Hi guys,
Well, I’m mainly concentrating on a “Space 1999” Eagle spaceship lately, but in between the scratchbuilding and correcting that I’ve been doing there, I’ve been working on this little kit, along with a Hornisse “guard” hanging out near it.
It comes with the track; I put it into a display box, and here’s where I am so far.
Here’s what the built-up parts look like in the kit.
Here’s the base glued down–I had to put down a piece of styrene over the weird “checkerboard” floor of the display case.
Painting done with Tamiya acryilcs–a Dark Grey basecoat,and then a really light DY coat. The “Leopold” was actually finished in overall Dark Yellow–NOT with camo stripes as is often seen! Here’s the base coat and the two small tanks finished the same…
I actually wanted to paint this mostly with oil paints for the true paint shade that it will wind up being displayed in. Herem I used some 502 Abteilng oils --BUff, White, and Yelloe–to lay down an oil coat. This was set aside to dry for a full week while I superdetailed my Eagle engines.
And then I took more White and Buff to add weathering streaks.
I laid down some Celluclay over the base, and added some more weathering with a Panzwr Grey acrylic wash, and then with MIG pigments–“Dark Rust” was mixed in a pool of thinner, and used to weather some more…
Here’s where I am so far…
and if anyone knows–what the heck are these parts? They’re the last two left, and I honestly have no idea where they go–in fact, the DML photo directions [banghead] don’t show the placement of SEVERAL parts–I had to use the boxtop, but I can’t see these!
Lots of small detail work and more weathering to go. Not too heavy; don’t worry–in this scale you have to be very subtle. Just some “detail” weathering.
Comments and suggestions welcomed! [:D]