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Re: Hard transplant 2
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 3:16 pm
by wibblywobbly
Excellent Tiger, and I know what you mean about the Porsche KT commander. There must be a figure painter in China who thinks that all Westerners have eyes like something from a Zombie Apocalypse! I washed mine over with dilute dark grey which helped a bit.
Love the Scottish scenery, two years ago I managed to persuade a group of friends to jump on our motorcycles and spend a week up there. I could not believe how dramatic and endless the scenery was, I had a cam on my bike and took hours of footage and still go and watch it occasionally to remind myself that I didn't dream it.
Re: Hard transplant 2
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 3:25 pm
by PainlessWolf
Good morning, 43rd R&R,
Your Tiger looks great! Now please be careful up there. Winter is coming early to our respective Highlands so no injuries this season. I've just about got all the brush and sage cleared from the 40' x 40' spot I picked out. I'll derock it and lay out a border in paving stones and get ready to put down roads and country lanes next Spring. I'm going to trench out an inch or so deep then use buckets of asphalt to pour the roads and pea gravel for the lanes.
regards,
Painless
Re: Hard transplant 2
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 3:56 pm
by 43rdRecceReg
wibblywobbly wrote:Excellent Tiger, and I know what you mean about the Porsche KT commander. There must be a figure painter in China who thinks that all Westerners have eyes like something from a Zombie Apocalypse! I washed mine over with dilute dark grey which helped a bit.
Love the Scottish scenery, two years ago I managed to persuade a group of friends to jump on our motorcycles and spend a week up there. I could not believe how dramatic and endless the scenery was, I had a cam on my bike and took hours of footage and still go and watch it occasionally to remind myself that I didn't dream it.
Thanks, Tiger and Wibb for the boost from positive comments.. and the Zombie Apocalypse observation. That was spot on...! As for 'Easy- Riding' round here yep, you could spend a lifetime exploring the Highlands, and always find another special view somewhere...as long as it's not a tree coming to meet you
We get lots of bikers here in Summer, often from Germany and the Netherlands;
but as beautiful and inviting as the remoter roads are (and no speed cameras too...
) they can be very dangerous. I once had an old ex-police BMW RR80TR, with full beefy fairing and panniers, but deer are becoming a real problem here, especially during the rutting season and, having had one commit suicide on the bonnet of my Civic a few years back..I'd be reluctant to encounter a randy 3/4 ton red deer with massive antlers on anything sporting two wheels...even the RT. The mess one made of the Civic was very sobering (...though I wasn't actually under the influence of the amber nectar
)...
...now if I had an army surplus Scorpion they'd think twice
but they- the Stags- (weirdly) seem to see cars and bikes as potential love rivals; so what they'd make of any vehicle with a long barrel is anybody's guess...
..!
Re: Hard transplant 2
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:08 pm
by hobo_keith
43rdRecceReg wrote:hobo_keith wrote:I was too busy looking at the really neat fit-out - I wish I could get my ones looking as professional as that inside. Really looks the business. I'm sure you're more than able to paint figures, but I've actually got a painted-up Jerry commander left aside from last year when I fixed up a 'panther' for my better half's young lad. Anyway, I don't have any Wehrmacht armour, and he's an ok job (and indeed needs a job) so you're welcome to him if you'd like him Roy.
Many thanks for the offer, Keith..I may well take you up on that commander. I've rather overlooked scale figures in my quest to find out as much as I can about 1/16 rc tanks. It's a gigantic meal to digest.
..and it seems to have an unlimited number of courses, to use a crap metaphor. The figure in the Tiger came gratis with some bits I bought from rctank.de, and I only included that rather ghoul-eyed, pasty-faced specimen
for scale and perspective purposes. He's now in the bin.
Looking back through the mists of time, before I studied Philosophy at Uni (don't ask....
!), along with contextuals in Hippy culture, hallucinations, peace and 'lurve', etc., I also did 'A' level art among a batch of similarly useless qualifications (now). So, yes..I probably could whizz up a credible face for our terrifying teuton...; but it's a question of finding the time. Before the tank bug bit unexpectedly, my main pastime had always been making and recording music. It still is, really...but it's taken a back seat for a while. Also, there are the formerly shared drugdy household, and life-management, chores that fall upon the divorcee..like a vicious and merciless gang
.. Life's rich pageant, eh? That said, I'd like my commander to look like the crazed Klaus Kinski..or maybe even Max Schreck as 'Nosferatu'. Now that would liven up the tank park
Hey Roy,
I shall only be too delighted to give him his marching orders, and let's be honest, he's got a cracker of a posting up there. PM me your address and I'll make it so. He's not the best as I was rather new to figures at the time, but I'll give him a makeover at the weekend and neaten things up. In the meantime, pick up your guitar (or whatever!) and play, just like yesterday...
Here he is in a former unit (not my tank)... Lucky chap though, making it to a Tiger unit.
Re: Hard transplant 2
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:12 pm
by hobo_keith
Tiger looks wunderbar by the way, nichts so schlecht at all sir. I'm particularly taken the effect on the exhausts.
