Hi folks, I finished the painting of this one, a second use of Mig Pigments and it´s done. Hope ypu like it and comments most welcome

Cheers

Klaus.

PS: Now back to chilean subjects :-)

Overall, a very nice looking truck you've built. I see a lot of decal silvering though.

Looks worn and weary. Obviously lots of time and work put into this one. Nice.

Steve

Personally I think you over-weathered this one Klaus. The 3-tone camo are hidden in all the mud and dirt, and details are lost due to the somewhat messy apperance.

Erik

Thanks guys for the tips and comments, very useful to have another pair of eyes looking at it....

Rob: Jesus H. Christ, I forgot to gave the gloss coat before appliying the decals, after I took the pics realized that issue. Won´t happen again, promise :-)

Steve: Thanks.

Erick: Is the first time I use mig pigments and some of techniques with them, so I concur, maybe was too much. On the other side, as I was looking for a worn out kind of effect, it´s OK, since it doesn´t have lot´s of detail to hide :-)

Next finished project will be a little better I hope, still learning how to control well the aplication of pigments. Now back to chilean subjects

Cheers to all

I like that you tied down the stowage and the spare.
The are a number of cylindrical parts with mold/seam linse, such as the crane assembly.
To my eye, you overdid the weathering on the upper part of the truck so that it looks like its been in a junk yard for years. But on the other hand, indide the rims on the frame look almost pristine.

Thanks for the pointers Al, I´ll try to improve the things you mention on the next one

Cheers

Klaus, I personally like the "over-weathering" because these things do get dirty sometimes. No trucker worth his salt would leave the hook dangling from the crane like that, though, as it would take out the windshield of every oncoming vehicle! Before the crane is retracted, the hook is... well, hooked onto the bottom of the crane arm and the winch is brought in so it's reasonably tight. I do not have an example picture right now but if you need one I can take one of my wrecker on Monday.
Cheers!
Mike

EDIT- This pic from TanxHeaven illustrates what I mean, you can see the cable coming in from the right: http://tanxheaven.com/m977/m977-007.jpg

Nicely Done. Love the weathering

Looks great Klaus.
Don't worry if a model is too weathered, since anything can happen in the field.
PS: For a newcomer to MIG pigments you did a great job, much better than my first try. Keep it up

Hi,
That Hemtt as a good overall look.
As some said, the truck is a little too much durty, and the chassis too clean.
It was more real if :
- crane have its hydraulics lines
- fuel tank have a filler cap and fuel line (they are clearly visible)

Perhaps for another Hemtt !!!
Cheers
pascal

Thanks for the tips and comments guys, I´ll improve all things in a future Hemtt. This one was my first truck of this class, next one will be much more detailed and better painted

Got it Mike, thanks for the info. Next crane will have some wire pipes and cables, so I will be able to bend it and hook it in the right position

Cheers to all

Outstanding , you captured the real thing.

Overall, it looks pretty good, Klaus. The amount of weathering is always individual .... but as already mentioned, it needs to be consistent. This and the lack of cables on the crane are the two things that stand out most ... and both can still be fixed up. I like the inside of the body though ... very realistic! How was this to build? Any major problems? Cheers.

Thanks both for your comments.

Frank, I´ll try to fix up the paint and the cables. The kit itself it´s not hard to build. but Italeri took a lot of shortcuts in the molding process, as usual with their trucks (half molded parts and stuff like that). My kit had the side walls of the cargo bed bended, so it was kinda difficult to fix it. Some small pieces had too many mold seam, and some of themm almost imposible to erase

Cheers

Howdy Klaus

NIce HEMTT. And an impressive display of the use of powders. As has been already said, I hope you didn't run out of a rather expensive product!
It also needs to be said that your response to input and critique is almost textbook exemplary. A true example of confidence in ones abilities while being proud enough to at least listen to your friends and modeling compadre's gentle input.......good on ya Klaus

For my Farthing's worth, I will make the suggestion that you 'fine tune' your weathering. In other words, think of the weathering you do in wee microcosm's....small bits of the overall reality. Narrow your focus down to smaller bits of one part, instead of the 'overall'. In a couple of your finished pieces all of the wheels {both six and eight-wheeled} look identical. This is not the case in real life. Hydraulic parts expand and contract {pics #6 & #8} with evidence of their travel. Rolling parts of the vehicle exhibit traces and/or signs of their 'spinning' thru a plethora of road-bourne ingredients sprayed on other body parts {pics #8, #9, #12, #13 & #14}, and well and not-so-well traveled portions of the subject matter itself are capable of screaming out tell-tale sections of worn thru paint on walkways, steps and the like {pics #5, #9, #12, #15 & #16 }.
Your cargo area looks dandy, but you have a yellow bottle of compressed gas {pic #10} that has the proper, more shiny top surfaces showing, while the taller and {green} tank of gas is just overall covered with {mud?}. Also, if the 55 gallon drums had been sitting as long as the overall truck condition would indicate, there would be obvious 'pooling' appearing on the drum barrel lids.....and any and all material that had deposited after/during this fact would be discoloured, or 'ringed'.

But then....you've submitted a rather wonderful finished project......so who am I to talk?

Keep up the good amigo

Tread.

Question,
Who makes this kit and how much does it go for?
-Thanks in advance

Many thanks for your kind words Gordon (you almost make me cry with your first paragraph)..... :-) I like to post here for exactly what you point: show what I can do and learn how to improve.

Your suggestion and tips are noticed and, as I said before, all onservations will be applied to my next build...always looking forward to improve

luodYank, the manufacturer of the kit it´s Italeri, have 2 versions of this model, the one I build and a fuel tanker

Cheers and thanks to all, your comments along all my builds have been much helpful to improve in this hobby