Hi all!

Let me introduce to you my latest little vignette.
This model is a Dragon/Trumpeter hibrid. The rusty effects are made with oils and pigment..
I hope you like it.
The original photo:

The model






(sorry for my poor english)
rustypepe

Hey Pepe

Nice to see you posted these pics of this awesome model here on armorama.

Like I said before, the painting and rusting of the model is fantastic, as are the other models you built.

Cheers
Rob
www.scratchmod.com

Hi Peter

thats a superb finish, you really captured the look.

I hope you post more of your work here !!

cheers
Neil

Peter,

Welcome! Beautiful work. What artistry . . . all of the colors that have veiled and silenced this ferocious beast with its final death. You've captured a little history in the palm of your hands. Had you not mentioned the scale it could easily pass for a much larger build!

Thanks for sharing and posting your work here, good set of photos too! Hoping to see more.

-Eddy

Outstanding work great job
Dave

Peter,

EXCELLENT Abrams! The finish is superb.

You should write up a build story with in progress photos, too.

I'm curious why you put roadwheels on one side but not the other? I know the road wheels are aluminum, but the hubs, bearings, and mounting plates are all steel.

Hi Guys!

I'm very glad that you like it.

Jeff, you're right! Why iI put roadwheels on one side? Because, it's not on the reference photo.


I think I coulden't constructed bearings at 1/72 scale.
I satrted a vallejo basic paint. I prepared the burned painting whit hairspray technique. The soot and the rust prepared airbrush, and after i used oils and pastell chalks.

pepe

Hi my Friend!

Wonderful job as always...

Cheers
Istvan

Hi Pepe,

Excellent work thanks for sharing.

P.A.

the recreating looks more realistic than the real thing

Hey Pepe... This is a top notch and very inspiring rendering... great job!

dR3W

Peter,

The more I look at your Abrams, the better I think it is. Actually, I think yours is the best burned out Abrams I've seen, in ANY scale! The base with the wet, oily looking sand looks very realistic, just as the damaged parts and melted aluminum on the Abrams.

Please post some in-progress images if you can, since I'm curious to what you used in your build (i.e.; "... a Dragon/Trumpeter hibrid.", any PE, other AM items).

Hi guys!

Thank you for your words of praise.
I am very glad that you like it.

The Trumpeter of the basic kit. But I must be opened the hatches, so I had to buy the Dragon kit also.
The turret, the hatches and the road wheels are dragon, Trumpeter of the others.
I don't used PE, only cupper wire for "turretbasket". Oh, and the box made of stirol(styrene).

pepe

Superb and in Braille Scale to boot!

Absolutely fantastic!!!!!Saw this on the other site and was Awed! Had planned to do a simplier thing to a Styker.

This is simply amazing! Just looking at the photos, I would think it was 1/35 scale. Very nice Peter, you captured the real look of the vehicle. I wish I had half of your modeling skills.

wow!

really awesome!

it looks like a 35 scale

congrats

Welcome Peter!
Amazing work,the wheathering and rusty effects are fantastic.I wait to see more of your work!
Cheers,
Dani

Hi everyone!

We made a few sharper image with my freind LLZ.








pepe

WOW I could not believe my eyes, perfect work.
Thanks for sharing

Cheers
Blackwater

Impressive!

Great model and fantastic weathering

Regards. Pedro.

That is one stunning model

Malcolm

Amazing!

Nice job recreating a photo in 1/72!