German 3 ton 4x2 ~ Tamiya 1/35 (Opel Blitz)

[Guest]

This is just a quick side build I wanted to do. I'm only a year into scale models, so any advice would be appreciated.

[Guest]

Got me hooked, i will be keeping an eye on this build as i like soft skin vehicles.

[Guest]

Thanks Tommy, and here are some updates.

[geegad]

looking good keep my eye on this one

geegad

[AFC]

following it too! looks nice so far!

[Guest]

Very nice, indeed. What colours did you use paint the benchseat? Looks very realistic to my eye.

[Guest]

Thanks guys, I appreciate the comments!! I first painted with Tamiya Khaki, then after that dried used a raw umber artist oil. You can find that in any hobby store. I lightly covered the seat with the oil paint and with a dry brush with just a very small amount of thinner slowly brushed the oil paint off. The oil paint stays in the cracks and gives more variation in color. I also used red and yellow oil paint in the middle of the seats in a random pattern and blended with a dry brush giving it a worn look. I'll have to show a demo sometime.

[spanner570]

I built the 1/35 Italeri version of this and even at this early stage in the build, I noticed straight away there is more detail with your Tamiya Blitz than in the Italeri one.

Cracking job on the weathering, particularily the seats.

Ron

[Guest]

Big thumbs up so far, looking forward to seeing more of the build...

[Guest]

Glad you're enjoying it. I'm liking this build, it's a newer Tamiya kit, newer than I'm used to and it's been clean and fun.

[Guest]

All primed and have a coat of German Grey XF-63. I was originally going to have this in the European Campaign but recently decided since I've been on the topic of Africa with my other kits I've decided to go ahead with that. So my next step I'm going to experiment with the hairspray chipping method since I don't much like the salt method and paint with Dark Yellow, XF-60.

[Guest]

Painted with a desert yellow with a hairspray undercoat for the chipping effect, first time doing this myself. I perhaps overdid it. Next time I won't be so strong with it. Next step is future and then decals and then future again. I'll then start with post shading with thinned artist oils.

[Guest]

Decided to paint the underside gray as many times they were spared in the desert painted process. Applied decals and future wax coat, Now I'm ready for a oil wash postshading.

[Guest]

FINISHED!...I think. I've done all that I think I can do. Any ideas on improvements or things I can do different next time around?

So here I used artist oil for post shading.

I don't have a huge selection of paints available at home so I used a model masters dark tan thinned down for a dust filter.

And once again, not many pigments to choose from, I used a Mig dry mud. Not sure if this is an accurate representation of Africa weathering. I may have used too much water, there were some spots that remained darker.

[Guest]

David that looks excellent ,great weathering !