Model Military International – September 2019

FEATURE ARTICLE Tamiya 1:48 Panzerkampfwagen III Ausf. L • Kit No. 32524

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I was so happy with the final

result that I decided to cast

the piano in resin. For further

work, I used a test casting.

Once I’d primed it in black, I

masked off the adjacent areas

and painted the rear wall in a

natural wood colour.

Using an old flat brush, I painted some streaks with

dense acrylic paints (namely AK3034 ‘Leather Dark

Shade’ and Lifecolor UA713 ‘Wood Warm Dark Shade’)

in order to replicate the woodgrain effect.

The details were emphasized with ‘Nuln Oil Wash’

from Citadel.

The paintwork was then

sealed with a few thin

layers of gloss varnish.

An armchair was another piece of furniture that I

needed to reproduce the scene that was captured

on my reference photo. Firstly, I built its basic shape

from pieces of 0,75 mm styrene sheet.

The skeleton was progressively wrapped around with a mixture of Magic

Sculp and Green Stuff.

The finished armchair also found its way into a silicone mould, and again,

I painted a resin casting. I primed it with Tamiya XF-60 ‘Dark Yellow’ and

finished with different acrylic shades from the AK-Interactive AK3030

‘Leather and Buckles’ set.

Now I could seat the pianist...

who first had to be sculpted.