Dear all,
I don't know really the amount of interest this work may raise as it's neither German nor British/American, not even world war 2, sorry for this :-)
but following the Al (AlanL) school of "the plentiest updates on a project there is the best it is", here's my pt boat that I showed unpainted in september now *painted*.
2 things appear broken and they actually are -the steel bar between the 2 yellow funnels and one of the small masts near the guy's shoulder because of rough dry fitting for the dio.
i made a close up to show clearer that I in addition of the work with colours, i also worked a lot with matt/gloss ratios.
It has been painted with paintbrush n'acrylics, and then back again with a brush and several layers of thoroughly thinned acrylics.
I hope it will entertain you!

That looks fantastic, JB!
Keep up the great modeling, mate!
~Gunny

Ahoy JBA,

Amazing work! I just love the painting especailly the "wet look".

Later....

Joe

Hey JB,

Wow. That's awesome. It's amazing to me how much the crumpled end looks so much like metal. I m truely impressed with your skills.



Gator

Gidday JB

This is looking fantastic.

I really like it.

The pose, animation and faces of those figures are great.

Well done on the progress to date.

Regards

Sean

Mark, Joe, Kenny n'Sean, thanks for the comments!!
Kenny, the crumpled part is actually a thick alumnium foil that i managed to join to the plastic hull before hammering

Hi JB,

Looking really good. I like you figures, excellent poses and yip it's nice to see updates of a project :-) :-) :-)

This is a first class piece of work and when you get her into the water it will look terrific.

Thanks for the update.

Can I ask what figures you used. I assume (there's that dangerous word) :-) :-) :-) that they are scratch built like the rest of the project?

Boat look great, small brackages or not.

Cheers

Al

The figures totally make this piece. This is going to make a show-worthy viginette.

Looks great so far Jean-Bernard.
Looking forward to seeing this one finished.

hey Steve, Dave and Al, thanks for the comments
Al I have been using some bits of everything to build the figs, mainly ICM russians and Dragon germans -that's the grey parts of them. the heads are Hornet though I added a moustache on the old one!
yeah that's scratchbuilt, with the time passing by I realize i suffer less and less the "parts the others did" in my dios!! next time I will try and sculpt the heads myself (ahem.. )

Thanks JB,

I'll check out the ICM ones. I need some more active crew for my British Boats.

Cheers

Al

errr no actually, i just needed some legs and picked these from one spare box, and it happened that these were some ICM ones. And then i redid entirely those using some Magic Sculpt . To my knowledge nobody produces sailors in plastic figs..