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Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 5: Dry-brushing, filters, washes & tracks
I have spent last few evenings adding few touches to the Ka-Mi. To tone down the contrast created by preshading and highlighting I applied oil filter. I used my trusty Winsor & Newton Burnt Umber...
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Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 6: Barrels, exhausts & decals
I have added few touches to KaMi some day before my last week’s trip, mostly dealing l with the details. First I painted the barrels of the two machine guns. For this I used Vallejo paints, which I...
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Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 7: Chipping
I am now in the final phases of this build – weathering. This usually means that things go extremely slowly, mostly because I use oil paints for lot of my weathering techniques and I usually let them...
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Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 8: Streaking
I was still thinking about how far to go with the weathering of Ka-Mi, when I decided to test AK interactive’s new products. One that I have picked up during my most recent visit at the Hornet Hobbies...
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Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 9: Oil mapping and streaking
One of the last step I have been adding to the Ka-Mi is oil mapping. I am not sure if this is the correct name for this technique, but I use it when referring to it, as I don’t know other name that...
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Type 2 Ka-Mi – Part 10: Weathering and pigments
Over the past days I was also working on the Ka-Mi in parallel with the JSU, mostly adding weathering and balancing the contrast. First I have airbrushed a very thin Flat Earth (Tamiya XF-52) along...
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Leopard C2 Mexas from Takom
This got to be the news of the week, if not the of the month. I noticed this posted on facebook as I was traveling home today and first I wasn’t sure if it’s true or not. It was only posted on a...
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Afghan tank graveyard – photo gallery
If you are on the facebook, you should check out this photo gallery from Afghanistan. Extremely valuable for every fan of modern Russian armour (though there is quite a bit of T-34 pictures too).Filed...
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2S3 Akatsiya
And to tease you even more, here is another one: 2S3 Akatsiya based on the Trumpeter kit. Also finished just recently to make it to the Hamilton show, it should be in the near future featured in a...
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SS-23 Spider from Hobby Boss
I must have truly missed this one before, so it was quite a nice surprise to learn today that Hobby Boss will shortly bring us another coll modern russian vehicle – SS-23 Spider. Again hoping we won’t...
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Iraqi BMP-1 Walkaround
For all enthusiasts of Russian Middle East armour – here is a walkaround of the vehicle that was on display at the recent AMPS Show in Oshawa. Very nicely preserved vehicle, I wish I had seen it before...
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BMP-2 from Trumpeter
This long ago promised kit finally seems to be around the corner and what’s not to like. It looks it is going to be even better than their BMP-1, which was really nice piece. Based on the info on...
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