1970 Dodge Charger – part 3

The engine was painted and assembled, and then I painted details.

I masked the center console and painted chrome.

I also painted chrome on the side panels.

There’s still a few spots that needs some touching up.

After priming the body I realised there was a few mould lines to take care of.

Some sanding later and also some more primer.

I then tried some pink on a few parts.

Looked quite good to me.

Hood and body ready for paint.

The hood went quite well.

But for some reason disaster struck while painting the body.

I actually went to the paint store and bought some wet sanding pads in 3000 and 6000 grit.
Then I used the 3000 grit to remove as much as needed.

After that it was time for a new cote of paint.

This time it looked a lot better.

The hinges for the hood was glued in place and next I’ll paint primer on the inside and also on one more part for the engine room.

Next I’ll hopefully can paint a gloss varnish on all the pink parts.
I’ll also start assembling all the parts for the chassie that I’ve been painting but forgot to take pics of.

1970 Dodge Charger – part 2

The colours I was missing arrived so I could continue with this build.
Several parts was painted black, and I also repainted the engine and air filter.

Some parts like the seats and other interior parts is supposed to have a semi-gloss look. It turns out I had no clear satin colour, so instead I used Vallejo’s gloss for metal finishes and painted a thin layer, thus achieving a satin look.

I gave the engine a little more paint to get a glossier look.

I need to mask the mid console and paint that semi gloss later as well.
Once everything is dry, I’ll mask the interior roof and paint white primer before painting it pink.
That way I can check for imperfections as well.

BMW R 1100 Roadster – Revell 1/9 – part 1

I started building this kit on the weekend build meeting. As I understand it, it’s an old Protar kit in Revell re-boxing.

There’s quite a lot to sort and paint before any assembly can be done.

Here’s a pic of most of the parts. It wasn’t until I got home I could take another pic of what I had done.

I had bought this kit 2nd hand, and as it turned out, one part was missing. Not sure what to do about that. I decided to continue a bit further, until that part is needed.It’s the holder for the head light and turn signals that’s missing, and I’m not sure if I can scratch build something like that.

1970 Dodge Charger – Revell 1/25 – part 1

On the weekend build meeting we had last weekend that we call plastkollo (plastic camp), I bought a kit from one of the members. I thought it could be a fun build.

The kit seems to be quite nice with good fit on the parts. As usual starting with the engine that should be mostly orange. I didn’t have any orange colour and my pink colour was messy with a big lump in the bottle. It ended up in the bin.

I borrowed orange colour from a friend and managed to paint it a little to wet. Then I decided to paint most of the interior and chassie parts black. Turns out there was very little black left in the bottle. I have to order new colours and a few other things that I need.
Anyway, this is how much I got done before it was time to wrap up the meeting and go home.

Pic taken at home though as I forgot to take a pic at the meeting!

Empire army – Warhammer the old world – part 1

The steam tank was the first part of my Empire army. In the same box there’s also different infantry troops. Here’s the command group.

And the, at the time, headless hillebardiers.

For some reason I didn’t take a pic of the finished soldiers, instead I contindued with the spear soldiers.

I brought the box to build the rest of the troops including the state missile troops but I forgot the bag with bases for the other figures. Anyway I finished the soldiers with sword and shield. The pic is from the weekend build meeting we had last weekend.

I then opened up the box with gun and mortar.

Quite fun kit to build! I’m looking forward to painting them later.

Then I started building the box with pistoliers.

They was also fun to build even if the horses required some work with the seams.

There are a few details that needs to be added to the horses and figures. Something I’ll do once I get sorted with my workbench at home.

Empire Steam Tank – finished!

After adding some dust and soot I glued the tank to the base with superglue, and with that I’ll consider it finished. I was a fun build and I really like the steampunk style on things.
Here’s some pics of the finished build!

I’m ´quite happy with how it turned out and also happy with the base as it was the first time I did something like that.

Empire Steam Tank – part 3

Making the base.

I used Magic Sculpt to make the stones. I flattened the clay with a brush handle and then cut pieces that I then pushed onto the surface. Trying to shape them to look like stones.

After that had dried properly, I used Vallejo’s dark earth goo and smeared it out over the rest of the base and some inbetween the stones.

I then painted the earth with Mournfang brown.

The stones got a wash with Agrax earthshade och then was drybrushed with grey. The dirt was drybrushed with Zandri dust and Ashabti stone.

Grass and more paint was added and then some tufts.

I put the tank on to check how it looked.

Considering I don’t usually do bases like this, I think it turned out quite nice.
I think I’ll add a few yellow splashes to represent flowers of some kind and do some dirt weathering on the tank.

Empire Steam Tank – part 2

After pushing in the sides and glueing them a bit at a time, I managed to sort the gaps. I used glue goo to sort the rest.

The engineer commander was drybrushed with grey and then white.

Then I started painting him with red, blue and yellow.

I painted the steam tank sides in black and the upper and lower parts in dark bronze. The shields was painted blue and then most of the ornaments was painted in gold.

More colour was added to the figure.

Painting details took quite a while and here it’s almost done.

Adding skin colours and some details to the tank I’ll consider it done.

The only thing left to do is to sort the base!

Empire Steam Tank – part 1

This tank is part of the Empire batallion box for TOW (the old world).

Here I’ve already assembled the turret, boiler and a few other parts.

According to the intructions there’s an option between these two parts.

It wasn’t until after I watched a video where someone built the Age of Sigmar version that I realised the head was an option for the top of the chimney.

After some tim I had assembled enough to start painting.

The wood, some of the metal parts and the inside of the side panels got paint.

Next I painted some Retributor Armor on the gun and other parts mainly on the interior.

The boiler and chimney also got metal colours, and the gun was glued in place.

The dials was painted white and also later got red to mark maximum pressure or whatever.
The inside of the walls was given a wash of Nuln oil and then some dry brushing with grey.
Here’s a test fit.

All the bronze parts got a wash with Agrax Earthshade and then I drybrushed with brons and silver. Here everything is ready for assembly.

Next I assembled the sides.

My idea was to have the top part removable but after dry fitting it looked like this.

As can be seen there’s small gaps in some places.
In order to sort that it looks like I have to glue the sides to the top and hold in pressure until it dries. I think minimizing the gaps is to prefere.

Blood Bowl – Black Orcs – final reveal.

Sometime it’s just time to take a step back and decide that you’re finished with what you’re doing. At least that’s what I had to do with my Black Orc team.
Here they are in all their glory!

Here they’re doing a bit of Phil Collins dance moves! 🙂

I’m quite happy with how they turned out! 🙂

Next I’ll finish my Gnome team.