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A few thoughts here. Number one, the grills on the engine deck are for cooling air, not engine exhaust, and should be the same color as the rest of the vehicle. They wouldn't be sooty unless the tank had burned out. The engine exhaust goes out the muffler pipe, the inside of which which can be a dingy gray (the motor used gasoline, not diesel, so the soot isn't that black). In service, the muffler itself would soon rust all over due to the heat of the exhaust.
The little rectangles inside the cupola segments are the commander's periscopes, and should be glossy black (or you can glue small rectangles of exposed film negative to simulate the glass and not paint them at all). The spare wheel tires are very shiny--they need another layer of clear flat. And rubber is better represented by dark gray, not flat black. The clamps securing the jack are part of the fender and should be dark yellow, not metallic gray.
Big eyeballs on the commander don't look real. Look at a photo of someone taken from 30 feet away in bright sunlight and all you'll see are dark slits where he is squinting his eyes.
The applique in front of the driver's position is a layer of reinforced concrete, so the penetration should be a shallow gouge with bare concrete (light gray) showing.
Well thanks for pissing on my parade!!! Any positives in my build?!
Really though, thank you for the input. Many of the things you mentioned I didn't even think about!!! Now, the spare road wheels, I used a coat of matte Mr. Hobby Topcoat on them, and the shine is from the flash on my camera. The engine covers, I just can't grasp that they would be perfectly clean like the rest of the vehicle. I am under the impression they also allowed access to the engine for services, would they not get pretty greasy and dirty? I will give you that i went waaaaay overboard on her, I mixed too much alcohol in with the pigment and it turned into very thin paint substance!!!!
Also, the big hole in the concrete was a bad job at trying to put a big hole in it, yet not enough to penetrate the block. However, I think the hole is so big that it almost would have had to penetrate and kill the driver! OOPS! Now Heinz's eyeballs, maybe he just has abnormally large eyeballs?! Seriously, i will fix that next time. Thank you for the input.
I just don't understand the 30 feet away thing. I always thought it was 35 times smaller, so everything had to be in scale..including eyes. They should be there, just very small. I noticed in the August edition of Fine Scale Modeler when they had the large article on one authors figures, they all had eyes and pupils.
Again, thank you very much for your input. It was all very good and will help on future models!
. Its called post-shading. Remeber to keep this subtle though and concentrate in the nook and crannies or in place that are more shaded. you also want to make sure thin the mixture 95% thinner to 5% paint. As for the tamyia mud, altought they give immediate effects, they are rather oily and cannot be thinned so there possiblities are limited. To keep your model from becoming monotonous you can use MIG Pigements (or any other power pigements) as described here:
