Hi guys,
First of all thanks to all of you for your positive reply.
Mario, I've replaced the kit part of the canvas cover with a cover made of thin lead foil. Around the edge I made some holes for the rope, the hooks for the rear hull basket came along with the Eduard PE-set. The rope was made of very thin thread.
Hi Joe, the model was airbrushed with Tamiya acrylics.
First I (allways) sprayed a layer of Semi-Gloss Black to get an equal base for the next colours (due to the different materials used), NOT for shadowing. For the green I've used Dark Green, followed by a layer of Dark Green to which I've added about 25% Dark Yellow, and then a last very thin layer of the latter one, again adding 25% Dark Yellow, but this time spraying a thin layer only on the horizontal areas, to get a sunfaded look. For the black I've used Nato Black.
To soften down the borders of the cammo, and to get a more realistic look (to avoid a toy-like), I put on several light-coloured filters (consisting of a first one made of orange, followed by several earth and sand coloured ones), and a light pinwash to get more depth. After that I made some minor paintchips and scratches using Vallejo's Silver/Black Grey. To finish it off I used some MIG pigments.
For the base I first put on a layer of Pollyfilla (due to the longer drying time) and while still wet I covered it with a layer of wood glue. Next came the vegetation. I've used as much different materials as possible, like dried long grass for the higher brushwood, static grass, Heki decovlies, hemp, different types of roots from the garden and the wood, some fine rubbed roots from an oak, the brown hair from a corn-cob (great stuff), and ... don't laugh: Some camel sh*t. Honest
. It's great stuff to use. I bought mine from Gino Poppe last sunday, and it's been sold by a company called EVD (El Viejo Dragon), (ref.ARQ.010) and it's called "Ovillos de mar" (Natural Sea-weed) and costs 5$. I've been told that this is real DRIED camel sh*t, which wash ashore on the Italian beaches, after they have travelled across the sea, all the way down from africa... It looks like a dried small ball of grass. Fantastic stuff (for a dio)... For more info please look at the following page:
http://www.micromondi.com/EVD/Page10128/ARQ/arq.htmFor the road I've used some very fine sand and grit.
After a few days I've airbrushed the vegetations with different kinds of green and sand, the road with different kinds of earth tones, all Tamiya acrylics.
It took me about 1.5 hours to build the base, and another evening for airbrushing. As you can see it doesn't take that much time and effort to build a simple base, just try and if you fail, just try again, it's fun to do.
After fixing the model with a screw to the base, I used some pigment to blend the vehicle into the base.
Thanks again, and if you have another question, please don't hesitate,
Best regards,
Hugo
