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Ciao a tutti,

Long time ago, I had dinner with my friend Stefano Borin and he gave me, as a present this wonderful 30mm flat standard bearer.

It took me a long time, but I finally managed to finish the figure.

Is painted entirely in oils over a black primer and acrylic base for the white.

I loved the painiting process, and I hope you like the result.

Ciao

Giovanni

Ciao a tutti,

I just finished this very ambitious project (for my skills!!), an Italian tanker with an Italian L6 tank turret during the Russian campaign.

Ambitious because this is my second tank (well a part of it this time) I've ever done; also been able to place the turret with the figure in the minimum space possible and being able to tell a story was another great challenge, last but not least, paint this 1/35 miniature with the tiny details is painful sometimes!

The figure is from Alpine range and was given to me my the owner of the company himself as a gift, I've helped him out with some information about the uniform and he kindly sent me few figures from his range.

The figure is great, incredible details, perfect casting, if I have to find a problem is related toth the double socks, which I had to modify as you can't really tell they actually are double socks from the sculpture and box art, also, the jacket should have more buttons, but this may have been a bespoke jacket, not unseen for officials alike.

The turret and the fuel tank are from Model Victoria, quite expensive bits, but amazing quality and details as well.

The wood box is from Plusmodel and all the tools are plastic kit from a company called Diopark, very nice and you can find all sort of tools.

As for the paint I used my usual technique for the figure, just made an experiment for the leather coat, basically I painted the worn parts with a really light colour, using ochre, Naples yellow even white, when all dried I did paint over glazes of burnt sienna and raw umber.

Talking about the ground work and tank I did apply the technique used by the great modellers, like Mig, Adam Wilder, Mike Rinaldi and all the other great guys that are out there.

To make things easy, I did apply a winter camouflage, this has been the cherry on the cake!

Overall has been great, I loved every bit of this project and I'll try to work on more figure/ tanks project in the future.

I hope you like it, please let me know what you think.

Grazie.

Giovanni

Ciao a tutti,

I can not believe it, but I've reached the 100.000 page hits!!! Ancora no ci credo, ho raggiunto le 100.000 pagine viste!!!!

A big thank you to everyone! Un grazie di cuore a tutti!

Ciao

Giovanni

Ciao a tutti,

I've finally managed to finish my first bust, the great Young sculpture the paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne.

Has been a fantastic discovery and I really recommend everyone to try a bust, at least once.

Here below you can find the pictures of the bust, let me know what you think!

Ciao

Ciao a tutti,

I'm keep on painting this magnificent bust, face, helmet, jacket, life jacket and Thompson are almost complete, each of these has few minor things to fix or paint.

I've used a new method to paint the wooden stock of the gun:

First I painted the stock with a basecoat of a reddish brown, then I did paint random stripes with 3 different colours (a light ochre, a mid brown and a very dark black/brown) over the basecoat.

Once all was dry I took the Burnt Sienna oil colour out of the tube and applied a thick layer; because the oils are transparent by nature, the acrylics base can be seen throug the oil colour !!

It took me 10-15 minutes to achieve this, I then added few marks in oils and once dry I will make the final adjustments.

Hope you like it.

Ciao

Giovanni

  

Ciao a tutti,

I've just started my first bust ever, quite a challenge for someone who's always painted 54mm, with very few 75mm and even less 90mm..

Anyway, I have to say that this bust is amazingly cast and sculpted, a full 10 for Young miniatures!

I've only completed the front face, and finishing the helmet and life jacket.

As a side note, I've used for the base coat the new Vallejo German Green Brown surface primer and is amazing, smooth and you can airbrush it out of the bottle with no dilution!

Tell me what you think!

Ciao

Giovanni

Ne è passata di acqua sotto i ponti da quando ero attivo nell'ambito del modellismo, con la diffusione sempre più forte di internet, si ha la possibilità di conoscere e condividere in maniera più ampia le proprie esperienze. Per questo ho deciso di aprir questo Blog e condividere la mia passione e far sì che questo angolo diventi un tassello in più per la diffusione di questa attività.
Mia intenzione, tempo permettendo, è di creare quanti più SBS e tutorial, sui più svariati argomenti, così condividere quel poco di esperienza che ho.
Buona lettura a tutti.

Giovanni

Since I was really involved in the modelling scene, things have changed quite a bit. Internet has given us the opportunity to know and share our experience on a wider scale.
The main reason I dcided to open this blog is to share my passion and to help spread this great hobby that is modelling.
Is my intention, having time of course, to make as many SBS and tutorial on a wider range of topics, to share my little experience with you all.
Have a nice reading.