Les premiers effets de weathering.
Pour l'instant le moteur n'est pas collé et je travaille toujours sur la transmission.
J'ai fait un petit test de "boue+poussière" sur le flanc d'un des longerons.


First step of weathering ... The egine is not glued and I'm still working on the transmission (some parts are missing on the pictures).
I try to reproduce "mud and dust" on a flank of the frame ...
I hope you will enjoy it.

It looks, well, real. Oustanding job on the chassis and engine.

Thx Matt!
But the goal is not yet reach for the moment ...

Some pics with the first step of weathering ... but the light was not very good so ... the pics are not good ...

Some new pictures with a better light..

Back to my 1/35 Laffly S35 model (DES kit) , I'm just finishing the shiping and now I'm going to put impedimenta in it just to bring life. Next step, I will close the cab and do the end of the painting.
All comments will be appreciate (with simple english words if possible thx).


















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I'm in awe at your craftsmanship, Patrice.

Txh very much Dave. Some works to do inside to give live to my model. if you have any idea it will be welcome. For the moment I'm painting some accessories and I'm looking of mylitary abandonned vehicle to get some ideas ...

Patrice,

The kit looks wonderfull. As far as suggestions, I think the seats needs a little more texture. They look too uniform. Some shading would do wonders.

I'm looking forward to view the diorama.

Keep up the good work.

Outstanding. Looks to be a winner of a kit. I too thought that the seat pads needed more texture till I took a good look at them through the open door picture. You can see that the seats do in fact have texture to them that doesn't show up in the over head pictures.

Thx Joel and Frederik. In fact you are right together. The seats are not ready for the moment. I just put the first coat of oil paint on the acrylic base. It's just the first step. I need to do again some works ont the leather seats to get more shading and highlight on them. The center of the seats, for example, must be less "red" and the edges must be darker. But for the moment my oil paint is not dry enought ... I must wait about 3 days I think before going to the next step.

For the moment I'm painting some accessories and I'mlooking for german figures ... but the diorama will not be ready before a long time ...

Thx for your comments andI'm still looking for ideas!

Not yet over ... some details to do or to modify ...


















I hope you will like it.