hey guys i really got to working on my SU-85 today. think of having the prefect modelling conditions.. no noisy distractions a beautiful day, full spirits. ahh... gentlemen it was great i'm proud of what i got done today tell me what you think






tell me what you think, i still need to paint the puppy lol (dave)

John:

Very very nice touch on the tarp. Care to share what you used, how you shaped it, and the colors??? Looking very good.

Keep us posted.

Steve

Steve and anyone else interested,
For the tarp I used tissue, white glue and water. I cut out a square from the tissue and let it soak in the white glue/ water mixture, then just layed it down and I sort of finds its own way to take the shape and get all the creases. if not you can lift it up after you placed it and creas it that way. I let it dry for 24 hours. For the painting it was all done by hand. The base coat was Humbols khaki drab# 72. after this dried, I drybrushed the tarp, picking up the creases w/ Tamiya's khaki XF-49. Once all this was dry, I washed the tarp with Grumbacher artist's water color Raw Umber Hue. And that's all there is to it! I didn't add any pastels and I still think it looks good.

Well, I can certainly see good work on kit, the photography coloring (as it showed up on my PC ) make the greens...GREEN and the rust looked brick red. I pic looked good.

blaster, i have a really bad digi camera... the rust is using winsor and newtons burnt sienna and the green is Vallejo's russian green..

wow that tarp looks great,,,
that really came out nice,
keep us up dated with the pics thanks

The tarp is really nicely done, the SU is coming along very nicely. Now where is my stuffy dog? #:-) (++)