WWII Pacific front

[Peter]

Thank you Peter, you could use those cars to bring your girlfriend to the restaurant during this period of history !

Don't know if my wife would agree with that!

[ADM]

oops !, in that case she could probably be installed in the backseat watching closely what you're doing with that girl who is just a friend (only jocking !)

step 2 of the painting :

A "wet" brush on the truck/pickup/car with a mix of Tamiya XF81 dark green (95%) and Vallejo white (5%). Vallejo and Tamiya acrylics paint can be mixed together without any problem.

The camo on the tank is applied with a brush : - Vallejo 70890 reflective green
- Vallejo 70984 flat brown
- Vallejo 70977 Desert yellow (stripes)

[ADM]

Step 3 is a rough black wash to underline details.

[Peter]

Do you only apply the black wash on the parts that you want to highlight?

[ADM]

This is a very good question Peter, because I generously soak the lower part of the tank around the wheels with the black wash but on the upper hull, I'm only drawing around details with this black wash.

With the same colors and a light touch of white I come back for a drybrush on each color of the camo, I've also added a second drybrush on the Tamiya light green (XF21 modified) with this base color, to make it look somewhat dirty, I'm trying to find some sort of jungle weathering (oil and rust under the heat) for those tanks, it's also an experiment, more special effect will be applied.

[tom s]

that is a very fine camo pattern.it really breaks up the silouette of the tanks.

[Peter]

Thanks for the info!

[ADM]

Some brown stains added on the lower part of the hull around the wheels with Vallejo 70875 with an ordinary brush, and when it's dried I come back with the same color mixed with a touch of white with a flat brush. Some rust ships on all the tank with Prince August G60 "Ferraille" applied with the tip of a flat brush (I think it look dirty enough this time, as if tanks stationed inside vegetation or mud for a long time in tropical ambience. And highlighting the prominant edges with Vallejo 70837 pale sand (Flat brush). The painting isn't finished yet on these tanks, still some work mainly with the wheels (rubber around) and tracks.

[Bluefalchion]

Fantastic work. You make it sound so easy!

[ADM]

I don't think it's difficult but of course it take some time ! painting all those tank black wheels took me around 5 hours!!!
Today's work : Painting the wheels in black, Vallejo or Tamiya it doesn't matter, but sometime it matter because Tamiya's painting is more resistant, best for airbrush and Vallejo offer a much better choice of colors and is more easy to drybrush. Tamiya is also more translucent when drybrushed, it can be an advantage or a problem in some case, but I really like Tamiya paints too.

car/pickup/truck received a light Tamiya XF13 drybrush, and after that another drybrush Tamiya XF81 mixed with a touch of white, to make the previous black wash less noticeable.

[Peter]

I wish I could paint these models like you! They look fantastic!

[ADM]

Thank you for your appreciation, once again !

I've finished all those japanese tanks and vehicules, the truck/pickup/car received a drybrush Vallejo 70837 pale sand on edges and I've done some others details.
The seat is Vallejo 70940 saddle brown with a black wash and drybrush
The tarpaulin received Vallejo 70821 Beige with a black wash and drybrush

I like to work on my models with good music to celebrate it

This is a great talented singer ! I love all her songs :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwpDzJE4fc8

I also like this song from another singer :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ4CHVncFWg

pleasure for the eyes and the hears

[Peter]

They look terrific!

So what's next? Airplanes, bunkers, more vehicles or the diorama?

[ADM]

Yes Peter ! something like this !
The last step before starting to work on the diorama is the landing capacity, with 7 LCVP (Heller/Airfix), 2 LCT and 4 LCM. I bought those LCM on ebay for a very good price (Forces of valor) I will repaint them and make some few modifications. There's also some US navy Milicast figures made in resin to complete this work.

My pacific project will also include some B29, B17, two 1/72 Fletcher class destroyer and others ships, but while I'm still collecting materials and parts for it, I will work on this when the diorama will be finished, And in the same time I will also alternate that work with some others project awaiting for a long time and from which I already collected all the necessary stuff.

But right now, let's start to work with this !

[MABO]

Yes really great modells for an amazing and quite big Project. But once more I must say: I would not paint the eyes of the figures. they look very unnatural...

[Peter]

interesting part of this project. I like the figures to.

@Jan: please let us not start this discussion about the eyes again. We had that before.

[MABO]

No, was just impression again, sorry.

[ADM]

I understand your way of thinking MABO but I've made my choice, I will still paint those remaining figures in the same way, but for the next project I have some idea to bring new effects with the eyes and use a different method to paint them (not even used by anybody here), I have to make some test to see how it work. For this pacific project all the eyes will be the same, in harmony.

The Heller/Airfix LCVP has some varied beach obstacle included, I will only use those in wood for my pacific project because the metal ones are relevant only for the Atlantic wall. There's also some much appreciated crew figures.
The bottom has been erased with a sanding machine to make it look waterline (idem for the LCM), the plastic became so thin that it melted under the heat of the sanding, and some holes appeared but it doesn't matter because it will be completely hidden on both faces.

[Peter]

Great work on these so far!

[ADM]

Many thanks Peter !
Now the bottom of these LCVP is at the right height, it represent quite a lot of sanding by hand this time, also for adjusting airfix parts , but it's worth doing it.