First armor model finished for me - I went a bit heavy on weathering and dusting, but I figured that this was more a trial for my technique.
Built completely OOB, painting from Testors rattlecan and brush-painted details, chalk pastels for dusting.

Eventually I plan on using the supplied figures and motorcycle for a small Tunisian vignette.

(Apologies for the pictures, my tripod isn't with me at the moment and I was in a bit of a rush to document my first success

Mack,
You're right that the weathering is heavy, but otherwise I'd say you succeeded on your first try!
Thanks for sharing.
-Sean

This one looks like it drove through the sand dune. Nice little kit. You may want to add a little paint chipping with that much sand and dust.

for desert use, i would say its damn near perfect for the theater it would have been in. you may want to do some highlight drybrushing on the edges/corners to give it a little pop. but, it looks good the way it is also

The DAK received their vehicles in the Panzer Grey color and as you could imagine, they stood out like a soar thumb against the lighter sand color terrain. The vehicles received field applied paint jobs using German and Italian paints, and even captured British ones too. The sand color would chip specially on sharp corners and on foot traffic areas, around hatches, Etc. exposing the factory applied dark grey color. Try some of this wear and it will make your car look even better.

Michael, Cool looking car there I have been eyeballing that kit for some time now, gotta love those Tamiya kits Is that a blow-en up dead trooper laying on the side there
Good job for being a 1st much better then what my 1st one looked like