Stefan - Lookin' good dude!! I wanted to give you a look at what the beading tool can do. As I mentioned before I built a WW1 British Mark IV and re-did alot of the rivets, here's a picture of some of the rivet work I did... I built the Airship Tow Tank. Sorry, don't mean to take away from your build. Cheers mate!

Carmen that beading tool really gives good results. I may have to pick one up.

Stefan, great work. It's a pity it's such a dodgy kit.

Carmen, those rivets do look very good, great work.

I've just sent in my updated review and gave it a 70% (recommended with reservations).

Might paint the interior today...

Cheers!
Stef

Some more work done on this one:

Interior painted (in a rather minimalistic way I'm afraid, as most of it can't be seen anyway...):


And the whole thing put together and primed:


Forgot the turret hatch, oh well, that'll be done some other day...

Cheers and thanks for looking!

Hi all!

Just to let you know I'm still active on this one (or rather again...), here's a pic with basecoat. Camo up next.



Cheerio!
Stef

Stef,
What sand color have you used?
Dan

Dan, I used Testors Italian Sand. I usually work with acryllics but i wanted the pre-mixed color. There is also Italian green and brown.

Cheerio!

Got some camo on it. Green worked great:



But then my airbrush appearantly didn't like the brown as it started spitting and I couldn't really control it. Might redo it, but I'll probably hope it won't be noticed once it's weathered...



Next up some detail painting (or a redo of the whole thing...).

Cheerio!

Stef,
The colors that you used? (again!)
Dan

Dan
Testors (again) italian brown and italian green... Straight from the jar (ok, not from the testors jar, but no other colors mixed in...)

Cheerio!

Welcome to the final installment of the L6/40 build log. After painting and weathering, this is it...

Here she is before weathering:



And after weathering with a whisker from my cat. That actually works pretty good! Of course it was a whisker that was laying around, not one I ripped off...






Cheerio and thanks for looking! Any comments welcome!

Great weathering...it really all came together on this one...

nice work

excellent work! How did you do the weathering?

Thanks guys!

Weathering was done with some washes and pigments. First a wash of Vallejo chocolate brown and earth to break up and tone down the camo. Then a pin wash followed by a general wash of W&N oil color (black with earth pigments mixed in to get the blue sheen out). Then I applied Mig pigments. No chipping, though I think it looks cool, I don't think these things were in use long enough to get a lot of chipping...

Cheerio!