on the entire plane.

Then a good part of it was viped off.

Next step was to use oils, in this case black, to create some streaks.

I’m no specialist at weathering, and I’m still learning, by looking at pick and other builds.
I’ll do some wear on the propeller and a few other places. Other than that I’m not sure what more to do. Other colours perhaps?

P-47D Thunderbolt – part 14

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After assembling the landing gears, I left the plane to rest.

The day after, I assembled more or less everything else. The closed canopy was removed, and parts of the paint was touched up. The front glass was glued and the pilot put in place.

Lastly the glass on the bottom of the wing was glued and also the drop tank.

Except for some weathering, there’s only one thing left to do. The glass pieces on the wing tips needs to be glued in place, but first I need to sort their colours.
After checking the net it seems like the left is red and the right green.

P-47D thunderbolt – part 13

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This is just a quick update on the decals.
Where is it easiest to hide something black? On something black!
I thought the black area on the nose looked a bit strange, and on closer examination, I realized that it was the missing part of the skull decal.
After using Microset on the decal, letting it soak, I could move the missing piece in place.
There was just a little bit missing that I sorted with a little black paint later.

Happy for having that problem solved.

P-47D Thunderbolt – part 12

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I’ve been doing the decals one side at a time, more or less.

And the other side!

Here it is with all the other decalled parts.
I’m not sure what have happened with the skull decal. Part of it is missing and I can’t seem to figure out where it has gone. I even tried lifting the decal a bit so see if it had folded under, but no, not what I could determine.
The only missing decals are those for the lights under the wing. I’ll sort them once all those dried properly.
I’ll also try to sort the missing decal part, by painting by hand.

Soon time for clear cote and final assembly and then some weathering.

P-47D Thunderbolt – part 10

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After masking I painted the nose yellow.

Then I did some more masking and painted black.

Part of the masking tape was removed.

Then I masked again and painted olive drab.

So how did it turn out with the masking tape removed? I say it turned out bloody nice! 🙂

Now on to the next steps that probably will be clear coting and then decals.