After bending my brain with the post apocalypse dio (still not quite finished) I needed something straightforward to get my mojo back. What better than a little Tamiya kit!
There are a couple of figures to go with this, hence the steering wheel isn't finished nor the canvas tops fully fitted, but hopefully I'll get to those when I'm more in the mood. The woodland camo they are wearing will be a test!
I included the gun mount and ammo boxes, not normally fitted to the ambulance version according the blurb in the box, just to add a bit more detail.
As usual it was primed in Mr Surfacer black. The interior is Mr Color Olive Drab. The 4 exterior camo colours were mixed by eye to match the box art best I could, from my small selection of AK3 acrylics, making sure I used one of the colours (German Field Grey) in each mix, to keep them tonally similar. I airbrushed the whole thing in the sandy colour, then brush painted the camo. To further tie the colours together I speckled the whole thing with each of the 4 colours in turn, well thinned down, at low pressure through the AB, then mixed the two main colours together (again, well thinned) and sprayed that all over as a kind of filter. The canvas is a mixture of Khaki and dark green, to give something close to the Khaki Drab specified.
I finished off with a wash of Burnt Umber & black oils. It could stand more weathering, especially the inside & tyres, but for a quickie I'm happy enough.
And the red cross decals were probably the trickiest thing! One of them was completely obliterated in the application process so I had to mask & spray a replacement.
Anyway, I hope you like it, and thanks for looking.
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There are a couple of figures to go with this, hence the steering wheel isn't finished nor the canvas tops fully fitted, but hopefully I'll get to those when I'm more in the mood. The woodland camo they are wearing will be a test!
I included the gun mount and ammo boxes, not normally fitted to the ambulance version according the blurb in the box, just to add a bit more detail.
As usual it was primed in Mr Surfacer black. The interior is Mr Color Olive Drab. The 4 exterior camo colours were mixed by eye to match the box art best I could, from my small selection of AK3 acrylics, making sure I used one of the colours (German Field Grey) in each mix, to keep them tonally similar. I airbrushed the whole thing in the sandy colour, then brush painted the camo. To further tie the colours together I speckled the whole thing with each of the 4 colours in turn, well thinned down, at low pressure through the AB, then mixed the two main colours together (again, well thinned) and sprayed that all over as a kind of filter. The canvas is a mixture of Khaki and dark green, to give something close to the Khaki Drab specified.
I finished off with a wash of Burnt Umber & black oils. It could stand more weathering, especially the inside & tyres, but for a quickie I'm happy enough.
And the red cross decals were probably the trickiest thing! One of them was completely obliterated in the application process so I had to mask & spray a replacement.
Anyway, I hope you like it, and thanks for looking.
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The colours look convincing, and in any case, those on the real thing often showed quite a bit of variation. BTW, in case you decide to build more vehicles of this era, you could also have sprayed some or all of the camouflage. On the real thing, the intention was that the large patches were to be sprayed and the small swirls, brush-painted. However, often everything was sprayed, with quite soft edges, or everything was brushed like on your model.
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