The one where I accidentally paint some Panzers.

I took a bit of a breather today as I am getting internally revved up to the point I actually get moving on my 15mm undead for HOTT I wrote about earlier.
Atleast that's what I tell myself.
The psychologists call it 'productive procrastination' since apparently I needed to do something hobby-related to keep my mind of me slacking off.

As a sidenote, I am otherwise what's described as an 'active procrastinator' in the works of Prof. Ferrari of the DePaul Uni in Chicago. Probably with either the subtype of either thrill-seeker or avoider, depending on the task at hand. I need that jolt of adrenaline a deadline gives to be really super-productive.

In either case I was dragging my feet behind me to go to the print-part of the Factorium and cure the undead. I decided to pull out my old storage-unit for hobbystuff (Ikea, not sold anymore) and start filling up a new, 'uge , assortmentbox-thingy. After a couple hours as I more or less was done I saw one of my dryingracks that had some 6mm Panzer IIIs gathering dust. Dryingrack sounds a bit posh for what it is; a piece of foam with holes in it for the toothpicks the tanks are glued to.

The finished P3s, sans weathering. I printed about 20 of them, but when I looked at my actual armylist I realised that just a handful would have been enough. In the end, 16 of them got painted in this batch. On the weathering; I have left most of my french and belgian early-war stuff at this step aswell (I am btw. aware of the schürzen on a few of them. Artistic freedom? :P). Can't really decide what product, if any, to use for weathering. 
The vehicles I have weathered so far end up a bit to dark and drab for my taste, so the search for a good technique goes on. I am not in a rush, the french need to be done for next April and the germans are just a fun side-project. 

My workflow for today. Drybrushing on top of a grey undercoat with some Graveyard Grey Speedpaint with a cheap makeupbrush followed by adding a piece of selfadhesive steelsheet under the hull. Yes, I use superglue for some extra strenght. Storage is magnetized. 

Suddenly there are two helpers on the table. The sole reason I pretty much never let go of any cutting implements without putting it in it's sheath. Same goes for glue. (Apparently not when taking pics for the blog as seen above..)
Anyhow, after the P3s I got to preparing the Panzer 1s I have had laying about for a while now. I actually need quite a few more of these and even tho I will paint 30 in this batch, for May -40 I will probably want to double that eventually. Atleast for a big-boy Hannut.

Some assembly of the P1s. I have learned to print extras of anything fiddly at this point, so for the 30 hulls I had about 45 turrets on the buildplate. The cost is neglible, but the peace of mind when you inevitably break off a gun or two is priceless. To the right you can see the turrets with the guns that didn't survive my grubby handling.

I usually really, really want to have my 6mm stuff glued to toothpicks for easy handling but this time I ended up putting them with doublebacked tape on some sticks for painting. 
I believe I am slowly becoming allergic to cyanoacrylate, and in either case with lungs completely shot from my bout with covid 3 years ago; I should probably not dribble the stuff around to much if not needed.
Add to that the fact that gluing tootpicks to 30 tanks and having to hold them in place until they stick.... It kinda adds 1/3 of the time it takes to get the model from the printer to the table.
Yes, I really am that quick with these! About 4 minutes into each P3 as they sit now, while obviously not counting drytimes. It takes about 1.5-2 minutes to glue each tank to a toothpick if you consider the ones you have to reglue once or twice.

One last blurry picture of the work today.
Now off to bed.

Cheers
/Fred
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