Thanx :-)

Whoa! That's some really, really, nice work!!! Love the weathering- the dirty, dusty look is perfect!!! 

Thanx Mike

Theuns

Wow! That turned out really freaking cool!

I wants one now lol.

Thanx, I may have gone a tad heavy on the weathering/dust but I had to try break the monotone look of the paint. 

As for black basing (I used it here for the first time) I worked out very well and give good shadow effect. However for planes where there are not as many deep creveses to get into I think I would most likely stick to normal pre shading and marbling to get depth.

Now I want to try another piece of armour but my local shop does not have what I want, or the ones I like is way out of my budger range :-( 

I Will have to save up a little it seems LOL

Theuns

Great looking build. Outstanding!

Well done! And you've noted something that actually happens with the real thing: the color appears to change with ambient lighting.

Calling this one done, all nice and dusty...

Academy 1/35 Magach 7 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Academy 1/35 Magach 7 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Academy 1/35 Magach 7 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Academy 1/35 Magach 7 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Academy 1/35 Magach 7 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Academy 1/35 Magach 7 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Academy 1/35 Magach 7 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Academy 1/35 Magach 7 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

My camera makes it lighter in direct sunlght, imagine it a little more green indoors.

Theuns

Yeah, she's coming along nicely! 

Looking at loads of magach pix I tried my habd at doing the dust weathering using a mix of different chalk pastles and the "wear surface" I used a graphite pencle to look like bare steel.

The tracks I had to tie together with cotton thread as onlt one set of the pins reached the holes but kept comming off, lucky the sideskirts will hide this

IMG_20190915_150253 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

IMG_20190915_150204 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

IMG_20190915_144505 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Theuns

Thanx, i must admit it came out better than I hoped, my cellphone does not take the best pix though and in real life it is a tad more green.

I now just need to be carefull not to overdo the weathering, I think only a pinwash in some areas and dust will work for what I want to do.

Theuns

Now that's a beautiful paint job. Good tonal shift in the proper lighting.

This time Im hapy with the colour. I ysed my Tamiya buff and added about 25% humbrol green 155. Ths gave a nice sand with a subttle green heu to it in shade and a grey /sand in sunlight.

IMG_20190914_122247 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

IMG_20190914_122307 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

IMG_20190914_120702 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Theuns

Thanx, however I need to re spray the turet, I meesed up the whole look by trying to weather it with paint chipping it to look like a used tank :-(

That looks really good! 

Thanx for the info, I will go check it out.

As an experiment I looked at Humbrol yellow sand but was to "yellow to me" so I tried Tamiya 74 enamels. 

Here is the base with the highlights on it

IMG_20190913_141724 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Then I sht the tamiya over it in thin coats till I got an even look with shadows just showing through, the sides and bottom O added a drop of black to look like it is bleached a little less. 

This is an interesting colour indeed, in bright sun it looks very grey

IMG_20190913_144230 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

But indoors where it will be viewed mostly the clopor changes to a more tan.

IMG_20190913_171529 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

IMG_20190913_171553 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Now I need to weather it a little and complete the hull.

Theuns

IDF sand gray is an odd color, hard to nail down. I've used a variety of different colors, and since I'm limited to using rattle cans, I depend on washes and pigments to get the "right" end result. It's really difficult to call any out of the can color wrong, but the reference above is a good start. MIG has a few IDF colors that I think are really close, and Humbrol does an enamel that's good for the later color, almost a brown/gray/tan. For your Magach7, there's a couple of good videos on Youtube, one in particular that features track maintenance, that not only is a good color example, it's also got some weathering tidbits.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt-V77hmym4

Yeah, they can all be that way from time to time.

Good looking build going on!

Indeed I plan to do a slightly faded not to badly weatherd tank. I will highlight faded areas with white over the black and then slowly build up the color till Im happy with it. 

That "day job" is cool but can be a PITA sometimes belive me :-)

Theuns

Great job there- on both the 1/35th and 1/1th scale models! 

Yeah, for an Israeli desert subject you might just try what you're doing and add a little sun bleaching to the upper surfaces. You can go with a filter- I forget the term by mixing a little sand/dust coloured paint and mixing it 50/50 with matte finish and then overspraying the whole model when done. It's supposed to tie everything together. 

That looks like a pretty cool day job!

This tank will be a "desert dweller" so not muck mud on it ,just loads of dust LOL

Theuns

Hopefully someone else will comment here. I've used pastels but they never seem to work out the way I want so I switched to using mud coloured paint instead. I coat the running gear with hair spray and then add a layer of mud paint. Then I can wipe off the excess with a moist paintbrush. 

I did see the dot filtering "spanish school" idea but also dont quite like the look of it. 

Maybe just same shading and dust on the correct places will be OK. Some light rusting on a few spots should do.

What do you guys use as a fixer for the weathering powders on the tracks ect?

I am planning on using ground up chalk pastels as my "dust"

Theuns

I normally use colour modulation in starting with dark shades at the bottom and adding a little few drops of white or tan as I move up the model. Other than that I just use a pin wash to bring out the details. 

I've tried dot filtering a few times but never got the results I wanted. Bish would be the guy to talk to about that. 

I use water color for my pin washes but will geive the oils a try thanx.

I made some progress with the "stuff" that goes onto the hull, the sideskirts and extra armour plating. There is a vague indication of where the sideskirt mound brackets go onto the hull but I had to play around with them to get it in correct place. 

Theuns

I'd stick with oils for streaking. Watercolors are good for staining and tonal changes. Say you have a green that is in the yellow spectrum, but you wanted it more in the blue spectrum. Then a light wash with blue watercolor would change that tone.

Fuel stains? No problem. Brown watercolor for a nice brownish stain spot.

I highly recommend playing with other mediums lol. Especially ones you don't see people use a lot.

Watercolors don't usually help too much over gloss surfaces either. They rub off onto your fingers. But they will stick like mad to a matte finish so be sure you want to use watercolor for an application.