I will shortly be posting a new article by Eric Sikkema (demodelbouwer) on his Mercedes 3000L Werkstattkraftwagen conversion.

Werkstattkraftwagen!

As usual if you have any feedback or questions on this project please post them here.

Thanks Eric!

Special thanks to Verlinden Productions for permission to re-print some of their material.

Cheers,
Jim

Great job Eric - keep it up!!!

Gunnie

Eric, that is nice! Love the weathering!

My cheaks are red and i look away...........



Eric

AH! Why do you torture us with this superb work! What a beautiful piece of workmanship. Well done.
DJ

DJ,

This is nothing .....
i'm working on a new topic at this time....What ???

thats a secret !!!!!!

Eric...

i want to take this oppertunity to say thanks to Jim and David.
Jim for publishing it
And David Miller for the translation work

yours cincerly

Eric Sikkema

I like your work very much Eric!
I enjoy especially the "real" point-of-views like the one peeking in the back door. This made me want to scratchbuild something bigger than just figures. Inspiring work!

Off goes my hat.


Toni

Doh! Yes in my haste I should have added that credit (it was in the story though).

Thanks David! (bluefalcon47)

Cheers,
Jim

Thanks Jim, glad I can be of help! I'm sure everyone will enjoy this great feature!

Eric,
Just outstanding work! I love to look inside a model and see that level of detail. You have a real winner there. Thanks for sharing it with us.

As always for Eric a big applause on a job well gone

#:-)

I wish there were more articles like this on here. I dont believe in spending much more than the price of a kit on a certain subject. Ive never scratchbuilt a model variant like this before and now Im actually tempted to give something like this a go. First class article.

I was reading on missing links this morning where someone is to build a ferdinand and wanted to limit his add-ons to under 200 dollars. He was wondering if he could get them all for this price. This has actually shocked me. People have come to the stage now where they want to copy the experts/professionals/magasine writers/millionairs/etc so much they wont build a model unless it has every add-on known to mankind. And thats not even including 2 or more books on the subject. I think I´ll start another post on this subject as this is off topic.
Well done on a great conversion and thanks for showing people that you dont have to take out a second mortgage to build a model
Frank

Real nice article and model, I loved the way you apllied the weathering, fantastic!
Keep up the good work! :-)

Frank ' plastic battle '

You spoke the right words.
It is my goal to produce and create models in the most cheapest way .
Why spend so much money on all those extra's ??

In my opinion it is not neccesary to buy these things.
Even with the minimal recources you can create a very nice model as i proved with my Mercedes.
Ofcourse i own some of the extra goodies that can be used but i is not neccesary to use them.
Look around you in gardens , the kitchen , the fridge , construction places and so on...
There are a lot of things that can be used for modelling.
Why buy the expensive things ? Build it yourself will give you more satisfaction :-)
I hope i will see some more of these things here at Armorama !!!

Eric


:-) :-)

Eric, is there any way you can expand on how you got the dirt/dust effect done so well? I really like the way you have it 'collecting' in certain areas. Thanks.

Erik,
Great article, and very nice scratchbuilding exercise ! Your weathering's superb. Only... why did you translate it ? (grapje !).

BTW, what happened to that incredible bridge you were building ???

Jan

Bryan,

The dust is a procedure of two things.
First i added Humbroll 29 in and on the most area's. I did this with a wash that is a slight thikker than the normal wash. Then when the wash was not completely dry i added pastels in the corners of the ridges.
When is dried i dusted the pastel away with a soft brush so that the dust stayed on the ridges of the windows and doors. To get the dust on the flat surfaces i tamped it carefully on the flat places. So that the grey underpaint dissapeard. Then i took the same soft brush and carefulley dusted the corners so that is stayed in and on the places where i wanted it.
This is a hell of a job , it took me almost a whole evening to get this result.
For your information i used not the artists pastels but pastel that i bought in a train shop.
It is a plastic bag with 12 small cups in different colors as i described in the article. I'ff checked the bag but the content of the cups is pigment not pastel chalk . The advantage over pigment is that the powder is more stonger qua color than pigment and the adhesive is better.
The brand name of that pigment powder is ARTITEC. I don't think you can buy that in the U.S. Because it is a Dutch product. But if you want some i can always help you out to buy some for you and ship it over to the U.S. if you want...
Hope i helped you out..

cheers
Eric

Eric,
If you'd like to publish the Dutch version here also that would be great. It's actually a pretty simple process to switch the text around now that I have all the HTML done.

Thanks,
Jim

To everybody,

Iff cheked the internet for the pigment powders

For those among you who want to order the pigment powder you can find it here :

pigmentpowders

also the distibutors for the USA are displayed

The site is Dutch but the language is English
good luck to all of you

Eric

Was wondering....how do the rail scales match up to model scales? For example, is HO scale closer to 1:72nd, 1/48th, 1/35th etc....they have some cool buildings and military equipment available on that site that Eric listed above. Imagine building a model railway with armored trains, panzers, flak stations, bombed out houses...this site makes it possible!!

I'm glad that i could be of assitance..

good luck with the small scale things..

Eric

I am not a great fan of soft skins but your truck looks good real good Eric. Can't wait until you have it set up in that bridge dio . how is the bridge coming along?

Jeff,

At first thanks for your kind words.
As for what the Bridge dio concerns....
First i have to finish another figure ( 1:16 ) . A Ranger ( captain ) from Alpha Images.
Second i have to write another Feature for this site. What ? That remains a secret...
Then i have to buy at the next Twenot contest some things i need for the bridge dio. A P.E. set for the tank a i want to build and a P.E. set for the two motor cycles. And i have to brainstorm on how i gonna create the water for underneath the bridge.
So that are the things that has to be done first.
But no worry the bridge will be finished.
As soon as al the things tht i described are done i'll continue building on the bridge dio.
That will be around oktober 6th.
Then i hope to finish the compleet bridge around november.
After that i will be continueiing building at my bunker. Most of the itmes i need for the bunker are at hand exept for some detailed information but there are some friends who will visit the sight this month and will take some detailed pictures for me.

So bear with me these next few months..

Cheers

Eric

For those who are interested...

JIm will soon publish the Dutch Version of this article.
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Voor hen die het intersant vinden :

Ik heb de Nederlandse versie opgestuurd naar Jim.
HIj zou deze zo spoedig mogelijk op de site posten.

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Tot zover de laatste informatie omtrendt dit artikel.

Eric