1:35 AFV SturmTiger prototype conversion

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Re: 1:35 AFV SturmTiger prototype conversion

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Opps again

Thanks Raoul

And here we are with this one

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As this is such a big canvas, I shall weather with oils

Still have the rest of 2018, so should get finished?

More soon?

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Re: 1:35 AFV SturmTiger prototype conversion

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Lots of big flat areas to add interest to. Struggled with the same thing on the Tortoise which just looked like a big green blob. Oils and stowage are the solution :D .

Adam Wilders YouTube videos are a great source for working with oils.

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Oils are great for providing variety on paint Steve. I swear by them, though sometimes I do swear at them too. ;)

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Re: 1:35 AFV SturmTiger prototype conversion

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It's coming along nicely Steve! :D If you want to further break up the colour a bit before weathering you could add some highlights with thinned buff on top. Or maybe you already did and I can't see it on my phone display :oops:

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Re: 1:35 AFV SturmTiger prototype conversion

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You are right Philipp

The original colour was too green for yellow :roll:

So I washed it with a very thin base coat of the base colour, so highlights are due up again ;)

I have a bigger window for completion, so it will rested for a while.

More soon?

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Re: 1:35 AFV SturmTiger prototype conversion

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Very nicely done Steve :D - If you are still enslaved by the windows and assorted household matters let me suggest to do a very soft and unobtrusive dry brushing with buff or the highlight colour of the set - nothing like the insanely overdone Verlinden methodology, just for the highlights, will be automatically toned down by the oils anyway.


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Re: 1:35 AFV SturmTiger prototype conversion

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Thanks Raoul,

Very late update, but just in time?

I have some photos of my first attempt at the oil paint render, a'la Rinaldi

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Not sure how it went, I still feel in two minds as to whether it was successful or not.

There will be more as in a base and figures, but here she is

A starter of one view with different lighting, before and after

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and some more, the SturmTiger will be abandoned on building rubble which has created the off set run off of rain and general dust marking.

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The barrel and mantel needs some tidying up, then its more or less done?

See anything else?

Just let me know

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