Hi, I'm QDC. What we're going to build today
is Zvezda Stug Three tank in
in 1/100 scale. This is a very small
easy model kit to build and the reason why I bought this kit was because
I wanted to show beginners how to build a model kit.
For those of you who are beginners
I'm sure you seen videos other mode kit builders
who use fancy tools such as an airbrush,
compressors and expensive paints to build their model kits.
Definitely you will achieve some
very nice results using those tools
but as a beginner or someone who hasn't
made a lot of models, those tools are
fairly expensive and may not be able to afford it
or might not want to invest your
money into yet.
In this particular video I'm going to show you how to enjoy
building a model kit; a very easy model kit,
this one and still achieve good results.
So what I'm going to do is to take you
to my local craft store and we're go there
and buy some basic tools in order for us to build
this easy kit from Zvezda. Let's go to my local craft store.
Okay. We're
in front of my local craft store. Let's go inside to see what we could find
to actually
make and paint our Stug three model kit.
Okay. We're walking through paint section here and it looks like here
is a nice little paint set that's inexpensive.
Let's go ahead and use this to paint our tank.
This is the paintbrush section
and here is a nice
inexpensive set of paint brushes we could use.
Let's take a look at this.
There is some bases
here for about 99 cents. This one looks good.
I think I'll buy this one. We are in the floral section
and here's
some light colored
brown sand.
Alright so let's review what we've got we have brushes,
paints, a base, and some
ground material. This will be great our model,
Alright we're back so let's go and see what we just bought.
We have a set of inexpensive brushes.
Paint set.
A wooden base.
A bag of sand.
And you noticed that I didn't buy any glue because this modeling project
doesn't require it. So lets go ahead start
building this kit right now. Lets take a look inside this box.
We have
one plastic sprue containing all the parts
for the model kit and
we have an advertisement
and
a game card.
Okay so I built the model kit and now it's time
me to show you what I think about this kit so far.
Take a look. This is the completed model kit before painting
and it's a very nice model for the beginner.
It only takes a few steps to make this model
and there is no glue is needed and also
you get a good detail model kit. The details
on fenders are very nice and you could see the hatches and even to some rivets
on the top that help it look realistic
and even the wheels look very real realistic
and there's only one entire piece. It's time for me to
paint the model.
It's time for me to paint the model. what you see right now
is the paint set that we bought at my local craft store
and this represents a typical type it paints that you would buy a most
craft stores.
It has the most popular colors such as flesh,
lavender, yellow, orange,
pink, raspberry,
sea green and light green. Of course
none of these colors I could actually use because
I need to have brown, black, and gray.
Now I cannot mix
these colors together to make brown for black
because most of these are not primary colors except for yellow.
Now I do have the actual colors
in my collection but that's not the point. The point is that
I need to work with what I have and what I could do
is I can make gray. If I combine all these colors
except for this one it will make gray so I'm going to do that right now.
Using a wide brush
I'm going to give two thin coats
a gray paint.
I'm going to do some dry brushing.
What you see right here is a mixture of
gray paint that has been lightened by
me adding a little flesh color from the paint set.
And what I'm going to do is
take a dry brush and then
dip it into the paint take most of it out
and then a apply it onto the model by
brushing it very, very dry.
I'm going to use my graphite pencil and
make some worn paint marks
on the model.
I'm going to make some chip affects.
I'm going to use this black marker and
basically put chip marks were i think is going to be chips.
It's time for me to you build the diorama.
What you see right here is the wooden base that we bought at
my local craft store. Right over here is ordinary pencil shavings
off a pencil like this one and right over here
ordinary white glue, I spread the white glue already on the wooden base
and right now I'm going to put some of the pencil shavings
onto the base.
Next I'm going to
add the decorative sand that I put some
right over here onto the base.
Alright so we built the model kit, we painted it,
we weathered it and we even made a diorama out of it
using inexpenses common materials.
Now it's time for me to show you the entire
model project. Take a look.
This is the completed model project and it's a very good looking
diorama. I added more pencil shavings
and used super glue to glue the model onto the base.
This proves
that with a little amount of resources,
a beginner can still make a good-looking
model kit and diorama. The model itself
has good details and
the wood-base and the ground material make
the model diorama look very nice.
I hope that this video will
encourage the beginner to build a model kit of their own.
and
you'll get good results by using a limited amount of resources.
You will not get the best results but
he still looks pretty darn good so I hope that the beginner
will be more encouraged to built their own model kits. That completes the project.
What you're about to see next is a video slideshow of my entire mall project
but before go, as always, just because I put this
video here on YouTube it doesn't make the market expert
I am NOT an expert I'm just a regular guy
just like you. I hope this video encourages you to
model kit your own. Either it's a model tank, a model plane,
a model train or even an automobile. It doesn't matter.
In the end it's all about having fun. I'm
QDC. Thanks for watching and always
please have a great day!