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Oriskany's 28mm Long Range Desert Group

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A ray of hope ...

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A ray of hope ...

Okay, I think this is slowly inching back from the abyss …

Some salvage work done to smooth out the worst of the block coloring.

And wow!  Huge thanks to everyone for all the supportive and encouraging comments!

Also, as fate would have it, my second batch of eight SAS / LRDG troops arrived in the post, started on them, different primer (lighter color in front) went down much better.

Actually none of the troops are that bad, at least not for the stage they’re at now – but the vehicles were less than pristine with the primer.  The block colors are mostly down (yes, that borderline pink is intentional – that’s not the issue) – it just didn’t go down very smoothly over the “grainy” primer ever after I sanded and smoothed out and re-painted as best I could.

I suppose I can cover it with desert sand, dust, and grime, or as a last resort, battle damage.

Also, photographing in better light seems to have helped!

 

In all, this is just one of those things I really wanted to do.  Admittedly, it’s not strictly necessary for the Boot Camp, but when your prospects for its accomplishment come under threat because of a cheap can of primer, then you go to fix it with your air brush only to find that the hose somehow got uprooted and torn right out the compressor somehow, then the camera screws up, then the manual painting doesn’t go terribly well, then then then then then …

It was just a day of “rolling all 1s” is all. 🙁

But, like I said, things seem to be going a little better today.

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