22 Aug 2013

Hummers to Humvees - part 7

Hello,

here we are, with part SEVEN of the updates, and still not nearly done! This photos were taken a while ago, but with the speed I'm working on those, they aren't much different by now.

Before we start, I might show off a bit and tell you I've been on a meeting with my mentor for my paper yesterday. We talked a little bit about my paper (entitled "The Development of Tank Doctrines prior to WW II", in case anyone cares). As Interwar events can be linked to nowadays circumstances (people don't really like wars, financial crisis), we talked about that a bit and then moved on to WWII events as I am just reading a book about Partisan Hospital Franja ("Franya"). Now, the reason I'd like to make a post about something that was happening here during WW2 is obvious, I think the subject is quite unknown abroad, because no large front was established here. But on the other hand, warfare here was quite intense and somewhat different from any other. The reasons I don't want to talk about it too much, at least on my blog, is that it quickly boils down to politics. Politicians are still eager to use things that have happened during the war (there was a fight against invaders (so Italy, Germany, Hungary) and in the mean time communist revolution was taking place and with it a civil war). Perhaps an odd post about a certain battle or that funky hospital when my sculpting mojo will be dry again - I do believe I am capable of presenting things objectively - it is what I do after all. Oh and just to make it clear, in case any followers here finds him/herself in the area, please do let me know, I know places :P.

So, now that I've told you stuff completely unrelated to the topic, here is how far I got on the Humvees so far:

Just one more thing before we start. I was painting them with large tubes from poundland and those colours are bad. Really bad. I've stripped the vehicles once, put countless coats on them, the paint got weird white grainy traces, so I varnished them etc etc. A true nightmare. When I've reached a point where I was semi satisfied, I've decided to keep it that way.

For humvees its basic green with brown patches, but I've found out we got two greens. So now I've added light green patches which are not seen on the photos.

Landie is, according to my knowledge, wrong. I am not sure Brits have this exact type of Land rovers in their army. They're either more open or have less windows. Anyways, they can carry a section, so that is good enough. I gave it black camouflage patches and I'm quite happy.  You can probably see that they were drybrushed lightbrown, but that wasn't good enough, so I've redone the patches on Landie and completely repainted the Humvees again. 
 Blue windows are more blue now, and were washed with very, very dilluted black wash. Does anyone have any idea what I should do about them now? I like blue for the contrasts, but it's strikingly fake.
Also, as i'm talking about trouble, front fenders kept falling off, so I've put some milliput around them to make them stay in place.
 Here is a nice photo to let you admire the snorkels. I am really happy with how the ones on humvees came out.
 And one with gunner mounted! His M2 is now painted.
 It turns!
(you can also "admire" the blotchy camo I'm not too happy about, but I've ranted about it in my last post)
 And it doesn't fall down if you put it upside down!

Aaand that is it for now. What needs to be done to completely finish the builds is paint the gunners' faces and helmets, varnish the vehicles as I am afraid to touch them as they are and paint some insignia on the doors.
Oh, also need to add some details, like recognition tarps, barbed wire etc.

Thanks for looking,
Mathyoo

14 comments:

  1. I like the vehicles. I would also do blue windows, I see nothing wrong with having a strong contrast.

    I am interested in what you have to say about how WW2 has effected your country both during the war and subsequently. So from my point of view I am more than happy for you to write about it.

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    1. Blue it is then! It does make them a bit more cartoony, takes aways the reality I suppose.

      As for what I got to say...that's like a pandora box! I'll make sure I find the bits that would be useful in gaming, so it won't be all propaganda :D

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  2. Blue windows? Works for me, but if you're after an alternative then my search of Google images suggests that a mid to dark grey might work quite well.

    All of use are living with history. I agree that it's important to try to be objective with it, as well as to understand the perspectives from other parts of the world from our own.

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    1. I was thinking grey, because I used to like to paint it very much...now I can't stand it anymore. Blue really pops out on those. I am just not sure about the highlights, would they need any? Like white dots for glare and such? That gets quickly overdone.

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  3. I like the colours nice job mate so far. as for the windows they look fine to me.

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    1. Thanks, lots of nerves went into those, hehe

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  4. looking good and eminently suitable for wargames, as a personal choice I've gone for darker blue windows on my vehicles. I've no doubt that somewhere there will be a British Landrover too with rear windows like yours.
    As for Poundland paints, I advise only using them on buildings, the paints are a bit dire.

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    1. Hmm, I might give them another black wash then, I can always make them bluer again.

      Yes, I've found out that now and this is what I will do - so they will still get used :)

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  5. Looking great soo far, but as Zabadak says make them a darker blue.
    keep up the good work :)

    Best Regards

    Hobby worker.

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  6. They're coming in nicely.

    About the windows; as they reflect the surroundings, having it dark green/blue "down" and the color (light blue) you used "up", can be an option.

    Cheers

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    1. Thanks for the tip, but that sounds like so much work :P

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  7. Very interesting. I feel that camo on vehicles with a brush is very difficult. What you've done is not too bad. Maybe the paint just needs to be thinned more.

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    1. Thanks! As for thinned paints, I don't think this is the problem, but sheer quality of paints was so bad that they were hard to work with. Black patches on Landie are great and were easy to make, as I've used much better paint for those.

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