Terry1954 Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 (edited) Further to my first AFV RFI (M41DK) which I posted earlier this week, this is my 1/35 SIG 33 from the kit by Alan models. I finished this one a year ago, and it was the first AFV kit I had completed after almost 30 years. It was a challenging model to build, certainly not up to the standard of Tamiya, AFV club et al, but I persevered as a way of practicing the many finishing techniques that have now become commonplace, but which due to the long gap away from modelling (life intervened), I needed to have a crack at! I replaced the kit barrel with some aluminium tube, but the rest was from the kit, much refined and cleaned up and lots and lots of fettling to fit. Tamiya acrylics were used to finish, Johnson's Klear followed by washes and weathering, with finally a dusting of almost matt varnish. I really enjoyed trying out weathering techniques and it has encouraged me to pick up where I left off in earnest! The last couple of pics are a bit under exposed but they show detail well. Comments/questions welcome This is semi complete before fitting sight and final weathering And finally one before painting Edited March 5, 2018 by Terry1954 Add further pic 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 That looks excellent. Great build and painting! Kind regards, Stix 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carius Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 Great looking howitzer. Beautiful camo scheme, I like that a lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Wasley Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 very well built/painted model,lovely crisp pics,Cheers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrancisGL Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Excelent gun, very nice the camo done, but what color does it have, the one of the first photos or the one of the following ones with more contrast? Cheers Terry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted March 8, 2018 Author Share Posted March 8, 2018 2 hours ago, FrancisGL said: Excelent gun, very nice the camo done, but what color does it have, the one of the first photos or the one of the following ones with more contrast? Cheers Terry The first photos are the closest to the actual colour. The ones with more contrast were taken as an experiment. It is very difficult to exactly replicate the colours using a mobile phone as I did. Probably the most accurate version of the actual colours is this one below, but the model was not finished at that point and needed further weathering. Thanks for your comments! Cheers Terry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celt Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 Nice to see towed guns on this forum,well tidy mun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 Thanks for that. I enjoyed making it. My first AFV for over 30 years, and the only howitzer ever! Terry 1 hour ago, celt said: Nice to see towed guns on this forum,well tidy mun. Cheers for that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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