Sherman Dummy Tank
Thanks to a tip of Plasticbattle I used shoe wrapping paper and it worked fantastic.
My first batch of paper was smooth and hade almost no texture on it and seemed to be covered with a layer of thin plastic foil, worked fine but, like I said no texture.
Then my daughter remembered that she still had some shoeboxes in her room and in there was a different kind of paper, it was a eggshell white paper with a open structure, this turned out perfectly, easy to cut, takes glue without a lot of tearing and accepted paint without getting soggy again
I cut out the tank structure in 10 sub-assembly's with the necessary overlay's.
I glued the overlays to the main frame and after everything was assembled I "painted" diluted white glue over the structure.
After 24h I primed the inside black and the outside automotive gray, ready to put the OD on.
I just discovered that on the front (below the 2 hatches) that there is a spot that is too smooth, so I am going to add another layer of paper on that.
I now have to think about 2 things:
Will I paint the damn thing now or wait until I have my M32 ready so that I can do some decent paint work.
and I still have to figure out how I am going to paint the suspension and tracks on the sides (see pictures) by hand or airbrush, so many things to consider #:-)
Comments are always welcome :-)
