Himmel, ein Hummel in 1:35!
I started building the Tamiya Hummel a couple of weeks ago, instead of taking dslr photos of already completed projects. At least I remembered uncle NightShift's armour texture trick this time 😄 Now all I have left are are the 3d printed tracks and the crew with accessories. Then I can start painting, yay!
This'll be slow as time's limited during this season. Priming's a January thing earliest, I think. That'll be fun 🤘🏻
Getting the tracks, and that length of track arnour for the Hummel took three sittings. As always, I am so very pleased with them.
If I get the crew stitched together, and if homelife agrees, I may yet get to prime and if I really push my luck, basecoat too. But I won't hold my breath, the pre-solstice week tends to be busy for some reason 😄 And then I'll be at the in-laws for almost three weeks, far from hobbies, enjoying very different routines and schedules.
First part of priming the Hummel is done, bad lighting + eyes combo made me miss a couple of shadowed spots, and I simply didn't have the time for the various wheels, sprockets and and such today. More priming tomorrow, maybe a bit of black grey over the tracks. If I get truly carried away there'll be Dunkelgelb as well.
I _did_ have some time to prime the bits in the Gray Death Legion Heavy Battle Lance box, but that's just having priorities, dear friends 😋
Basecoating the Hummel in sandy yellow, blasting more from above and high angles to keep some shadows. Also, I was again not aiming for a flat coat but to keep a bit of the shadows given by the black primer. If it looks off tomorrow, I may touch it up, otherwise I'll start on brown/green for the camouflage.
Tracks, being bare steel, got painted dark grey. I'll do the ground-clean steel later, and after that the diluted dirts. Or that's the plan, anyway 😋
Airbrushing a freehand-camouflage out of my own head left me with a couple of things to fix on the Hummel. This is why I like masking, less space for those 😋
When the greens and browns were done, I diluted some gunmetal and went to town with the roadwheel-polished parts of the tracks. The running ones will be muddy-dirtier while the short track armour will be mostly fresh rusty.
I think this is the last hobby update of the year, I just applied some heavily diluted dirt paint over the Hummel's tracks and the lower parts of its hull. The gun's aiming bits and a few other bits got the black grey + cold grey drybrushing.
Little things, but they're important. When we get back, I'll be full of energy to resume painting 🤘🏻
I still think it would be stupidly fun to hide a sandy yellow or brown Autobot marking somewhere for those who enjoy silliness 😋
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Erik