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Thank you so much for your feedbacks!!! Now that I've finished the vehicle and the two tankers, I can work on the diorama. I want to make something fun with a light mood. Maybe the tank could be stuck by something unexpected ? 😛 I sketched out the basic position of all the characters on a piece of extruded foam. I realised I had to assemble the cow completely to know where it's looking at before I can move forward. It came from kit I found on eBay. It was pretty horrible to assemble. Nothing fitted together at all. I had to use a lot of putty to smooth out everything. I'll probably have more clean up to do when I'll paint this beast. After this was done, I reduce the size of the base and to make the scene more compact. A slope un in the foreground and a hill in the background. I'll put a broken fence from where the cow escaped. Finally, I build a tree from dry wood and plastic putty, and I framed everything with balsa wood. To be continued....

This is promising 😛 I really need to put my hand on a hot wire cutter...

Fiouf! It took me long enough but I've finally manage to finish my boys band. I can now start to think about the diorama to put them on.

Wow! This looks amazing! i hope I can become as good as you!!

Oh wow ! Superbe !!

I've finally got a bit of time to work on one of the figures. I'm not sure I should post that here or if I should move this thread to figure painting ? I started by doing the pant and the leather jacket. I've carefully glazed 2 or 3 coats and I made sure to not cover completely the zenithal under coat. For the pant, Base coat : Light Mud. / High lights : Light mud + Ivory / Shadow / Light mud + Black To simulate the leather on the Jacket, I applied a base coat of Red Brown. I used wood grain to push the shadow. For the high light I did several coat of dry brush of mix of my base coat with more and more orange brown. The final coat was pure orange brown. I finally did a edge high light on all the pockets and sewing details with a sandish colour. I felt the jacket was too red, so I applied a glaze of Chocolate brown to bring back the brown colour. It also unifies all the colours. I did pretty much the same thing on the holster and the belt but with different tone of brown to have colour variation. Unfortunately, by the time I was done with the body, I had to leave to not miss the train. If only models where free, I wouldn't have to go work ! 😛 Next objective (whenever I'm back home), the head and the other guy!

Thanks! Good to know

Thanks! And should a put a mat varnish on it?

I think the tank is done. I tried to use pigment to dust it. In my story, it's suppose to be Summer 1940, so i didn't want the tank to be too dirty. On the picture it's very subtle. Maybe too subtle ? I've also tried to simulate oil and fuel stain. But once again, maybe I'm not using the right colore as the product I used is brownish and the engin part is sandish. The contrast isn't obvious. Next step : Those two bad boys I've already primed them and did a quick zenithal to make the painting easier

Thanks I did a little bit. But i didn’t know what it would look like after weathering so I didn’t pushed it to much. I haven’t finished dusting and I want to try oil and gas stain 😬 But I’ll probably do more edge highlighting on the next one.

Thank you! First I airbrushed the camo. Then I used black paint, a good grip on the model and a steady hand with fine tip big belly brush.

Thank you ! 😄 Good to know. That make sens ! Thank you for the info. I'll know for the next one.

Thank you !! 😄

Hello everyone! New to this forum, I feel it would be a good idea to jump in by presenting what I'm currently working on. The French R35 from Tamiya. Coming from Miniatures and figure painting, I've wanted to try something new. I've always wanted to try scale model. I'm more use to work with acrylics from GW or Vallejo. So working on an armour model, everything is new to me. The paint, the enamels, the weathering technics, pigments... I haven't tried to be historically or realistically accurate. I'm just trying to understand the process and to finish it. The plan is to finish the tank, and then to build a small diorama to put it on. I'm open to critics and advices !

Bonjour from France! I used to (and still do) paint figures of all scale. But I wanted to try something new and I turned to scale modelling. I'm currently working on a french R35 (for my first armour model, I had to :p) and I really really enjoy the process. Looking forward to talk with you guys and to improve my skills (and my english 🤪) !