Tamiya Komatsu G40 Bulldozer - Build Challenge 2016

[NEMMRRC]

Jamie, watch the advanced seris of AK interactive videos it shows how to add mud and shadowing to the model.

I've been doing that and I would like to try those techniques. I must confess I got too eager to get the dozer built so I may try that stuff later. This is the first model I've built in a very long time and I don't want to get lazy about it.


Jaime

[MAP]

Looks great Jaime!  Makes me (almost) want to go out and buy a plastic kit.  It will be interesting to watch how you pair the 'dozer with a haunted house.

[NEMMRRC]

Looks great Jaime!  Makes me (almost) want to go out and buy a plastic kit.  It will be interesting to watch how you pair the 'dozer with a haunted house.

The haunted house from Clever is quite run down. I figured the dozer would be there to tear it down. That's part of the challenge, make it work. Paper and plastic together as one, I thought it sounded challenging enough.


I'm glad Dan came up with the challenge idea. It's definitely got me back at my work bench.


Jaime

[ACL1504]

Jaime,

Wonderful job on the dozer. I've enjoyed the journey to this point.

Tom

[Raymo]

Looks great Jaime!  Makes me (almost) want to go out and buy a plastic kit.  It will be interesting to watch how you pair the 'dozer with a haunted house.

The haunted house from Clever is quite run down. I figured the dozer would be there to tear it down. That's part of the challenge, make it work. Paper and plastic together as one, I thought it sounded challenging enough.


I'm glad Dan came up with the challenge idea. It's definitely got me back at my work bench.


Jaime

Great little build. It would make a great addition to an On2 layout or diorama. Thanks for letting me bounce the idea off of you in Maine.

[NEMMRRC]

So I printed the Clever Haunted House in greyscale so I could mock up the scene I'm thinking about making. Here you see a rough mock up of the freebie haunted house.



And here you see how I envision the 12x12 would go.



I know I have some Gatorfoam in my supply closet so I need to get started making some landforms and cutting some card stock for the haunted house. While I'm at it I need to find my metal straight edge. No doubt it is in the same box with my best tweezers and my handy purple and orange hobby knife...

Later.

Jaime
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[NEMMRRC]

I'm not quite used to O Scale. That house looks awful tall.

Jaime
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[Twopoint2]

Jamie

Dozer looks great. I like the color and weathering.

[NEMMRRC]

Jamie

Dozer looks great. I like the color and weathering.

Thanks. I now need to find my color pencils and paint that house ... Not!!!

I've been searching for my ream of card stock and I can't find it. Darn! I'll have to make a trip to the office supply store.

This hobby thing can get expensive.

Jaime

[NEMMRRC]

Jamie

Dozer looks great. I like the color and weathering.

Thanks. I now need to find my color pencils and paint that house ... Not!!!

I've been searching for my ream of card stock and I can't find it. Darn! I'll have to make a trip to the office supply store.

This hobby thing can get expensive.

Jaime

I found my ream of card stock. Woo hoo!


Now if I could find a million dollars I'd be all set...


Jaime

[NEMMRRC]

Arrgghhh!!!!



This is indeed turning out to be a challenge. I found my ream of card stock only to find out my printer is out of color ink!!! I guess I'm going to be making that trip to the office supply store after all. You all know it is cheaper to buy a band new printer than it is to buy ink replacement cartridges. Furthermore, my printer uses a separate cartridge for yellow, magenta and cyan. I really need to find that million dollars now..


Later.

Jaime
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[NEMMRRC]

I'm back in business !!



For the price I paid for the ink I could have bought a new printer but I already have 3 and well, I don't need a fourth one. I did have a $10 off coupon so that helped...

Later.

Jaime
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[Polux]

Nice work on the dozer; the colour and the subtle weathering looks really fine

[NEMMRRC]

Nice work on the dozer; the colour and the subtle weathering looks really fine

Thank you. Weathering is tricky for me. I have tendency to put it on too thick.


Jaime

[NEMMRRC]

The freebie from Clever Models comes with no instructions. That's ok, aft all this is a challenge.

I've worked on models from Clever before so somewhere along the way I found some generic instructions. I'll follow those as best as I remember given I cannot find the file at the moment.

First thing is to well, cut the parts from the card stock. Use a fresh blade in your hobby knife and a metal straight edge. Once the parts are cut you want to color the edge with a cool grey PrismaColor marker. Don't cheap out here. The Prismacolor markers are fantastic and they hide the glaring white edge on the paper parts once cut.



Here is a closeup of an edge colored with the grey Prismacolor only half way across.



I decided to add bracing to the corners and the edges of the cool freebie haunted house's stone foundation.





Tada!



You'll notice I made the corner bracing a tad proud of the foundation. I did that on purpose for when I plant the cool freebie haunted house in my diorama I want it to look like it isn't floating on the ground. I will build up the ground around the foundation.

I'll try to point out some notable events as I continue but this is pretty much the same (cut, hide edge, glue together, brace) going forward on this cool freebie haunted house from Clever Models.

Later.

Jaime
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p/s Yes! I am -that- cheap and recycled my badly printed sheet of card stock and printed on the reverse side once I procured the excessively overpriced ink cartridges.