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Marco Peter wrote:Never seen them before! What do they taste like?

Well, they certainly don't taste like: zinc sulphide, barium sulphate, pine saw dust, PVA, pebble dust, ochre and pine crystals...with Benzene, aka Zimmerit..but some might dispute that
They're made of malted wheat, and not to be confused with the 'Flatulence filtering underpants (Really ) or, Fartpants of the same name.
(https://www.myshreddies.com/flatulence/mens/)
I suppose in the same way that one can light Zimmerit when applying it (Benzene), it's also possible to light the by-product of 'Shreddies'
Interestingly, I don't know which design came first, Zimmerito r Shreddies..

Could these breakfast cereal bits be cast in resin? Maybe better 3-d printed

Then I started using a brown filter all over, to darken the color and by whiping it off with kitchen towel also adding a nice kind of pinwash all at once!







The filter was damaging the brown camo-paint on all the edges, so this really added to the effect!

Marco it looks just perfect I really like your choice of camoflouge pattern. Like the king tiger in Poland 1944 look. Very well done

Great job. How do you like the new AK paints?

As for the casting texture. I used Mr surfacer for the first time now and I like it. Yes it levels out a bit. On the JP I used Vallejo putty stippled on. That gives a more sharp texture.

Soeren wrote:Great job. How do you like the new AK paints?

Well, I ended up not using them haha!

Soeren wrote:As for the casting texture. I used Mr surfacer for the first time now and I like it. Yes it levels out a bit. On the JP I used Vallejo putty stippled on. That gives a more sharp texture.

I guess it works best on 1/35 models...

Son of a gun-ner wrote:Please excuse my ignorance, brown 'filter' is that like a wash?

I'm going to be honest, and this is only my personal taste, but when you first applied the Zim, I really didn't like it, but now you've painted it and taken off the sharpness to its profile, I find it quite appealing

Mick, same for me, didn't like it at first! Only when it all came together...


Filter like this. Enamel based so eating away my acrylic camo paint haha! Sometimes it all works out, in a strange way...

Marco you did a splendid job with the paint. Thanks for sharing your tips.

Son of a gun-ner wrote:Sorry, one more question, the casting letters you got, are they 2 or 3mm?

2mm on the crew heater, 3mm on the other grill!

Son of a gun-ner wrote:

Marco Peter wrote:

Son of a gun-ner wrote:Sorry, one more question, the casting letters you got, are they 2 or 3mm?

2mm on the crew heater, 3mm on the other grill!

Cool, thank you, will get a set of each size

Always useful!