Ok

I have picked three of the better images I took a week back for publication. I am still experimenting with my camera and hopefully the final pics will look waaaaayyyy better than these.

Still here it is; take it or leave it.

Plenty has been done in the week since the pics were taken. tool handles re-washed and both the handles and jack blocks touched up and flattened with a flat coat (Pollyscale flat clear). Fighting compartment added. pastel washes undertaken on upper chassis, decals added and dirtied etc.

The road wheels have been touched up to fix up the handling wear n tear as well.

A bit more to do now and the Sturer is finished. It is very hard to weather German Grey (which is almost black, a very dark grey) vehicles in this scale well, so I used lightened glazes, polished steel dry brushing and pastel washes to gives some 3D relief. The final length of this little PanzerJaeger is around 140mm.

Hope you all like it!

cheers

Mike

Looks nice already. Was it this dark ? Guy

Hi Michael!

I agree it's difficult to weather Panzer Gray, but it looks OK on your pics. My advice is that you can paint it a (not much) lighter gray, - the scale effect thing also suggests so.

Some ideas for makeing photos: if you can set the exposure compensation, try it at +1 or +2 values, your pics will be brighter, so dark details will show more. As I can see (by the shadows), one of your lights is positioned behind the model, which is not good - better put it next to your camera.

Nice model, please post more pics as you advance!

Michael,

I have been following your build and it's starting to look really good! Like how you have payed close attention to all of the details. I can hardly wait to see when it's finished.

I especially like how you have handled all of the wooden parts (tool handles, jack blocks, flooring, etc.) Could you tell me a little about your technique?

-Eddy

Eddy

Thanks for the kind words.

I have used a technique passed on to me by several helpful blokes here and on other forums and one I have used for wooden propeller blades on several WW1 A/C builds I have done as well.

Paint the handle/jack block a buff acrylic colour, then use burnt umber oil paints straight from the tube, You can work the oils into the buff colour to lighten/darken to suit. It really does work but is very prone to wearing off!

Another tip you can use with oils (from a figure modeller) is to place an amount of oil paint onto a cardboard piece then wait a few minutes. The linseed oil carrier will be absorbed into the cardboard and the resulting colour once applied will dry matt.

Here is a link that might help further

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cheers

Mike

Looking very good so far Mike!!!

Your work on the tools are excellent.

I think the pictures are ok but they could be slightly brighter
and there's also a slight red tone to them.

I took the liberty to fix them, I hope you don't mind

I do not mind at all! Thanks very much.

I have been doing some reading about the manual functions of my camera. I expect the next pics will be better

cheers

Mike