its a bit along for a total WIP, but instead of clogging up the campaign forum, ill start a Blog..











Work continues on the Dragon M4A3E8… Ive done the filters, wash, and drybrushing on the tank itself as preliminary steps toward final weathering, and installed the tracks (which still need some work). While I was painting the base, I hit the lower areas of the Sherman with the same color for the start of dust effects.
The base is getting painted. This is the first time ive tried gluing down everything, and painting everything a dark grey, then using the airbrush to start painting the rubble, wall, street, etc. At first things didn’t look right, but now as I detail out more colors and weather more, its starting to look right. The bashed in 55gal drum is a piece of aluminum foil, folded 3 times (for thickness), and then embossed over a plastic oil drum. Takes a bit of patience, but once removed from the “master”, it can be dented, ripped, and peppered with holes just like a real metal can.


Here is some more details ill be adding as I build up clutter and debris…the box was made from art paper, cut and folded (to be half under the tank treads, crushed), and the newspaper was found from an interenet image search, scaled down and printed.


I need to turn some attention to the natural ground areas behind the Sherman, then attach the Sherman to the base, some stowage, crew figures, and final details and weathering.
Comments welcome!
Andy

Great work!
You really did a better sherman easy 8 than me. I posted my sherman several days ago but I found out it suffered big suspension problem, I made a lot of mistake when build the HVSS. Your work is nice so far but I think there should be more weathering effect and I will wait and see your final work.
One problem, what color do you use to paint the sherman?

Cheers,

Lu, Yuan

Hi Andy, I up and joined the site....

Great work on the Sherman and the crushed and beat up barrels are excellent, please bring them to the next meeting.

Ryan

Andy-- how did you apply the rust to the barrel?
thanks
DJ

Very poweful work!
What's in the behind? 234/3?

very nice..keep it coming. i like the details around.

Lu, thanks for the comments. I saw your sherman, and it really wasnt bad at all...yes, some mistakes on the suspension, but you have talent and the basic skills, so dont worry. you could always later make a diorama with your sherman wading through a river to hide the suspension issues!

I will be weathering it further, and adding stowage. Final weathering will be done with the tank attached to the base, as this keeps me from holding the tank, and blends it in with the ground work.

The color is a base coat of Floquil "Pulman Green" (a very dark green), which was oversprayed with Model Master Olive Drab, then highlighted with Model Master "faded olive drab". Decals were added, then a coat of Future floor wax (Acrylic clearcoat) After that had fully dried I used oil paint and blended in spots of white, yellow, burnt sennia, and green. Let that dry, then a wash of very dark brown, and a light drybrushing of a light greenish tan. All of that gives what you see so far.

good to see you on Ryan! dont worry, it will be with me for the next meeting..I need to start working on my torpedo subject for the club build soon though!

You should post up some pictures of your sherman in the "sherman campain".

DJ, due you mean the intact one or the dented one?

the dented one so far just has the base coat of Floquil Grimy Black (which was sprayed on the whole base), a spray of Model Master "Rust", and then a few washes of brown/black oil paint. More will be done to it with some pigments and drybrushing

The intact one came out of the spares box already painted (by me many many moons ago). It had a base coat of panzer grey, then i used Model Master "Rust", Military Brown, and some oranger paint (maybe a diffrent brands "Rust" color?). A wash of dark brown finished it off. For this project, I wanted to add some color, so some light blue was "chipped" on using a small brush on the top and bottom bands, and German uniform grey for the middle one. Im going to go back with my rust colors again and add some more spots and such, then some pigments to rust it up a little without distroying the color.

andy

almost, its a 234/4. Dragon kit with the cyber hobby upgrade and a few scratchbuilt details. After the sherman its next on the list for a base. Im thinking having it climbing onto a raised road from a low area, complete with a culvert and some water/mud.
It got put on temp hold while I finish the sherman, and because I must have droped a stowage bin lid on the ground where our 7 month old puppy found it and chewed it pretty good...at least is a flat peice and I can make from card again!

thanks for the comments!!
Andy

Looking good so far Andy, lots of little things to draw the eye. The barrel is ingenious and a nice touch.

thanks bill....wow...i didnt realize i never posted some finished pics...i wraped up this build a couple of months ago (for the sherman campain)...maybe i posted on a new post?

ill toss some finished pics in this thread just to close it out

see the latest one ive started on...the M4 w/ Dozer, Utah beach D-Day? i need to update that one as well... been a busy week!

Merry Christmas!
Andy

here is a couple of fast shots i still had in my photobucket account....guess i need to load up some of the "offical" finished shots.









i still have the figures to add.. (driver and TC)

Nicely done, love the subtle damage effects.

Doug

te weathering looks great on the sherman

the base is great so does the painting

I actully had a couple of "finished" pics on the flash drive...STILL havent added the figures...maybe over christmas..faces are done at least..

Andy very nice work and a great little diorama, perhaps you would like to send in a build feature or OD feature.

Beautiful this is great timing seeing all these sherman's here and having one waiting for me in the stash and builds like this are simply inspiring to a none WW2 builder.

Andy, Awesome job, just love it, Can't wait to see the finished product..Thanks for sharing
Cheers Ross