What's on my desk? Part 77.
Hi,
Last week before summer vacation! Stock up on supplies and kits to fill in the boring too-hot-to-do-anything days ahead!
The Bf108 is finished. I added some pigments on the underside of the plane; some black exhaust smoke stains behind the exhaust pipes, and a bit of brown dirt just behind the wheel wells and a light streak where the wheels would have kicked up dust.
The wheels themselves also received a generous dusting of pigments:
Topside, I had the remove the canopy masking. One thing I forgot to do is run a knife blade along the edges, to make sure the paint doesn't come up with the tape. Not a very big deal, and somewhat beneficial as the top coat chipped off in some places, leaving the aluminium metal paint visible underneath. In other places, some paint came off all the way down to the transparant plastic, which is, obviously, not good. In all, the paint job looks very nice:
Not so good, however: some foggy stains on the inside of the canopy (and the seam line on the nose popped open again...):
Overall, I'm relatively satisfied with it. Here's some overview pics:
Last week I mentioned I'd be getting back to the Tortoise. I airbrushed it green (using Ammo 112 SCC15). In the process the tracks broke off. Again...
I found the SCC15 a bit too dark, so I mixed in some Vallejo Insignia White and did some post-shading. This is a technique where you spray a lightened colour in the middle of panels, to create some variation in the tint. It's a first step in the weathering process and somewhat essential if you have a vehicle painted in one solid colour.
Front view (the red triangle was painted by hand):
Top view. You can see I lightened every engine deck panel individually:
Once the tracks were glued back together, I gave them an overall layer of Tracks Wash, followed by irregular patches of Streaking Rust Effects. They went from a dull metal colour to a faded, used, but not too rusty colour. Some pigments and a bit of drybrushing metal colour will complete the effect, but first I need a gloss coat to protect the paint work I've done so far.
Lastly, I treated the exhaust to my usual mix of Streaking Rust, Light Rust Wash and pigments. The spare tracks links were given the same washes as the tracks on the vehicle, but as these were only primed in black and not painted metal, the effect is entirely different and a lot darker. I also drilled out the spare links where they would be pinned together, which also gave me a hole to stick a toothpick in to hold the parts:
That's it.
See you next week!