Hi everyone,
Finally got some time to continue my main project; being a small part of the diorama I'm focusing initially on a Zundapp KS 750 belonging to the Meyer's Recon team on the Third Battle of Kharkov in 1943. It's the first motorcycle I'm building.

I've been looking for the markings of this vehicle but cannot find many references, just knowing that it belongs to the Kampfgruppe Meyer:
• Motor cycle troops of SS – Aufklärungs-Abteilung 1, the Leibstandarte’s reconnaissance unit.
• Kampfgruppe Meyer: SS-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 1: Schwimmwagen units and motorcycles. (the divisional reconnaissance unit. Aufklärungs-Abteilung 1 was under SS-Sturmbannführer Kurt Meyer. Therefore any info on the markings and the plates are more than welcomed, I can't seem to find more at this time.

I want to give a feeling of intense combat on the vehicle so many textures were added using the round-headed burr as well as dents in the back and the front of the sidecar ensuring it had some collisions here and there. (also you can see the metallic case completely shredded out)

Assembling was done rather quickly if it wasn't for some errors and holes in the zvezda/italeri model, I used small quantities of Mr.Surfacer 1000 to fill the gaps.


Montage

Another perspective of the montage

Citadel Chaos Black primer was used.

The base color was airbrushed using a glossy bluish-grey mixed with Tamiya XF-18, XF-24, XF-63 and X-22.



Highlights are to come and I would like to know your opinion if a whitewashing pattern was plausible on this vehicle at that time, or instead just lights and shades consisting of different greys are more suitable.

thanks in advance

good job so far , i like your work ......

More progress on the zundapp :

Highlights for the motorcycle were done using the base color + a small amount of Tamiya XF-2.

Next step was the details and some spall parts just before applying some filters and washes.
The engine was painted with a small brush with Tamiya X-10 for the inside and "hidden" parts of it, while Tamiya XF-56 was used for the more visible ones.

The leather seats and all the rubber parts, as well as some joints were painted in Tamiya XF-1.

Finally to create a rusty effect on the oil injectors and the exhausts I I added a tiny drop of Red carmin from vallejo(908), very thinned to the Tamiya XF-56.







Next to come are some filters and hopefully some washes.(as well as correcting some things here and there)

Nice work Daniel, your cycle and sidecar is shaping up nicely. Looking forward to your finishing it up! Thanks for sharing your work.

Cheers - Tim

Interesting subject,looks good so far,looking foward to seeing all weathered and finished,

Hello gentlemen, I am posting new pictures of the build I'm doing :

After the highlights I did some filters, the darker zones are done with The Filter by Sin Industries (Mig Productions) P240 BLUE for Panzer grey, and the upper zones were applied later with P404 Grey for Bright White.


Finally a Neutral wash (again from Mig) was used on the tires, the bumps, the collisions and all the darker zones I could think of, as well as some more detailed parts.


rear of the Zundapp

3/4 view


and finally an aerial view

To come is some paint chipping, some rust effects and some paint fading; to tackle at the end some pigment appliyng, notably some fresh mud that will be present in the dio.

Hope you like it so far

Picture to get an idea of the scale

New pictures, some corrections here and there, finally had the time to put the decals.





A small needle was used to do some scratches on the paint as well as on the decals to give that used almost wasted look that I wanted. I still haven't added the varnish to protect them nor have I proceeded to the paint chipping, hopefully this weekend.






Cheers

Allright, thinks are moving on quite smoothly, I did some superficial paint chipping :

The darker paint chips, mostly in the "hidden junctions" of the motorcyle, were painted with a fine paintbrush using the well known method of Vallejo Burnt umber and Black. (941 and 950 respectiveley :



Later on some scratches were represented with a fine needle (mostly in the back of the sidecar) showing the effect of a close contact with different elements in the environment such as buildings, rubble or any other thing you could think of: they were touched up with acrylic paint, again valllejo but this time as they were lighter than the darker tones they were painted with Sky Grey and Dark Seagreen. (989 and 868 respectively, using more Sky Grey than Dark Seagreen)



Now, it's time for the pigments! In my initial plan I wanted a very muddy situation for the weather at the time that was filled with melted snow and dry mud, difficulting considerably the passage of military vehicles. Let's move to the dry mud: again I used the more than popular Mig pigments, building up mi concoction with these references : Concrete P026, Europe Dust P028, Dark Mud P033 and Russian Earth P034 for the pigments, mixed to small amounts of Mig Acrylic resin, tap water and good quantities of plaster.



Differents mixes were done, initially a darker mud was applied to show that it was some old one adhered to the lower parts of the bike; later on varying the mix, adding more concrete and more europe dust the pigment resulted lighter to show it is new mud.



And finally a litlle composition; since I think I bombarded this tread with millions of pictures hehehe :



Probably not all the purists will like this "dirtying" but I truly believe that all this engines, vehicles and almost every combat weaponry had to pass on through extreme conditions, which is my mainly focus in this subject. Not to mention that for the dio melted snow will be on top recovering certain parts of the motorcycle, hopefully you all like it.

cheers

Daniel very nice job, what scale is that anyway. Great finish. What kit did use? Very well done especially on something so small.

Hi James, thanks, it still needs some things here and there, it's an old zvezda kit named Zundapp KS 750, though in the sprues it is written italeri. The scale is 1:35, but sometimes it looks even smaller than the scale itself.

Your build looks very nice! I only don't like the mud. It's too thick.

Lars