Ola Guys
That are a lot of replies in such a short time :-) :-) :-)
Ok here goes first of all thanks for all the comments guys.
part-timer Quoted Text
It may be the photograph, by the barrel seems to be kinked just a bit in the head-on view
That`s what goes around in my mind since I assembled it I will look at it tomorrow. Most likely it is not the pic but is it indeed kinked. If it is I try to repair that tomorrow. Or... I leave it that way and the germans will have some troubles firing their gun #:-) #:-)
Hollowpoint Quoted Text
One comment about the jeep: The muffler is hanging very low. It should be right up snug to the bottom of the body.
Actually nothing of the Jeep is assembled permanently as for the ease of painting. When the body is glued on top of the chassis the Muffler will be glued to the body too.
LeoGunnerQuoted Text
Just a question on the photo. Where did you find it? I know the germans were quick to use allied equipment, but how did they end up with the jeep I wonder?
I found the pic somewhere on the web don`t know exactly from wich site I had it but the pics wich holds the scene I`m building comes from the book German Armoured Units at Arnhem September 1944 from Concord Written by Marcel Zwarts. Though the book does not go very deep into the fact that the Gun is towed by a Jeep It`s most likely that in the advance to Arnhem the allies get pushed back and had to leave vehicles behind in perfect condition. This way the germans should be able to get their hands on some certain amounts of Allied equipment. I have several pictures here and I have seen a couple more online of Allied Airborne Jeeps in German Hands.
Cliff Quoted Text
Now you say you used pigments! How do these differ fron pastel chalk? Are they easier to use?
Yeah I bought the MIG pigments at the Armorama KMK workshop last novembre and I didn`t use them untill now. In my opinion they are not only easier to use they are more versatile either. I think the main difference is that normal pastel chalk is More dry then Pigments. Pigments have a bit of a greasy feeling in it. When using pastels you always have to seal the surface you used pastels on and when you blow at the surface you just lost your pastels and Pigments tend to stick from theirselfes. The wheels of the PAK are done with Europe dust pigment diluted in Turpentine and brushed on. It dried full of streaks Then I took a brush with quite stiff bristles and started to whipe off the excess only leaving pigments in the Profile of the tires and a nice coloration of the black tires wich give them a nice dusty look. The Same Pigment colour was used to dust up the gunshield only here it was brushed on dry worked fine and it stuck nicely on the places I wanted it to do.
With Black smoke I weathering the barrels end and that was superb. I used to do that witha wash or drybrush but I brushed the Black smoke on it dry and you got the nice discoloration of the basecolor that you get when stuff get`s heated.
Another thing I have to say is that in the first pic of the gun......
This one. The silvery shiny parts of the gunshield`s edges are not pastels. Pastels are good for dusting and other weathering thingies. The silver shiny bits are not drybrushed silver but that is done with an ordinary pencil and I simply drawed on the edges and I used it on the corner on the right of the gunshield. The pencil will result in a super realistic metal finish.
I hope I answered enough of your questions if you have more I like to hear it
And I`m working on an article about the use of Pigments. I hope it will come soon :-)
