Hi, this is my second 1:48 kit (after Crusader Mk.II). It will represent captured M8 in German hands. Now it the surfacer, ready for paint. The Tamiya kit is as always very nice, but I recomend replacing turret ring and headlights guards from Hauler PE set (I didn´t do it) The interior shows the gun only, so I´ve covered it.
Hope you will like it!
Petr
This is a nice model too. Putting it in German service is a nice touch as well. I like the tarps you've made.....are they putty?
I have this kit in my "to do" pile, but I am waiting for Hauler's interior etch to come out, I must do the whole interior on mine. I love models with open turret-tops.
Please keep us updated, I want to see what type of camo you put on this baby.
Hi guys, thanks for comments!
@Pat The camo will be as shown on the BW picture - I thik it should be original olive drab with grey stripes added by Germans. The tarps are made from fine chirurgical gloves - easy and effitient method!
@IsamuM The boxes are home-made from balsa.
I love your idea of the tarps made from fine surgeons gloves. I will have to try that, I work in the OR and we always have a surplus supply just lying around...
I thik it should be original olive drab with grey stripes added by Germans.
I rather doubt they would have used grey as camouflage. They had stopped using grey by the time the M8 entered front line service and they were able to capture one. I've seen a copy of the photo you've based it on in an old Bruce Quarrie WW2 Photo Album publication called "Panzers in North West Europe". The stripes/squigles are more likely to be dunklegelb or even local mud.
Hi Geoffrey, thanks for yours opinion!
I didn´t mean classical panzergrau but possibly some lighter colour (found anywhere) but you are maybe right with that dunklegelb, it also came on my mind earlier, so possibly I will make the stripes dunklegelb...
Petr
Nice model! I too am intrigued with the use of latex gloves for the tarps. How do you get them to retain the shape after placing them? Do you coat them with something? Thanks
For Tim Schneider:
The gloves are easy to bend and make various shapes, so bend and place as you desire and set on place with instant cement (from inner-non visible side). I know at the start it looks difficult but believe me it is easy and soon becomes fun to arrange it in various positions. !! Believe me that this was my first time using this way of making tarps !!
Great chioce!. I see you are having one quite original M8 far from more conventional versions, aside it is really admirable you are copying the real image, something quite unusual too. I think you made the right deicsion after seeing that paintbrush camo looks really exticing to me and I believe it will look terrific once done, so do not hesitate and go for it.
As for the camo, yes, I guess that can be some kind of "in the field" dunkelgreb shade, so you are free to do it to your taste totally and the camo strips seems to have different opacy so it can be enjoyable to reproduce that effect by brushpainting.
Looking forward to seeing more of your model soon.
Lu
You'll have make a very good choice for wanted to make this beute M8 !
i have this kit too ,i'm waiting for the Hauler PE ,and this is this version that i would like to make .......!
I think this is a really great idea of using rubber latex for making tarps. etc., especially after seeing these results. They are very encouraging. This may start a whole new trend. (Just don't take the used surgical gloves out of the garbage bucket in the OR! ). I wonder what else could be fashioned from latex?
This may seem like a very elementary question, but how do you paint the latex tarps? Do you have to prime them along with the rest of the model? Can you just airbrush them with acrylics, without priming? Can you just brush paint them? ? ? ?
Hi Leo!
As you see on the pictures, the kit is assembled and glued as one piece before surfacer and airbrush. Importatnt is to degrease the whole model as well as gloves with normal household degreaser (+water) the I aplied Tamiya can spray surfacer, and....we will see how the airbrush will work on this, this is realy my first time using this method
But to be honest, this was already manytimes used by my friends and everything has worked OK!
Hi friends, I´ve started with airbrushing of my M8. Enamels Olive drab (Tamiya) + Interior green (Humbrol) as basic colour and then I broke up the surface with adding Dunkelgelb, buff and white to the basic colour. (not at one time but step by step, cca 8 irregulary airbrushed various tones). Now the stripes are to come....
Regards Petr
Hello friends!
After longer time, this piece is back on the desk...there was a moment when I wanted to throw it in the garbage a I unsuccesfuly masked and sprayed the white star, but I´ve decided to cover it with some tarp or german flag...
The camouflage lines are crazy, aren´t they
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