Visual makeover for 'Gunther'

[Marco Peter]

I once made this for a 1:16 tank, and I replicated how I created it back then


I started with a square piece of T-Shirt


Soaked in Panzer Grau primer


Next step: varnish!



Would be waaaaay too sticky so I used this trick





And completely hardened the next day

[Marco Peter]

Trying to add some depth by darkening the shadows




And lightening the higher parts with dust





Leaving the underside 'as is'

[Marco Peter]

Result

[Brian Ostlind]

That’s a fun little project. Very simple and easy tutorial as well.

Thanks!

[Marco Peter]

That’s a fun little project. Very simple and easy tutorial as well.

Thanks, looking forward to see what other are making!

[Marco Peter]

I wanted the jack to be a very nice detailed piece, so I started working on it, but instead of improving it, I felt it started to look worse... These were my steps:



Then I decided the way to go was to try some chipping. I was never very good at such small details, but hey, if people can do it on 1/35 scal...

Light chips first...



Some darker spots in the middle:






Nope. Not happy (yet)!

[Brian Ostlind]

Hi Marco, forgive me if I missed it already but could you show me the tool you used for sanding?

Thank you,

Brian

[Marco Peter]

Hi Marco, forgive me if I missed it already but could you show me the tool you used for sanding?

Sandpaper, it's that easy. I also have some sanding sponges. Oh and since I'm lazy the sandpaper is on a sanding machine like this:

[Marco Peter]

Because I was not happy I tried to solve it. More experiments.


Overspray with with a thin layer of brown



If all else fails: Trackwash again hahaha!







Not at all unhappy in the end!

[Marco Peter]

But really happy with my C-Hooks!

[Marco Peter]

Time to work on my new set of tracks. They look like 1:16 tracks on two letter sized pieces of paper haha!



Just a coat of dark brown. I'm pretty sure wear will come naturally.



After the darker brown on both sides I also used a lighter color of brown applied randomly to break up a little - not shown on these pictures

[Brian Ostlind]

Good pictures and lots of them. If you do t mind telling how you are uploading? Thanks again,

Brian

[Marco Peter]

Good pictures and lots of them. If you do t mind telling how you are uploading? Thanks again,

I have a Dropbox account. You cannot directly link to a picture stored there unless you use a little trick:

Just copy the link of the image (right-click the file, select 'copy dropbox-link') and replace the last part of the URL '?dl=0' with '?raw=1' and put the image-brackets before and after. Et voila!

Just make sure you don't change the location of the pictures later. I have specific folders for uploads to forums.

[Robert E Morey]

Hi Marco, I'm enjoying your makeover. One thing on German tanks is the base coat was red oxide primer. So try the chipping effect with a small dot of red oxide then add smaller dot of steel colors. If the paint chipped it would expose a little red oxide under the dunkelgelb. All in all your jack turn out good though. Your hook looks the part well used!
Best regards,
Bob

[Marco Peter]

Now I cant wait for those chevrons to shine!