"28mm Mk VI Light Tanks in Caunter for the Desert" Topic
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yarkshire gamer | 25 Feb 2020 10:33 a.m. PST |
link It's been a while since I posted any new stuff. I have been having a real nightmare with these Blitzkrieg Miniatures, constantly flaking paint despite ridiculously lengthy prep and priming. But I finally got the paint to stick, added some decals and crew figures, dolloped 12mm of Varnish on and they turned out reet nice. Regards Ken The Yarkshire Gamer |
miniaturemen | 25 Feb 2020 12:07 p.m. PST |
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Patrick Sexton | 25 Feb 2020 2:29 p.m. PST |
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Legion 4 | 25 Feb 2020 2:53 p.m. PST |
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stecal | 25 Feb 2020 4:21 p.m. PST |
nice job. I did caunter once on 15mm Mk VI tanks and that was enough for me. |
Grelber | 25 Feb 2020 4:43 p.m. PST |
Nice job! Through the first few photos, I'd been looking, thinking the Caunter pattern looked like naval Dazzle pattern, wondering if that was just an accident, and what they had hoped to achieve, and then you answered that at the end. Grelber |
d88mm1940 | 25 Feb 2020 7:21 p.m. PST |
I too had some problems with flaking on Blitzkrieg models. Not all of them, just one group. I was so bummed out, I set them aside and haven't touched them since. |
deadhead | 26 Feb 2020 12:03 a.m. PST |
Often seen that scheme. Never knew what it was called. Many thanks. really nicely done |
Marc at work | 26 Feb 2020 5:17 a.m. PST |
Always nice seeing your stuff |
Jeffers | 26 Feb 2020 6:09 a.m. PST |
Ken Lovely stuff as usual. What primer do you use? I blast special metal primer on anything that isn't hard plastic. |
yarkshire gamer | 26 Feb 2020 10:31 a.m. PST |
Cheers everyone, Jeffers, I think it was a bad batch, these have been, washed and scrubbed in hot soapy water, rinsed, dried, primed Matt Black and undercoated. Flaking paint lightly sanded off, soaked in rubbing alcohol, washed in strong detergent, rinsed, dried, primed with plastic primer, primed with normal primer and undercoated again. Still areas flaked. Vallejo Black acrylic primer is the only thing that sticks, about 10mm of varnish holding the rest on 👍 Regards Ken The Yarkshire Gamer |
Jeffers | 26 Feb 2020 12:24 p.m. PST |
Is that all? 😁 I had this on the odd S&S and Frontline vehicle when I used Army Painter primer. I started using Baufix metal primer from Lidl on resin kits first and that cured the problem. |
Mark 1 | 26 Feb 2020 4:11 p.m. PST |
Lovely job on those tanks, to be sure. Despite the challenges you have have faced, you have creates some little works of art. I have always been a bit bemused by the early Brit light tanks. To my eye they look like ill-conceived and unbalanced vehicles, almost like someone made a bolt-on kit for Bren carriers. I half expect them to tip over backwards. But they are what they are, and they sure did get nicely finished. -Mark (aka: Mk 1) |
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