{"id":29,"date":"2023-08-07T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulmcgrath.net\/?p=29"},"modified":"2023-08-07T12:14:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:14:37","slug":"new-and-old-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmcgrath.net\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"New and old kits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now that I’m getting back into modelling I thought I’d try out a few old with the new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve dug out some old ESCI kits such as the ESCI 8038 U.S. Armored Scout Car m3 a1 and the ESCI 8006 ‘Elefant’ both of which I could never find in my youth but have acquired more recently. I always wanted the scout car and they did it a couple of variants including the ESCI 8068 French and Russian ‘White’ m3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ‘new’ kits are 3D printed from Badger 3D Creations and I’ve included the pictures (without consent, happy to remove if contacted). I’m very impressed with the M8 Greyhound and the level of detail. The Italian SPA-Viberti AS.42 seems a little more bulky and less detailed but both are well printed, smooth and without any obvious 3D printing hangovers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the past I only ever used enamel paints (Airfix, Humbrol, Revell) but I’ve just got some Vallejo acrylics and they are very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just trying out some options for a sand base colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washing seems to be the new craze, in the old days we painted them ‘factory finish’ where as now they have to look battlefield used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that I’m getting back into modelling I thought I’d try out a few old with the new. I’ve dug out some old ESCI kits such as the ESCI 8038 U.S. Armored Scout Car m3 a1 and the ESCI 8006 ‘Elefant’ both of which I could never find in my youth but have acquired more … Continue reading “New and old kits”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modelling"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmcgrath.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmcgrath.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmcgrath.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmcgrath.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmcgrath.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulmcgrath.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/paulmcgrath.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmcgrath.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmcgrath.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmcgrath.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}