It was bad timing, I bought me the airbrush and my girlfriend had the same idea and wants to surprise me. It worked, I was surprised😂
I think it’s better someone use it, than the airbrush is lying(?) around here 
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Very nice work there indeed. I especially like those tracks, realistic in every way. Well done!
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Ah, I know what " I’ve done ". Can’t see the pictures enough, I really like this model ! The weathering is special. I think there are some models where everything comes together to a special result, to me this is one of them.
But now I stop my celebration😂
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Today in the hobby room, I mostly sat in the dark as the power was out due to severe thunderstorms 
^^^^ too much old school drybrushing, excessive raw umber in the wash but worst of all…cheap 
pigments were used…wink 
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There were some thunderstorms in germany too but the sky never looked that amazing like on your pictures. Get through this well
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Storms we get over here wouldn’t blow a candle out, let alone black our a whole town.
Fantastic pictures, Watto
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Hope everything is fine with your property, Wade!
Your pictures reminded me of a storm, I drove in for 2.5 hours in June 2018…
Here it was coming:
Cheers,
Angel
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Impressive skies…
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I can’t take credit for the fine photography. The pictures are from daughter in law and from another person that live in the area.
We were lucky no damge, lot of other folks in our area had storm damage with trees and limbs etc. Depending on who one asks we had straight lind winds of ~90+ mph
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Wow! We are dealing with 100+ degree weather here in the desert southwest. Lucky for me i have a long weekend ahead of me, so I’ll be pulling some half-built models off my reject shelf and try to finish them.
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Music to my ears…I love to see parked builds moved forward. I too have recently opened the seals on a few unfinished projects boxes. Hence me hosting this year’s ‘Unfinished build’ group build.
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One of those is a Tamiya M2A2 ODS that I somewhat back-dated (my Somalia '93 build). The kit is fully built, just need to get my lazy bum out and paint it.
M2A2 Bradley, Somalia '93 build - Armor/AFV / Modern - KitMaker Network
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That is actually true. the german soldiers were fed uppers that kept them awake and going for days.
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today work outside to make a diorama with my m-atv I recovered an old ruin of an old diorama and I made a wooden base to install everything
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It’s name was Pervitin. It is a methamphetamine - basically a form of crystal meth.
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I read somewhere that or similar was legal over the counter for a little while in Nazi Germany.
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It’s also quite well documented that the Brits used benzedrine in Normandy (and I suspect elsewhere).
I recall that in the aftermath of the Gulf War, the then Commander of 1 (UK) Armd Div, Maj Gen Rupert Smith, conducted a whistle-stop tour of most units in BAOR, giving an account of how he’d conducted the various battles. He emphasised that towards the end of the war that everyone was so knackered in Div HQ that they would have been pushed to continue had the war gone on much later. This particular expositon all took place in a well-populated garrison theatre; I was about to ask as to whether the WW2 practice of, for instance, taking such as benzedrine, would have helped (which I imagine would have been a fairly contentious question back in the day); as it happened, I quailed and I did not pose the question(!)
To this day I wished I’d asked - not least as I knew Rupert Smith quite well, having been one of my bosses in Zimbabwe, therefore, I wasnt intimidated per se, but I can imagine that many in the audience would have seen it as just a Warrant Officer trying to be a smart arse.
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I’ve finished the build of Krupp’s June 1943 production Bulgarian “Maybach”(Fgst.83946, reg. No B 60263):
I’ve used Border Model #BT-001 kit, with some parts from Tamiya’s “Pz.IV On Board Equipment” set and MiniArt bits left from my previous builds.
Had to rework the kit supplied Ni-Werke rear turret Schuerzen brackets and shorten the rear part of the turret Schuerzen.
2 Bulgarian “Maybachs” from June 1943 production(VOMAG in the back, Krupp in front):
Cheers,
Angel
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I’ve been building this Italeri Chaffee for a while. I started it on my summer display shifts at the Tank Museum last year. Painting and finishing happens back home. Main paint went on a few weeks back. The combination of the light on my bench and my phone camera don’t really show the colour as my eyes see it in the flesh so pics 3 and 4 have a grey filter on which sort of helps, the real colour is somewhere in between !
So today I have just painted the tyres on the wheels. A job I both love, yet hate!
And link and length tracks all ready for some airbrushed track colour…
To my dismay I realised I must have lost the decals that came with the kit, so I’ve sent away for a set of Star Decals for M24’s in NW Europe 44/45.
Next steps will be a coat of varnish before decaling, then some weathering, trackwork and we should be done.
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