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I had a photo of an actual Swedish CV9040 under the panel and layed it on a light box to trace out the patterns. I chose the GtK for the fact it WAS different looking and because at minimum its armed with a Mk19. To pods and 10m troops I figured the more bang for buck the better. MK19 Hi Velocity HEDP seems a better option to 12.7mm ball rounds from an M2 for knocking them down so thats my thinking for the City Scenes and how everything will be armed. Mostly Mk19s, M203s, Barretts, Autocannons and ATGMs. Not so much main tank guns as they firstly wouldnt be able to track a hi speed target with one and second hitting a soft organic body would not initiate the fuse although airbursting Proximity would be messy, but thats useless within a friendly urban area, as even firing one past a building or ridge sets them off. Seen one fail and detonate a round 68m down range of a 105 field gun because of a ridge radar shadow. That was a fun day seaching a 1km grid square with metal detectors looking for the pieces and the fuze to conduct the investigation!

the grey?

haha my thread has achieved its goal... Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Instead of wire use a clear acrylic rod hidden within the "dust" to hold the model but spray it matt so it doesnt reflect light to help it disappear within the cotton. Gerwalk jetting over the desert? Or over the water? Actually.... an awesome display would be a VF-0 Gerwalk racing low over the water with two F/A18s or F14s in chase formation evaluating the Phoenix. All 3 kicking up spray tails. Another would be an SV-51 emerging from the sea abit like the image below...

More progress on the Street scenes. Final base layer down on the first of the M90 camo'd Boxers. Think it looks good. Now to try it on a Destroid. ​

Gives you something to think about doesnt it... all well and good doing a static model display but what if you could do it in such away the viewer is mentally filling in the next few moments of whats happening... Displays should tell a story or a moment in time. An interesting one that makes you start thinking and going off on tangents. That desert Recon scene has me reliving my days on a deployment and having to design a crash course in off road riding to the Recon elements of 1RNZIR when we were issued KLR350s and Quads to use. A couple of Irish Rangers came along with us and they had DR400s which is that bike in the image. My only qualification for do this being I was an A grade Motocross Racer... probably the worst person to be teaching anyone SAFE riding techniques. Definitely alot of airtime on the course and thats a bad thing with all the extra gear we carry on them!

Amazing what you can do with some cotton wool and Steelo pads!.

yep... thats what I'm thinking... Impacts on a wall... a collapsing wall caught the moment of detonation... a burning building interior... A beam cannon scar along a roadway up to the feet of a destroid with still glowing edges?.... so many ideas forming. That White Phos one is pretty dynamic too!

Other examples...

Stumbled across this during lunch looking for ideas for the street scenes Wow... Interesting idea!

Those things are great for stacking and burying underground in sets to make large (1000L - 5000L) hidden water storage units. I use them to supply my ponds and streams. Bread trays and Milk bottle crates. Random bit of info for the day. Breaks over, back to your SDF1 project.

I've had to use Elhiem 20mm figures for my UM Spacy and UN Marine ground Troops They are a good fit next to the 1/72 LAV

ahhh if only the Gunpla stuff was 1/72!

if you end up doing extra drop a line, I'll grab a 1/72, I'm in no rush, take a year if you need too.

didnt know anyone was doing them that small. I struggle to find 1/72 ones!

First marriage survived 9 years of military service but the 10th year then PMC work and Demining broke its back. This marriage she's still coming to terms with my alternative employment choice so eyes wide open for her is how I'd rather do it. No secrets, no misinformation, no softening what its really like, that way no regrets, no surprises. I hear you on shopping... far too much choice and its totally surplus to requirement! And I really dont like being in crowds so I'm not into Malls unless I'm on the top floor looking out. My daughter takes great pleasure in torturing my with Mall trips. Even Daycares with all the kids coming up to you... not a fan. Arm and a half length away minimum thanks. Tested out the booth on UN Spacy Battle Taxi victim no.1 last night. Brilliant. Wife can in and her only complaint was the volume on Five Finger Death Punch. No solvent smell at all. The lighting is good, the sound volume is very low and unobtrusive, the working space is big enough. I just need to relocate the Airbrush cradle to the inside of the booth as that was a pain reaching over it to the wall.

Its a genetic defect thats ran in my family since my great grandad in WW1. Lack of pain response. We feel pain but not the need to jerk away from it. As of right now I have one fractured ankle and a broken index finger. I am aware of them not being right but there is no severe pain so I can use them fine until they swell up too much. Kids have it, brothers have it, its useful and dangerous. I've had 15 serious concussions, shatter collar bone in 5 places, both wrists broken, punctured lung 7 times, dislocated knees 9 times, both thumbs broken, sternum cracked and ribs displaced, nose broken, forearm broken, hip dislocated, ankle ligaments torn and LOTS of burns, cuts and scars. Worst burn was doing a barrel change on a C9 Minimi/M249 then grabbing the spare barrel after putting 400rds through it to relocate at speed to a better position. The barrel was blue! My10yr old son's always binning his bike on the track in the bush when he gets distracted and watches a plane fly by while in the twisties... no pain means no incentive to avoid wreaks. My daughter (when she was 11yrs old) broke her jaw on a BMX track and was only worried about how she would look! Freaked the docs out as she was quoting Shakespeare to them instead of being in tears. Parents freak when the kids scrap out the Lime from the track from their grazes without blinking when its meant to sting I think. I'm great fun to watch when putting up Barbed Wire fencing or inspecting craters post blast and I see shiny blued still pinking hot metal fragments...

Is it really that critical? How dusty is the environment you're spraying in? Airbrush paints dry super fast as well so the time exposed to dust while the surface is tacky is minutes at best. No point over thinking and over complicating something if you aren't building competition master pieces. You start spraying inside a sealed fume hood setup and you will discover removing your airbrush to change a colour will be problematic and negate your zero dust setup unless you have positive pressure inside as you open it. In which case you just vented the vapours into your own face. May as well look for an NBC suit while you are at it. Keep those things in mind when you design something. When ever you do something, do as we do in the Army and ask yourself in order to do what? I want an airbrush booth in order to....remove vapour and contain over spray? Be dust free? Be hermetically sealed? You don't need or want hurricane force air speeds flowing into your booth, you just want to catch and guide what IS in there in the right direction to head out the rear of the booth.The Airbrush will be blasting more air at a higher speed than your exhaust fans. Otherwise you'll be sucking in all the household airborne particulates and actually creating the problem. The purpose of the filter at the rear is JUST to catch particulates (paint) in the air and reduce the amount getting on the fans, ducting and out into the air. My booth is simply to contain overspray and blow some of the vapours out of the garage to keep the wife happy while not costing an arm and a leg to build and maintain, providing me with some lighting to see whats being worked on and being as quiet as possible to not make me think I'm billeted in the aux generator room of an Aircraft Carrier.

Damn thats cool!

She who must be appeased or kept in the dark. "Shot" myself in the foot taking her to see 13 Hours. Now she REALLY doesnt want me going back on PMC roles! Shes a funny one. Scientist by day, Gym trainer by night, Geordie accent and likes to drag tractor tyres up and down the driveway and run 100km offroad events for fun.

Paused the model making to finish the workspace this weekend. All done and almost all with scrap left over from the House Revos plus 10 x $10NZD 120mm PC Fans and one $68NZD Power Supply. Filter sheets and perspex panel are left overs from the pond filters and waterfall boxes (we have a few ponds and a 20m stream running through the yard) and the LED strip lighting is a mix of the left over pond ones (for under the bridge and rapids/falls) and the ones from the cabinets and Weapons/Medals/Missions displays down the hallway. So Airbrush booth sorted. Paint racks sorted. Wife no longer nagging for me to finish making her some fence lights, sorted. Wife appeased after a weekend in the garage by taking her to dinner and to see 13 Hours... sorted. A productive and injury free weekend apart from one screw 15mm into my foot and one chisel tip in the other. Now I HAVE a proper work bench i can kick the street and carrier deck scenes into high gear.

I'm working with Florys Clay based washes. http://www.florymodels.co.uk/

Thanks for the Info, just bought 2 to use as UN Marine Destroid support units.

Really like this realistic take on a Zentradi soldier... would look the part as a 140mm (1:12) figure to go with my 1/72 city scenes. http://fcarlesimo.blogspot.co.nz/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-03:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-03:00&max-results=3

Warthunder IS pretty epic. Ground and Air rock. And on April fools each year they do something stupid. Last year was Walking tanks, Destroid style and inflatable tanks powered by 2 guys pedalling bicylces and they fired spuds. Year before was a Godzilla sized Gaijin logo Snail brought to life and smashing Paris while we flew round its head trying to avoid the laser eyes and bring the beast down. You have to admire a company that has a sense of humour.

Righto... the 8pm courier dropped off the Tamiya paints I ordered this afternoon out to our place in the Waitak Ranges and the fun begins! M90 Splinter Camo Temperate is made up of 3 colours M90 Dark Green made from XF26 @ 216 drops - XF69 @ 100 drops - XF55 @ 40 drops M90 Light Green made from XF5 @ 170 drops - XF55 @ 31 drops - XF4 @ 10 drops M90 Black made from straight Nato Black XF69 but if its a factory new finish you want use XF69 1:1 XF1 That's according the Swedens best CV90 modeller anyways.