This weekend Art in Miniature and Swedish Nationals of Scale modeling was held in Gothenburg. I real nice weekend with over 400 models exhibited and nice people to mingle with. My score this time was two gold, four silver and one bronze medal.
This part contains images from military vehicles, dioramas, figures, ships and more. For airplanes and helicopters see part 2 here.
Even tough I decided not to create a base for this model. I had some kits from Miniart laying around so on pure impulse this base just happened. I think it came out quite cool with the dirt and wet effects. Just have to finish up the tank now and this model is done!
Since it’s launch in early December last year, this page has been viewed 10,000 times. Which for me is a big milestone. As this blog is mostly filled with my personal creations and some other things that I find to my liking. It’s very pleasing to know that other find it interesting as well. Thank you for visiting and looking forward to 100 000 now! 🙂
Oscar Winner 1945 (Best Documentary, Features)
“The Fighting Lady,” provides a portrait of life on a World War II aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV10, a vessel that is “enormous, wonderful, and strange to us.” After profiling the various activities of the soldiers’ day and following the ship’s voyage through the Panama Canal, the film takes the audience through a litany of actual combat engagements. The Fighting Lady participates in a strike on the Marcus Islands, then defends itself against a surprise nighttime raid by Japanese fighters. Some of the photography comes from cameras set up in the cockpits of American planes, showing first hand what it’s like to be diving through enemy anti-aircraft fire. The film culminates in a major confrontation with the Imperial Japanese Battle Fleet. In this massive operation, later dubbed the “Marianas Turkey Shoot,” American pilots downed almost four hundred Japanese Zeros, while incurring only twenty-two losses themselves.
This model is finally coming to an end. It has given me some unreal bad luck and hardships to cope with. So i’m glad I’m finally through it. The tracks are still left and I have ordered metal tracks from Friulmodel instead of the plastic ones loosly fitted on now. In Sweden the number 13 is for BAD LUCK so it rightfully received them on the turret. I find it really hard to righteously recreating the model on images but will try to take better pictures once the new tracks are fitted.
Finding 15 minutes here and there adds up quite well. Color-modulation is now done on this OT-34 from Dragon models. For those of you that have followed this blog, knows that construction on this model was completed at the first week of the year. But a massive series of misfortunes have really tested my temper on this one. Therefore it will rightfully receive the number 13 on it’s turret. Let’s just hope that the rest goes well now. Weathering and detail painting is up next. It’s hard to take good pictures of it, but here it is:
Weathering steam engines and locomotives is something i’m going to try very soon. So finding good prototype images to see how steam engines look after heavy use is my first step. Though quite fast I realized that it was going to be hard to find good reference pictures when all the period images are in black & white. Therefore I found some more recent pictures of Chinese locomotives in full color to be more accurate for my weathering ambitions. Yes they still use steam locomotives to some extent today. Check it out:
Youtube also offers a lot of references.
I just joined Pinterest. Check out these two boards and follow me if you like.
Source: railpictures.net via Andreas on Pinterest
Source: Uploaded by user via Andreas on Pinterest
Hi my name is Andreas Grewin and I work as an Interactive Art Director in Stockholm, Sweden. This site represents one of my interest during my past time. With this site I really want to show the world and the people around me what a amazing and creative hobby this is.
