OOB Tamiya Tiger I. I just slapped on a wash yesterday, as you may notice I really went to town on it and there is some cleaning up to do. :-) So what do you think? Be Gentle Im a noob!

Nice Tiger. Where in MI are you located?

Do you know where Plymouth is?

I never really could unstand how a wash affects the fading of the paint until I seen your wonderful yours was. So the wash is not just for the creases but alittle fadeing of the over all paint job so it looks faded and sun bleached right.

Are you going to drybrush or put a clear coat then drybrush, I am really impressed with your technigue of weathering.

Are you going to put in a dio or just by itself in a plastic case.

Happy Modeling

Well I don't know if you will believe me but...That was my first wash ever! I basically just started slappin it on and didn't look back. As for dry Brushing I am likely gonna do it and after wards I will give up some pics

As for a diorama I have a big one planned:


Cheers All!

I see that the rubber rims of the inside roadwheels are not painted. If you use an airbrush I'll tell you what I do to simplify it.

I assemble all the roadwheels and the tracks before painting, and paint all of it with flat black, being extra carefull to cover everything, leave no plastic visible.

After that I paint the inside part of the roadwheels, taking care to leave the rubber black. Then I paint the tracks with the help of an index card, to avoid overspraying the road wheels.

Finally, retouch the rubber parts by hand brush, and you are done!!and no one will notice the shortcut!

Whoa Good point! I just realized that you can see that! Thanks for pointing that out

I'm in West Bloomfield. I know where Plymouth is located. I go to the martini bar all the time

I got a suggestion.

Try Painting the Rubber on the Road wheels before you add them.

Its ALOT easier.

Other than that it looks great

yes, maybe you can still remove them if they are of the rubber cap kind. if not then too bad. That's the bad thing about tigers, they have 32 road wheels to paint.

I love this model its a really great effort! however if i may? as for stronger washes its often better to employ them a little more selectivly ,its great to use these to darken an area around details to pick it out more use a fine ish brush ,and the general overall wash or filter if used a little more lightly will provide a nice background grime so tospeak instead of looking to blotchy
,another great technique is to (only if using white spirit based paints or similar) to dampen the whole area first ,remember to let the paint dry thoroughly first especially is using enamels ! then apply alight wash i usually mix black and burnt sienna oil paints together so it looks like coloured water ! and apply gently over the turps(or similar) dampened areas ,then your wash wont have any hard edges ,sorry to be long winded about this but its a nice model you have there very well done indeed , and i just wanted to impart some techniques for your next one! keep up the great work K

Yea those are good ideas Thanks!

no problems mate! keep it up your well on the right tracks! pardon the pun :-) K