Hi all,
Not sure if this is the right section of this forum to post this build up of a Wave 1/20 scale "Gustav" model kit and a little vignette I've been working on.Hope you like it and thanks for looking.
Microboy.

Nice build and pose - i am happy to see, that you have scuplted the joins - that makes all the differance!

Cheers/Jan

Interested to see it with the pilot painted. I can't tell if you used an airbrush or built up washes for the overall color. Either way it looks great.

This is one cool vignette, great stuff!

Thanks very much.I've been working on the pilot,just came back from the LHS with some Tamiya flesh paint and the art store for a 10/0 brush so i will give painting him a go shortly.
No airbrush for this one,all hand-painted using a method using lacquer based paints, ("Mr Color")that most of the Japanese modelers of this genre use..
Basically it involves first priming the model with a lacquer based primer then painting on a dark base-coat.In my case I thinned some Tamiya acrylic hull red and black paints with lacquer thinner mixed to make a dark mahogany color.I can't get the Mr Color paints here,so this turns them in to a blendable when wet paint.

Then I mixed a dark greenish brown and painted over top of this letting the color blend a little into the base color.The thinner in the paint melts the paint layer below.
This is the great part of using this method as you get so many colors blending and showing through the top layer of paint.This paint also drys very quickly allowing you to paint each layer with only a short drying time in between coats. I then mixed a desert yellow color and with a small round brush dabbed and stroked on the top layer of paint.you have to be carefull that you don't stroke over a previous brush stroke as the bottom layer of paint will show through.but this is good because it gives you instant weathering.When I painted around the larger details and panel lines I didn't let paint get into the recesses.Some areas on the model were streaked by just using some thinner on a brush to remove and blend the underlying colors.
Here are pics of the second coat and top coat of paints


All of the painting in these pics is the result of using those three colors .
Thanks for looking.
Microboy.

Hi all,
I have put the decals on and started the weathering process.Painted the pilot but need to redo some parts of him.
Thanks for looking.
Microboy.