~ Back again for another update Gents ~
Like I thought, I may or may not be making a stencil. The details of it we're a bit small for it to really work, especially over the coragated sidewall, so i just used the stencil(cut in thin acetate) to mark the size and placement, and used a fine liner brush & Tamiya acrylic
Considering the sorry condition of the cars' paint, I needed the insignia to be faded and scratched so it was only barely noticable. Any decal would have taken even more work.
Some heavy rust areas we're added to larger scuffs & dents with Vallejo paints & a few rust color pigments from Doc O'Brians. Most of this was to the rear. Rust-runs minimal, I can always add that at the end.
The food canister is painted in panzer grey for variation, lightened with Tamiya Buff
Passenger side emblem. A little off-center, but I'll live with that( I doubt crews always painted these on perfectly either) Dash still unfinished.
The pioneer tools were base-coated in acrylic and brushed over that with oil paint, as that seems to be the best possible wood-effects, though these tools look 'too' good to me and need to recieve some weathering and in particular, a good sandy, dusty overspray to represent road-dust. (the whole car, more-or-less gets this) The rope had been drybrushed with enamel light yellow, and later a careful oils wash, it's finished.
Some work on small details goes on behind- the-scenes, as I find the right colors on my brush. Many of these will be fitted to the Opel truck coming up. The wicker containers in the back are from Custom Dioramics and are really nice resin items. These Jerrycans are from the Verlinden Kubel Update set, and the crates up front are scratchbuilt from styrene strip, woodgrain done with knife-tip, and painted the same way as the pioneer tools on the kubel. Below are both spares the Kubel 82 kit comes with, a pack from the Verlinden set, a DML Gen2 Kar98 and a rope budle I scratched from nylon thread.
~Thanks as always for tuning in , Sirs......More soon ! ~ Indy