Cyber Hobby Flakpanzer Coelian
May 11, 2015 12:50:29 GMT -5
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Post by dupes on May 11, 2015 12:50:29 GMT -5
So after a few months off (due to the five foot high wall of snow in front of my basement door), we resumed build nights in my basement last week. When I have the guys from the IPMS chapter over, I try not to spend all of my time in the spray booth, so I had to crack into a fresh kit. Had to! 
Picked this up a few weeks back at Downeastcon. It's the Cyber Hobby Orange box of the Dragon Flakpanzer Coelian, the very late war / did it really happen AA gun mounted on a Panther chassis. The Orange-ness gives it a set of figs - "Panzer Riders Lorraine 1944" - and a bag of Magic Tracks. I just so happened to find (!) a set of Aber replacement barrels all the way at the bottom of the box, had some spare track links to hang on the side from a Tamiya build, and was able to scrounge some stainless steel screens from another DML kit that had some aftermarket ones in it. Didn't feel like dealing with indy links this week, so I swapped the Magics out for some DS Tracks from another CH Panther. Don't believe I've ever actually used these, so I wanted to give them a shot. After three-ish hours at build night:
And then a few days later:
Decided to use the AK Dunkelgelb primer as the base coat for this build. Apparently I forgot to take a pic of just the straight primer (I swear I took one), but you can make out the color pretty well under the screens in pic 2.
Since this is either really late war or more "Panzer '46" I took some liberties with the paint scheme. Decided to represent a vehicle that was forced to use Luftwaffe paint stock. The two squiggly camo colors are ostensibly RLM 83 and 84. The 84 (the green/gray color) doesn't show up very well in these pics, but I also didn't want to lay down a thick camo coat as I was planning to chip it anyway.
The chipping was achieved with AK light chipping effects fluid. I'm pretty sure this is essentially just bottled hairspray - at least it felt that way when I airbrushed it on. Few coats followed immediately by the camo colors. Hit it with some water, then rub and scratch with various brushes and tools and it gives a very convincing (and controllable) effect. Will definitely be using this again. I know Rinaldi prefers his stuff straight from the can, but I have yet to achieve as smooth a layer using that method. Of course, I'm no Rinaldi, either.
Got tired of lugging roadwheels around, so I painted them up and glued them in place. With the DS tracks, no worries about having to remove them to fit indy links around. Using some trusty stencils, I managed to get the white parts layed down this morning before work - black/color bits coming this afternoon.
More soon!
Picked this up a few weeks back at Downeastcon. It's the Cyber Hobby Orange box of the Dragon Flakpanzer Coelian, the very late war / did it really happen AA gun mounted on a Panther chassis. The Orange-ness gives it a set of figs - "Panzer Riders Lorraine 1944" - and a bag of Magic Tracks. I just so happened to find (!) a set of Aber replacement barrels all the way at the bottom of the box, had some spare track links to hang on the side from a Tamiya build, and was able to scrounge some stainless steel screens from another DML kit that had some aftermarket ones in it. Didn't feel like dealing with indy links this week, so I swapped the Magics out for some DS Tracks from another CH Panther. Don't believe I've ever actually used these, so I wanted to give them a shot. After three-ish hours at build night:
And then a few days later:
Decided to use the AK Dunkelgelb primer as the base coat for this build. Apparently I forgot to take a pic of just the straight primer (I swear I took one), but you can make out the color pretty well under the screens in pic 2.
Since this is either really late war or more "Panzer '46" I took some liberties with the paint scheme. Decided to represent a vehicle that was forced to use Luftwaffe paint stock. The two squiggly camo colors are ostensibly RLM 83 and 84. The 84 (the green/gray color) doesn't show up very well in these pics, but I also didn't want to lay down a thick camo coat as I was planning to chip it anyway.
The chipping was achieved with AK light chipping effects fluid. I'm pretty sure this is essentially just bottled hairspray - at least it felt that way when I airbrushed it on. Few coats followed immediately by the camo colors. Hit it with some water, then rub and scratch with various brushes and tools and it gives a very convincing (and controllable) effect. Will definitely be using this again. I know Rinaldi prefers his stuff straight from the can, but I have yet to achieve as smooth a layer using that method. Of course, I'm no Rinaldi, either.
Got tired of lugging roadwheels around, so I painted them up and glued them in place. With the DS tracks, no worries about having to remove them to fit indy links around. Using some trusty stencils, I managed to get the white parts layed down this morning before work - black/color bits coming this afternoon.
More soon!
