1/2" Scale project still in progress (somehow)

[eTraxx]

Chuck, Marty -
GWOSH?  Please tell me what this is?
A real newbie here,
Carlo
http://www.spirito.biz

They are 'pronouncing' gouache. Alternatives evidently are Gwash, Gowsh, Goo-ash (uk), Gwarsh, around London is Goo-aaaah-sh, France is Goo-w-ash, from Dictionary is  (gwäsh, g-äsh), Australia is evidently .. gwarrshshmate ...

http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-192859.html

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks for that! I had no idea all the different ways to say it. Sorry Carlo, I just get tired of needing spell check every time I try to spell it!

[TRAINS1941]

I thought you said " Garsh it sure looks good to me"

To bad the race didn't last longer you could have almost been done.

Jerry

Ps  Chuck is there any brand that you use or are they all about the same??

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks Jerry!

I have used the Windsor and Newton brand only. Garsh, I have no idea if different brands can vary.

[Tom Neeson]

Chuck,
You must stop trying to pass off pictures of the real thing as your models.

No wait, you made a time machine...I mean shrinking machine...and you make the real parts small, like scale model.

Ah Ha, ah ha ha...ah HA HA HA HA...I am the funny!!

Ahem...seriously though...some real kickass modeling.

Tom

[Tom Neeson]

Chuck, Marty -
GWOSH?  Please tell me what this is?
A real newbie here,
Carlo
http://www.spirito.biz

Carlo
Guoache (sp?) is an opaque water color, it comes in tubes like water colors, oils etc and thins with water. It is great for rusting effects and chipping because it dries very flat, both in sheen and level. Plus (or minus) it is always workable, meaning once it dries it can be reactivated with water.

HTH,
Tom

[danpickard]

Actually, in Australia its refered to as "bloodygwarrshshmate"...

Superb stuff Chuck.  I really like the nice touch with the rusting iron capping, the small kinks and dents look cool.  Still pinching myself with every new photo, looks more realistic than the real thing???

Cheers,
Dan

[Malachi Constant]

I thought the colors were "goulash" and they were thinned with vinegar ... nevertheless, Chuck does do a very nice job with them!

Further to what Tom said, they do remain "workable" ... or, they can be "fixed" with clear flat spray to avoid accidental re-working of the colors. 

[shropshire lad]

Actually, in Australia its refered to as "bloodygwarrshshmate"...

Superb stuff Chuck.  I really like the nice touch with the rusting iron capping, the small kinks and dents look cool.  Still pinching myself with every new photo, looks more realistic than the real thing???

Cheers,
Dan

  Dan ,

  Actually , I believe you have given the abbreviated form . Shouldn't it read "bloodygwarrshmatewannanuvvertinny?"


  Nick

[finescalerr]

Okay, everybody except Chuck -- go stand in the corner!! Oh, heck. Chuck, you may as well join them because you probably deserve to be there anyway. -- Russ

[shropshire lad]

So is The Corner the new Middle Of The Room ? As Russ is the only one left in the middle of the room that must make him the naughty boy .

   What he hasn't realised yet , is that it is more funner in the corner .

  Nick , making himself comfortable facing the wall

[RoughboyModelworks]

As a long-standing permanent resident of the corner, I can say that it is definitely the place to be, though it has been getting a little crowded of late. Marc keeps taking my whisky and Chuck likes to grab my comfy chair, so it's getting harder to defend my territory...

Thought for the morning tho... if the book were called "Average Expectations," it wouldn't be worth Dickens...

Paul

[james_coldicott]

Don't know why I haven't thought of it before but just had a hideous flashback to my school days when one was sent to stand "IN THE BIN, IN THE CORNER", but that was the good old days of an English Grammar School.

Russ, if you need to go up a disciplinary level I'd suggest a collection or 'flock' (if that is the collective term) of bins would add an extra frisson of humiliation.

James

[Chuck Doan]

Thanks guys! Paul, the book "Average expectations" sounds like a Microsoft manual.

Finally got back to it and finished the oil pump for the lubester. It's a composite item using the RP part I had made, and brass wire tie rods and styrene bolt heads ( BTW, the concept of cutting bolt heads from Plastruct hex material is easier said than done!) I also added a handle lock from brass shim stock and a styrene vee on the drain pipe (used to klop the glass bottle against and push drain pipe out of the way.)

Primed with Testors flat black
Hairspray
Dullcoat seal
Thinned Polly Scale Red Chromate brushed on
Chip with wet toothpick and stiff brush
Weathered with gwosh and pigment powders.
I'll do some final touchups when I finish the tank portion.






I tapped the bottom of the part and threaded in a screw to hold it while painting.



Marc, I used some Vallejo red to play with differing shades. Didn't do a lot, but I did find the paint to work nicely for the task.

[Ken Hamilton]

Geez, Chuck....don't you ever get tired of making the rest of us look bad?
That pump is uncanny.  We have a couple of real ones here at work that
don't look as realistic as yours............