AEC Armoured Regal Bus - 1/72 - Fylde Armouries

[rtfoe]

I love old school methods Andreas. Really good paint job and additions to the 3D print.

Cheers,
Wabble

[vizenz]

The Committee headed by Matron took one look and with an unanimous vote have given you
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Congratulations Andreas:thumb2:

John, thank you very much again.
However, the award comes too soon - I'm not finished yet and I can still screw it up! :smiling5:

Wow another one. This is getting out of hand. The Committee must be very impressed with your builds Andrea which says a lot only the few get these award’s. Great work and hard work is paying off.

Thank you very much Lee.

Excellent work on that paint job

Thank you very much!

I love old school methods Andreas. Really good paint job and additions to the 3D print.

Cheers,
Wabble

And again, thank you so much.

I think this is my last post here, hopefully next time I will have the “box” finished.
What I noticed were a few paint defects on the left side of the original. I'm not entirely sure what this means, but I decided that my model should have a few brush strokes of gas detector paint on it. I also painted an area like this on the nose of the bus in front of the driver.

The AEC has now been coated with a glossy varnish and I have tried to weather it a bit. The problem is making the huge straight surfaces look somehow interesting.
I started with a dark brown pin & panel wash and then I tried to show some dust deposits around the chassis.
Since the vehicle was used in London, I had to limit myself to a minimum. And last but not least, I tried to add a few streaks across all surfaces. Traces of rain, possibly a few rusty spots from the many rivets. Since everything is supposed to be very discreet, I'm curious to see what will still be visible after a layer of matt varnish.

[Jim R]

That's looking great. Very unusual.

[Lee Drennen]

John, thank you very much again.
However, the award comes too soon - I'm not finished yet and I can still screw it up! :smiling5:

Thank you very much Lee.

Thank you very much!

And again, thank you so much.

I think this is my last post here, hopefully next time I will have the “box” finished.
What I noticed were a few paint defects on the left side of the original. I'm not entirely sure what this means, but I decided that my model should have a few brush strokes of gas detector paint on it. I also painted an area like this on the nose of the bus in front of the driver.
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The AEC has now been coated with a glossy varnish and I have tried to weather it a bit. The problem is making the huge straight surfaces look somehow interesting.
I started with a dark brown pin & panel wash and then I tried to show some dust deposits around the chassis.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1224210[/ATTACH]Since the vehicle was used in London, I had to limit myself to a minimum. And last but not least, I tried to add a few streaks across all surfaces. Traces of rain, possibly a few rusty spots from the many rivets. Since everything is supposed to be very discreet, I'm curious to see what will still be visible after a layer of matt varnish.
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Very nice I like the rivet details

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Just caught up with this build Andreas. This whole project from the 3D printing to where you are at now shows some very talented modeling skills. Excellent work.

[Steve-the-Duck]

Gas detector paint blotches are, indeed, usually where the can be seen from the inside, so you would expect it to be placed in front of the windows, as you've done, rather than whatever that is in the photo

And so far, your shading and weathering is very much the right side of subtle. It's not like a vehicle like this would get that dirty, other than falling ashes and mud ftom burst water mains!

Very nice

[A_J_Rimmer]

That's certainly a very interesting subject, which you've done a marvellous job of - As others have said, I do like your painting and weathering, nice and subtle.