Sherman Firefly Mk. Ic 'Hybrid Hull'

[BombTaxi]

You can always dismiss the damage as the fault of a clumsy crew I would imagine smaller parts like that got fairly battered in the field anyway...

 

[timshatz]

Yeah, bullet proof doesn't make the solider proof! Impossible to make a piece of equipment that the dumbest guy in the unit can't wreck!

 

[ylp020]

GO~Jan,so far so good.

 

[Lucky13]

Cheers Ylp, appreciated! Btw, is that your KV-1 in the siggy? If so, I'd love to know more about it, how you did the winter camouflage etc.... looks great!

 

[ylp020]

Yes . it is one of my stuff.
The winter camouflage was done like this :
1. Paint the Suviet green all over the body with GUNZE or GAIA
2. Stab the tamiya acrylic white thinned with 75% alcohol(100% will ruin the base colour)by a round headed brush and try to keep the spots small and radom.
3. Stab on some different green(base green +white,yellow or +black ,brown) with sponge,to make some tinny peel off.
4. wash
5. pigment treatment.

 

[Lucky13]

Looks great! Beautiful work mate!

 

[dirkpitt289]

Nice work Jan. I look forward to seeing more of it.

 

[mikewint]

Lucky, looking good. Like airframes, I look at where something is going to end up in the model, i.e. can I reach it after assembly. I too would paint the road wheels and trucks before assembly. with the airbrush it is easier to paint the entire outer hull before assembly rather than trying to mask small isolated portions later

 

[Lucky13]

Aye... As it is, the wheels aren't glued, so they're easy to remove, which I'll do when we come to that stage. As for now, I've put the Firefly to the side, until I've ordered paint for it, which I'll do this week (I hope).....
Really want to get a Mk. Vc Firefly as well, so that I can mount those 60lbs rockets on the turret! 8)

 

[ylp020]

Waiting for new pics~Jan(^^)

 

[Lucky13]

Tooling on the Firefly, to find more inspiration for the other projects...

 

[Airframes]

Looking good old boy.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Well done Jan!

 

[Lucky13]

Cheers lads! First heavy metal in years!

 

[AndrewR]

Looks nice, I did the old Matchbox/Revell one in 1/76 recently:

This was painted bronze green which is not correct for 1944!


I have the Tamiya Firefly 1/48 kit in the stash too

If you want info on the paint colours, you need to follow the work of Mike Starmer, the complete expert on British Army camo colours

MAFVA

cheers


Andrew

 

[Gnomey]

Looking good Jan!

 

[dirkpitt289]

Looking great and damn that gun looks looooonnnnggggg.

 

[Wurger]

A nice job so far .

 

[Wayne Little]

Hey Jan, looking good man!

 

[Lucky13]

Cheers gentlemen!
Working in the tracks now, get them rusty and so on.....