Sitting down to paint 227 tires. This is why I cannot do large batches of vehicles at one time, by the time I finish these my eyes and my brain are going to be hurting really bad.
Let the fun begin
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Tag Archives: Middle East
More work on the Al Sijood Palace board
Starting to add some color to the earth. Much blending to come. Then the ground covering, bushes and trees.
Game board for the new Al Sijood Palace
This board will be a game board for the new GameCarft Al Sijood Presidential Palace. The prototype for this model is located in Baghdad Iraq and was one of Sadam’s many palaces.
Work continues on Baghdad Int’l Airport
The northwest corner of Baghdad International Airport in 1/285th scale. Work in progress. Tonight I just started the application of the desert sand texture, this is a process that takes several applications before it’s done, this is just the first base layer.
This last photo shows the area being modeled. The satellite image on the left shows the area that I’m modeling. I’ve taken a little bit of artistic license especially in ground scale, I tried to keep the widths of all runways and taxiways real close to scale but the distances between things is seriously reduced.
Trying new colors
Most of my middle east buildings have a pretty boring concrete color to them or some variation of concrete, I thought I’d try some different colors today.
EOD Cougar
Inspired by the vehicles on the TV show “Bomb Patrol Afghanistan”. Just a standard GHQ Cougar 6×6 (#N526) with some of the LAV Slat Armor (#N505)
BTR-Ts with 30mm Autocannons
I bought a batch of 30mm autocannons from GHQ (turrets for BTR-80/A) and put them on the new BTR-T (#W90) now they all have 30mm autocannons.
Terrain Boards, More Progress
A few more photos of the new Middle East boards
Tomorrow I’ll be adding more trees and other details as well as feathering the transitions between the earth colors a bit so they blend better.
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Working on some more terrain boards
Tonight I started work on 4 more Middle East boards. I’m making these as generic Middle East boards that can be used for several regions. I know that some areas in the Middle East are just sand forever and others are hilly or even mountainous, so I’m trying to do something that is desert with a little terrain to break things up a bit. After all, modern MBTs facing off at 3000 meters across flat sand can be a little boring. …. so a little artistic license is being taken with my terrain boards.
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