foto-mlb.deFrühlingserwachen.
Die ersten Sonnenstrahlen.
Krokusse öffnen sich.
Und eine Hummel nutzt die Wärme für ihren ersten Einsatz.
Makro bedeutet Geduld – und das richtige Licht.
DormouseAuch bei großer Hitze schweben Hummeln von Blüte zu Blüte, um Nektar zu sammen.
Dabei kann ihnen ganz schön heiß werden - nicht zuletzt durch ihren eigenen Flügelschlag. Denn die Muskeln arbeiten beim Schweben auf Hochtouren und produzieren zusätzliche Wärme. Im Magazin Proceedings of the Royal Society B schreibt jetzt ein Forschungsteam: Ihre Flügel wirken aber gleichzeitig wie ein eingebauter Ventilator.
ISDAs hoped, I managed to use some mud and light sand pigments here and there, rub a graphite pen over the bare metals, and also touch up the aiming sticks. The convoy light on the bottom left rear edge got painted off-white and then I used some of my Citadel Green Wash bought in 1996/1997. Actual photos coming somewhat later.
Autor Martin SchemmEinen schönen Guten Morgen und einen entspannten Samstag! 😀 👋
Zum #Insektensamstag - quasi als aufmunternde Erinnerung an sommerliche Tage - heute eine Ackerhummel (Bombus pascuorum) bei ihrer Arbeit an einer Blüte des Hornschotenklees (Lotus corniculatus).
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One track was easier and more fixable, and that happened to be the one that looked worse 😅 When the glue had cured enough for the tracks to stay in place I went to town with the sepia pin wash. I just love that part.
Despite the crew/diorama part being scrapped I glued the loading plank-shelf on the boxes. Maybe I'll glue a couple of shells and oddly empty cartridges on it or something. Or I'll leave it as is.
In a few days I should have hobby time for highlighting
Wheelsets and tracks on. I had made a mistake and the tracks snapped at the stupidest moment. What a disappointment.
Maybe I can fix them semiacceptably, maybe not. While lamenting my choices I glued the shovels in place and let the thing wait for a new day and fixes.
Today the calendar did indeed behave, and allowed me to play with the sepia oil wash. Having given the mess some half an hour to dry, I went back to clean excesses away. Normal surfaces were nicely simple, the no-slip floors noticeably less so. But I knew that already.
Now I guess I have to let it dry for a day or two before oiling more. The next step might be installing wheels and tracks, which also need some oils before I get to more weathery things.
Today's wrap-up brought me up to 1,5h of painting tiny dots on a scale model and that'd driven my partner insane 😄 I am happy with my second attempt at Hinterhalt-Tarnung. To go with it I decided to do a low-vis version of the Balkenkreuz, instead of white corners with a black interior and edges I just did the corners in black-grey.
Tomorrow, if calendar agrees, I'll get to do the sepia wash over the panel lines and whoknowswhatsits. "Awesome, awesome to the max."
Quick image searches didn't show anyone having done Hinterhalt-Tarnung on a Hummel but I liked painting it once on the Jagdpanzer IV, so to offend overserious hobbyists that's exactly what I started doing.
I obviously didn't get all done in one go but enough to amuse myself. Maybe I'll stencil on the Balkenkreuze before getting more oils out. I can also skip them.
So much more fun and motivating than organic forms 😅
Yeah, the crew didn't get that much better with the dark grey wash-filter-tint. This looks and feels more like /dev/nulling the plastic zermans and any fantasies of making a diorama.
The brown oil wash, on the other hand, worked very nicely and I will attempt to go for a sepia pin wash tomorrow. Unless I go for a last moment green/brown/dunkelgelb dotting to make the camo more ambush-y, which was also fun the first time I tried it. Things move forward soon, anyway 😄
