D-Day. A very British Tiger

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Meter rat wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:35 pm Ok, I’ll embarrass myself. I was trying to open a tin of corn beef and the key broke. Rather than use a tin opener like a normal person, I tried to open it with a a knife, and slipped. :{
It's gonna be tough to build tanks if we have to take away the sharp and pointy things Mr. Rat. Please be careful.

And I can't imagine a situation that'd be such a rush to get into a tin of corned beef. But maybe that's a story for another time. :D
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A bit of blood on the corned beef for some meat taste!

Who am I kidding? Canned corned beef, fresh bread, lots of butter and mustard--food of the fishing gods, and me fishing!

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MrChef wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:18 pm And I can't imagine a situation that'd be such a rush to get into a tin of corned beef. But maybe that's a story for another time. :D
Nobody else to blame but myself. To idle to walk across the kitchen to get the tin opener. More haste, less speed, or something like that.
ColemanCollector wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:30 pm Who am I kidding? Canned corned beef, fresh bread, lots of butter and mustard--food of the fishing gods, and me fishing!

Mike.
Has to be tomato sauce for me. This was for corn beef, cheese, and potato pie.
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Couple of days behind with writing this up. The lower hull is slowly coming to completion. Tow cables painted and weathered, tools installed.
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Why put blood on corned beef when you could have Haggis?
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I like your choice of the olive green instead of the traditionally suggested TS-2 dark green for the Tammy spray bombs. How did you do the camo? Did you mask it any specific way? Spray it a specific way or distance? It has a very cool field painted look. Keep it going sir.
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Herr Dr. Professor wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:33 pm Why put blood on corned beef when you could have Haggis?
Very droll. :D
MrChef wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:58 am I like your choice of the olive green instead of the traditionally suggested TS-2 dark green for the Tammy spray bombs. How did you do the camo? Did you mask it any specific way? Spray it a specific way or distance? It has a very cool field painted look. Keep it going sir.
I just tried to match the paint to the book I am using. Sprayed over with dark yellow. Then masked off the yellow, using masking tape and blue tac, made into sausages, to give a soft edge and sprayed on the green. Masked off the yellow and green, in the same way, and sprayed the brown.
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MrChef wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:58 am I like your choice of the olive green instead of the traditionally suggested TS-2 dark green for the Tammy spray bombs. How did you do the camo? Did you mask it any specific way? Spray it a specific way or distance? It has a very cool field painted look. Keep it going sir.
Yes I've also found the TS-1 Red Brown and TS-2 Dark Green spray bombs that Tamiya recommends never look right. On my hard edge tricolor German tanks I use TS-3, either TS-28 Olive Drab or TS-78 Field Grey for the green and TS-62 Nato Brown for the red
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Took the Tiger outside between showers. Used MIG neutral brown as a wash, to tone down the rather bright colours. I mixed up some Citadel Nuln oil, with a little Tamiya gun metal, and flat black for the oil stains around the hub. A British crew, and stencils have been ordered, and the exhaust covers need painting and weathering. The jack is probably a bit to far out and needs weathering as well. It will be given a second wash, with grey.
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Looks really good. That wash really blended the colours well
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