Hi, I'm QDC. What we're about to build today is
Tamiya British Infantry On Patrol
and also Verlinden Production: British Sherman Firefly.
This particular kit has only figures
and in this particular kit it has both figures
and accessories for a Sherman Firefly tank. This is part 1
in a two part series in which I'm going to build a diorama
call "Sherman Firefly" based on
Dragon's Sherman Firefly tank.
Let's start building these two kits right now.
Lets take a look inside each box.
over here in the Tamiya box
there are three plastic sprues this sprue group contains the figures
and these to sprues contains the accessories.
Over here in the Verlinden Productions box
there is one plastic bag
containing resin parts for both the figures
and also parts for the tank accessories.
I want to talk to you about working with resin parts.
The kit from Verlinden Productions are made out of resin
and working with resins are quite different than working with plastic.
When you remove a part from a resin kit,
you need to use special tools
and one special tool I like to use is a razor saw.
By using a razor saw or any other type of tools to remove
resins, you are going to generate dust
and that dust is quite toxic so it's always a good idea to
wear face mask the one I'm pointing at right here.
To glue the resin parts together
you cannot use ordinary plastic model cement.
You have to use either
super glue or epoxy glue.
I want to talk to you about the rifle sling
I just made for this figure. The rifle sling was made
from an old photo-etch part right here. What I done was I used a pair of scissors
and I carefully made a very
thin sliver of metal from the photo etched fret
and glued onto the
the rifle to make the sling. Alright, so we
built the figures and now it's time for me to show you
what I think about these figures so far. Take a look.
These are the completed model figures before painting
and I like them I like both
the Tamiya figures and the Verlinden Production figures.
What is really good and surprising to me
are the Tamiya figures. I worked with
other Tamiya figures in the past and they
don't look that good compared to you these figures
these figures from Tamiya
are very nice, highly detailed,
good facial expressions and even the back
looks pretty nice as well. For the
Verlinden Productions figures, these resin
figures are very nice, highly detailed and
I like them. It's time for me to
paint the figures.
I'm going to and give some shadows to my figures.
I want you to pay attention to this old advertisement. If you look at this
drawing of this man I want you to pay attention on this man's sleeve.
Right over here where it bends is the man's shadow.
You notice that the shadow is dark right here
and as it gradually on leaves the center
it gets a lighter gray
almost to a very light gray
up into the highlight right over here. I'm going to mimic that
onto you my model figure. I'm painting the shadows.
I'm going to paint the highlights. I want to focus your attention back onto
the drawing of this man. If you focus your attention back onto
the man's sleeve you notice right over here
is the highlight which is represented by a lighter color and
as it gradually goes to
a fold right over here, it gets darker and
darker and darker where it finally reaches
a dark shadow and I'm going to mimic that
onto figure. I'm painting the highlights.
I just finished painting the face and it looks pretty good.
There's no way for me to show you how I painted the face because
the figure face is very small so I have to tell you with words.
Here is an old advertisement and how the artist drew
this man's face is exactly how I painted my
my figure. You noticed that there's highlights
right over here on the cheeks.
A little bit over here on the chin.
A little bit over here on the nose and you notice that they're dark shadows
underneath the chin, inside the nostrils,
inside the ear and a little bit
inside the eye socket. That's how I painted
my figure. Okay
so we built figures, we painted it
and now it's time me to show you what I think about the entire
figure set that we painted. Take a look.
These are the completed model figures after painting
and I like my work.
It looks very nice to me and I especially like
the the shadows and highlights I
done for the clothing on each figure. Very nice.
The facial expressions look nice as well
and
I like the way I painted the
back of each figure.
I have no real complaints about
these two kits. Very nice.
If I had to choose which is
the better kit. Either it's the Tamiya kit
or the Verlinden Productions, i think it's a toss up
because the Verlinden Production figures
the facial expressions are very nice but
this figure, the body posture is very stiff.
On the other hand, the Tamiya
facial expressions don't look as good as
the Verlinden Production figures but the body postures
looks very natural realistic so it's a toss up they are
both equally nice. I
hope this will encourage you to build a model kit of your own
and please stay tuned for part two
for my next video in which I'm going to build the Sherman Firefly
tank from Dragon. I'm QDC.
Thanks for watching!