This is my entry for April's Dragon AMoM: SAS Jeep.

It was made using Italeri's Comando car, jerrycan set from the same manufacturer
and Academy's US MG set for the .50 air pattern Browning.
Rest is just basic scratchbuilding based on photos.
Painted and weathered with Humbrol enamels.
It's also the first time I used black background for the photos.

I hope you like it!
Feel free to comment and criticize!


















Cheers
Pedro

looks awesome pedro i love the beaten look you have acheived especially the chipping, good job and good look in the mom contest.

Thanks Ron, Im glad that you like mu effort!

Cheers
Pedro

Pedro, excellent model, I absolutely love the weathering. It might be just me, but the steering wheel looks too black, other than that, superb work

Thanks Wiliam!
Well the steering wheel is black, it didn't looked good under the weathering that rest of the car recieved so I've left it black

Cheers
Pedro

Nice weathering, chipped paint looks very realistic.
Just between us: I think you have my vote

Hello Pedro:

Wow, just a beautiful model. Your attention to detail
is amazing. With all the added detail, this is a model
that took some time and loving care to bring up to
such a high standard. Your weathering is very
convincing and creates that illusive illusion of reality
that I'm always striving for. But the thing you added
that knocked me out was the vertical "bars" that are
missing from the Jeep's grill. Clever and such a
nice touch. Wow, the AMOM this month will be difficult
to pick the winner. Good luck in the competition.

And Oh yes, I almost forgot, those pictures are just
fantastic. Your depth of field when you're so close in
is bang on re being in focus from front to back. I am
thinking you used a very small aperture and had
the camera at slow shutter speed on a tripod? Also,
for this subject a black background really
works well, I feel.

Thanks Marcin!


Rick, thank you for your kind words, I'm really glad you like the Jeep!
The grill bars I added were just too big detail for me to omit and quite significant feauture of SAS Jeeps used in African Campaign.

You also guessed the photos setup very well: small apperture, long time and a tripod

Regards
Pedro

Pedro, you've got a fantastic SAS Jeep there! The painting is very good, and the weathering is great! I've only got one thing to add: the color of the vehicle seems to be too vivid! It was supposed to fade away a bit due to exposure to the sun. Nevertheless, it's an amazing build! I love your work with the guns! Congratulations!
Cheers and happy modelling
Prato

Thanks Prato!

I think I might have tweaked the colors in the first picture too much I'll try to make that closer to reality tomorrow

Cheers
Pedro

Outstanding job on that jeep Pedro! And the photos as well! Did you use a digital camera? I've been messing around with my wifes digital camera with my models. I'm used to using an SLR camera so this is sort of new to me. I'm relearning model photography . I will post pics of my models soon-I
'm new to this site and haven't posted anything yet. Again, fantastic job Pedro! (my son picked the alien-sorry!)

Beautiful job Pedro! I've been wanting to build one of those for years (along with so many other things). I'll definately have to go back and check yours when I finally get around to it.

Hi Richard!
Thank you for your comments. I currently use digital SLR but I started with analog SLR, fully manual Russian Zenith, not bad camera I must say, but pictures of models I shot with it were crap, mostly due to the lack of tripod, and the fact I was too young to realize it? Then some two years ago I switched to Kodak DX 6340 digital camera It was very easy to use and It took nice photos of my models, especially I had a tripod by then. Half year ago I started using EOS 350D and since then I'm still learning to use it for shooting models :-)
Looking forward to seeing pics of your models Richard!

Thank you for nice comments David!
If you start building your Jeep, drop me a note if you want to, I'll be more than happy to help with some tips on the construction of such Jeep

Cheers
Pedro

Hi Pedro,

Thanks for posting the pictures.

Excellent job, looks really good, well battered from all its travels.

Good luck in the competition and thanks again.

Cheers

Al

Thanks for the offer Pedro. Will Do!