Things are moving along pretty well now that the cargo-cover is finished.
Still have to window glazing to get to, the stowage, and some add-on details like rear-view-mirrors, before final weathering
Before unmasking the painted tilt. I shot it with a few thin mists of my favorite , Testors Dull-coat. It killed the entire paint effect I'd achieved. I know people have had issues with Dull-coat as it's quite powerful ,being laquer---it's still my favorite as I've been swearing by it for decades....but in this case it filled-in all the powdery-dry paint I'd built up, obscuring the color-changes and graduation greatly. I had to go back in and add the shadows all over again, and after that it looked drained of all colour, And i knew something wasn't right with it....(actually it took some nudging from the Mrs. to go back and get the best I could out of the job!! I'm a lucky Man , to be sure)...She was right in doing so....... so resuming the mid-tone spraying, I repaired that color issue, and added a more subtle group of shadows and a few highlights, resulting in something I ended up liking even better than before!
The wood of the cargo-bed, though likely painted originally, needed to worn bare but show signs of paint along it's side-walls. For the 'deck', I dry-brushed up the grain with some Testors Enamels, first a cream color, then something more goldenrod. Then I made a few different filters essentially, from Daler Rowney Inks,Yellow Ochre & Sepia in water, and put them down with a large liner brush going with the grain. I used another liner brush wet with water along the same lines to pull colour back up and get the splotchy wood-grain pattern. This will be largely ofiscated by stowage, but I wanted the 'deck' to appear to be wood where seen.
Afrika Corps insignia was added with fine Archer transfers, and chipped up a little, but by no means weathered yet.(Why didn't I get these for the last 2 builds!!
) They are awsome, and worked perfectly applied dry in this case.
The licence decal is from the Tamiya kit, and will be well obscured by sand. later. The horseshoe is from the Verlinden Kubelwagon set(I always wanted to add one of these!)
I made 'an ad-hoc' bracket for the spare with some scrap P.E. brass and wingnuts & atttached the wheel with some gel C/A
~Still some fun to be had with this build...please hang with me..............
oh comments....sorry:
~Buddho~ Read the start of the build, Buddy, there's detail about the figures build-up, no real paint on them yet though. Some are stock, some slightly converted, some greatly.
~Bill~ Thanks greatly for your excellent comments(never stop!
) It's a totally usable techique for the tarps you can get the hang of in a sitting. Yup it's dumpin rain! HUGE news here in So. Cal.!!
~Jetmod~ Thanks my friend. Great to hear it. Thanks for riding along too.
~Narayan~ No, Man, that's fine if that's your true observation. I value your eye, for sure. Truth is, things have been going along far too well on this thread for it to be an FSM blog
In this case though...I think it was down to it not being done---I like it alot better now ,than I did as it looked when you based that comment. .......At this point, I'd say t suits the truck perfectly, and I'm altogether happy with it. As for setting my own bar very high, I know that. I wouldn't have it any other way...I'm sure you relate to that . True, once you set the bar, you must continue to produce only that which meets it, particularly within the scope of a given work.
~~~~~Cheers Mateys.....as so many of my mogeller friends say.............