Ok, time for some Schwimmie dio update!
I finally managed to dig out my Badger150 airbrush, and tried it. Everything went smooth, I shot acrylics over enamel base color. Never tried the airbrush on a model kit before.
A little shopping round resulted a nice antique lamplight by Royal Model and spare heads and hands from Hornet.
Anyway, here we go:

Cobblestone road, nearly finished. 3 layers of clear varnish acts as water. Suit you, Sir!



Priming the Schwimmie:


Front suspension close-up. Sepia ink works again!


Day´s result: base color for sand-green-brown camo and finished engine.


Once again, comments highly appreciated!!
Thanks,
Toni

Looks excellent Envar!

How did you paint the engine ? Are you really passionate on historically correct details or do you take a pic and try to get it as close as possible ?

Looking good Toni, looking real good!!
I love the wet cobble stones with the waser in the low places! Keep us informed!

I like very much the look of your water !
I'll be using that trick someday.

I like taking a somewhat historical approach in the beginning. Meaning, I try to have all elements in line so that the situation is at least possible somehow. When the building starts, I let it go and see what happens! I don´t really care if a guy has a mustache and at that time they were not allowed to have moustache blah blah. If I feel it fits my purpose in the diorama, I´ll go for it.
What I use the most is my gut feeling.
With the Schwimm engine, I looked through many colour pictures of both old and restored versions. After that, I painted it as they told me to do in Tamiya building instructions. After painting I gave it a sepia ink wash and that´s it! The amount of dirt in the engine is quite tricky, I believe you very easily overdo it. I think our fellow goosestepping friends took good care of their vehicles and so I thought not to go for too much rust and scheisse.
I was very happy with the result.

Thanks guys!

Toni

I recently read a posting on Missing Link about using meat packing styrofoam board for Everything in an Urban dio. He used it for bridge sides, road surfaces, building walls.
It's thin, cuts well, fold fine, cheap, you can scibe it.

Hi Slodder. That was mine. Check out this link to see before and after pictures.

http://photos.yahoo.com/frank_glackin

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