more teeny weeny tanks

[generulpoleaxe]

15mm scale tigers by battlefront
one day i\'ll get time to finish my 1/35th jagdtiger.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/183006

http://www.coolminiornot.com/183007

http://www.coolminiornot.com/183008

http://www.coolminiornot.com/183009

http://www.coolminiornot.com/183010

 

[airhead]

voted and commented. I first thought they were much larger. The detailing is great.
Mud in the wheels, Zimmerit coating, just great.

 

[generulpoleaxe]

cheers mate

it\'s the same procedure as 1/35th armour, just a little smaller lol

i\'ll go check out the comments

 

[airhead]

do you do the zimmeret? or is it part of the cast?

 

[generulpoleaxe]

it\'s part of the cast mate.

to be honest things like zimmerit aren\'t difficult, just time consuming.

just a case of getting a good milliput mix and having the right home made tools.

 

[freakinacage]

what exactly is zimmeret? i have tried googling and it just comes up with modelling stuff with no description of what it was

lovely work there. great weathering. what did you use for the branches?

 

[generulpoleaxe]

Originally posted by freakinacage
what exactly is zimmeret? i have tried googling and it just comes up with modelling stuff with no description of what it was

lovely work there. great weathering. what did you use for the branches?

zimmerit is a form of artex mate, it was desighned to prevent magnetic mines to areas of the tank.

there are two types of foliage mate, the sections of cut off tree are see foam and fine leaves, the marsch branches are asparagus fern (very brittle so needs treating to firstly stop it rotting and secondly stop it from falling apart when some one just grazes it)

 

[airhead]

GPA, you need some more of that fern? Come on by and dig out all you want from my yard. Stuff is a weed here. And it has sharp thorny bits after it gets some size on it.

I\'ve dug it out, sprayed roundup all over it and it still comes back - meaner and greener.

 

[Dragon Forge Design]

Originally posted by freakinacage
what exactly is zimmeret?

Zimmerit was ainti magnetic mine past applied by the Germans to their tanks to keep the Russians from sticking magnetic mines to their tanks. It was sort of a concrete like mixture trawled onto the tank. The ridges also helped bread up surface adheason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmerit

 

[demonherald]

I love what you do with these at the scale.. maybe show a pic next to a 30mmmodel to give people a real idea ...

nice one chris

 

[generulpoleaxe]

Originally posted by demonherald
I love what you do with these at the scale.. maybe show a pic next to a 30mmmodel to give people a real idea ...

nice one chris

i\'m happy with people thinking they are 1/56 or bigger mate

tempted to do a couple of leman russ\'s for ebay later in the year, it\'s a bit slow at the moment tho.

 

[demonherald]

yeah it\'s always slow this time of year,.. Final warnings for credit card bills and the like are in so people have to pay the goose fiirst before they can treat themselves.. always happens .. generally picks up end of March beginning April...

 

[Friar]

Originally posted by demonherald
I love what you do with these at the scale.. maybe show a pic next to a 30mmmodel to give people a real idea ...

nice one chris

I second that I know these are teeny tiny but I\'d love to see em next to a regular GW mini or some such just so I can get a real idea of their scale.

 

[generulpoleaxe]

realy quick pic so the focus is poo.

 

[Friar]

Thanks bud, amazing the detail that gets crammed on them bad boys.

 

[Logan]

Always love seeing your stuff mate.
Just one question, where did you borrow the electron microscope from in order to be able to see what you were painting...

 

[generulpoleaxe]

Originally posted by Logan
Always love seeing your stuff mate.
Just one question, where did you borrow the electron microscope from in order to be able to see what you were painting...

i use an optivisor mate, i struggle to paint anything without it nowadays due to my eyesight going and the cost of glasses (can\'t afford to get my eyes tested at the moment.)

 

[darkartminiatures]

Sweet as always

 

[skeeve]

looking at ratings, people clearly do not appreciate the size of those. They are really pretty if the word could be applied to the tank. Do you actually paint numbers or is it some decals? They feel painted but just thought I ask.

 

[generulpoleaxe]

the numbers are decals.
i use micro sol so dissolve the decal and just leave the pigment and then weather them with the rest of the tank.