Wirbelwind---FINISHED PICS! pg 7

Another great project done Karl,best wishes on your move.

Amazing job again Karl. I think you have defiantly pulled off what your going for, new turret on old hull.

I hope you will pop in and check up on us from time to time. Safe travels.

Amazing job again Karl. I think you have defiantly pulled off what your going for, new turret on old hull.

I hope you will pop in and check up on us from time to time. Safe travels.

hi Karl, super job and can really see that textured  mud.    Very successful  at creating the look of a new turret on an older chasis, and at the same time still comes across as unified piece - well done!

regards,

Jack

Karl, you've taken that venerable Tamiya kit and turned it into a piece of modeling art!!  I love whole overall look of your Wirbelwind; the weathering is just awesome!   Like Brian said, you push the boundaries and aren't afraid to use any and all methods in your modeling arsenal to give us these great build logs and completed builds!  I've been on this forum for over seven years and I'm still learning from the Masters on this forum!

Sorry to hear that you'll be away from the forums, we'll miss you.  Have fun and take care while you're away!

Wirbelwind?  More like WirbelWOW Karl!  No one can doubt you are at the top of your game my friend.  Never content to stick to a single process you push the boundaries, and we are all lucky for your sharing the experience!

Brian

Karl- great job as usual; thanks for another informative tutorial.

Congrats to you and Jenn on the upcoming new home.

Dave

.....and Hurry Back!

Hello, all---Happy New Year and all that jazz... 

Well, here's the last update and the finished pics. Time to go into the suspension weathering here.

I mixed up some pigments from Adam Wilder's new Gunpowder line--Dark Brown, Dark European Terrain, and Russian Brown Earth. I also added some old MM Powders in "Worn Yellow Armor". Later I also added in some White pigmnents as a lightening agent.

I started out by just doing some heavy spattering. Using a cut-down brush, I saturated the bristles with a thickish mixture of pigments and mineral spirits and used a wood cocktail stick to flick the bristles, causing the goop to fly off the bristles onto the suspension. If you are trying this for the first time, PLEASE practice aginst a bare piece of paper to learn how the goop behaves and in which direction it disperses. This can be a messy procedure if you don't know what you're doing.

Here's what you will get if you do it right. This is done with three different shades. If you don't mix it up, it will appear flat and one-dimensional.

At this point, I started adding runs and drips of oil paint. Raw Umber, and Black. I pulled them down the zimmerit, over the splatter. I also used mixtures of the previous pigment mixtures for color harmony. I added some MIG "Wet Effects" for glossier patches--this gives a depth to the finish beyond just "dry" dirt. The final step was adding a bit of white glue to the pigment shades and mixing them into a paste with a little bit of real dirt added for bulk, and then dragging that around the suspension and lower hull.

I present the Finished Pictures.

Note the difference in this photo to the one above--the darker highlights and shades are evident.

You can see more dustiness on the front hull as you would expect to see. Tools were painted in the usual way.

Thanks to everyone who looks in and is kind enough to leave a comment! Thanks for following along, and I'll try to get that track tutorial up by the end of the week.

Got a SUPER-busy period coming up, guys--not sure when I'll be back with another project. Jenn and I are moving into our new dooghouse that we're building down here in Charlotte after I return from Europe. I"m traveling a LOT this year, but hope I"ll be able to find time to model again soon. Oy, but it's going to be a busy 6 months though...

Thanks, Steve! I'm patiently waiting for your next masterpiece! I hope that your life circumstances gives you more bench time some!

Hugo, thanks, too---you're always so kind, so complimentary with your comments. I DO appreciate them, and your enthusiasm!

Thanks too, Ernest--I am watching your latest build as well. Judging from your results, I would say that I'm in good company with you looking in here!

YEAH!!  Its looking awesome Karl!!  I knew your weathering would tie all the painting together!  Can't wait to see the finished product!  

WOW my friend..that looks so good!, I knew I had to wait for the finished product.

As always you are an example to follow...or at least dying in the intent.

One more to you museum collection.

Jeez Karl.....

                ......that looks awesome!

 I could express approval and admiration for this over and over but I would surely fail to express how impressed I am with it..... and you're not even done yet.                                               

     You're continually motivating me to finish my stalled project....                   

                       ☜ Stalled, SEE.

.... but currently it's just not possible given the recent turn of events I'm still having to deal with.

                LOVE IT!

New Hampshire

She's the bees knees Karl.  Them's the apples!  Top notch!  Insert any other old tyme pun here.

Brian

Hey, thanks guys, for both looking in, and for letting me know about the pics---yeah, they made a liar out of me, lol. I dunno why, but when I was finished posting and clicked on them, it took me right to my PB page--maybe it had something to do with me being still signed in or having an open tab there? Weird.

Anyway, thanks for the luv... :)

She's the bees knees Karl.  Them's the apples!  Top notch!  Insert any other old tyme pun here.

Brian

Bish

Some more great work there karl, she is looking great.

I clicked on a couple of pics and it just blew them up as normal

yeah, me too. Looking good, Karl

Keep practicing Karl you'll get the hang of it and you'll surprise yourself when you do buddy.

What you've done so far ain't bad though

Tony lee

Some more great work there karl, she is looking great.

I clicked on a couple of pics and it just blew them up as normal

Hi all,

I've been working on some weathering, and have gotten the tracks on. Don't worry--I"m still going to do a Tracks Tutorial, but let me finish up here first!

I started the weathering with some good old fashioned drybrushing using a light tan acrylic paint from a craft store.

Let me apologized too, for those of you who click on the photo, trying to blow it up a little--I know that it takes you directly to Photobucket now, which really stinks--I don't know how to change that though. The link I used to use doesn't work on the FSM site now. Anyhoo...

I then used a metallic-brown-black mix of oils to do some light chipping, and used some raw umber to do some streaking. Pretty standard stuff here.

I used oil paint to do the muffler. Just some orange and raw umber. Started with dark tones and added lighter ones to get the end result.

Next came the tracks. These were painted and detailed on both sides using Adam Wilder's "Gunpowder" Line of pigment.

Next I decided to try something daring--chipping and weathering with just acrylic paints. I used Model Master Flat Black, Leather, and Steel, with a fairly "club-like" brush.

I dropped the brush against the sides, transferring the paint.

I also later used a smaller brush and, by keeping the paint thin and rather watery, was able to make thin lines and scratches in three different shades--tan, dark brown, and primer red. Scratches and chips wre done in the 3-color "depth" method. Tan first, primer red 2nd, and then steely-gray. Tools were painted with the same initial combination of colors. A few oil washes of raw umber were used for stains behind the bullet splash rail.

I'm about to start doing the lower hull--dirt, mud, spatters, etc. Stay tuned to see the finished result coming up by the end of the week! Comments or questions always welcomed!

That looks awesome! Those welds on the turret are killer!

Jester75

Looking good Karl. You can definitely tell the difference between the turret and the hull. I've lucked up and just added the Dragon version of this beast the the stash. Bring on the weathering, lets see you work that Doog magic!

Thanks for that affirmation. I'm hoping I can make this look like something special. I'm aware that there's a better-detailed version of the Dragon model out there, and hope that this one can live up to the newer release.

Bish

I really like what you have done with this. The idea of getting the turret and hull to look slightly different is a good one and makes a lot of sense. Not something I would have thought of. I think you have pulled it off nicely.

And I with Ernst, getting that scheme right isn't easy because our brains tell us its just wrong, when we all know it isn't.

Tojo72

Nice camo job as usual,I see what you were telling me about the lightened DY

Thanks, Anthony. Lightening the DY is, in my opinion, the first prerequisite for making a realistic-looking model. It's called "Scale Effect", and it holds that light reacts differently on a 1/35 sized model than it does on a huge vehicle in real life. As a modeler, you have to learn how to fool the eye into believing that light is playing upon your model the same as it would if your model was a real-scale vehicle. That';s the principle behind it.

Nice camo job as usual,I see what you were telling me about the lightened DY

I really like what you have done with this. The idea of getting the turret and hull to look slightly different is a good one and makes a lot of sense. Not something I would have thought of. I think you have pulled it off nicely.

And I with Ernst, getting that scheme right isn't easy because our brains tell us its just wrong, when we all know it isn't.

Looking good Karl. You can definitely tell the difference between the turret and the hull. I've lucked up and just added the Dragon version of this beast the the stash. Bring on the weathering, lets see you work that Doog magic!

Thanks for looking in Bill! It was nice to have the whole day just to model!

Looks like Christmas was good to you in terms of bench time there Karl! Nice work on the paint scheme.

Thanks, Mike! I appreciate the support!

Karl - doing a catch up and as usual what do I find.....you are performing your magic here. The color modulation work is great.

Rounds Complete!!

lol, thanks, Hugo----yeah, I admit, it was kinda cool looking without the camo, but I've never see one in overall yellow--they all seem to have had elaborate paint schemes in 3-color. I apppreciate you enthusiasm though, honestly,

Hope you had a Happy Holidays as well!