Hobby Lab: Creating Shell Strikes on Tanks
November 18, 2014 by dignity
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Well done lads !
I did find it useful
Cheers for this, great video!
Great video guys. I’d never have thought about the metal deforming, and would just have drilled a hole. It would be good to see how they would be painted up.
I love Hobby Lab. 🙂
now we want to see it painted
I’ll be using this, thanks.
A great idea, simple enough but certainly something I’d never thought about doing. A pity I just undercoasted my desert tanks.
Thanks gents, handy tip
Great video.
Is it worth gluing some plastic card to the inside of the model to prevent drilling right through the side of a tank say?
Oooh! I hadn’t considered that! Good idea mate.
really interesting, would you ever bother adding this level of detail to 15mm tanks? or would it be to much of a faff?
Unless your looking into painting competition standards maybe the greenstuff part would be too much. But a decent sized drill bit on a pin vice will give you the indentation you need for 15mm. Enough to notice and draw the eye without being overly time consuming.
Well I guess there will be some battle damage added to my ork vehicules shortly. 😉
Thanks guys! A simple but effective technique.
I used a soldering iron or small drill bits / nails heated to press into plastic. This creates the movement of the metal/plastic and gives really nice results.
Good video lads cheers
It is simple but that’s the great thing. A simple, quick way to add a huge amount of character and “story” to models. Great job.
Great video. It was nice to see a hobby lab about the model side of the hobby.
Great job guys! I hope to see you on Hobby Lab again!
Now I’m really excited to see the painting tutorial from John.
great vid guys, would love to see John’s painting tutorial on the damaged parts too 🙂
Guess I’ll add “painting damage” to my list of tankgod tips then 🙂
Being a resin model, you can just heat a piece of rod with a rounded tip and gently push it into the model to create the same effect for a direct hit. Even works with plastic, though you have to be slightly more care careful.
That sounds cool, if you get the same effect without the dust that’s a win.
My opinion is you have less control over the shape of the hit. Having done it a lot myself I prefer the greenstuff approach
But the shape of the hit will generally be dictated by the shape of the implement you are pushing into the resin/greenstuff. Besides, green stuff is simulating the melted edge, red hot rod I actually creating a melt point, looks awesome and as @lloyd points out, no carcinogenic dust, which is always a bonus. Also scales using the heated rod, from pin thin up to Leman Russ size shells, obviously depending on the size of the rods you have. You can also cut the rod in different ways to create different effects, if you file down a circular rod to… Read more »
Was great guys would like to see more.
Nice little video guys, thank you.
Great vid guys. But when are we going to get the cromwell unboxing you said was coming on tuesday? I was looking forward to that.
Great job on the video. Have been modeling shell strikes on my flames of war tanks and found the tips on deformation helpful. Thnx!
Cool tutorial guys! I hadn’t thought of the impacts’ plasticising the metal before. It’ll be nice to see them painted up. I’d like to see more tutorials like this, they’re always interesting to watch. 🙂
Just watched this video and found it really useful thanks!
About to start a Bolt Action army and was wandering how best to “weather” tanks.