My Foray into Tank Painting

[lcz128]

My Foray into Tank Painting...

So, I got myself a Type 90 tank



I thought what would be nice to do is to paint the sucker up and actually try my hand at weathering something...
So - after a coat of Tamiya Green Spray Can (I think it's Olive Drab - but I can't be sure...)

Then a coat of Mr. Super Clear UV Cut Flat to make the tank look nice and flat - (yeah - the green may not be official type 90 tank colours - but I was kind of just using whatever can of paint I already had at home ^^; The clear coat then is to make it flat like a tank's coat of paint would be)

Then I used some of Tamiya's weathering kits (Tamiya Weathering Master A & B) to detail it up...

And we have:




Okay I lied...

It's Bludgeon :b

[1AZRAEL1]

Farout, not a bad job matey. I always enjoyed making models and painting them, but I was shocking when it came to that part of it. I could never get the painting right.

[gamblor916]

Nice, now where's the bot mode?

[5FDP]

That looks great. I wanna see the bot mode too

[rampagesss]

Thats looks awsome!, the tamiya weathering kits work great and really bring out the details well.
Can't wait to see bot mode

[Deonasis]

Top job, I didn't recognize Bludgeon till the photo _before_ you told us.

[jaydisc]

Looks great! Although the crappy JPEG compression makes observing details difficult.

[Mr Ed]

Very nice painting. you did well....

[lcz128]

Thanks so much for the feedback guys!

And finally! A Chance to make an update on this!
These are a couple of pics I took the day that I took those other photos I posted earlier - so there's actually less paint aps than there actually are at present day - Just thought I would post some sharper images of the tank mode



So, finally we have some pictures of robot mode!!!
Kyle said that he reckoned that the head's neck articulation was lacking in that review thread. Totally agree. Took me a short little while with my dremel where I shaved off the post that was used for the neck, then I fit in a double-ball-joint! I just felt that adding a double joint would really add to the articulation... I didn;'t think a single ball joint would be sufficient in adding the right kind of articulation to the neck ... that, and I'm very spoilt by Rockdown :b So, here's how it looks!


And here's what it looks like with the head back on:


(Yep - I primed the head, and did something to his eyes :b)

And now some exhibition pics of him... and yes this is now my Henkei Bludgeon (hence the chrome! ):



And some shots of how the neck works:



Just to note:
I've used a fair amount of gunmetal all around- helps with the covering up of the light grey plastic, for the chest, I used the copper chrome (mirror finish - the same Hasegawa stuff), and silver paint for the streaks on the 'chest eyes', I used gold and copper mirror finish for the front flap/crotch guard thing, and used clear red for the strip of red there - I mixed my own blend of paint for his helmet and forearms (they're a shade of shiney brown - I primed it with brown paint, then painted it with this shiney brown paint ... and the paint is a mix of copper, clear yellow, clear orange and clear paint) lots of copper paint was used to add a lot of detail, as did gun metal. I then used some of the weathering kit to add a bit more detail. I also painted the little weapons that were on the alt mode's end that I didn't earlier

Enjoy and please let me know what you think Thanks!!!

[Mr Ed]

very nice well done.