Foehammer’s Konflikted Painting Table

Taking some small steps forwards. Firstly I put some paint on the Quonset huts. I don’t know how the Japanese would have painted these. I don’t know if, given shortages of steel, if they ever made use of them. Regardless, I chose to go with the same tan/brown/green/yellow scheme used on their tanks. It was relatively quck work with an airbrush.

Im still deciding if I am going to paint the bright yellow cross with a brush, or masking with an airbrush. Masking would be a lot of work, but yellow can be tough to paint with a brush. Any suggestions?

Next up I started some work on the fuel tanks that will act as some medium sized scatter terrain. From a previous woodworking project, I had a decent length of 2.5in diameter wood dowel. To make my 3 tanks, I simply sliced off three 5-in sections with my mitre saw. It could easily be done with a hand saw, would just take longer.

in images of these I’ve always seen them with short lengths of pipe coming from the top. I assume these are for filling the tank and letting air vent. I had some old plasticard tube to act as the pipe lengths, so I used my drill press to drill a few vertical holes into the dowel to mount them. Much easier that trying to surface mount them to a curved surface. Next I’ll need to do somd light sanding to avoid having an obvious wood texture when painted.

Lastly, I used my table saw to cut the bases for several of the terrain pieces. Here you see the bases for the airstrip, the Quonset huts, and several of the bunkers/towers. I used 0.25in thick wainscoting MDF simply because I had the material lying around from another project. I was going to use some 1/2in insulation foam for the airfield, but it will be too high on to of this MDF, so I think I will just use 1/4in foam core.

more on that to come.