In my yahoo briefcase http://briefcase.yahoo.com/m4a376whvss I put 2 more pics of my Tamiya Wespe It's wespe3 and4 I used some pastels for the weathering process for the first time I didn't apply any flatcoat over it yet in case I messed up
Please let me know what y'all think I'd post them on this site,but doing so is still over my head

looks nice but to me there didn't appear to be any weathering.

Hi GeneralZod.. its a nice clean looking build but I must agree, in the pictures you are showing you cannot see much in the way of weathering..

one thing though.. If the gun was ever fired after painting, there would be blackish powder burns covering the Muzzle brake.. and it would not appear to be painted at all.


:-)

I just learned this from someone else here. Go to the picture, right click on it, then click on the word "properties" in the dialogue box. Copy the url (starts with http:... and ends with .jpg)
Open a braket, the first key after the P on your keyboard and type img then close the bracket. Paste in the url from picture and open another bracket and type /img and close the bracket. TADAA! the pictures posted here.

Gret looking build, but as the other guys have said, really clean.

Basically,all I did so far was to brush on some dark brown chalk pastel over it so far It did tone down the paint job some I know it can use some more weathering,but what else to do? I normally paint olive drab or one single color so this is kind of new to me Weathering camo paint that is

Specifically, I'd add a bit of brown or black wash along any panel lines and raised detail. Use a liberal amount of black wash on the wheels and suspension components. Let that dry. Lighten the base color with white and use a wide brush. Get just a little bit of this on the tip of the brush and drag it across a rag until you can't really see any color. Now, run the brush lightly along sharp edges and raised detail. Repeat with a lighter shade of the base.

When you've done this, use your pastels to add dust to the tracks and wheels, along the fenders and on the floor of the fighting compartment. Light brown or tan will work for this. Feel free to use this liberally. Get some black pastel and apply some to the muzzle brake to make it look fired. Use some more of this at the end of the exhaust pipe, staring at the pipe and dragging in the direction of the airflow from the exhaust. If your vehicle has been in the field a good long time, you might want to add a few rust streaks from places where water might have pooled, weld points, damaged paint, using reddish brown pastels, but don't do too much unless this is a derelict.

Da "Zodster's" Wespe---lookin good pal!

Hi Chadus,

Very clean and nice build. I am sure with your experience in weathering ugly OD stuffs, the weathering for beautiful German AFV should be easy for you. The following is what I do:

I do the camo, the finish all the detailed paint first. as well as put on decals.

Then first I proceed with a wash of oi/turpetine.
Second. I spray mud at sub-structure. or blacken the gun exhaust if called for.
Last I do is pastel chalk.

My 2 cents.

No drybrush Dave?
I cannot believe that you cannot do it
Anyway, nice Wespe Zod,
keep it up!
Andrew

Sorry, Don't know how to drybrush.... #:-)

Thanks for the comments y'all Normally all I do is a wash and a general drybrush With this one I just had to tone down that paint job Should I apply a wash over the whole vehicle? I use artists water colors for the wash Real easy touse

Here is Chadus's Wespeus.