Well, after about a year of sitting around, i decided that this weekend would be a good time to get this ready for paint! I will probably be doing an ambush camo.

Hi Jesse, also a member of our club has made a beautiful model of the Tiger II with Porsche turret. He has created also a base for set it in the winter of 1944 with the winter white livery very worn.
Here for you the link to the page of the "gallery" section of our site where it was published:
http://www.masterminiatures.it/gal/tiger2-porsche.php
I hope this will be helpful for your model.
Best wishes - Gianfranco "Il Colonnello"

ambush complete. ready for further detail and weathering.

WOW awesome paintjob!

Jesse-- absolutely amazing paint job, can you describe your technique?
thanks
DJ

still a while to go on this. i am trying a new technique with this in regards to post shading. now that the camo is done, i will be moving on to the post shading next. i plan on doing it using the tamiya clear smoke color. (heavily thinned).

The technique is actually quite simple. nothing really out of the ordinary. I actually used pictures of a build that i found on the internet for the camo outline, because typically, if i freehand my own camo, it comes out to look very uniform. i wanted to make something that didnt look so "perfect" for the actual camo scheme.
The actual scheme itself is actually quite ugly. i was concerned with how it looked after i was done with it, but putting the dots on blended it so the "ugliness" isnt noticable.

I did the yellow first on the entire kit. then, masked it off with blue tack. then did the green, re-masked, then did the brown.
For the dots, i simply used a paintbrush that had a rounder point on it and simply randomized the dots. If i ever do this scheme again, i will probably make a mask of sorts to do them with an airbrush as it will probably look better and be easier. (holes in an index card or something).

next up: post shading. still have to contemplate it a bit to make sure i have it all planned out in my mind before jumping right in. need to decide if i should do the tools and cables before going to the shading and if i should do filters in a certain order of post shading and other paint.

After taking some time off of painting, I have done some more weathering. Next up is some dot method wweathering and random finishing touches ...pigments too.

"The actual scheme itself is actually quite ugly" - lol!


It looks sexy!

Inspirational. The camo is near perfect and the weathering is spot on. I never considered removing part of the fenders, on mine. Tonight is as good as any to take care of it. Did you use a stencil, for the ambush camo?

Hi,
Very Cool Build and Camo. A SWEET Looking Ride for the Tankers.

mil

I just used a paintbrush and did all the spots by hand. I used the eduard PE fender set so I could purposely leave fenders off. I wanted to have a real battle used look.

Great job. Love the extra details on the build.


Makes a huge difference to the fished model. Love th damaged front fenders. Nice effect.

Great job, so far. The weathering sure toned the original pain down!

more pictures after dot method weathering. up next are pigments.

It looks fantastic!

I agree.

im calling this one finished.

i really need a photo booth setup, but need a bigger place to put it first










i will try to get more detail pictures when my lighting is better

I like this a lot. Great job!