Crockett, the mortar team is right OOB, no mods at all. Like my builds, I build pretty much strictly OOB, with pretty much no AM products. If I find meshing for grills at the hobby store, I'll pick it up, other wise I improvise. If the kit is wrong, I don't care I just have a blast building the kit and seeing the end result.
SCER16, yes those are MiG pigments used. I just put them on dry with a big soft brush. You don't need turpentine at all. If you want a caked on appearance, you can brush on some rubbing alcohol to your area, sprinkle some dust on and let dry, but the color changes alot once it gets moist.
Just some of the little things I added to the dio:
Rubble: It's a mix of plaster, toothpicks, balsa, rail ballast, and brick colored stone, all put into a container, shaken and not stirred, and simply poured onto the surface to glue down.
The lettering "Backeri" is German (I hope) for Bakery, and the letters used were from a package of Confetti letters, simply glued down and painted.
The road section is from Tamiya, it's a paper/felt design to be cut to shape, and glued down. Weathers awesome. One Verlinden figure (the guy hunched down and running) is my first resin figure. The little wall section beside the building is my first attempt at scratching a wall section, it's made from plaster with the bricks scribbed out from a knife.
Thanks for the comments!
"There you go with those negative waves again!"