Tora! Tora! Tora!
Short for "TOtsugeki RAigeki", and just by happy accident being the Japanese word for tiger, because a pathological obsession with forced backronyms seems to be about as universal amongst the world's armies as a tendency to keep weapons around.
The panel lines were quite good at taking wash given their diminutive size, I guess due to their crispness (and me not filling them up with paint supposedly). Not an absolutely perfect kit overall, but damn good. Quite pleased with the job I did with it too, though that's compared to my level, not some absolute scale.
>>6714980My brain can't quite parse that picture, but it seems like there's, well, stuff alla round, so maybe try sanding off the bits that got on top of the welded-on plate,a s well as everythign that ended up on the side of the hull too far away from the plate, and with just the right amount left where it should be things might work out ok?
Either way the basic issue here seems to be getting your weld-simulant material right where you want it, and nowhere else, which may be mostly a matter of practice. Though hitting the right consistency for it would probably be part of that, if it's too thick it may have its own ideas about where it wants to go. I'd try some Tamiya putty probably (as I have some on the bench), possibly slightly diluted with lacquer thinner, and then with that probably going just about everywhere I'd get a tissue paper or Q-tip, wet that with lacquer thinner, and wipe off the excess. The angle between hull and plate, being harder to get into, should then hopefully retain a suitable amount of filler, which I'd then try and texture up to look like a weld.
