Interesting… I used Mission Models OD and Russian Green over Tamiya Flat Black Base on these builds with zero problems.
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Are you spraying the Tamiya or brushing it on? I’ve found Tamiya brushed on will eat pretty much any other acrylic because of the aggressive thinner. But if I spray the Tamiya over other paints it’s usually OK.
Airbrushed in. Mission paint airbrushed as well, using their thinner and running it at 15 PSI through a Badger 150. In all, it came out as i wanted, though IMO is more delicate than using Tamiya.
I have found an excellent use for Mmp paints, replacing the hairspray method for chipping, without buying their proprietary clear coats. I have never been a fan of the hairspray method as it is hard to get a good level coat with hairspray and sometimes you get cracking on the overcoat paint. I’m am currently building the ICM 1/48 B26B and followed this procedure.
- Primed /base coat of Testors enamel flat aluminum. Well cured
- Masked using tape
- Painted lower half using a combination of Mmp neutral gray and Mmp light sea gray
- Chipped lower half using a combination of sanding sticks, tape, toothpicks, and water activation and cotton cloth
- Sealed with Testors glosscote
- Masked the lower half with poster putty
- Painted the upper half using Mmp OD faded 1,2,and 3
- Chipped in the same fashion as step 4 and sealed with Glosscote
- At this point the Mmp paint is sealed and allows you use to standard decaling and weathering techniques
- Make sure you use regular Testor’s regular thinner with your Glosscote and not lacquer thinner
Cheers
Welcome to the forum.
I used the Mission Models Modern Russian Green on the Panda Tunguska and TOR. I primed both kits first with Krylon black primer. At first, I only used it with their thinner and it sprayed nicely. After about a month, with the slightest of touches the Mission Models paint rubbed off. I added their MMA-001 Polyurethane Mix Additive as per their instructions and the paint still rubbed off with the slightest of touches. I had to gloss coat it to prevent the paint rubbing off.
Here are the Tunguska and TOR in the Mission Models Modern Russian Green before adding the Polyurethane Mix.
After gloss coating the Tunguska. I never finished it as the missile tubes are very fragile and I keep knocking them off. Panda only gives one very teeny, tiny pin to connect the missile tubes. I didn’t have the patience to finish it after knocking them off for the 20th time. It now sits in the pile of shame. It is very low on my list to finish it. The TOR is also gloss coated but I lost about 99.9% of my photos last year and haven’t taken new photos of it yet.
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OUCH!
That sucks …
It really does. I had some on Imgur and FB but those are all edited/cropped, not the originals but at least there were some. What little there were amounts to about .1% of what I had. We had a thunderstorm and it blew out my computer’s motherboard and hard drive. I also had my external drive attached at the same time and that got blown out as well.
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Direct hit on your house or was it a voltage spike in the power grid?
The power grid at our summerhouse is on utility poles (up in the air)
so we disconnect the TV when there is a thunderstorm coming.
A few years ago I connected a surge detector/blocker between the
TV and the wall outlet. Not sure if it will work but I tried …
I do so like that T55 in Operation Danube guise. Excellent!
The others are fins too but that one stands out to me.
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It was a severe thunderstorm. We live up in the mountains and get them all the time but some are more severe than others. Most of the time we lose power too from a few minutes to a few days. I do have a surge protector for my computer but it didn’t help so I am thinking it was a very close hit. I turn off the new computer now with every warning and that seems to work. The storm didn’t affect the TV and I don’t have a surge protector on that so no idea why it affected the computer only that did have a surge protector on it, kind of weird. The computer was actually smoking. I had to take it outside because of the fumes. We have underground lines but the next street has above ground lines on poles but we are on the same grid.
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Something has definitely happened when computers start smoking …
Anyone who has worked with electronics knows that when you let the magic smoke out, the equipment stops working…
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Yep, it’s the magic smoke that does all the work.
Colleagues at Ericson taught me that wisdom.
Thanks Brian! I’m going to do a few more Operation Danube subjects from the Soviet AFV kits in my stash. The white markings do give a distinctive appearance. More so than just the usual Cold War Soviet Green with ID numbers and possibly a cryptic unit symbol…
Well, I’ll certainly look forward to that! Now, and I stress it’s only a hint, a T-10M would be nice…
Just sayin’.
I do actually have one, sort of in the waiting area - half built; I’m beginning to need a long, hard talk with myself: I have a suspicion that nearly all my stash is half-built or tinkered with(!)
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Isn’t that half the fun?
Tinkering a little with the kit, just until the difficult steps begin,
and then replace it with another, fresh or untinkered, kit …
Yes, I think it’s Meng that has the T-10M kit in Prague markings…. I’ve had my eye on one for quite some time. One day I will acquire one of those.
But I do have the ASU-85 and BTR-152 like these in my stash
And one of the Trumpeter PT-76 kits in my stash comes in the Czech invasion markings…
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Ah, a man after my own heart; not that I have a great interest in Op Danube, though my God it got my attention when it happened; I was 14 and the TV screen was full of it. It was griping stuff and a timely reminder of how fraught the world could be.
But I mean Soviet hardware, of which I’ve built precious little of late, to my shame. I have nothing modelled recently to counter the M48s and Leopard I’ve tackled recently. Anyway, I look forward to what transpires.
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That Robin, is exactly my modus operandi! Sad to say of course. It sums up nicely what happened with a Sheridan I bought what? Twenty years ago; it was the Academy kit, much reviled since, but back then, an advancement on the ancient Tamiya kit (I never knew the Jaguar resin version) so what was not to like? I wanted to do it justice and bought some etch. That was where the problems started; etch is difficult (as we all know).
I was ploughing along quite happily until the first installment of etch. then the second one, then the third. Then I thought, this is a bit dull, why not buy/look at another kit, and that was that for the poor old Sheridan, until late last week, when a foray to the attic to check on my stash of Commander Models’ MBT-70s led to the serendipitous find of the Sheridan.
Whilst lamenting bitterly over the piles of warped resin that was now the two MBT-70s - due to the temperatures raised this last summer (though hopefully fixable) - I gave the Sheridan a quick once-over. By now, I was more than aware of the issues with the kit, as in the 2 decades gap, much has been identified, but you know, I hadn’t made too bad a job of it, and I was further along than I’d thought; I’d fixed the grossly over-sized main armament; the etch was still looking challengingly at me, albeit now tarnished a fair bit, but still useable, and I thought, “I’d always liked the Sheridan. Sure, it may not withstand much scrutiny these days, but sod it; I’m going to finish it”. And that’s just about what I’ve done.
Never mind the other projects that are screaming to me to finish them, the Sheridan has occupied me for around 6 days and it’s actually been great fun!
(Searchlight still being worked on)
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