As promised, here are a few pictures of the finished MUTT. I know that there are no decals, no washing, the driver is missing, some other pieces are missing as well (I managed to loose a couple of them, one is glued in the wrong place) and the topping to this, right at then end, when I have finished everything, I grabbed the truck to show it off to my wife and I have slammed it on the floor causing the right front wheel with the suspension and whatever else was there to fly through the basement. I have managed though to glue them back together without too much work. It's pretty fragile at this point in terms that it's not like new, but as a display model it's OK I believe. What do you think considering that this is my first time ever doing a paint job a putting so many hours into a model (I used to glue a plane in one night years ago, when my skills were....poor). Anyway, it was a fun and pretty easy build. Comments and critiques will be much appreciated.
Finished MUTT

Ola Sebastian

Well that`s a nice mutt you got there dude and a nice paintjob too I like the detail of the shovel in the trailer did you make that thing dirty like it was just used.. It looks like that in the pics.. great job so far dude I like it

Nice little MUTT. I like the camo pattern on it. Don't worry about some parts. If you see vehicles in the field, some have parts missing!

Thank you guys. Your replies have given me power to believe that my work is pretty good (of course I cannot compare mine with yours). Getting the paint job done was a thrill, especially since this is my first time. Also, I would like to thank very much to Al, known here as AJLaFleche, who helped me a lot and endured my intense bombardment with questions and supported me through the building process. Al, once again Thank You. I have some construction notes that I'll try to post them when I'll have them ready. For now they're just on paper and still in the preliminary phase (half english half romanian). Once again, Al encouraged me to post them here so I'll do so. See you around and happy modelling! Cheers!

Good Job.

Nice work panzer_fan. The only doubt I've got is about the color of the canvas roof: Isn't a bit too green? Anyway I'm not an expert on US colours on such vehicles...
Ciao

nice mutt, Panzer fan. I have two of these underway myself. I used them to practise my first camo on as well. I actually looked at these last night when I was flicking through Missing links. I love the colour of your tyres. What have you used here? I agree with scoccia though, the canvas cover looks too bright and un weathered.
To fix this, (something that I used before) was the base coat 75% and 25% desert yellow/light grey mixed dry brushed all over. the I made a wash of dark green/burnt umber over it all and then dry brushed 50%/50% of the previous drybrush mixture. It tones down the colour and looks well worn and weathered.

You're right guys, the soft top looks too bright to me as well. I'll weather it a bit. In terms of the colour used on the tires it goes like this: first I airbrushed the tires with Tamiya Flat black (XF1), then, I airbrushed a very very thin layer of the brown colour used in camouflage. I do not remeber exactly now which colours I have used for brown, but I believe that it was Tamiya Red Brown mixed 50-50 with Tamiya Khaki Drab, but I am not sure about it. I'll check at home the construction notes.