Channel Update September/October 2018
Hi everyone and welcome to the channel update for September and October 2018.
I know that i am a bit late with my update since it is already early November, but i was not able to get the update filmed earlier. I was either at model shows or had to work the last few weekends.
Thats why the schedule has changed a bit. However, i don´t think it is a big problem to bring out the update a bit later this time.
As always we take a look at the appointments for the upcoming model shows, what happens at the workbench right now, the new kits i got and what you can looking forward to in the future.
As you probably know the centenary for the end of the First World War in 1918 is approaching. In order to commemorate this a model show is taking place in France, in the Alsace region, in the town of Molsheim.
Together with a couple of club members i will take part in this show. The show takes obviously place on the 10th and 11th of November.
I am curious to see how this all works, since i don´t know what to expect there. I don´t know how big this show is, what the skill level of the presented work is like and such things.
It will be very interesting for me to present my work abroad. I displayed my models at a model show in Austria a couple of times before, but to be honest, it does barely count as a foreign country.
I am pretty sure that France will be a different experience and i am looking forward to that. I am looking forward to get some awesome food there in particular. I am certain that i can get my hands on some great local food. I am indeed a "bon vivant", so i am excited for that.
I already spent some thoughts on how i am going to decorate my display table there. Of course i put there some of my figures, dioramas and individual tank models. In between them i want to display a few relicts from WW1, which belonged to my great-grandfather once, who served in this war. I think of things like his helmet, photographs and such things.
That is something different. Normally when i go to model shows i just put my dioramas on the table and thats it. In this case though i want to go a bit further and incorporate some old war relicts into the display.
This will certainly arouse some interest. WW2 relicts are fairly common, one sees them at model shows on a regular basis. When it comes to WW1 relicts this is not that common, because there is much more time in between. Not much is left of it these days.
I am in the very lucky position to own quite a few things from that time. It is a special wish i have to bring it there and show it to the audience.
It is a great achievement for us that we can hop into a car, drive to France and help to create an awesome exhibition there together with the French, 100 years later.
This is probably the greatest achievement of our time in Europe. It is possible to go there without fear for ones life.
In the previous update video i mentioned two model shows for that time frame: The exhibtion in Erding and the big model show in Ried.
I did not have the time to go to Erding. I hinted at that possibility in the last update video already and it actually turned out that way.
It would have been too much for me. No time and too much driving around. I will go there again sometime in the future.
Anyway, i did not make it there, but i hope that all of you, who went there, enjoyed it. I did not hear much about it, so i assume it was good, since there were no severe complaints.
The big model show in Ried took place recently and was great as always. Nothing to complain about. The ambient there is great and the organisation is fantastic. Everything goes smooth and directly, without too much bureaucracy involved. I really like that about this show. It all goes so smoothly.
I also managed to meet some old friends there again, just as every year. I am very happy about that. I enjoy it to get to talk to them and show them my latest dioramas, which i built since the last show.
I also made some new friends there. Thats what i enjoy so much about these shows: You can establish and cultivate some awesome friendships there.
This is important to me, thats why i go to these shows, because i seek the communication and contact. I tend to meet the same people again and again at these shows.
Of course one could spend some money there - thats how it should be at a model show! Some good bargains!
What i got here is a fleamarket find. It is a diorama accessory set by Mirage Hobby in 1/35 scale. I think i bought and used this set about 3 or 4 times already in the past.
It is always good and useful: The little cart, fences, road signs and a telegraph pole. All of it is useful, never a mistake to get that. In this case it did cost me 5€, which are well invested in my opinion.
Besides that i also "pillaged" the MiniNatur booth at the show. The prices are very good there. I got me these little shrubs for example.
I also got this little tree. It is meant for 1/72 scale mainly. I guess it can be used for larger scales, too.
I also got me a 1/35 scale tree. One day i will be able to make such trees myself. I guess it is not that hard, as long as you know how to do it. Until now i have not yet mastered this, so for the time being i will use trees, which can be bought.
Besides that i got me three model kits. I did not have the intention to buy any kits there, but the opportunity was there and the price was good.
They are all in 1/72 scale. The reason for that is: Earlier this year i built the 1/72 scale Flyhawk Panzer II L "Luchs" and i enjoyed that one a lot, so i thought "why not doing some 1/72 scale stuff from time to time?"
I got my hands on the Unimodels Panzer III H. The kit does not look bad at all, so i think i can turn this into something cool.
Then i got the Panzer 38(t) Ausf. C, also by Unimodels. A pretty neat kit by the looks of it.
Finally i got me this Japanese tank by IBG Models. Whats the name of the tank by the way?
"Kou". It is a Kou tank, very interesting. It is much more like the quality of the Flyhawk kit i talked about earlier. These Unimodels tank kits should be fine as well, but they are not equally detailed. This IBG Models kit should be superior, which is no surprise, because it came out much more recently.
The reason why i got this one are some 1/72 scale figures of Japanese tank officers i was given at a different model show some years ago.
The quality of them is awesome. I think they are made by Germania Models or something along those lines. Really superb details!
There is a photograph, which i can pretty much rebuild with these figures and in that picture you can see also a tank like that one. So i got me that tank kit in order to put these figures to use.
As you can see i was pretty modest and did not spend too much money. I just got me a few little things there. It is enough anyway.
Since we are already talking about past model shows: A thing that made me very happy was a little show report about the Augsburg Modelling days 2017 in the ModellFan magazine.
One of my dioramas got printed in there in a pretty big formate. This is a great praise for my work to see some of my work printed somewhere.
It is awesome and made me very proud that my work is considered to be good enough to be shown in a magazine.
Now we have a look at the workbench. Here you can see the Panzer II diorama i am working on for a while already.
In the previous update i was not sure how many figures i should use here. As you can see this has been sorted.
I found a couple of very nice figures with marching poses in my stash. They are by ICM and Dragon. They are ideal, just a few alterations were required. You can tell that by the different colors of the plastic.
I also glued in the tree already. It is a very pretty tree indeed, i got it at the Stammheim model show.
The grave for the tank crew was roughly shaped up with some modelling clay up here in the front.
Next i will add the gun slings to the weapons, using paper and superglue. Thats a detail, which is always missing. Paper and superglue works well.
I also have to make the tank fit better to the surface, or rather, the surface has to fit better to the tank.
I built the model with the swingarms in different positions to adapt it to the surface, but the place of the tank has changed, so i have to make it fit better now. Should not be too hard afterall.
With that out of the way i can soon proceed to get some paint on the models. I am thinking of making a short tutorial about painting a cobble stone road in an easy, effective and realistic way.
This might be interesting. I think it got requested a while ago, now i have the opportunity to show it.
The Phantom II by Revell in 1/32 scale made some progress, too. It does not look like it at the first glance.
I painted these bare metal areas at the rear of the plane and got some red paint on the insides of these flaps down here.
Next i have to mask this off somehow and then i can continue with the paintwork. I am not yet sure if i will paint the wheel wells at this stage and mask them off, or if i do that later.
This is the tricky bit when it comes to aircraft models. I don´t have the routine to understand the way of proceeding entirely.
As i mentioned in the previous update already i don´t have big expectations anymore. I just built this to try out these Hataka paints for this special German camouflage pattern.
The kit in itself is the weak point here, since it is not really good at all. I hope i can turn this into something cool with my painting skills, if they even exist. I hope it turns out presentable.
Due to its size it has a great presence. I also intend to build a small ("small") diorama for it. Nothing too fancy. I am aiming at an airfield.
I got me a pilot figure for it. I would need two pilots actually, but right now i have only one. The VW bus by Takom in 1/35 scale should look nice to it as well.
That is my plan for presenting this model at some point. However, first i have to turn this into something presentable. I am not sure if i can make it. It is a bit of a wreck really.
Recently i started my first figure for my building project about the Thirty Year´s War. It is the Cardinal Richelieu by Black Dog in 75mm scale.
The figure is okay. It requires some filler here and there, which is to be expect when it comes to resin figures.
The belt and straps for the scabbard wasn´t included at all. His rapier would have ended up floating. I added that myself, using paper and superglue. It is rudimentary, but better than nothing.
The interesting thing about this is the base. The base, which comes with the kit, is not too bad actually.
However, it is perfectly obvious that this figure is inspired by a pretty famous painting, which shows the Siege of La Rochelle.
You can clearly see that this pier or whatever it is looks very different. I decided to build my own base in order to come a bit closer to the scene, as it is shown in the painting.
Actually it is not a pier at all, it is meant to be a dam, which was built to seal off the city on its seaside as well. I don´t know how that dam actually looked like, because this painting was made much later.
It does not matter afterall, i just want to reproduce the scene in this painting.
First i formed some stone blocks using modelling clay. Then i built the dam framework using some balsa wood.
The tricky bit is now the water up here. All i did up to this point is soaking a paper hanky with wood glue and using that to roughly shape up the waves in the water.
Much more work has to go into texturing the water. We will see how that goes. I am not very experienced with that.
Another interesting detail is the cannon ball, which is somewhat burried into the stones. It can be seen in the painting as well.
I don´t think a cannon ball can land on a stone surface like that, i guess it would rather bounce off and land somewhere else.
Anyway, it can be seen in the painting, so i incorporated it into the scene, too.
It is certainly interesting to do some scratch building. Normally i don´t do that too often. In this case it wasn´t too complicated up to this point and i think it looks much better than the included base.
I made some big progess with my building review series of the Schneider CA tank by Hobby Boss in 1/35 scale. Recently i published the third part of the review, where we painted and weathered the tank.
It was very important for me to finally finish off at least the tank model, because i want to take it to that model show in France. It fits my display perfectly.
Of course it would have been awesome to have the finished diorama ready as well, but you can not have everything sometimes.
Anyway, the next stage will be the construction of the diorama. Of course i am going to film that as well for the fourth part of the building review. This should finish the series.
I made up my mind on my current way of producing these building reviews. It is a bit cumbersome and i intend to do it differently in the future.
It will become much more enjoyable for me and won´t interrupt my work flow too much. This will hopefully speed up each building review series and makes them more frequent.
Thats my plan for the future, first i have to make some acquisitions, like a proper microphone and such things. This should enable me to do the building reviews the way i envision it right now.
Thats it from the workbench, now we have a look at all the kits i got since the last update.
As you could see my new acquisitions are quite a mix of various subjects. Pretty much every topic, which is interesting to me, is featured in a way.
For example, the various resin and white metal figures in 75mm scale of all these mercenaries from the Thirty Year´s War.
I have a pretty big scene for them in mind. I plan to build that for quite some time and keep buying figures for it for a couple of years already. In the last weeks the purchases for this project have increased, because of my building project.
It is not yet entirely complete though. I still want to add one or two figures to the scene. The plan is to build a fairly big diorama of a battle formation.
I also got me a couple of accessory parts and figures, which are meant for several dioramas i have in mind.
Furthermore i got some models of the WW1 genre, because it is very relevant right now. I want to keep it up, since we finally have some good kits of this subject available. I should be supported. It is and will remain an interesting subject.
My plan for the next weeks is to clear my workbench a bit and finish a few projects. I intend to finish most projects i have on the go one by one farily promptly.
This should enable me to start a few new things. For example a buddy build project, which involves Panzer IIIs in Africa. This has been planned together with another YouTuber for a while already.
These are the things, which are waiting in the line and you can look forward to them. I won´t run out of videos to share with you guys.
So far, so good. I hope you enjoyed this update as much as always. See you again in the next video, your Hamilkar Barkas.
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