Here is my last finished work in 1/35...
I have been wrestling with this beast for 7 months and it's finally finished...
Dragon Wagon is Tamiya and LCM3 is from Trumpeter... Figure is Alpine and I've put it just to emphasize the size of the model...
Painted with Gunze and Model Master colors... All weathering was done with artist and one Abteilung oils...
I must say I'm happy with the result and with the fact that it's finally finished...
Maybe pictures are not the best quality but I had really rough time trying to take photos of this beast
Hope you like it and feel free to comment...

Nice work Domagoj! The base almost doesn't do your build justice. What gave you the inspiration to load the LCM3 onto the Dragon Wagon?

Magnificent!

It's a pair of beautiful models that look great together.

The finishes are just different enough to highlight the different envorinments, but still 'fit' together.

I'd wonder about more load tie-downs.
Not that they are tearing around the roads of France with that thing loaded, but I would wonder about more security for the load.

Nice models.
Mike

Thanx folks I'm glad you like it... You are right that the base is somewhat simple, but to tell the truth, I didn't have neither the nerves or will for something else... Maybe in the future I will change it...
As for idea, I got it from the excelent Ampersand book on Dragon Wagon and one picture from Life magazine... Here are the photos (first two from Ampersand and Life)




as for the tiedowns I had doubts... On pictures they seem to be attached only on three points (pictures where the stern is hanging in the mid air)... Since the stern was the heaviest part I went with logic that in vice versa situation it could be attached on two points...

Good grief, that is impressive! I can see why you were inspired to take on this project

Very original bumblebee. You did an excellent job with the weathering.

Simply outstanding. Your weathering brings out the best of both models from their natural environment.

I can only echo everyone's compliments on a job well done.

Excellent!!! Your weathering has really done the trick blending in two very different types of transportation. And the one figure really gives it depth.

Excellent, it truly is stunning work.

Tom

Truly excellent (and nicely under-stated) work - thanks for sharing it with us.

Couple of comments. Although you've kept weathering on the LCM to a nice, discreet minimum, you could have been forgiven for doing a lot more. From the photo-evidence, a lot of the LCMs and LCVPs used in the Rhine-Crossing, were in fact pretty weathered. Also, they were, at the muster-points, repainted in OD (your lower photo confirms this in fact). Not a factory finish, the paint was slapped on. Now, if you wanted to expand the idea further, you could have a LCM getting repainted - perhaps that might be worh considering in Braille-Scale?

Very nice Domagoj. An impressive model overall. Love the weathering on the LCM.

Thanx folks for the comments... I'm happy you like it and comments like that always give me boost for my next project...
As for the weathering, I had doubts about how dirty the LCM should be... Finally I've decided to show it as the boat that has been on the river for quite some time... The idea about the waterline was to show it as collected dirt, not as the waterline... The real problem with this project was that I had many good options (I also considered OD option, but it seemed like too much OD to me ) and it is hard to decide which one you will present

Zdravo Domagoj,

Wow!!
jaw-dropping!!!!

daunting project...perfectly executed!!! Big congratulations (for a biig model )

I agree that OD for the boat might have been boring. So the Dragon is bringing it in to be repainted!!

Thanks for bringing the 2 together! It does give you the size relations....and the dragon is not a small vehicle itself!!

When you see these things in the water...you don't "see" them that big!!

Great show!!!!

Impatient to see your next "little" project!!

Cheers

Romain

Thanx Romain for your kind words...

Outstanding art work.Way to go Domagoj

Awsome Build! I love it when modelers open a history book and take from the pic and turn it into a dio that tells the story in 3D. you just brought that old pic of the dragon wagon to life.

A really cool scenario and a stunning build. As many before me has said, turning a historic picture into a great dio, well done!

I am interested in how you did the paint job and the weathering on the boat. It looks like you have used quite a few shades of paint, or is it all done with weathering? What method did you use for weathering? I know you wrote oils, but more in detail how did you do it? How did you prepare the surface, colours used and so on.

Excellent work, really keen to find out more on how you did it.

Cheers

Very impressive! Spot on! Nothing to add... Speechless...

Cheers!
Stefan

Hi, I will try to explain it... The boat was painted with dark gray (more dark than grey) after that I applied misty layers of light ghost grey that was very dilluted... For me it was fiddling around until the thing looked right...
Afer that I sealed it with gloss applied decals and wash... After that light drybrush with light grey oil (I'll describe it below)
I mixed black and white from windsor newton oils until I got the shade that looked right, let's say medium grey... I added black for darker and white for lighter tone and did the fading putting raw umber here and there to break uniformity...
Waterline was basically the medium grey I've mixed applied like filter in 3-4 coats... After it was dry I faded it with spots of light grey, raw umber, light dust and dark grey... After that with fine brush I added the dirt on the waterline with dilluted raw umber (it was diluted like grease consistency)
I hope this description helps... Honestly I didn't have any plan... I used my hunch and I was fiddling around until I got it the way I had it in my mind...
If you have more questions feel free to ask

Show stunner, to say at least. So balanced... This will be inspiration for me.

Very cool, It's a big project, I like so much wagon, great work friend, congratulations.