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~ ! Clash in Tunisia ! ~ { Final Photos on page 37 }

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Posted by *INDY on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 7:39 AM

 vespa boy wrote:
Beautiful detail work Indy, and lots of nice washes and glazes to give depth to the grime and wear on the Kubelwagen. It reminds me of a VW Thing I used to see near my house in Santa Monica about a decade ago...wasn't your was it? I couldn't see from the photos, do the scratches continue through the DAK stencil on the motorcycle panier?

~Yes Brother of course!I scratched my knife through there quite a lot, but the insignia still reads pretty clearly from any distance. You can see if you zoom this shot(perhaps I cold wreck it slightly more, it is still there in the photos maybe too much!

 

Thanks greatly for your comments Narayan, and for diggin my grime !

 Edmund ~ Thanks buddy! You the Man. Me & you on the secret desert groupbuilt Yuck [yuck]

60 ~ Thanks to you too & yeah call me friend.  Thumbs Up [tup]

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Mic
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Posted by Mic on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 7:41 AM

Outstanding work, Indy. Love that bike, and the helmet is a jaw-dropper. Kubel looks amazing, and I'm afraid that I now must own that ink. Just when I thought I was done with my workbench purchasing for the week...

Steve

 

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Posted by vespa boy on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:34 PM
Thanks for the closeup I can see your detailed weathering. Looking at these bikes makes me want to pull out a 1/8 Vespa I have stashed away and get building.

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Posted by I make stuff on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:51 PM

Great depth of technique and ability, Indy, these bikes are just jaw dropping, and the Kubel is also very realistic.  THanks for the how to emphasis, rather than "look what I can do."

Bill    

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Posted by *INDY on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:35 PM
 Mic wrote:

Outstanding work, Indy. Love that bike, and the helmet is a jaw-dropper. Kubel looks amazing, and I'm afraid that I now must own that ink. Just when I thought I was done with my workbench purchasing for the week...

Steve

~ Steve ~ Really happy to get those remarks from you. Glad you appreciate what I 'm up to here. the Rowney Daler inks seem to be really great although I've just started experimenting with them myself. I picked up Burnt Umber, Yellow Ochre & Black as well as the Sepia...nice dropper top for airbrush loading too !

~ Narayan ~ Right on Man ~ Scale Vespa ! ? Man that's right up your alley ! (pun intended) what are you waiting for ???!@!      Do it.

~ Bill ~ Thanks my friend. Great stuff to hear. I'm glad you are getting something from all the WIP  documentation. It's making for a long blog, but what good is it without the behind the scenes, right ? Model on Mr !!

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Posted by psstoff995's lbro on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:46 PM

Bow [bow] That motorcycle looks great!

Thumbs Up [tup]Thumbs Up [tup]

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Posted by Axel Smith on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 7:58 PM
Outstanding work on that bike Indy! Thumbs Up [tup]

- Alex

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Posted by deafpanzer on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:06 AM
DAMN!  Great work on the bike! Thumbs Up [tup] Your pictures came out perfectly with the shadow too as it tricked me into thinking that the bike is parked outside on your driveway. 

Andy

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Posted by *INDY on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 6:30 PM

 Axel Smith wrote:
Outstanding work on that bike Indy! Thumbs Up [tup]

~Thanks to you M8 ~ And thanks to Lbro ^&^Andy too....... a treat to hear that stuff......

~Small Update~  
The wheelhubs we're sprayed and chipped right alongside the carbody, and got 2 heavy washes  as well. As they we're base-coated in Flat Black they had a new' tire appearance. I did away with this with some drybrushed layers(carefully turning wheel on the brush when neatling the hubs, to get that clean break) with Floquil Grimy Black, The again with Floquil primer mixed innto that, then again lightly with just the primer to try to get a really dried-out old tire look(the 2 spares we're painted with the gang as they will be stowage likely in the Opel truck.These tires are still to recieve the importaint layers of dust &  'dirt' between the treads.      
The seats(basedcoated in the dark chocolate color) got many drybrushed layers with Floquil Earth, Roof Brown,  & Refer White in varrious mixes. This gave a very defined look, which I knocked down with a liberal brushing of dry Mig Panzer Grey(fading)PO35, which softened up the look and gave me a delightful grungy look, that has contrast with the floor grunge..  
Later the seats went in for good, and a little more work on the dash(one of those multi color jobs I like to do i several sittings) Note : The strap colour on the cars folded top. that light olive was the colour I wanted to do the top in but I just didn't find any reference to back that up. Every one was in a sand like shade of some sort.. 

 ~Back in a few 

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Posted by *INDY on Thursday, November 26, 2009 4:15 AM

~ Not finished ~ But very much closer~  
The wheels had required a wet treatment of pigments, in this case I mixed a combo of three, same as for the motorcycle, likely close to the final color needed.  
You can really see how much darker the mixture is in the alcohol in that bottlecap, than later after drying on the part .I used a very diluted wash over the entire wheel, then a heavy "sludge wash" over the treads. After drying I rubbed the whole thing"near clean" with a hanky.   Then I fit the wheels to the Kubel with some C/A gel.  
You can see some of the undercarraige here, which I applied the same pigment wash to. Just for the sake of a nice complete build log, here's a shot of the real wheel (c.1940)  
I managed to find this at  the most tremendous site that exists (has to be) for Kubelwagons and all other wartime V-Dub's...if you build one study this site : http://www.ww2vw.com/   Why do I always find these things at the end of the build  !!!??  
Found this facinating article from 1944 Popular science about the VW's ~As well as usefull shots of this restored 1940 Kubelwagon       I made an attempt too use an instrument dial on acetate that came with my Eduard Opel Blitz Update set, as I ordered the nice Archer set for that build.   I may still  do a little more work to this,  I've seen a number of gauge faces fitted different than this one.       I still have yet to rust out some of the larger dings, like the big dent in the engine door     As well as detail out the small details, exhausts, & pioneer tools  
~After that, add on the accessories(the really fun part) and this jalope will be done. This will be all from me for a few days I must say, 'till after the Holiday. I hope All-is-Well with all of you guys...................................Indy

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Posted by Electric Blues on Friday, November 27, 2009 9:07 AM

That's amazing.

The weathering is spectacular but I'm especially impressed with the chipped paint. Just incredible and the entire thread is like techniques book.

Thank you! 

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Posted by razorboy on Saturday, November 28, 2009 8:52 AM

Great job Indy!  Awesome attention to detail - Well Done indeed!!!

 

rb

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Posted by *INDY on Saturday, November 28, 2009 8:25 PM
 Electric Blues wrote:

That's amazing.

The weathering is spectacular but I'm especially impressed with the chipped paint. Just incredible and the entire thread is like techniques book.

Thank you! 

E.B.   I try to make at it as complete as will be interesting & helpful buddy. Stopback by.

R.B.  Thanks for that Man, very good of you to say. Not done yet, by a stretch ~ !

 

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Posted by I make stuff on Sunday, November 29, 2009 1:42 AM

MMM, MMM, GOOD!

That Kubel has crossed over to where the vast majority will never go--right on over to real.

Great work, Indy, nice toots and great work!

Bill

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Posted by *INDY on Sunday, November 29, 2009 6:10 PM
~Thanks Bill ~ Great words from a great friend ~ More on this soon.

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Posted by *INDY on Sunday, November 29, 2009 7:51 PM
~ 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

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Posted by zokissima on Monday, November 30, 2009 9:35 AM

Some fantastic effects on these little gems.

If you don't mind me asking, which oil colour and base are you using for the wood effect? It looks almost like an umber red.

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Posted by *INDY on Monday, November 30, 2009 6:46 PM
 zokissima wrote:

Some fantastic effects on these little gems.

If you don't mind me asking, which oil colour and base are you using for the wood effect? It looks almost like an umber red.

Right. The the wood is base-coated  in Tamiya XF-78 Wooden Deck Tan on the tools(not the more commonly found XF-55 Deck Tan that is a lightened XF-57 Buff ! ) and on the crates TS-3 Dark Yellow spray( TS-46 Lt. Sand works great too) 

The oil is brushed over that un-thinned after it drys a day, and brush-marks are a plus+  for this. The oils I used are high quality Windsor & Newton #2 Burnt Sienna mixed with #24 Ivory Black. The mix % varries, I go by eye & try to varry things.

~Like I said, this gives a nice newly stained or maintained look done evenly. For the tools I've since muddled the wood look with some grey & sand pigments.....pictures up soon.

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Posted by JTRACING on Monday, November 30, 2009 8:33 PM
Awesome! great attention to detail on evey part!
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Posted by T-rex on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 9:50 AM
Wow, now thats some awsome detail work.

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Posted by Schnobs on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 10:33 AM

Absolutely Fantabolous!!

Unreal becasue it looks Real!

Awesome work Adam simply awesome!

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Posted by *INDY on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 8:31 AM

~Thank you Edmund ! Very much appreciated (big blue letters are quite......dazzling! )

Stay tuned it gets better !

 

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Posted by *INDY on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 8:34 AM

~Well Gents,     This is it for Herr Kubelwagon     ~It really needs that dusting glaze or sand colored overspray to look just right, but I only want to do that once, it will have to wait until the base is prepared, so I'm sure of the color. . For now just a dusting of dingy pigment powders to dull-down the chipped paint.  
Here you can see my 'thrown-aside(milliput) tarp in place, Fit was perfect!  
The wheels look a tad dark to me, I thought that would work perfect with the dusty overspray on them. I cocked the steering slightly left to try to add a natural effect.  
The stowage items are (not) fixed, and are just a 'serving suggestion. Imput welcome as to how that gear seems to work. I may add some mess items sitting about also.  
I really bashed-up the rear-end. I think I got a very non-glamourous look here. Big rusty dents, bashed in exhaust on left, torn off number-plate & reflector (well...that reflector dingus made it welll into the paint stages, but was finally lost--just as well ! )  
~Continued............

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Posted by *INDY on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 8:36 AM
  I managed to retain visability of a small portion of my properly distressed flooring.  
I wanted to shoot this out in the(bright sunshine) desert playa (like for the Beemer) but it's not looking good for much sunlight or correct schedule for me right now so.........  
Maybe I'll get to do that in the near-future.  
I guess you're happy with the end result when you seem to like all your photos!!  
Anyways, it was tuff to narrow them down even without the 'outdoors shoot'  
This helmet is a more traditionally seen Afrika Corps color. I made up four KAR98 rifles(Dragon) with slings, but I liked just the one in the holder.  
Like with the bikes....I thought a side-by-side would be fun to do with a far-earlier build. I was proud of my improved mounted oar, and heavy mud effects. No doubt some would say it's over-weathered.  
This Schwimwagon was a terrific little kit, my first I built from Italeri (at 1st I just wanted the included bicycle for my 2nd Dio, but soon was sidetracked into building this ! )  
This  'swimming car' may make it into future Dio, but like the Harley, hadn't been seen before outside my home-shop. You can see I had similar ideas about the stowage items thrown about inside..Still,,,,I think it's very appearent that my use of techniques and general skill has improved between the two, I made use of a few good ideas I had.  
~~~Thats going to do it for for this phase of the build ~~ This one is just another sideline detail going into my fifth sizable Diorama ~! Clash in Tunisia !~  I thank those that have been following along, and welcome any comments & questions, Thanks Guys  !

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 10:02 AM
I love your Kubel and want to marry it...
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Posted by *INDY on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 9:06 PM

[quote user="Manstein's revenge"]

I love your Kubel and want to marry it...

You have my consent, but I won't pay for the wedding!  Not too much rust??  Nailed it dare I say? This is a fine fine day   Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by M1Carbine on Thursday, December 3, 2009 3:06 AM

Indy...........STUNNING! just absolutly beautiful work.

 

Bob

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Thursday, December 3, 2009 8:32 PM
You've raised the bar on these guys again, Indy...

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Posted by Axel Smith on Thursday, December 3, 2009 9:32 PM

Bow [bow]Bow [bow]Bow [bow]Bow [bow]Bow [bow]Bow [bow]Bow [bow]Bow [bow]Bow [bow]

 

That pretty much says it all... Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

Clown [:o)]

 

 

- Alex

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Posted by *INDY on Thursday, December 3, 2009 9:47 PM

 Hans von Hammer wrote:
You've raised the bar on these guys again, Indy...

Thanks for that Hans, lets see if I can keep it up. thanks to you too Bob & Alex !

 

 

 

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