Old Projects.

As I haven't worked on the Tiger today I thought I'd show some older Projects I've built In the last year.

This is my 1/35 Vietnam Era Huey, I spent some time trying to fade the paintwork to show she's been out in the hot sun for some time.

One of my Scratch Builds, 1/32 Teemto Pagalies Pod Racer from Episode I.

The Fine Molds 1/144 Millenium Falcon, this hangs on the wall, she sits on a Scratch Built Star Destroyer Bridge section.

A small Toy Conversion, adding a few small improvments and a better Paint Job.

The Trumpeter 1/32 Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat, this was Super Detailed. Better Cockpit, Engine, Wheel Wells, Gun Bays and Flaps.

Revells 1/32 Heinkel He 111, More or less built out of the box. I only added a few little details in the Cockpit as the kit is pretty damn good in the first place.

1/35 M1025 Humvee, did the same faded paintwork effect as on the Huey.

Trumpeter 1/32 Mig 15 on Scratch Built Base.

Well thats just a few of the projects I've built, hope you like them. Back tomorrow with the latest on the Tiger and Panther.

Thanks for stopping by,
Andy.

Tiger I Part Two.

Ok, in the long run this Tiger will be on a Winter Dio with a Panther MkV and Possibly a Stug. My Idea is to place them either being loaded onto or off loaded from a Train, I want to use the Trumpeter BR86 Dampflokomotive

As I said it'll be in Winter with lots of German soldiers milling around, not quite sure of the fine details just yet. Its at this time that I find out that I should have put Travelling Tracks onto the Tiger as real Tiger Tanks where to wide for the flatbed wagons, so the Tracks where changed for narrower one's, so at the moment I have the wrong tracks on mine ! Yes I will be blogging my mistakes too, at the moment I'll leave the tracks in place and have a think about what to do.

I've added most of the detail to the main body and the turret and a quick coat of Matt Stone pulls it all together. To get her to this point has taken around a Month. In this blog I've condenced it down as like I said earlier this is in retrospect.

This photo shows the Exhaust Shields, I've shown them with a lot of rust as this area has a lot of heat and moisture so the Camo paint doesn't stay on very long defore its burnt off. They also have a small amount of Winter White Wash still on them. The rest of the Tank has been White Washed and then faded and warn, plus I've added some new and old rust to some areas.

Now we're bang up to date, this is where I am at the moment, just the fine details to pick out. I'll also add some Stowage and Equipment.
Thanks for looking,
Andy.

Tiger I Part 1

The First Project on my Blog will be a 1/35 Tamiya Mid-Production Tiger I. I'll back track a little as she's almost finished.

Now strangely the Box Art shows her with Zimmerit but the Kit doesn't have any moulded into any of the parts, so I'll have to add it myself. For this I'll use Super Fine Milliput, I'll add it to the body first then I'll move on to the Turret.

I've taken out a few spots here and there to look like wear and tear, once its dry I sanded it back a little just to take off the high spots.

One thing I have done is cut the Side Skirts into sections, They come as one large piece, but look a little to tidy for a Tank thats been in Battle for some time. I also bent up some edges and generally made them look worn. When it comes time to add these to the body I'll leave a couple off to further the damaged effect.

After two days of adding Zimmerit, this is where we are. I've drilled through the Zim on the Turret so I can add the spare Track Links and attachments.

The Turret Stowage Box was thinned in a couple of places, then I made some jagged holes to represent Shrapnel Damage.

Time to make the Track !! and it does take some time. each Link has to be sanded slightly where it was attached to the Sprue. Each finished track will have 100 links, I glue three lengths together and let them stand for around 30 minutes. This means I can bend them to shape without them coming apart.

Here I've used a couple of pairs of Tweezers to add some Sag to the Tracks.

Welcome.

Hi and Welcome to Central Industrial, this is my Build Blog for all my Projects, Big and Small. Hopefully you will find something of interest here, if you don't, comment on what you would like to see and I'll try and sort something out for you.
 I specialize in 1/48 1/35 1/32 and 1/16 Armour, Aircraft and Sci-Fi Miniatures, I build from Kits, but I do like to Hyper Detail them for Accuracy. I use Update and Detail Sets made from Plastic, Resin and Photo Etch, plus I do Scratch Build some Items that are not available in Kit form.

Thanks for stopping by,
Andy.